Word: paean
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lament that courtesans are not the elegantly larcenous creatures they used to be. Equally arresting are Send In the Clowns (Johns), a rueful gaze into the cracked mirror of the middle years, and The Miller's Son (Jamin-Bartlett), a gath-er-ye-rosebuds-while-ye-may paean to the flesh...
...Walter Berry, Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan conducting; Angel, 5 LPs, $29.90). What a cast of performers! What a disappointment! Given Karajan's past flair for Wagner, not to mention stalwart Tenor Vickers as Tristan, this could well have been, the stereo statement of Wagner's endless paean to adultery. Instead, it is merely a smooth, workmanlike job, hampered by Dernesch's inability to make Isolde alive enough so that her death is significant. The record is also marred by the cavernous, "first-row-of-the-balcony" acoustics that Karajan seems to enjoy these days...
...Dance Company finds a major U.S. dancer and choreographer now watching from the wings (Limón is 64), but still managing to charge a young, vibrant ensemble with his familiar spirit, dignity and eloquence of movement. One new Limn work, The Unsung, a choreographically skillful paean to America's vanquished Indian heroes, was imbued with all of the solemnity of an Indian sun dance and, unfortunately, much of its tedium. But Orfeo, a free, ever-unwinding retelling of the old legend set to Beethoven's String Quartet No. 11, summoned up the poetic suggestiveness and exquisite line...
...himself-artist, simpleton, genius, child of nature and clown of God. Nijinsky also went mad in his last years and thought he was Jesus. Drawing on that, Béjart goes on to pose Nijinsky as a symbol of Man. On that allegorical level, the ballet is a paean to love as the true expression of God. Nijinsky stands for all the simple, warm people who need to love and be loved...
Special Forces Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler made a quarter-of-a-million dollars within three months by writing that paean, The Ballad of the Green Berets, one of the big song hits of the gung-ho days of 1966. Sadler himself stayed on with the Green Berets for 18 months, then took a discharge and set out to scale the heights of folk music. He never quite made it. "I went broke three times," Sadler laments. "I just didn't have the knack of keeping money." Today he is vice president of an auto-battery firm...