Word: mythical
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...Raymond Leppard's sympathetic work with the orchestra could raise the music above Stravinsky's cynically pedestrian level. Strauss's Daphne, written when the composer was 72, is a tired piece, with only one touch of genius: the wizardry of the instrumental passage depicting the mythic heroine as she turns into a laurel tree. As Daphne, Soprano Roberta Alexander sang with an unusually pure lyric voice. But it's a long wait for the laurels-which will never be awarded to Daphne anyway. -By Michael Walsh
Malevolent but pathetic, dying but dangerous, the buffalo looms from the canvas in all his massive black bulk, with the mythic menace of a dying Minotaur. Two linked tents frame a ceremony in a design as elegant as that on a Japanese screen. An Indian family flees from an approaching prairie fire whose stylized billows Charles Burchfield might have envied, across a field of endless prairie grass that Andrew Wyeth might have emulated. A Blackfoot chief stares at the viewer with the arrogance of long command-and the despair of one who knows his nation is doomed...
...course if you are serious about these things, you must inevitably discover homemade ice cream-silken and voluptuous. A dozen supernal ice creams have passed through my life, notably the mythic chocolate almond chip fudge swirl created on Christmas (two quarts for company, one quart for me and my then husband to eat by the light of the freezer...
...words, Maurice Sendak manages to evoke a mythic land peopled by the familiar (a mother and two daughters) and the wholly exotic (goblins and dream-scapes), where natural law, like the reader, is held in suspense. The time is the past indefinite; costumes indicate the 19th century, but there are references to the 1930s, and at one time Mozart can be seen working at a hammerklavier. Ida, the oldest girl, is given charge of her baby sister. When she grows inattentive, faceless creatures steal in and exchange the child for a simulacrum made of ice. Frantic, Ida climbs backward...
...little harsh, but that is the outcry of the passionate and deprived. The strike rudely interrupted a cherished American routine. Bernard Malamud once said, "The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology." The strike especially offends Americans because it has subverted that sense of the mythic; the strike has kicked the mystique of baseball in the pants and coarsely brought into unavoidable view things Americans try to ignore about corporate baseball: its pinky-ring crassness, its carnivorous commercialism, its obsession with the megabucks to be wrung from the lovely game...