Word: lucid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Night and Day, Jackson has toned down the music, but the message becomes more lucid. Jackson presents himself as an inspired and controlled artist. No longer does he seem to try to intimidate. A man of many guises, he now sometimes finds his ardent sentimentalism hard to suppress and discards his formerly steadfast bitterness. In Night and Day, Jackson has combined his many sides to produce his most entertaining, musically satisfying and emotionally gratifying work to date...
...speaking with the Queen. But later there no doubt that Hamlet is feigning madness--a topic of endless controversy over the generations. Gilbert (without collaboration from Sullivan) wrote a delightful burlesque of Hamlet in which Ophelia runs through a host of theories and concludes. "Hamlet is idiotically sane With lucid intervals of lunacy...
...brilliant mathematical mind with an expert musical ear, Boulez has been the chief theoretician of the postwar serialist movement. During his tenure as music director of the New York Philharmonic from 1971 to 1977, he introduced audiences to unfamiliar repertory by familiar composers like Liszt, and startled them with lucid, penetrating readings of standards like Debussy's La Mer. Under his baton the orchestra reached a level of technical precision that it had lacked for years under his predecessor, Leonard Bernstein. From 1976 to 1980, Boulez presided over the controversial Patrice Chéreau productions of Wagner...
...Lucid and Michele Beckham--Ryles Downstairs...
Malcolm takes as her task the shrinking of the big picture into the small book. Devoting long sections to expositions of orthodox Freudian thought and occasionally to the ideas of some of the myriad of dissenters, the author provides a lucid introduction to such often misunderstood concepts as the Oedipal complex, penis envy, and the tripartite scheme of the mind. Her delvings are in themselves persuasive arguments. Along with some of the history of the psychoanalytic movement--she assiduously avoids Adler and Jung--the author provides a rather scorching insight into the analytic establishment. The image of these beacons...