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Memories, Dreams, Reflections, by C. G. Jung. A fascinating autobiographical account of the dream life of the great Swiss psychologist, who, in rejecting Freud and in pursuing his own mystic world of psychic energy, at last turned his back on much of the scientific thought of his own time...
...strangely: the Italians locked him up for 16 months, then kicked him out of the country, and since then he has received similarly chilly greetings in Germany, Switzerland and England. A few years ago, Baker could easily have become a romantic hero of modern jazz. He plays with a mystic, "golden horn" lyricism, and he looks and acts enough like the late James Dean to have inherited a vast following of movie-house rebels. But now all that is behind him-he has been away too long. Early last year, he was about to nail the lid on his career...
...notion of man as the dreamer of age-old dreams led him into a mystic world. His life was plagued by occult phenomena (poltergeists threw his books about; blinding pain awakened him at the instant a patient was committing suicide), and his dreams even came to include flying saucers. In the morning he would ponder: perhaps the flying saucer is a magic lantern, and I-I am only the picture it projects...
...clerical puritanism is not an issue today, and it is indeed very clear that Babe did not regard the question as his chief concern. He and Guzzetti make a simpler use of the medieval setting, for they adopt it to capitalize upon the mystic aura of the medieval church, upon the color of the liturgy's communalism and ritual. Borrowed to produce its very immediate awe, the opera's medievalism is a facile expedient for proclaiming the profundity of the drama; by the last scene the sections in more obvious liturgical setting have become annoyingly irrelevant. The two writers...
...hollow splendor of his Russian palace, haunted by the child king he has murdered, as frightened of his own evil as of the false pretender who is coming through the winter forests to kill him. At last he dies, and in dying Boris Godunov demands an all-but-impossible mystic triumph of the bassos who sing his tragic role: his final prayer must be torn from a soul already lost, from lips already dead. Yet in the last few years, no role in all grand opera has grown so rich in men who sing it superbly...