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...only was the program brimming with the work of late-19th century and early 20th century masters, we were also privy to Lipkind’s brilliant arrangement and transcription work. Lipkind interpreted Alexander Scriabin’s “Romance for Horn and Piano (1890)” magnificently and fluidly, and, as Lipkind put it, delivered the piece “by both transcribing it and rewriting the ending...
...haven’t performed well,” Rathgeber said. “To come back and finish 11th is a really big personal accomplishment. It gives me motivation to get back there next year and get on the podium.” On Friday, Rathgeber grabbed 20th place in the 400-yard individual medley with a time of 3:50.38. He capped off the grueling weekend with a 23rd-place finish in the 200-yard backstroke. Rathgeber swam the morning preliminaries in 1:44.42, which left him just short of the cut to reach the finals...
...mistaken. Likewise, modish militant atheism (Richard Dawkins and the like) misses the mark; shrill, self-righteous atheism may be sexy—oh so radical, sure to infuriate the parents—but it’s like kicking a dying horse. In retrospect, talk of a new 20th-century great awakening will be seen as the last gasp of a bygone era, as the Americans catch up with the godforsaken Europeans...
...anything like the powerful institutions of the Union. Europe's history and geography, it turns out, are unique. Its nations are small enough and close enough to understand each other and have shared values; but at the same time, all of Europe lived through such horrors in the 20th century that its nations' postwar leaders needed little convincing of the virtues of cooperation. In Europe, nationalism has a bad name; in much of the rest of the world, where the memory of colonialism is still fresh, it is a source of pride and identity. Though Americans were midwives...
...Epps says.Furthermore, the war inspired countless works of art that are still valued today. The atrocity of the large scale bombing of the city of Guernica, which resulted in immense loss of life in 1937, led to the creation one of the best-known works of art of the 20th century. “[The bombing] is what sparked Picasso’s ‘Guernica,’ which is without question the most famous anti-war work of art,” says Epps. “Picasso was so incensed by what he read...