Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years ago by what the pastor, the Rev. J. Stephen Bremer, calls "two rather nondescript services," on Christmas Eve. Next week the Rev. Mr. Bremer and his congregation will celebrate the birth of Christ with four choral Eucharists, at which all the prayers and responses will be sung in plain chant. Instead of the austere black robe that his predecessor wore, the Rev. Mr. Bremer will dress in full Eucharistic vestments-alb, stole, maniple and chasuble, all in white. St. Mark's altar will bear six candles instead of two; candles, as well as a Cross, will be carried...
From a man who saw Brahms plain and studied under César Franck came a dirge for modern music. Asked by a London newsman which 20th century composers seemed likely to stand the test of time. Paris-born Maestro Pierre Monteux, 86, flatly replied: ''I don't see any, except perhaps Stravinsky." In a tart catalogue of inadequacies, the peppery new conductor of the London Symphony went on: "Mahler, he won't live; he's an imitator. Prokofiev, I don't think so. Shostakovich, no. Hindemith, no inspiration. Bartok: I give...
These are humble scenes, and Mr. Thompson presents them leisurely and reverently without any trace of bombast or pomposity. Mr. Robert A. Brooks, who staged the Christ Church production, has been as plain in his direction. Against the backdrop of a simple wooden frame set by Patricia Finn, Mr. Brooks has set his elegantly robed characters in effectively static and stylized positions; neither the music nor the singers themselves are bedevilled by necessities of operatic nuances...
Similarly, Ingrid Andree's Ophelia speaks no documents "in madness, thoughts and remembrance fitted." She is just a plain old garden variety schizophrenic, and not a good clinical specimen either...
...script, a man's legitimate ambitions are primly restricted: according to his colleagues, he must do whatever the majority decides is right, and according to the woman he loves, he must subordinate his career to "a life built around his children." In plain English, the moviemakers are saying that Englishmen should be both social irresponsibles and matriarchal vassals. They may be right, but if they are, God save the Queen...