Word: voltairean
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...serious and searching affection-passion, even -we give to Shakespeare's, because they are total human creations." She regards this as no mean feat in the Age of Enlightenment (plainly a very dark age to Freudian Brophy), when erotic fantasy and intuitive humanity were exorcised from one Voltairean hero after another. But Mozart was a composer rather than a writer, thus suffered less harassment from the wild-eyed rationalists around him; after all, music was not to be taken seriously...
...lyrics were written by Richard Wilbur, with help from John LaTouche, Dorothy Parker, Miss Hellman and Leonard Bernstein. They are about on a par with the libretto. Most of the songs like "The Best of All Possible Worlds" and "Eldorado," play upon Voltairean cliches with repetition and insipidity...
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