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...signed away Oxford's defined view of things. Now Oxford must live with imperialism as "the highest and last stage of capitalism," and fascism as "a bourgeois movement and regime typical of the era of imperialism." Perhaps Soviet editors should also have provided a revised definition of dictionary: "A compendium of words in which meanings can be changed to meet ideological dictates. cf. George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Newspeak...
Currently, Wolff is co-editor of the Bach Jahrbuch, an important publication of Bach scholarship. He is also working on a three-volume Bach Compendium, which will provide information on all of Bach's works and sources. Wolff has also written a number of books about Bach and Mozart...
...torture U.S. citizens, although they explicitly support torture of innocent citizens in many other countries. There isn't enough domestic spying to threaten freedom of thought, although there is enough to warrant concern. But just like Winston, we have been convinced we love a Big Brother, a vague compendium of patriotism and a particular ethical model of selfishness and greed. We believe we have won a victory, just as Winston does...
Music Department Chairman Christoph Wolff discovered the previously overlooked organ chorale preludes while doing research for a Bach compendium to be presented at a festival and scholarly conference honoring the composer's 300th birthday this spring in East Germany...
...result, The Art of Illustration (Rizzoli; 269 pages; $60), is more than a compendium; it is an oversize, colorful detective story amplified with wit and illuminated with art that flows in a wandering, but reassuringly unbroken line from prehistory to tomorrow morning...