Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aside from writing a tone poem, Verdi wrote brilliant accompaniment, using a lot of strings and woodwinds to give the music an uncanny gossamer, translucent sound. Verdi always leaves the range where the voices are pitched free from interference, so that the audience can hear nearly every word of the text...
Boito's text is more like a score--attentive to rhythm, and the ability of rhythm to characterize and to conjure atmosphere. Like Shakespeare he writes word music; he has a head start, of course, writing in Italian. His verse is eminently singable. Boito also pulls together the woolly Merry Wives plot, making it compact not to mention viable...
...word circulating in Eliot House is that he fell asleep...
...populations: the industrial system has become so productive that even those worst off in society lead tolerable lives. No class is tormented to revolt; the agents of historical change are still-born; all men have a vested interest in preserving the productive apparatus. Protest is, to use an ugly word, counter-productive...
This is a strong claim and Graubard refutes it by citing counter examples. Not everyone reads Time and not everyone who does believes every word. Noam Chomsky, among others, has recently attacked behaviorism, and so on. The examples and refutations march on for pages...