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...violently, might have more application than we thought. "It was widely said that Latin America, Cuba in particular, was the 'blind spot' of the Kennedy administration, otherwise liberal in its foreign policies. What was not generally appreciated was that Latin America was the blind spot of the new realism as a whole, to which the Kennedy regime was so heavily committed for its ideas about international affairs." Mr. Lasch winds up firmly in opposition to those who have opted for a purely bipolar world...
Wieland also revised the scenery. Grandpa's gods and goddesses journey toward their Gotterdümmerung through abstract-mobile backgrounds created by light projections with only the minimum of necessary realism: an oppressive Mycenaean Valhalla and a Gibichungen hall studded with hundreds of bleached animal skulls. A cast headed by Birgit Nilsson, Wolfgang Windgassen, Theo Adam, James King, Anja Silja, Lili Chookasian and Leonie Rysanek responded to Wieland's direction with magnificent singing. Under the baton of Conductor Karl Boehm, the orchestra became accompaniment and comment, echo and counterpoint of each gesture onstage...
...Boulevard. In his four months on the job, Ceausescu has also provided liberation of sorts to Rumanian life. Noting that "diversity of style is peculiar to art and literature," he has gone even farther than Dej in freeing Rumanian artists from strict socialist realism. Abstractionist vernissages are blossoming along Bucharest's fashionable Boulevard Magheru, and even top party people can be seen carting home a nonobjective painting. Kafka is all the rage, and more American movies than Russian are running in Bucharest's cinemas; the Broadway play Rhinoceros was a theater season sellout, and not just because lonesco...
...Russian icon with its blank-eyed stare and stiff frontal figures was, next to shop signs, the art he knew best. Those Eastern images lean away from pictorial realism toward symbolism, and he loved them, as he says, because they are both "magical and unreal...
Gerhart Hauptmann, Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse: three glum Dutch uncles dominated the tone of German literature in the first half of the 20th century. The first two were world-famous figures-Hauptmann as a grim Grossvater of a social realism (The Weavers), Mann as a laboriously brilliant intellectual who wrote the era's most imposing novel of ideas (The Magic Mountain). Hesse, who died in 1962, was little known outside Central Europe, even after he won the Nobel Prize for Literature...