Word: nberg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...during and familiarity appeals instantly but the particular interest of Pop lies in social criticism. The works at the Metropolitan provide a dose including Old??nberg's giant pool balls. Lichtensten's cartoons, Warhol's Marilyn Monroe, Pop lets the viewer share the satisfied superiority of mocking America and its many brands of soup...
...oleander. This never-ending recovery of "adolescence" and "national roots" on the part of Anglo-Saxon composers, their incessant celebration of the precious and popular, reaches an apotheosis of sorts when a British commentator asserts that Benjamen Britten's personality "does not show Stravinsky's uncomplicated sadomasochism, Schönberg's desexualization of music, or the naive barbarism of Bartok." There is really no answer to this kind of a chocolate-cream musicologist except to suggest that he write his glutinous panegyrics on the backs of sugar packets. CHRIS ROCHESTER
...Silesian city of Zielona Gora-which was Germany's Grünberg until Poland took it over after World War II-a truckload of town laborers pulled up one morning last week before a onetime German Evangelical Church, used since the Polish takeover as a Catholic parish house. As the workmen set about tossing out furniture to convert it to a community center, beshawled women clutching their rosary beads gathered and shouted imprecations. Soon husbands and sons came up, and a crowd of 5,000 was marching on the police headquarters. When somebody began to throw stones...