Word: modernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visitors to Moscow devoted most of their evenings to politicking, gathering in the Rossia and other hotels for discussions or huddling in caucus to modify their original position papers. At their hosts' invitation, the delegates assembled one night in the Kremlin's modern Palace of Congresses for a performance of Ukrainian folk music and dancing. Some delegates on other nights went to the Bolshoi ballet. For those with less sophisticated tastes, there were those lovable perennials, the famous trained bears riding their bicycles at the Moscow Circus...
...attraction of the Marxist vision may persist until modern society finds a more effective way of explaining itself and its direction. And that could be a long, long time...
...countryside, going out to the people." Leinsdorf goes Mehta one better. "The solution is not to make the orchestra smaller but to make it larger, 120 in all, instead of 100 or 106. It would have three divisions within it: a baroque ensemble of 26 players or so, a modern ensemble of eight to 20, and the regular 19th century orchestra, which usually has about 75 musicians...
...perspective. He limns tiny images of skinned-looking women or bloated, lecherous men as zestfully as Bosch him self, and sets them against the wall of a squalid Roman slum. Surrealistically oozing globules and pustules contrast with saints' pictures and comic-book illustrations. The result is an emphatically modern version of everyday hell, but it is more than merely nightmare for its own sake. The squalor usually serves to set off the loveliness of some ver dant Tuscan mountain landscape, distantly viewed. Of Exterior Wall with Landscape, he observes, "One might say that the window is the fantasy...
...transvestitism" and returned in the form of a little girl. In James' creative world, "little boys died. It was safer to be a little girl. They usually endured"-as in The Turn of the Screw (1898), possibly the best short story about children in English, certainly the best modern ghost story...