Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Swiss professor maintained that the religious purpose of a passion play kept it from becoming "a tragedy as an independent work of art." The Greeks, he pointed out, never gave their drama the specifically liturgical purpose medieval culture did. Even Dante, he said, "lost a kindred understanding of the tragic texture," and thus made the goat the image of tragedy, for "offensive was its odor, and ugly its voice...
...Renaissance made to the rebirth of tragedy. While they rediscovered the important role of music in Greek drama, they retained a "demand for confining music within narrow banda." Their use of Greek ideas was almost entirely restricted to technical matters; they thus "suffered from an erroneous conception of the tragic...
Monteverdi, he stated, did bring about a rebirth of music drama, but gave it a very new form. The Italian did not use tragedy as a special category of drama, "a perfection of its own," but rather made it a human condition which the opera sought to communicate. The tragic element in his works was only "a momentary constellation and not of lasting significance, its roots are in human nature and the real and not in fate or the propitious shape of art." Schrade lays great emphasis on the role of fate in tragedy; he thus set Monteverdi...
Israel's "Law of the Return" is not a restriction of immigration on religious grounds, comparable to our own restrictions on the basis of country of origin, so much as an unprecedented liberalization of immigration laws to meet the special tragic need of the Jewish people. Israel has never faltered in the fulfillment of this responsibility, taking in the sick, the lame and the aged, and jeopardizing its own survival by doubling its population in the brief span of 15 years. RABBI DAVID GREENBERG Scarsdale Synagogue Scarsdale...
...somehow it all seems a bit unreal, a bit irrelevant; and in a sense it is-in a sense Greek tragedy is dead and can never actually be brought to life. The tragic sense of life is much too primitive a philosophy for individuals who experience God as love and death as rebirth. On the other hand, it is altogether too advanced a concept for people who take man as the measure of all things...