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Word: dostoevskian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...again. This time they heard "din, gnash and screech" (Pravda). The work was withdrawn, and Shostakovich pursued more orthodox ways. A sanitized version, unveiled in 1963, found its way to the West on records, but this is the first recording of the original score. Harsh, erotic and turbulent with Dostoevskian emotions, it is a tale of small-town adultery and murder, laced with cynicism about the police. Rostropovitch and the cast, including his wife Vishnevskaya, give a caustic, high-velocity performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sounds in a Summer Groove | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

...mental therapy (and even more questionable physical therapy) from the vice chancellor of George's university. It is to Dottie that Stoppard entrusts what may be his fundamental conviction: that a world without absolutes will shortly breed moral anarchy; witness the behavior of the astronaut. It is the Dostoevskian proposition that in a world that has no God, anything is permissible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The View from London | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

...judged by their works, not by what they say in public An excellent byproduct of Lennon's recent wallow in self-pity is his latest record John Lennon Plastic Ono Band (Apple), one of the most fascinatingly dour LPs in rock history. Part psychoanalytical printout, part notes from a Dostoevskian underground, part black comedy, the music has a morbid, Mussorgsky-like power that makes it hard to believe that its author once wrote I Want to Hold Your Hand. Working Class Hero a relentless dirge with the style and strength of Bob Dylan's Masters of War?has the ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Beatled????mmerung | 1/25/1971 | See Source »

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