Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...marked and addicted to sadism, but a man after the Hurs' hearts. They are a cattle-grazing tribe of some 100,000, whose poor homeland of sand, scrub jungles and marshes has made them perverse. They are Moslems, but they build their mosques facing away from Mecca and orthodox Moslems call them Lurs (the Unholy). Some 8,000 Hurs, the Lurs, are joined in blood brotherhood in fanatic support of Pir of Pagaro, whom they regard as God. They dress in green, salute each other by folding their arms on their chests, have nothing to do with anyone outside...
...from the police station was Le Panier Fleuri (The Flower Basket), "the neighborhood bordel run by Madame Mariette." The other corner was occupied by a laundry "which employed three hardworking girls and also served as a clandestin. That is to say, men who found it banal to patronize the orthodox establishment could, if they were known...
...form" tend to become meaningless. Only in the case of such composers as Bruckner or Mahler who try to imitate the Ninth and fail through lack of sustained inspiration, do you begin to worry about form, and notice how the composer has to prop up his sagging material by orthodox sonata devices which often retard the music rather than help it. Beethoven in the Ninth, however, despite the massiveness of much of the thematic material and the lengthened time-scale, has managed to keep a perfect equilibrium between the parts. The choral movement, one of the most exhausting twenty minutes...
...makes clear by reviewing his own book succinctly in a prefatory note. "The chief aim of this book he says, "is to provide a picture of 18th-Century England until the time of the French Revolution. The whole thing lies much closer to a social chronicle than an orthodox history-book, and is more concerned with manners and tastes than with treaties and wars. All the same, I have certainly not sought to restrict the book to the merely decorative or picturesque it attempts a big canvas, deals seriously with human ideas and emotions, and seeks to portray human beings...
Saroyan is not at all orthodox about his procedure in playwriting. His flamboyant ego, his unreserved sentimentality and love for the people, have baffled the critics, who, at first, accused him of being a hoax. His ingenuous personality and his unashamed bravado puzzled the more mature and sophisticated onlookers. But now he is recognized as the leader of a one-man cult. He wants mood most of all in drama; plot, situation and character are all incidental to the creation of the proper feeling. A play, for him, must excite as music does, in a sweeping, comprehensive whole...