Word: lied
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...point is that the reality of opera can never lie in naturalistic stories or settings, but in emotional reality uniquely aided by music. Playwright George Bernard Shaw knew the truth: though the theater could be proved logically to be more real than opera, he wrote, "the facts are just the other way-the superior intensity of musical expression making the opera far more real than the play." In Mozart's Don Giovanni, probably the greatest opera ever written, the Don, to judge from the text alone, could be just a playboy or an obsessive lecher. What gives him nobility...
...ritual that the rabbis carry out every seventh year on behalf of Orthodox Jewish farmers who intend to observe Shemittah, the sabbatical "year of release" that began last week on Rosh Hashanah. During the year, according to the Law, all land owned by Jews in Palestine must lie fallow.* That way lies bankruptcy; so Jews have resorted to the legal maneuver of giving full title to their property to a non-Jew, who is not bound by the Halakah. This enables the Jews to work the land with a free conscience...
...Hessler's statement that we view the Negro as being "an incidental victim of the same capitalist power which crushes the Viet Cong" is a lie...
Died. John Augustus Larson, 72, Canadian-born psychiatrist who, while doing research with the Berkeley, Calif., police force in 1921, correlated medical devices measuring skin temperature, blood pressure and breathing rate to develop the first lie detector; of a heart attack; in Nashville, Tenn...
...publisher, there are two possibilities. One is that Scribner recalled, in a wistful twinge of corporate memory, that Thomas Wolfe manuscripts used to arrive in packing cases, too. The other is that the publisher is employing the Big Bad Books technique. This variance of the Big Lie depends on reviewers becoming nervous and thinking that no book could be that big and that incoherent without being a little bit great. If Scribner can squeeze one "vast panorama" out of one important-sounding reviewer, Novelist Young has nothing to worry about. Unless, of course, the air conditioning fails...