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Starker, whose reputation as an un sentimental musical intellect is as familiar as his flawless intonation, is almost buoyant with his new toy. Even the so bering milestone of a recent 50th birthday could not blight his joy. "I love it so much," he says with uncharacteristic exuberance, "that I am doing things I could never do with anything else. For me, emotion must give way to form and structure. But I love this piece so that I'm inclined to let my hair down." Starker is balding...
...seventeenth century counterparts. Whereas the plays of Etherege, Congreve and Farquhar are characterized by a lack of genuine emotion, a plot of less weight than their racy, epigrammatic wit, and an absence of realism, William Wycherley reversed these trends, hastening the decay of the comedy of manners. Pure intellect was replaced by feeling, pure wit by emotion. The Plain Dealer is an intriguing mixture of realism and artificiality, of emotion and intellect, lacking meanwhile the polished style and all-pervasive wit of the great masters...
...make that craft come alive. That's not to say that all works succeed as art (or are even intended as art), or that all filmmakers are good artists--but to limit ourselves to making entertaining copy or personal judgments is to do a disservice to art, to the intellect, and to ourselves. It's not that anything is necessarily wrong with being entertaining and opinionated--only when that's all there is in the review...
...seemed natural and proper to Percy that the aristocratic whites, being wise and educated, should lead--almost regardless of encumbrances like free elections. The aristocrats, he wrote, "were leaders of the people, not elected or self-elected, but destined, under the compulsion of leadership because of their superior intellect, training, character and opportunity...
Clarence Darrow represents some of the best America that we can remember -a rugged liberalism long before it was gilded with chic, the common man invested with intellect. In a nation of somewhat disheveled justice, Darrow did genuinely unpopular things as a lawyer from 1878 to 1938. He saved Leopold and Loeb from the death penalty, defended blacks against rape charges, kept the lynch mobs from the Haymarket "conspirators." He was an honest and useful...