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Complex Stuff. His opinions were simplistic, if pungently stated. "I don't mind dictatorships abroad provided they are pro-American," he told a gathering in London. He also called détente a "highfalutin word. They ought to say 'get-together.' While we have so-called d...
Amorpha, Fugue in Two Colors, 1912, was certainly the first abstract painting to be exhibited in Paris. Some of his big abstracts from the '20s, like Around a Point, must be reckoned among the most imposing feats of modern art. And yet the fundamental subject of his work remains...
The only failures on Prisoner in Disguise are two tedious songs by John David Souther, who apparently thinks that if you make a song long, slow, and wordy, people will think it's profound or at least sensitive. But these two--"Silver Blue" and the title song--are simply boring...
Plath reads her poems with a relentless intensity. She seems to hurl her words at the listener, each elegantly rounded vowel like a trajectory for a gunshot-sharp consonant. Just as she tried in her poetry to use her craft and skill to "manipulate intense personal experience"--as she says...
And it's hard to tell exactly which side Berio is on. Despite the fragmented quality of much of his writing and his preoccupation with electronics, he remains a surprisingly lyrical composer. Paula Robinson, who directed a recent Harvard Chamber Players performance of Differences, likened Berio to "a troubadour being...