Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Leader, May 1967), in which he admitted he did not yet understand it, with the article in the current book, in which he presents several years' reflection with no condescension toward the reader. When the film was first released, many baffled reviewers gave up, terming Persona a work of poetic images with no substance. The first intelligent analysis was Susan Sontag's essay reprinted in Styles of Radical Will...
...Roses--Joni Mitchell (Asylum), Usually a year's love affairs provide the material for any one Joni Mitchell album. Her most recent triumph is less obsessively introspective, more poetic, and more varied in tone. Unlike the upbeat but somewhat plodding piano style of other piano and guitar-playing folk-singers, Mitchell plays richly enough and sensitively enough to make an orchestra from one instrument. Her voice--which covers so broad a range expertly that it becomes another part of the orchestra--sounds more resonant on this album, but that may be the consequence of a new record company...
...taken from Talleyrand: "He who did not live in the years before the revolution cannot understand what the sweetness of living is." The film is about a young man's struggle to reconcile radical politics with an almost lavish romanticism, to fuse Marx and Talleyrand in his lofty, poetic soul. Revolution has the intimate feeling of a personal memoir, of experience hardly assimilated and still freshly felt...
...specific historical content. They join with the religion of Sovietism, and subscribe to the irrelevant mystique of working class revolution. And this leads ultimately to a more than paranoid view of American politics; to a rejection of the entire American culture, expect for the pseudo-folk or transcendental-poetic, No Bogart movies for the Isaacsons, only Paul Robeson at Peekskill or Barbirolli's Philharmonic at the Lewiston Stadium...
BERLIOZ: BENVENUTO CELLINI (Philips, 4 LPs). Berlioz's first opera is deeply poetic, grandly exuberant and stunningly performed under Conductor Colin Davis...