Word: voltairean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
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