Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shyly genial Bachelor Inge, 44, winces at his colleagues who write plays primarily "to shock, to teach, to preach at. I hate a play that tells me what to think. I have to let the audience make up its own mind about my characters...
After a while, Stravinsky's intention-the intention of writing purely abstract music-wins out, and the images vanish. What remains is a sense of irony or of elegy. The listener's mind wanders, but a foot begins to tap, a hand to twitch in time to the music. Rhythm alone, motion for its own sake, take over. And that is the clue to what George Balanchine has done by way of choreography. Unlike his previous "neoclassic" collaborations with Stravinsky (Apollo, Orpheus), this work is abstract dance: there are no costumes or scenery and the Greek title, Agon...
...record companies have put out a huge repertory, covering the range of chamber music from its charming origins in Renaissance Italy and England to Schoenberg's atonal lung-and-mind exercise, the Quintet for Wind Instruments, Op. 26 (Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet; Columbia) and beyond. Eight of Boccherini's Quintets, sparkling with gaiety and glowing with warm Italian exuberance, have been polished up and lovingly presented on four LPs with two more to come (Quintette Boccherini; Angel). All of Haydn's 80-odd Quartets were planned for recording, and 47 were put on vinyl by the Haydn Society...
...strained through Stanislavsky's mustache. When he first meets Hana-ogi, he believes that "fraternization is a disgrace to the uniform." But he has to admit that she is "a fahn-lookin' woman," and the color line soon becomes as vague in his mind as the meridian of Greenwich. "I will love you, Gruver-san," she murmurs to him one day, "if that is what you desire." That is what he desires, all right, and after much too much Brandoperatic declamation about "what mah reason fuh livin' is," he decides that he also desires to marry...
...Tradition & Progress. The French are philosophically unlike the Americans, whose revolution, as Aron sees it, did not involve so much a change of mind as a change in title to power. They are unlike the British, whose revolution came on the installment plan, and was hardly noticed until it was all over. The French Revolution was different: it created a deep fission in the French mind between traditional and supposedly progressive values, and left all questions unresolved. The revolution tended to be a permanent thing-an ideal, a matter for the future rather than a historical event. Its romance became...