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...action rallies. Scott seemed to elevate himself to a much higher level of play. Whereas one would expect Sands, an All-American, to have to nurture the freshman through the match and carry the pair, it was Scott who contributed the unexpected punch he attacked fiercely and went for frequent wide-alley slams, catching his opponents off guard...
...desire to have their own freedom, just as very similar images of savagery were being used to justify the many genocidal acts committed against Native Americans during these same periods of time. The Lampoon's depictions of what looked like less-than-human savages were no better than the frequent attacks in the past on the legitimacy of African and Native American peoples to live and exist freely in their own lands and under their own rule...
...will not get close to Mozart," he states at the outset, and it is true Despite the interesting analysis of music and letters which pervades the text, the most frequent effect it produces is frustration--sometimes at a particularly annoying interpretation (as when Hildesheimer relegates The Magic Flute to "the lower ranks of sentiment") and sometimes simply at the inadequacy of the existing evidence on Mozart's life and thought...
Along with the frustration comes frequent disillusion; Hildesheimer does not balk at exploding romantic preconceptions. A famous reflective letter which Mozart wrote soon after his father Leopold's death--usually taken as evidence that the composer underwent profound emotional stress--is here traced directly to one of the era's popular books on philosophy; in addition, Hildesheimer observes. Mozart's first composition after the letter was "A Musical Joke." Hildesheimer also presents his own interpretation of Mozart's notorious tendency to indulge in "fecal comedy." The crude giggly figure of Mozart seen in Peter Sheffer's play "Amadeus...
Alarmed by increasingly frequent rape attempts on their campus, students at Pennsylvania State University are taking the law into their own hands...