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...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 been imitative in the Aristotelian sense (which is the only sense), and always classical, never "neo-classical." "Neo-classical" is a fruitless neologism, a fetid, indurating bit of synthetic classification which obscures the music as it sustains useless discussion. A work of art, for Stravinsky, is an object to be crafted, expressive of immutable, universal forms, rather than a personal drama of expiation and self-explanation...
...sacredness of personal liberty. His compassionate regard for individual rights in an age of creeping Orwellian conformity is reassuring to those of us who are apprehensive of the Administration's plans to "bring us together." That Mr. Douglas prefers not to pattern his private life after the neo-Victorian vogue prevailing in Washington is understandable. That Mr. Douglas abhors crass censorship in the puritan tradition of Increase Mather is not only praiseworthy but also healthy...
...mind were reduced to the mockery of hot blood, and the madness of proud discourse. The separation of the physical and mental, or earth and heaven, has continued linearly to this day, with one exception- the English Romantics. These poets, and their German inspirations, were the true neo-classics...
Unlike Hitler, Mussolini has mementos aplenty. The principal one is his tomb in Predappio, the Apennine village where he was born almost 87 years ago. His ornate crypt and a nearby restaurant owned by Widow Rachele, now 80, are magnets for tourists and a shrine for the neo-Fascist Italian Social Movement, which polled 1,400,000 votes (4.5% of the total) in Italy's last general election. As many as 5,000 people flock to Predappio on pleasant Sundays...
...nature, and appreciation of humanity over economics. In suggesting that the South will change only if the rest of America changes first. Watters has made a realistic assessment of the magnitude of the job ahead. Unfortunately, he can offer no new strategy. Rejecting revolution, he advocates a kind of neo-populist new polities, with leaders such as Julian Bond as one possible alternative. As a Southern liberal who since 1963 has worked for the Southern Regional Council, for years the South's only voice against racism, Pat Watters is used to waiting and fighting against insurmountable odds. The rest...