Word: counterpoints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blacks-on-the-rise who provide the cruel counterpoint of white degeneration. The "boy" leaves for a job in the post office, a motorscooter, and a sharp suit of store clothes on credit; the kitchen "girl," brooding on mail-order creams to lighten the skin and straighten the hair, achieves status and pregnancy by sleeping with the white "bass." On this level, integration makes a mess of both races. Archie Ferris expresses liberal sentiments toward the blacks; in practice, his enlightened principles are expressed by going on a three-day drunk with his ex-servant, who rides off with...
...show, by definition, allows for and even capitalizes on its numerous shortcomings. Only when the proceedings stop is it in trouble. For that reason, while saluting the urge which produced them, I have to register objection to three attempts to make legitimate this joyfully bastard show: the self-conscious counterpoint of the "Like You Like It" reprise; the weak, semi-serious ballad, "Is It Really Me"; and the tedious choreography of Pan's Dance, which wastes the considerable talents of Director Wilson and dancer Ron Porter...
...first playlet pits four masked interviewers against four job applicants. Fretfully, slavishly, the applicants answer like students who have forgotten to do their homework. Eventually the counterpoint of questions and answers gets so wholly garbled that the dialogue sounds like one of those elementary conversation books for learning a foreign language. Then the play opens out into a kind of choreographic ritual of modern life, urban herds shuffling to and fro, the commuter's lock step, a cocktail party. It is apparent that interviewers and applicants alike need help: instead of the bread of life, they are fed vacuous...
Happily, Frost's poetry was finer than his pretenses. Discarding an earlier, florid, neo-Victorian style, he developed a naturalistic technique that he called "the sound of sense," linking the counterpoint of metrical lines with the natural spoken sentences of his friends on the farms of New Hampshire. Because he admired their stoic cheerfulness, he adopted this form of speech himself, dropping the careful diction that his educated parents taught...
...chants to the dry linearity of the twelve-tone school. In a fresh departure from the Passions of Bach and Telemann, his chorus participates as well as comments, punctuating Christ's ascent to Calvary with hisses, shouts and mocking laughter, while the music quavers and sighs in sympathetic counterpoint. With the lean, clean strokes of a fencer, Penderecki slices to the heart of the Passion, revealing through the intolerance shown to one man the tragedy...