Word: mellow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...again the end of opera was proclaimed. To many, the most recent "end" came with Richard Strauss, who died in 1949. When Alban Berg's magnificent Wozzek was first performed in 1925, some people covered their ears in horror; today it is widely accepted as an almost mellow classic. Julius Rudel, director of Manhattan's enterprising New York City Opera, receives and reads 50 new opera scores a year. All kinds of opera will still be written, even in an age which seems to many sadly unoperatic-perhaps about Marilyn Monroe, or about Cassius Clay, or the astronauts...
...almost outnumbering the 7,000,000 inhabitants and bringing in $523 million in foreign exchange. The visitors come for the Vienna Staatsoper and the Salzburg Festival, and to ski at resorts like Obergurg, Kitzbuehel, and St. Anton, but above all for the easy informality of Austrian life and the mellow sentimentality of the neighborhood Heurigen (wine festivals). After all, says one Viennese student, "We like eating, drinking, dancing and loving. If that's not the good life, it'll do until something better comes along...
...meeting took place in the Moroccan resort town of Saïdia, which lies just across the River Kiss from Algeria. Under such circumstances, it could hardly have failed. A mellow joint communiqué announced that the two old pals had discussed Algerian-Moroccan relations and had arrived at "identical views." To commemorate their new-found fraternity, in fact, they decided to build a bridge across the Kiss. Its name will be Encounter Bridge...
...Soviet Union, is now 75; most of his rising lieutenants are pro-Peking. A Viet Nam united under Communist rule would, for the foreseeable future, remain a Peking satellite. It is absurd to suggest that after winning all of Viet Nam the Communists would then sit back and turn "mellow." Inevitably, they would seek domination of the whole area, and there is no sign that they would be resisted except in Thailand-and even here the Red pressure would be enormous...
...warn you-the play lacks wisdom." What the play has is wildness, chaos, raw youthful exuberance, an ardent desire to shock, and a compulsion to spew up nausea in the accents of lyric delirium. One line sets the tone of the play: "I see the world in a mellow light: it is the Lord God's excrement...