Word: misunderstood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Turmoil & Calm. The Barbizon artist most misunderstood in later years was Jean François Millet, whose studies of peasants, notably The Angelus and The Man with a Hoe, splashed him with a reputation for sentimentality. Millet himself protested that he could not understand how anybody could consider the French peasant "jolly," and today, seen afresh, the paintings justify his protests. He painted his peasants with brooding compassion, saw in them "true humanity, the great poetry," but the mood is somber rather than sentimental. They bend to their labors patiently but also hopelessly, condemned to struggle against stubborn nature...
...certainly did not mean to criticize Baldwin for rocking the boat, or to deny that we owe him a great deal. If Mr. Kilson misunderstood me I can only apologize, and question whether it was my words or his presuppositions that occasioned the misunderstanding. Martin Kilson Lecturer in Government...
Cheeky Urge. Benedictus deftly draws these two crucial characters with scrupulous shading. No misunderstood paragon, Scarfe is a self-pitying, physically ungraceful, volubly religious boy destined for hazing in any school. Thoughtful and sensitive by nature. Phillips nevertheless wants to be accepted at school. Eventually he is elected to the house "library," a group of senior students who dispense discipline, including canings, to the others. When Scarfe comes up for caning, Phillips disapproves privately but does not protest. And as the caning goes on, he makes an appalling discovery about himself. "He found himself pressing his knees together in excitement...
...picture has consumed amounts to $7,000 a day. Completing work on it will cost a couple million more." Then, assuring all who would listen that Mankiewicz is still welcome "for debates and conversations about what I do to the film," Zanuck retreated to the consolations of feeling misunderstood. "An executive cannot expect love," he said. "Never...
Final Version. Dr. Erwin Ratz, president of the International Gustav Mahler Society, demurs. The trouble with Cooke, says Ratz, was that he misunderstood how Mahler worked. The composer normally went from sketches to "raw scoring" to a final version, and, according to Ratz, he was at least two years away from a final version of the Tenth. "Even with his finished works, Mahler did retouching in the instrumentation after a few performances; you cannot say that Das Lied von der Erde and the Ninth have the same character they might have had if Mahler himself had lived to perform them...