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...seedy dandy-a puzzle. He wrote flippant music and sacred music, funny, jazzy profane music, and he also wrote some of the century's greatest songs. Since his death in Paris last January, the Poulenc puzzle has become his epitaph-as though his critics and colleagues would rather cherish their confusion than resolve it. Last week in New York, two concerts that amounted to a Poulenc memorial-cum-festival only restated the mystery: two world premieres of pieces Poulenc composed in his last year eloquently argued the case for him and against...
Sports change over the years, and every time someone tries something new the traditionalists raise agonized protests (and no sports fans are more agonizing than baseball fanatics who cherish the most incredible statistics...
...would like to add something that Yama once said about his profession: "An architect, to implement our way of life, must recognize those human characteristics we cherish most: Love, Gentility, Joy, Serenity, Beauty and Hope...
...should respect conservatism, because we know the measureless value that is our heritage to save, to cherish and to enrich; because we believe that everything that is soundly built for the future is built in the present on the foundations of the past. We should respect liberalism, because we should be more concerned with the opportunities of tomorrow than with the record of yesterday. And we should respect a progressive point of view, because we believe in stable, ordered change and human progress, in the perfectibility of the individual human being and of the human society." That was a platform...
...Were my purely personal attitude relevant, I should wholeheartedly associate myself with the general libertarian views in the Court's opinion. But as a member of this Court, I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard." During his early years on the Supreme Court, Frankfurter's judicial restraint operated as a liberal doctrine, opposing the court conservatives, who used strict constitutional interpretations as weapons against New Deal legislation. But under Chief Justice Earl Warren, the court...