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Dylan, apparently reacting against his total emotional involvement in the stifling, up-to-date agonies of Blonde on Blonde, took care to place his new songs in another, strange realm. This process is akin to the Brechtian notion of "defamiliarization"--making the action subject to rational scrutiny, unclouded by emotion, because it is viewed from a distance. And since this technique requires activation by a Message, Dylan was able to infuse John Wesley Harding with a spiritual, almost religious tone...
...more time to composing. Last week he sat in the Wilton, Conn., glass-and-stone house that he built four years ago, tinkering with final revisions on the first fruits of his lei sure-a 63-minute oratorio, The Light in the Wilderness, an impressively imaginative step into the realm of large-scale serious composition...
...S.A.T., a doom to your plans to take such intangible qualities as creativity, motivation and curiosity and reduce them to the realm of the tangible by assigning a number score to them. These are all an American kid has left to call his own. In other areas he can chart his performance by comparison with that of the rest of the nation, thereby diminishing, to some degree, the sense of the unique and the special. With this final invasion of his privacy you commit the ultimate putdown. May your computers clog...
...painting, the Romantic era in France produced the art of David, Ingres and Delacroix, but Anglo-Saxon Britain far more nearly mirrored the chaotic spirit of the age through the diverse brilliance of Gainsborough, Reynolds, Constable, Blake and Turner. How strikingly they and other British artists staked out the realm of the new sensibility in the Romantic era can be seen in a display of 236 oils, watercolors and drawings, assembled from collections in America and Europe, now at the Detroit Institute of Arts (see color pages). "British Masterpieces," which will be shown at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, pays...
Seated amidst the gilt and crystal of a venerable concert hall, watching an elegantly tail-coated conductor lead a Brahms symphony, the modern concertgoer may sometimes feel that he is inhabiting a scene preserved in amber. In such a tradition-rounded realm, the conductor and everything under his sway appear to have been unaltered in half a century. His basic repertory is the same. The makeup of his orchestra and its instruments are unchanged. The auditoriums he performs in are virtually the size and shape they always were. Through an epoch of transformations that have touched nearly every human activity...