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This view of opera as overwhelmingly sensuous enhances Koestenbaum's later exploration of opera's artistic ambiguity, the equilibrium between opera's dramatic and musical appeal. One chapter, entitled "The Unspeakable Marriage of Words and Music," describes not an egalitarian relationship, as Wagner dreamed of, but a constant exchange of submissions. When interviewed, Koestenbaum readily admits his lack of experience with European languages, which limits his perception of the true balance between text and music intended by the composer; however, he still manages to capture something of the incomparable and rich sensation that the sung word brings about...
...struggle to find a personal equilibrium is difficult. And Kennedy is successful only part of the time...
...course, intangibles like charm have long influenced political choice. But when Bob Dole or Bill Clinton heads for the late night talk show circuit, there is a difference. Charm is not checked by hard questioning; trust and credibility do not settle into an equilibrium. Personality is all that comes through. The audience witnesses the complete divorce of the person and the politics, the former inflated at the expense of the latter. Politicians should not so beguile the voters that their policy views become secondary Ideally, politicians should be ciphers for certain ideologies, the more personally transparent, the better...
...breath. The post-channel world may mean the transformation of TV programming, the demise of the mass audience, the death of the networks -- or it may not. While technology pushes in one direction, a host of societal forces are pulling in the other. No telling where the point of equilibrium will...
Warsh puts economic history into a larger context of culture and ideas. In one essay, he links the Marxist theory of "Punctuates equilibrium" in economic evolution and Agassiz Professor of Zoology Stephen J. Gould's hotly-debated theory of punctuated equilibrium in evolutionary biology...