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STUDENT: I'll start immediately. I will follow Lionel Trilling's dictum: no one will fall in love and get married as long as I'm present...
...underlying premise of the Communist quest for dialogue is that Karl Marx actually was not so ill-disposed toward Christianity as might be supposed from his famous dictum that "religion is the opium of the people." Garaudy argues that this condemnation must be understood as a response to the church's alliance with 19th century Europe's capitalist and authoritarian regimes. Marx and even Lenin, says Garaudy, were careful to distinguish the institutionalized church as they knew it from early Christianity, which was genuinely "revolutionary and democratic in spirit." Moreover, Marx acknowledged that Christianity had raised the right...
...that it is dead; it is the gold filling in a mouthful of decay." But that was nearly a decade ago, and even Osborne has simmered down since. Antiroyalism was once such an embattled issue that even Americans-who basically adore royalty-could echo Mark Twain's dictum: "There was never a throne which did not represent a crime." But nowadays monarchy is not much of a villain. And what would astonish Mark Twain is not that so many kings have lost their crowns but that so many still wear them...
Telltale Clicking. Despite the undeniable excellence of the ladies, some men musicians and conductors still view them with a wary eye. They subscribe to Sir Thomas Beecham's dictum: "If she is attractive, I can't perform with her; if she is not, then I won't." Lady-Killer Zubin Mehta, 30, who appreciates a well-turned ankle as much as a well-played musical phrase, has different reasons. He has enforced a limit of 16 women in his Los Angeles Philharmonic, because "a woman's life in the orchestra is not as long...
...flashy, scene-stealing conductor. Where some maestros seem intent on bending the score to fit their own interpretation, Böhm thinks of himself as the trustee of the composer, lets the music speak for itself. His attack is clean, crisp and controlled, and he adheres to the dictum of his close friend Richard Strauss: the basic duty of the opera conductor is to buoy up rather than drown out the singers. Böhm's stickwork, as spare and exacting as needlepoint, is also an inheritance from Strauss, who, to contain his enthusiasm, often conducted with his left...