Word: modernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TIME OUT, by David Ely. Horror stories in the modern manner, decked out with computers, spaceships and nuclear weapons -all seen with a fine observant eye for society's foibles...
...Since then, the Lords Chamberlain have had unchallengeable authority to ban plays by Ibsen (Ghosts), Shaw (Mrs. Warren's Profession), Pirandello (Six Characters in Search of an Author), Arthur Miller (A View From the Bridge) and Tennessee Williams (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof). The most notable modern playwright to run afoul of the Lord Chamberlain is John Osborne. One of his plays dealing with homosexuality, A Patriot For Me, was banned entirely;* almost every one of his scripts has had to be heavily laundered before the censor would give his approval...
...country. Together with his fellow abstract expressionists, he split the Manhattan art world of the early 1950s into two camps. The conservatives damned them because their work not only obliterated the human image but looked slapdash, crude and unfinished. Nonsense, replied the avantgarde; those traits were inevitable if a modern painter was to record his own vision...
Still, what Ruggles has produced is powerful, direct, dense, thoroughly modern American music. In the 1920s and 1930s, when he wrote most of it, he was considered to be every bit as original and daring as his composer pals Edgar Varèse (whom he always called "Goofy") and "Charlie" Ives. The correctness of that judgment again became clear last week at Bennington, Vt, where Ruggles' friends, colleagues and neighbors staged a concert of his complete works. There were a song cycle, Vox damans in Deserto, a piano suite called Evocations and a short composition for muted brass called...
...find the film's simple attitude towards its characters and their simple attitude towards each other a relief--or pitiful unrealism. Your reaction depends blatantly on the romance in your soul. Are you willing to submerge your modern psychological self-consciousness and accept that love can be that strong...