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...modern film style, Aria blends two old forms: classical opera and the silent film. Both discovered unique languages to convey emotions; both eschewed irony for intensity; both declined in the 1920s -- opera with Puccini's death, silent movies with the coming of sound. So a headlong romantic like Ken Russell will embrace opera on film like a first, lost love. For him, opera is performed at peak volume because the feelings it surveys are big and deep. Matters of lust and death are too important to be spoken; they must be sung, shouted, thundered, wept -- and shown, in all their...
...scholar of the Enlightenment era, tends to view his subject as a direct descendant of 18th century atheists and rationalists like Voltaire and Diderot. Therefore it is with deepening irony that the reader discovers that by the 1920s, psychoanalysis had begun to resemble a religion. Freud's apostles begat apostates who in turn spawned heresies and a bemusing number of therapeutic sects, each claiming to have a piece of the true couch...
...this century. In 1982, through the playwright-development program at Connecticut's O'Neill Theater Center, he met Lloyd Richards, dean of Yale's drama school, who offered the plays a home -- staging them at Yale and later on Broadway. Ma Rainey, the first of their collaborations, depicts a 1920s blues singer who deals with segregation by staying fiercely within a black subculture. Fences, set in the 1950s on the eve of the civil rights era, centers on an embittered former baseball player, too old for the majors when the color bar fell...
...social life, the Harvard Union was built to provide inexpensive entertainment for those who couldn't afford the club system. The clubs' elitism was taken down a notch when Harvard, then the clubs, began to admit Jews to their ranks in numbers after the quota scandals of the 1920s. In the 1950s, Harvard took the next step and allowed Black students to live in the Yard; the clubs eventually admitted Blacks...
...serve meals, most members say they eat at them a few times at most. Called final clubs to distinguish them from the waiting clubs that once catered to the sophmores and juniors but no longer exist, the nine all-male social clubs were governed by rules developed in the 1920s until the University severed ties with them four years...