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...into one of Britain's most revered institutions; in return, the towering (6 ft. 6 in.), beetle-browed son of a Presbyterian minister had been rewarded with knighthood, a barony, the Order of the Thistle and a public reputation as one of the great moral pillars of the realm...
...people are ambivalent and even apathetic in their attitudes toward the Soviet union or toward international politics, perceptions about the United States are in an entirely different realm. America appears to be a complete enigma for people in the Soviet Bloc. Among some there was a consciousness similar to that of early 20th century immigrants who arrived at Ellis Island believing the streets were paved with gold. People like this constantly interrogate the American visitor about salaries, apartment size, leisure time, and so on, not because they are faring particularly badly, but because the image of unlimited wealth and opportunity...
When we speak, we part our thoughts down to a manageable, communicable shape. But what goes through our own minds is not ordered speech at all. It is more a dark, undifferentiated jumble held loosely together in some incomprehensible pattern. It is this realm of internal speech, of irrational and fragmented emotions that Berio explores in his works...
Leonard said he had originally questioned the legitimacy of the appointment before concluding, "after very very length discussion," that "it did fit the realm of an exception...
...some circles people take a condescending view of the work, meeting at its heavy doses of nostalgia, sentimentality, and homespun platitudes. But if the realm of art is wide enough to contain such bleak and pessimistic views of man and the world as Shakespeare's King Lear, Sartre's No Exit, and Beckett's Endgame, then it is wide enough to contain Wilder's warm, gentle, compassionate and hopeful approach. Wilder early reacted against the tradition of naturalism, with its emphasis on the seamy and sordid side of life, and has by nature tended to look through rose-colored glasses...