Word: instinctiveness
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Babe's direction too succumbs largely to instinct and caprice; snatches of Brecht emerge now and then--in the cards which identify each setting, in the make-up on the plebeians, and in the declarative style in which Aufidius's servingmen proclaim the virtues of war over peace to the audience. But the production doesn't have much to do with Brecht and Babe just injects the touches at will...
...part. As he talks sense to his fellow Trojans and debates with the wily Ulysses, Hector seems always on the verge of averting the madness of war. Actually, it is merely a delaying action against ultimate defeat. For Giraudoux is bent on proving that there is a vile instinct in man that wills to kill. The play ends sadly and cynically with war breaking out and Helen kissing a new lover, Troilus...
...centered on the distinction between "sensate" or materialistic values and "ideational" values based on faith and love. Western civilization, he felt, was far too sensate. Over the years, he wrote some 30 books (The Crisis of Our Age, Altruistic Love) aimed at curbing mankind's predatory, self-destructive instinct...
...scavenging genius of the American instinct runs deep: use anything, adapt everything goes the rule, whether it is castles from the Rhine or old British ocean liners. A case in point is Mrs. Florence Barry, 57, owner of a Manhattan thrift shop called Encore. No sooner did she read in the newspaper that the Paris police force was about to discard its famed capes for raglan-sleeved overcoats than she decided that police capes were just the thing for her customers...
...live all the time," in the words of Met Tenor Nicolai Gedda, who sings under Mehta in Carmen. Says Gedda: "He does not drag and he does not rush; he has the kind of pulse that is absolutely right." This is Mehta's essence as a musician: an instinct for the living pulse of a piece of music, along with a molten core of romantic feeling and a point-of-no-return commitment...