But there's a more radical emotion-based meditation that's beginning to seep it's way into large companies.
A series of Supreme Court decisions in the 1920s foretold a changing national atmosphere; anti-radical emotions were diminishing, and there was a growing willingness to protect freedom of speech and assembly via court decisions.
Then Hiroshi Matoba from Japan came in, who made the presentation more radical in terms of emotion through mathematics, using visual language to represent the music.
That practical momentum, conservative in its emotions but radical in its taste for adventure, runs through Westerns, Andy Hardy movies, "The Flintstones," and "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," before arriving at the land of Pixar.
What it comes down to is this: You're born; you get about three decades to prance around looking fresh as a daisy before the inexorable forces of gravity, the sun, free radicals and pesky emotions like sadness and happiness put the shiv in; and, eventually, after looking haggard for the next umpteen years, you die.
Dvorak: Symphonies nos 8 and 9 Budapest Festival Orchestra/Fischer (Philips) ***** £12.99 Ivan Fischer has always been among the most intelligent of conductors, balancing intellect with emotion to produce radical, at times controversial results.
But as "Decreation" unfolds, it reveals itself as less about the loss of the romantic joining of souls than about a more radical kind of love: an emotion that wrings the body, that has little to do with happiness and much to do with self-abnegation.
This kind of resentment, as absurd as it is, is a very real emotion for the Radical Rich.
"Tubes" -- plotless, wordless and devoid of human emotions -- was radical in a way, testing the limits of commercial entertainment with a kind of high-tech vaudeville featuring video, percussion and stupid human tricks like catching a flurry of tossed marshmallows in the mouth.
17 NEW YORK/REGION B1-10 Radical's Release Draws Mixed Emotions Kathy Boudin, after serving 22 years in prison for her role in the killings of three men in an armored car robbery, stands on the brink of freedom after being granted parole.
And if a performer has trouble expressing emotion, George Kuchar has a radical directorial solution: "Change the contour of their eyebrows for each scene".
