Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Welcome to Salzburg, in August the classical-music world's equivalent of Cannes. To be sure, there are no topless starlets, cigar-smoking producers or interminable socialist-realist films from Rumania. Still, the music business has a hype and rhythm all its own. Posters of such performers as Conductor Herbert von Karajan (a native son), Soprano Kathleen Battle, Conductor Riccardo Muti and Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter are plastered in shop windows. Managers from the U.S. and Europe gather to plot the careers of performers and ensembles. Diners at the swank Goldener Hirsch restaurant near the Festspielhaus burst into applause whenever...
...caught up with both politics and personal relations but "most intrigued in the area where the two cross over, where personal relationships are molded by political and economic circumstances." In any case, his rule of thumb remains, "If you can't love someone, you can't be a Socialist...
...some vulgarity creeps in -- well, that's show biz. If you want pure artistry, go to Leningrad and see the Kirov. If you want to explore classicism stretched into infinity, catch the New York City Ballet. What the Bolshoi does best now is Grigorovich's signature ballets, the socialist-realist works like Spartacus and The Golden Age that dramatize episodes in class warfare. The dancers command extraordinary energy and seem in total, avid sympathy with the choreographer. Unfortunately, American audiences may find these mighty pageants simplistic. The silent-film grimaces, the cartoons of good and evil, + the battle cries hurled...
...decades: office workers queuing up at street-side ice cream stands, red-kerchiefed flocks of Young Pioneers fidgeting in the mile-long line outside Lenin's Tomb, old women sweeping courtyards with twig-bundle brooms, faded red signs proclaiming VICTORY TO COMMUNISM. But beneath the capital's seedy, socialist exterior there is an unaccustomed hum of excitement. Passersby pore over posted copies of Moscow News, marveling at articles on (gasp!) official corruption and incompetence. Once banned abstract paintings hang at an outdoor Sunday art fair. In public parks and private living rooms, families plan futures that many believe will...
...Constitution's great merit lies in its timeliness, its depth and its durability. People like Ralph Nader, the consumer advocate, and Bernie Sanders, the socialist mayor of Burlington, Vt., would sacrifice the individual rights guaranteed by the Constitution for specific economic amendments. There is great danger in adopting ideas that may be fleeting in nature. Legislative avenues are available for the introduction of new notions...