Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Richard Wagner conceived his Ring des Nibelungen as combining voice, orchestra, acting and settings into a perfect expressive unity, a "total artwork." That phrase could very nearly describe Austrian-born Herbert von Karajan. At 59, Von Karajan not only is the world's foremost conductor but concerns himself with every aspect of his epic productions, including direction, stage design, lighting. Head of the Berlin Philharmonic, director of the Easter and summer festivals at Salzburg, Von Karajan last week added the Metropolitan Opera to his realm by conducting and staging Die Walküre, first item in a new Ring...
...only thoroughly repellent to the whole concept of freedom of expression, but it has been explicitly declared unconstitutional. The problem is, however, that in order to vindicate these rights, the staff and friends of the Avatar must "put their heads on the guillotine," to use the City Manager's phrase. With meager financial resources, and in the face of this constant, insistent harrassment, the Avatar may have to close up shop in frustration and disgust. Long, expensive legal battles are a drag--and in this case, they may not even be possible...
...this world are the people who can block a promotion, or a secretary who by dropping a sly word gets her boss to come down hard on someone she dislikes. When a personnel functionary (whose child does not learn to talk but to "verbalize") searches for a damning phrase, he hotly charges a subordinate with "unilateral action." Even workers in the "field" when making a report must learn the lingo that will impress their chiefs back in the glass house: "As you know, the object of the Civic Coordination Programme is to tap the dynamics of social change in terms...
...industrialism than totalitarianism. Every society, parliamentary democracy included, involves an exploitation of the lower classes. The book is an injunction to examine all social systems, ours included, in terms of such costs with an eye toward reducing them. It is an effort, in John Stuart Mill's slightly melodramatic phrase, to abolish 'the slavery of antecedent circumstances...
...Harvard, and the universities of Michigan and Chicago-McCarthy reiterated his own oft-voiced objections to the war and his prescription for its end: gradual withdrawal. Beyond that, he repeated his major complaint that the U.S. is overextended around the world and must recognize "the limits of power," a phrase he used as the title for his latest book...