Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HAMLET. Some actors merely occupy space; Nicol Williamson rules the stage. His nasal voice has the sting of an adder; his furrowed brow is a topography of inconsolable anguish. His Hamlet is a seismogram of a soul in shock. Here is a Hamlet of spleen and sorrow, of fire and...
"SO THE PIANIST, a lean young man with a strangle lunar light on his face, surveyed the piano, placed his hands on the keys--I always sit on the left to see his hands--and, unbelievable as it seems, simply sat there without motion or sound. Well, the audience regressed...
But his leads into a problem. If music ultimately depends solely on the individual nervous system rather than patterns imposed by the composer, then music may reduce itself out of existence as an identifiable, separate art. The further extremity of Cage's esthetic of chance would eliminate Cage himself. The...
*Meaning that CBS was watched by 20.3%, NBC by 20.0% and ABC by 15.6% of TV-owning households during prime time, 7:30-11 p.m. Each percentage point equals roughly 1,200,000 viewers.
They were still heavily outgunned in shares and assigned proxies, 72 million to 308 million. But, as one insurgent shouted, "I have been in India and I know the meaning of passive resistance. We will stay here ten days if necessary." A filibuster was on. Every now and then, somebody...