Word: eroticizing
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In his last years, he was a shadow of a man, half-crazy and exhausted by drugs and debauchery, and his wickedness had degenerated into absurdity. But he still had a few followers. He was cremated at Brighton. Over his beflowered coffin a disciple loudly chanted The Beast's...
Among Berg's most ear-catching passages and devices: a chiming bell that interrupts erotic episodes, a long, slithering solo by Lulu herself (Soprano Ilona Steingruber), realistic effects of screams and falling bodies. The fine performance by the Vienna Symphony (conducted by the late Herbert Hafner) and singers of...
Said Wieland: "I want to concentrate on the persons." His other general idea was to avoid the style of a 19th century romantic love story and display Tristan as the "erotic mystery" he thinks "the old man" meant it to be.
For a number of reasons the "Inferno" is used to shelter the erotic literature. Preservation is also a paramount consideration here. According to Haynes, studies like Freud's "interpretation of Dreams" and Havelock Ellis' "Psychology of Sex" are kept locked up because "the Library was continualy losing these looks."
Still another measure has been taken to preclude possible theft or loss of the books. The bottom shelves of the "Inferno" stacks are now completely bare. According to Haynes, "John Shea (superintendent of the stacks in Widener) and myself often used to find the aisles of the 'Inferno' strewn with...