Word: tristans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hemisphere owe their desperate plight to their over-susceptibility to passionate love. Ancient Greeks and Romans, says he, regarded love as a mental aberration, an unqualified misfortune; Orientals so regard it today. Only in the Western world has it taken a hold in the mores, been accorded respect. Taking Tristan and Iseult as the archetypes of passion, he hangs on their necks more weight than Freud ever hung on Oedipus...
Immediate ancestors of the Tristan myth were the troubadours of Provence. They were Albigensians, heretics, and their songs, their protocols of courtly love, were simply the elaborate double-talk of a theology driven underground. With them, in the 12th Century, passion took root in Europe. Thence sprang the whole of European literature, the whole shape and vocabulary of European mysticism, the whole ferocious timbre of European war fare, the whole possibility of such megalomaniacs as Hitler, the whole suffering wreckage of European love and marriage. De Rougemont believes there is an almost universal schizophrenia, a tide rip created in millions...
This was the first capture of a British warship since 1815, when H. M. S. Penguin was taken by U. S. S. Hornet off Tristan da Cunha a month after U. S. S. Constitution took two other British warships in a single battle...
Wagner: Love Duet and Liebestod from Tristan, Brünnhilde's Immolation from Götterdämmerung (San Francisco Opera Orchestra, Edwin McArthur conducting, with Kirsten Flagstad and Lauritz Melchior; Victor: ten sides). Souvenir of a great operatic team which may soon be heard no more (TIME, Jan. 22). Conductor McArthur's shyly reticent accompaniment keeps it from being as good as it should...
Melchior and Flagstad, as Tristan and Isolde, are a team whose memory will still be green when the present generation of operagoers is old and grey. Tristan and Isolde are opera's greatest lovers, and to thousands of U. S. listeners Melchior and Flagstad are their incarnation. Though that incarnation is only limelight-deep (in private life Melchior and Flagstad are never more than polite, between eruptions of professional jealousy), operagoers are treasuring it while it lasts. For last month Diva Flagstad announced that she would retire at the end of this season. Soon this mortal pair of immortals...