Word: lyric
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LIFE TO LIVE. In his fourth film, the first to reach the U.S. since Breathless, French Director Jean-Luc Godard has compiled another dazzling textbook of cinema technique, and has composed a lyric poem of images about a woman who sells her body and saves her soul...
...nothing in either Berlin could quite compare with the Komische Oper, perhaps the world's best lyric opera company and East Berlin's finest cultural ornament. In an atmosphere where the culture bullets really sting, the East's operatic triumph had one touch of irony: Walter Felsenstein, the Komische Oper's founder and director, is an Austrian who lives in West Berlin...
...back in 1960, he made two movies that even his friends admit are terrible. Then last year he suddenly settled down and made this brilliant film. My Life is a tour de style almost as startling as Breathless but more subtly accomplished, more purely felt. It is also a lyric poem in which the camera assiduously adores a beautiful woman. It is finally the tragic allegory of a soul whose pilgrimage to grace goes spiraling ecstatically down the drain...
While the Departments of Government and History deluge the student with extraordinarily generous offerings at ten, eleven, and twelve, the other departments quietly wend their scholarly way. German lyric poetry (Germ. 195), Old French language and literature (French 101a), and twentieth century Italian literature are subsumed in a way, under Linguistics 120, "Introduction to Comparative and Historical Linguistics," open without prerequisites to non-concentrators...
Wild and exotic music came from that keyboard: scenes of massacre and battle and hell. There were (see color) the funereal chords of his Hamlets, the lyric melancholy of some of his portraits, the emotional rhythms of his still lifes. History has cast Delacroix in the role of the great romanticist pitted against Ingres, France's great classicist. Yet for all his passion, he was a man of intellect who never surrendered to unbridled emotion. "Reason must control all our infirmities," he said...