Word: masterworks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...back to Mendelssohn's historic revival of J.S. Bach in 1829. Even so, throughout the last century Bach was known primarily to the most sophisticated musicians, and only a handful of Mozart's myriad works were regularly performed. With composers like Schumann, Brahms and Wagner churning out masterwork after masterwork, there was little need to revive the past. But as the musical repertory gradually evolved into a monument to the 19th century, inquiring performers began to look backward. Arnold Dolmetsch (1858-1940), an English musician and instrumentmaker, rediscovered the nearly forgotten world of the viol, lute and clavichord...
...Yamamoto, whose wondrously simple cascades of fabric combine Kawakubo's seriousness and Miyake's ebullience, may say that "fashion is fashion. In the end I think that fashion should not be an art." But he also expects his clothes to have the social impact of some major masterwork. "If you want to wear these," he says, "then you must change your situation...
...shadowy George Mason, near neighbor of Washington's and brilliant political writer, drafted the Virginia Declaration of Rights in Williamsburg. A copy was dispatched to Philadelphia, where Jefferson read it just before he sat down to draft the Declaration of Independence. His masterwork had many glints of Mason...
...doctrines of Holy Scripture in many places, both according to their literal meaning" and the common interpretation of the early Church Fathers. The head of the Holy Office, which was responsible for seeking out heresy, ordered Galileo not to disseminate his views, and the astronomer agreed. Nonetheless, his 1632 masterwork, Dialogue on the Two Great World Systems, pursued the theory. The Holy Office condemned Galileo and kept him under house arrest during his final years...
Faced with the nagging question of what really happened to at least 6,000 people who mysteriously disappeared in the government's 1970s crackdown, the junta finally went public with an answer. In a masterwork of avoidance, the military claimed that from 1973 to 1979,2,050 civilians were killed. But it said nothing of how, when or where the victims died. The report denied the contention of government critics that many of the missing were still in detention. Anyone not known to be in exile or hiding, declared the report, is now "for judicial purpose considered dead." Conceding...