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Judith Kegan's article on "Hasidism and Neo-Hasidism" seems to me to overestimate contemporary student interest in and enthusiasm for this 18th century Jewish religious-mystical movement. As in the pietistic Protestant sects, Hasidism's adherents were commanded to pray to God with enthusiasm, joy, and ecstasy ("More pleasing to God is the stammering of a whole soul than learned prayers said in pride, or without heart...
...ambassador also denied reports that there are any significant neo-Nazi or anti-Semitic movements now in Germany. The recent "Swastika epedemic," he said, had little political motivation...
Although the proliferation of new techniques in the 20th Century would seem to give composers a wide choice of possible styles, in reality it has had the opposite effect. For rigorous systems often restrict a composer under the guise of giving him order. Both neo-classicists and the most advanced experimenters find themselves in danger of mimicking some master. Slavish Fadism is far too common...
...Lumumbist deputies have at most only 40-50 seats out of 137 in Joseph Kasavubu's government, Kanza claimed. Most of these have been "bought off:" they have betrayed Lumumba for "financial reasons" to Belgian mining interests and other "neo-colonialist forces...
Continuing his description of this "new process of neo-colonialist methods," Kanza suggested that Moise Tshombe's soldiers had murdered Lumumba as soon as the arrested leader entered Katanga province. "It is impossible that Tshombe would allow his mortal enemy to escape," he said...