Word: valhalla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EDWARD L. OWEN JR. Valhalla...
Wieland also revised the scenery. Grandpa's gods and goddesses journey toward their Gotterdümmerung through abstract-mobile backgrounds created by light projections with only the minimum of necessary realism: an oppressive Mycenaean Valhalla and a Gibichungen hall studded with hundreds of bleached animal skulls. A cast headed by Birgit Nilsson, Wolfgang Windgassen, Theo Adam, James King, Anja Silja, Lili Chookasian and Leonie Rysanek responded to Wieland's direction with magnificent singing. Under the baton of Conductor Karl Boehm, the orchestra became accompaniment and comment, echo and counterpoint of each gesture onstage...
Even after the turn of the century, most German art still looked like stage sets commissioned by Wagner. Idealized landscapes, preferably misty, thronged with the gods of Greece, Valhalla toughs and Bacchic satyrs like some sort of mythological beaux-arts ball. It took a few artists of more personal vision to make German art modern...
...after a wartime tour of duty as a Navy chaplain. Lewis soon found that his students "didn't see the relevance of Christian faith in daily life." He quit his Texas chaplaincy in 1950 to take graduate divinity studies at St. Andrews University in Scotland, "the Valhalla of all Presbyterians." In Europe he encountered a number of religious training centers for student laymen, decided he had found the way for the church to reach undergraduates back home. He returned to Austin, rounded up a few thousand dollars from local businessmen, and with the cooperation of university officials...
...divides the peoples in face of the united front of imperialist forces, because it nourishes bourgeois-nationalist tendencies and may ultimately lead to the loss of Socialist gains." And to the Communist mind, this is entirely logical: the way of achieving the the only force standing in the Communist Valhalla, the "withering away of the state," is the foreign bourgeoisie and its agents, and the only way to eradicate that enemy through the united efforts of the international proletariat...