Word: oedipus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Alchemist. Samuel Taylor Coleridge said that the Alchemist was one of the three greatest plots in the all literature (Tom Jones and Oedipus Rex were the other two.) It's a well-made play, to be sure, but don't expect anything that great. The production is good, with no gimmicks or flourishes...
That's why Roazen's approach is more than good gossip. There is an irreverent joy that comes with photographs of Freud's couch and anecdotes about his Oedipus complex that seems more appropriate at cocktail partles than in serious works in the history of science. But scientists rule with their theories, and Roazen's account of the bizarre twists in the development of psychoanalysis that hinged on human quirks shows that science is not always a religious drive toward truth. It has a politics and justice...
Schoenberg once said that his music wasn't modern, it was just badly played. That is no longer generally true, but it applies to Bernstein's misrepresentation of him. The most convincing argument for Stravinsky on these records is Bernstein's new recording of Oedipus Rex, a neoclassic masterpiece, while Schoenberg is represented only by an excerpt from the Op. 23 piano pieces and a few bars of Pierrot Lunaire--Bernstein hammers out the flute part with one hand and growls the sprechstimme two octaves lower...
...surface. To fix it, Moreau resorted to what he called the "beauty of inertia." He noted of Michelangelo, whom he adored: "All these figures seem fixed in a gesture of ideal somnambulism; they are unconscious of the movements they make." Once immobilized, the figures in his allegorical paintings-Oedipus, Salome and the like-could then be loaded with accessories, encrusted with redundant decoration...
...undergraduate, Rubins continued acting, directing, and writing. His repertoire included over 20 roles ranging from the monosyllabic Nagg in "Endgame" to Moonface Martin in "Anything Goes" to Teiresias in "Oedipus Rex." Rubins's favorite role remains Richard Miller, a lovesick teenager in "Take Me Along...