Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pages were beginning to fill. His friends hovered over him like mother hens, pecking, suggesting, soothing. When Boris was finally produced (it was turned down at first because originally it had no female roles), the audience in the Marinsky Theater received it with enthusiastic astonishment. Said one spectator: "What sort of opera is this? There's no music in it; but I must confess I never took my eyes from the stage." Russian critics and musicians regarded it with horror. Screamed one: "This is a disgrace to all Russia...
Wrote Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky: "Musorgsky you are quite right in characterizing as hopeless, [but] his talent is perhaps the most remarkable of all [the Five]. . . . He has some sort of low nature which loves all that is coarse, crude and rough . . . coquets with his illiteracy and takes pride in his ignorance, rolling along, blindly believing in the infallibility of his own genius. But he has a real, and even original, talent which flashes out now and then. . . . Musorgsky, for all his ugliness, speaks a new language. Beautiful it may not be, but it is fresh...
...Petticoat Lane, where people eat and try on clothes with the same grubby boredom, to Berliners dancing by a stagnant pool and a Viennese carnival in the background. Says Koerner: "Who is guilty, the man who kills or those who turn their backs? It's a sort of question...
...unleashes skittish maternal emotions. Dana Andrews, a most talented actor, has to call someone "honeybunch" umpteen times in this show, yet he never fails to make it a more or less fresh revelation of character. Director Otto Preminger is expert at the glossy details that are useful to this sort of story...
...national literature in chains. "Russian society," he writes, "has not lost the motive power of belief, and where belief is, there a measure of intolerance is bound to thrive." Even the decree that Russian detective and adventure fiction must fall into line "is understandable in so far as this sort of fiction will be largely read by the youth of the country and the state has an immediate interest in the shaping of the outlook of the younger generation...