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That said, Robinson nonetheless achieves the true purpose of criticism: to impel his reader to return to the music itself, and to hear it anew. --By Otto Friedrich...
...were bodies everywhere." Hallery went to the infirmary where one of his friends lay nearing the end. "I know I'm finished," the friend said, "but I want you to tell my wife one thing. Tell her I had the joy of knowing the war is over." -- By Otto Friedrich. Reported by Michael Adler/Paris and Zona Sparks/New York
...ends, F.D.R. had not yet become F.D.R. It was only his later struggle with polio that added the necessary steel to his character. Ward is already at work on sequel. It cannot fail to reveal a stranger, stronger character, but it will build on this odd foundation. --By Otto Friedrich...
...China's leaders may have thought that they were following a different apostle, for Friedrich Nietzsche believed that "in forgiving and forgetting, things that have happened can be undone." But China has never stressed the "forgiving" part of Nietzsche's recipe. It is true that some "enemies" may have been "rehabilitated" after being accused of political crimes. (After the Cultural Revolution, both Deng Xiaoping and Zhao had their verdicts reversed.) But the Party's historical forgetting has tended to be selective and opportunistic. Not to be so readily forgotten (or forgiven) is the predatory history of the West toward China...
...occasionally his weakness, too - served well this time, and it would be difficult, even indecent, to reproach him for having offered free elections to the Iraqis." Will such acknowledgments be on display this week? "The people at the top know it's time to stop looking back," says Jan Friedrich Kallmorgen of the German Council on Foreign Relations. French analysts make similar noises. But that doesn't mean a new era is at hand. "The time for diplomacy is now," Rice says. And forever...