Word: whithering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BERNSTEIN ENTITLED his lecture series "The Unanswered Question" after Charles Ives' short chamber work of that name. Ives meant his piece to ask "the perennial question of existence," and for Bernstein, that is "Whither Music?" Before we can deal with "whither," though, we need to know "whence," and Bernstein's first five lectures are devoted to tracing the origins of what he considers a twentieth century crisis in musical development...
Reasoner Report. Whither Spiro Agnew? Harry shows us. Ch. 5, 10 p.m. 1 hour...
...Whither rock? If the salad days of Dylan, the Beatles and their near peers constituted its high renaissance, rock music has now evolved into a florid and self-conscious rococo period, which is also, sad to say, often decadent. Once the sound was what mattered most; rhapsodizing players would even turn their backs on the audience, and "performance" was almost a dirty word. Now the show is everything. A few rock groups share the evening with stand-up comedians or clowns and trapeze artists to liven up their act. Some musicians wear mime makeup and practice ersatz Marcel Marceau. Others...
...infer Gertrude's playfulness in Picasso's Still Life with Fruit and Glass (1908): a creative game when the contour of the glass becomes the contour line of the pear. Can you tell whither glass is in front or in back of the pear...
...through the summer the questions loomed over the fashion horizon: Whither the midi? Would autumn, and the return to real clothes, find women taking the downward drift in stride, their minis in mothballs, their legs in hiding? Designers scoffed at alternatives, and so-called smart stores had little else in stock. But October is here and almost gone, and only the leaves are falling; skirts are just about as short as ever. All told, the mid-calf hemline seems clearly a long-lost proposition...