Word: romanticization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The purity of love is explained by Sorokin's old-fashioned definition of altruism. "Love known no bargain ... no reward. love is always for love's sake." Sorokin attacks the blind "romantic" kind of love (which he calls "a sort of a fever") as the most typical type of inadequate...
Kinsey & Sanskrit. The first clear sign that the U.S. had again caught the recitation bug was the smash success of the First Drama Quartette (Agnes Moorehead, Charles Laughton, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Charles Boyer) in Bernard Shaw's Don Juan in Hell, later superbly recorded by Columbia ($11.90). Then the...
Except for a perfunctory romantic thread, the story is all about Mau Mau.
When Ballet Theater first bounced on the scene 15 years ago, it called itself "a museum of the dance." The label was meant to indicate that all styles, old and new, would be on exhibit. Over the years, the lively museum gave U.S. ballet a new turn: it kicked new...
Blacher: Orchestral Variations on a Theme of Paganini (RIAS Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ferenc Fricsay; Decca). The same theme (for solo violin) used by Brahms for his famed Variations gets some plain and fancy going-over by one of Germany's most successful living composers. Boris Blacher uses a...