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...this reason alone, the memoirs are a valuable contribution to 20th century demonology. Unfortunately for Wagener, fate continues to be unkind. His book drags him from the mercy of oblivion to play the part of history's fool. The Hitler he intended to re-create is not a tragic hero but a monumental bore. Gaseous generalizations and crackpot theories pour forth Like beer at an Oktoberfest. He thrills to something called the Odic force, "power rays" that flow from healthy bodies. He invokes Einstein's mathematics to justify his own mystical yearnings and "inner vibrations." He attempts to cross socialism...
Throughout musical history, a single compositional style has generally dominated its era. In the fractious late 20th century, however, composers freely draw on myriad influences to create highly personalized idioms. Eclecticism, once a term of opprobrium, has become a virtue, perhaps even a style in itself, as the boundaries of serious music steadily expand...
...formula clicked: the magazine's circulation went from fewer than 800,000 to nearly 3 million. Like the girl in the ads, Cosmo loves to burble about female athletes and politicians, addicts and feminism, but still ruminates on how to get a man in three dates. On the 20th anniversary of her transformed magazine, Brown, 63, vows that you can have it all, down to the crocheted pillow with the words to live by: GOOD GIRLS GO TO HEAVEN. BAD GIRLS GO EVERYWHERE. Yes, you could call her that Cosmopolitan Girl...
...been dispersed, but the third game opened pointedly with Immunized Witness Lonnie Smith in the batter's box facing his former teammate, Joaquin Andujar, whose name Smith was generous enough to mention on a witness stand in early September. Maybe it is just a coincidence that Andujar won his 20th game on Aug. 23, and from that day lost eight of nine, including the third game of the World Series. If anyone expected Andujar to throw at Smith, he did not. Off Andujar in the fourth inning, Smith doubled in the winning runs...
...that kind of judicial restraint sounds like an attack on three decades of decisions expanding basic rights. Liberal Justice William Brennan was sufficiently troubled to make a rare off-the-bench speech on the subject. "We current Justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th century Americans," Brennan unrepentantly told a Georgetown University audience three weeks ago. It is "little more than arrogance" to believe that anyone can "gauge accurately the intent of the framers." Last week Moderate Justice John Paul Stevens weighed in with remarks to a group of Chicago lawyers, attacking elements...