Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...fierce portrait of homosexuality-a subject with which Mishima had a lifelong fascination and, some say, involvement-Mask brought him fame. His best-known work, Temple of the Golden Pavilion, brought him a small fortune as well. From that point on, even his art was devoted to the spirit of the samurai...
Until popular architecture makes an effort to understand the needs and the spirit of the age, writes Ada Louise Huxtable, "we will continue to have the pious reproductions, the dead reconstructions, the vacuum-packed imitations and the false, nostalgic standards that, at best, evoke only the second-hand suggestion of the artistic glories of some other age, or at worst, throttle creativity and subvert values...
Produced by Leonard J. Lehrman, all three profit from originality of staging and orchestration. David Hessney is Lehrman's co-director of music. Long immersed in "the spirit of Marx," Lehrman produced Blitzstein's "The Cradle Will Rock" at the Locb Experimental Theatre last year and plans by next year to complete the score for "Idiots First," based on the Bernard Malamud short story, which Blitzstein began but never finished...
...farce based on Apollonius, it is Blitzstein's first opera to his own text, performed only once before, in 1953 at the Manhattan School of Music. The new staging here and emphasis on dance is a vital response to Blitzstein's dedication to popular art and depends on the spirit of community and expansiveness that the uninhibited rehearsals have tried to build...
...vanguard of the peace movement, the students have relied heavily on one of the most powerful tools at their disposal: Vietnamese culture. By focusing public attention on things Vietnamese, they have openly challenged the tremendous American influence on their society, and at the same time are forging a spirit of unified struggle among the Vietnamese against a common enemy. This cultural renaissance has taken many forms. During the week I spent in Saigon, the Saigon Student Union organized two "cultural events": an "art exhibition" consisting largely of pictures of the My Lai massacre and of Saigon police beating down student...