Word: lesson
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Like T. S. Eliot, with whom he has a deep affinity, Stravinsky always worked to burn through the opiates and aphrodisiacs which unremittingly encumber clear, precise thought. He reiterates the lesson of all great artists, that vigor comes from continuity, from the regenerative originality which only a sense of history as present in every living moment can nurture. He has been free to pursue his own thought because he has been quick to admit the timeless creativity of Monteverdi, Gesualdo, and Bach. A musical convention is a point of departure rather than a creative surrender. Stravinsky's music has always...
...House appropriations subcommittee were leaked to the press. In that appearance, less than a week before Nixon ordered Americans into Cambodia, Rogers stated flatly: "We recognize that if we get involved in Cambodia with our ground forces, our whole program is defeated." Then he added: "I think the one lesson that the war in Viet Nam has taught us is that if you are going to fight a war of this kind satisfactorily, you need public support and congressional support." After the Cambodian attack became known, Democratic Representative Clarence Long said: "If I were Rogers, I would resign...
Debasement of the language cannot be blamed on protesters alone. The news media, the advertising agencies, the Government-even President Nixon himself-have all helped flatten and attenuate the English tongue. When radicals misuse language, they are only applying the lesson they have been so well taught by their society. That lesson has been reinforced by philosophers now in fashion-Marshall Mc-Luhan, for instance, who says that pictures are more important than words and contemplates a society of inarticulate tribal emotions based on instant sight and sound. Or Herbert Marcuse, who teaches that protesting words are as empty...
...theatre-gore who still has a longing for the old virtues, the Open Theatre cannot help but create a love-hate relationship. During the company's production of Terminal. the audience is treated to a lesson in embalming and a military-physical induction into the world of the dead. In Serpent, an improvisation on the Old Testament. eating the Apple means eating two crates of apples, throwing apples, giving apples to the audience-you can make up the rest. Because the company remains an open theatre in which the emphasis is on process and technique, a performance for them becomes...
...lesson he doesn't draw is that no society rotting at its roots can expect to maintain the discipline and the civil rights of its armed forces simultaneously. The best cement for any fighting body is belief in the rightness of the fight. The Israelis and the North Vietnamese have shown the power of conviction. It will be some time before the United States can have the luxury of a military free of repression...