Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subjected to similar ill-treatment. The composer deBreville wrote of his colleague Chausson: "He had no reason to fear or avoid vulgarity for he knew not what it was." And then the legions of Hollywood score composers came along and bled Franck, Chausson and company for all they were worth. It takes a pure mind not to find traces of "movie-music" in Chausson. But Chausson is not responsible for what happened; nor are the worshippers of the African jungles or of Oceania responsible for what became of their religious expression. And the tribute to each is that each...
...party, the other the nationalistic party of President Juscelino Kubitschek-have had things pretty much their own way in Brazil. Now a conservative, middle-roading party is challenging the old leaders. It is the National Democratic Union (U.D.N.), whose president, Juracy Magalhaes, 53, has suddenly become a dark horse worth watching in the 1960 race for the presidency...
...Nobel prizewinners. Though written 19 years ago, The Family Reunion has, perhaps with reason, never before been professionally staged in the U.S. It is difficult to stage, since both the inwardness of its drama and the trickiness of its dramaturgy are difficult to project. Yet the play is worth producing, however serious its shortcomings. For it more than endeavors; it experiments. And it not only has a certain academic interest where it fails, but where it succeeds it is close to unique...
...Fair Lady. Worth fighting to get into, whether for the first or second time...
...first part of the symposium which was devoted to a more general discussion of drama criticism, Norton suggested three questions that the critic should answer: "What is the playwright trying to do, has he done it, and was it worth doing in the first place...