Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...between pillaging the Volga Valley and leading whole cities in uprisings against the Czar. When he was finally captured and executed, his severed head, so goes the legend, continued to shout defiance and inspired further rebellions. Evgeny Evtushenko has put the story in poetry, and Shostakovich here sets the theme to unabashedly patriotic music. Sung in stirring form by Bass Vitaly Gromadsky...
...libretto's demands are preposterous enough: the theme derives from the ethics and rituals of Freemasonry as practiced in ancient Egypt. But Chagall's temple scenes, peopled with a host of priests clothed in garish colors, came off as something resembling a psychedelic initiation rite at the local Masonic temple...
...showing rival 20th Century-Fox's The Bible. MGM's own epic turned out to be a mixture of real life and reel life. President Robert H. O'Brien showed a 25-minute promotional film featuring clips from the company's latest motion pictures, the theme being that MGM's Leo the Lion has been bellowing forth lately with a "roar heard round the world." For one conspicuous member of the audience, that was not enough...
...burst of electronic energy, however it is harnessed. With the sweeping generalization that delights his followers but irks so many anti-McLuhanians, he compares present times with the late medieval era, when tribal thought was giving way to print-processed "linear" thought, and finds in both the medieval theme of the Dance of Death and today's Theater of the Absurd a similar fear of changing technology. Says he: "Both represent a common failure: the attempt to do a job demanded by the new environment with the tools of the old." To a degree, the same could be said...
...facing up to his dilemma, the hero must also face up to his unmanliness. The theme is not original, but in scenes that conquer the cliche, the hero gives his girl friend the gate and reads his mother the riot act: "Leave me alone...