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Current classical listeners ought not to shed their devotion to integral works and obscure composers; these listeners are the keepers of the flame. But we need to accept that pop classical is helping to keep a cherished art form alive...
...form. Democracy would flourish as millions of people logged on to the vast, bubbling, uncensored online debate. I didn't know that much of what goes on online would turn out to be "utter drivel," as disillusioned cyberpioneer Clifford Stoll now concludes in his book Silicon Snake Oil, or "flame wars" of crude and escalating insults, or, of course, cybersex with Beavis and Butt-head...
...economy was interesting [TOURISM, Sept. 25] but a bit careless. The statement that gays "typically have far more disposable income than do straights" and the quote from the pollster who says that gays "clearly spend disproportionately more on travel than any other group" can only serve to fan the flame of a newer, supposedly more positive stereotype of gay and lesbian people. But still a stereotype. JEFFREY MOSTADE Cleveland, Ohio Via E-mail...
...blacks should focus on whatever increases black self-respect and pride. That is the answer." He--old friend, old comrade--leans across the table, voice angry, eyes flame throwing. I should not have said "should...
Already the empire was ashes. "Nights of strong wind were chosen, and bombs were dropped to windward in great quantity," wrote Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu in his memoirs. "The area encompassed by a wall of flame then became the target for the next wave, which systematically bombed the whole. The area became a sea of flame." Kokura, Niigata, Nagasaki and Hiroshima seemed to have been spared; but they were on a special list. "Day by day, Japan turned into a furnace from which the voice of a people searching for food rose in anguish," wrote Shigemitsu. "And yet the clarion...