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...siecle decadence with the ponderously rich chromatic harmonies of the post-Wagnerian idiom. He matured as a composer at a time when tonality, the structure which had supported music for over 300 years, was finally sinking under the bloated burden of its own chromaticism into an anarchic morass. The ferment which resulted from the destruction of the old order gave rise to Schoenberg's great expressionist compositions like the sextet Verklarte Nacht, which seems to breathe in that decaying, sickeningly rich atmosphere, and Pierrot Lunaire, which for many is the ultimate expression of diseased, depraved emotions. Schoenberg drew creative sustenance...
...some people even fondly remember the Great Depression. They argue that material luxury is not the only test of wellbeing. Kenneth Clark, the black educator and psychologist, recalls that in the Depression, "for the first time there was equality in deprivation. Suffering was democratic." He remembers, too, the ferment, the "curious social and political optimism." For others, the more lasting picture of the Depression will be those haunting photographs of the gaunt faces of undernourished sharecroppers...
Strangely though, the industry is in about as much ferment as the bubbling wort in a brewer's tank. Small and some not so small regional brewers are constantly going under or at best being bought out by healthier competitors. Main reason: they cannot stand the competition of the Big Five: Anheuser-Busch, Jos. Schlitz, Pabst, Coors and Miller. The rivalry keeps industry prices and profit margins so low (3.8% of sales for Anheuser-Busch) that only the best-managed companies can survive. As a result, the five have increased their share of total barrelage from...
...began thinking of my own life. I began thinking of the chorus days of my life when I belonged to a group of people who had everything in front of them. I'd always wanted to do a musical about dancers, and so it began to ferment in my mind...
...impression of a self-perpetuating oligarchy of middle-aged persons, excessively burdened by a multitude of public offices, but always within a limited sphere of issues. Almost always they sit a Governing-Board-level and therefore for removed from the arena where the action is and where the ferment for change in our society manifests itself with a sense of urgency that seldom filters up till it erupts in bitter explosions...