Word: modernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...OISTRAKH AND THE MOSCOW PHILHARMONIC (Angel/Melodiya). This seraphic, fairy-tale score is the best introduction to Mahler. Bruno Walter's 23-year-old classic recording is rechanneled for stereo, with less bass than the original mono, but more polish in the middles and highs. Those who want a modern recording will like Kubelik's lithe and luminous version. The interpretation by Violinist-turned-Conductor Oistrakh is, unfortunately, unsympathetic and at times eccentric...
...FIXER is a relentless parable of a modern Job, based on Bernard Malamud's prize-winning novel. Under the inventive and often brilliant direction of John Frankenheimer, the actors-especially Alan Bates and Dirk Bogarde-bring to the film a truly Dostoevskian resonance and moral force...
...peaceful dissenter. He condemns the evil elements of modern society, not society itself. He rejects the outmoded and cumbersome methods of our institutions of higher education, not education itself He believes in the ultimate power of reasonable debate to ameliorate the human condition...
Efficiency and Eccentricity. Though the Krupp family goes back to the 16th century, its modern mold was cast about 150 years ago by Alfred Krupp (great-grandfather of the modern-day Alfried) who, at 14, inherited a nearly bankrupt little ironworks in Essen. By 1851, he had produced the world's largest cast-steel ingot, as well as the first seamless railway wheels, and was soon building a fortune out of the Industrial Revolution and the U.S. railway boom...
...collection of Games People Play, but they play them so fast we lose track. Back and forth, one by one every character confronts every other and asks point-blank "Why didn't you love me?" And one by one, tediously, every character replies in the best spirit of medieval modern psychoanalysis. It's as if some Pinter couple, perverted, got its kicks from holding its quarrels in medieval costumes. "You led too many civil wars against me" chuckles Henry opening a beer. "And damn near won the last one!" quips Eleanor in her curler...