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California counterculture has a word for Betts'tone--mellow, but that's not quite right: a little too mindless and innocent--the Youngbloods, jugs of wine on grassy hillsides, women with long straight hair strumming guitars. Betts's music is mellow in that it's ripe, at peace because it's headed in the right direction...
That this opera could have been neglected for so many years testifies to the cruel, often mindless vagaries of musical fashion in the U.S. throughout the past generation or two. Legend is not a great work. It does not introduce any innovations in musical or dramatic style. It could in fact as easily have been written in 1910 as 1941. It has the directness (though not the genius) of Verdi, the misty orchestral hues of Delius and a soulful melodic style that both Puccini and Sigmund Romberg might have liked. Given the longstanding American addiction to the new and different...
That kind of campaigning is basically a mindless operation -thus an escape from real work. No decisions are required, no memos need be digested, no concentration is necessary. A President can roll effortlessly from place to place, mouthing the same old baloney. There is sometimes a kind of sensual gratification from handshaking, being pressed by the crowds, waving arms and slapping backs...
...hands of waiting colonels. The stubborn antiquity of Greece sometimes struck him as a manufactured dream, a distant product of the American imagination. Perhaps, after all, he must live in the middle of the machine, down among the bits and pieces of broken technology, down where truth was a mindless computation...
With the seemingly endless, mindless expansion and dilution of professional sports, with a pro franchise in almost every city in the country, Harvard athletes now stand a much better chance than they have in past years of making it in the big time. In football, for instance, only John Dockery, who can flash a Superbowl championship ring from his days with the New York Jets, has been successful in recent years with...