Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that there is no second." "Yankee trickery," charged the British yachtsmen, hinting darkly that black-hulled America was powered by some sort of "infernal machine." In the bitterness of that moment, one of sport's great and enduring contests was born: the America's Cup became a symbol of national pride, national purpose-and, as it turned out, national frustration. The British tried 15 times to win the cup, the Canadians twice. Their combined efforts cost perhaps $25 million, and all met with defeat at the hands of superior Yankee design, tactics, or luck. The contests were rarely...
...Looming Symbol. The composer's grandson, Wieland Wagner, had staged a new Tristan at Bayreuth in 1952, and Brother Wolfgang tried his hand at it in 1957, but neither version satisfied Wieland. As he planned the opera in this year's production, it became "yet another aspect of the ancient Oedipus drama, with its eternal correlation between Love and Hate, Death and Eternity, Father and Son." The most startling changes in Wieland's Tristan: 1) Isolde does not die at the final curtain, and 2) King Marke strangely becomes Tristan's father instead of his uncle...
...when Isolde (Soprano Birgit Nilsson) and Tristan (Tenor Wolfgang Windgassen) embraced in full view of King Marke, who usually does not appear -or suspect the illicit love-until the end of Act II. The second act, like all the others, was provided with looming, symbolical sets, dominated by a huge shaft ("Of course, I meant it as a phallic symbol," snapped Wieland. "This is what the entire opera is all about, isn't it?"). The enthusiastic opening night crowd gave the reconstructed Tristan an unprecedented 30 curtain calls...
...Second Car, once the great American status symbol, has become the great American what-of-it-7,400,000 U.S. families now own two or more cars. The thing these days is to have a Second House...
...even sued for alimony. Says she: "The only future marriage I would even remotely consider would be with Paul Getty." But she admits that her own rapturous intensity simply "exhausted" most of her mates. "Many men." she protests, "find their fathers in women. I am the least likely father symbol extant...