Word: profound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...celebrating Mozart's vibrant characters, Brophy, as always, goes full blast. Conventional worshipers of Mozart's "classicism" will be badly singed. Don Giovanni, she insists, is Mozart's Hamlet, written in profound relief and guilt shortly after his father's death. Indeed, Papa Mozart had trained his genius son from babyhood in every musical skill known to his cramped, parochial mind, then hovered over the outcome as possessively as a mother hen. On his final release from father, Mozart wrote his own saga of the father-murderer to whom seduction is a duty...
...armed to the teeth, the French staked all on their grande illusion, the Maginot Line. Risking his career, De Gaulle badgered his superiors to create a mechanized army capable of swift, massive attack. Only Hitler took his advice. France's capitulation, he writes, was the expression of a "profound national renunciation...
...Pillow, a rundown, 150-acre 18th century farmstead he had bought three years before. There each summer he honed the troupe with dancing all morning, farm chores all afternoon. "I wanted to see," he says, "if the American man in plain brown pants and a bare torso could speak profound things." He could. Since then, the Jacob's Pillow summer dance festival has become the most famed event of its kind in the U.S., and a prestigious summer school for promising young dancers (current enrollment: 66 girls, 14 boys...
Scott's poetry has neither the topical fire of a Robert Lowell nor the flinty edge of fellow New Englander Robert Frost. Neither profound nor powerful, the poet at age 54 writes what he describes in his present volume as verse of "regret"-for lost youth, lost love, lost chances...
...secular age, long removed from the centuries that built the great cathedrals, a church still remains a profound creative challenge for an architect; clergy and congregations are among the most open-minded of clients. Yet they do not often concede the degree of freedom given to Italian Architect Giovanni Michelucci, 73, in his new Church of St. John the Baptist. His client was the governmental superhighway authority (modeled on the New York Port Authority) that built the Autostrada del Sole from Milan to Naples. It wanted a memorial to dead highway-builders, and put no limitations of time, size, form...