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...Battle Hymn...
None of the pro-Calley gestures topped in inanity a recent record on the Plantation label, The Battle Hymn of Lieutenant Calley, which reportedly sold 202,000 copies in the first three days after the verdict. After a voice-over about "a little boy who wanted to grow up and be a soldier and serve his country in whatever way he could," the song begins...
...Lawrence's work to prove that he is a "counterrevolutionary sexual politician," Mailer restores the chronology, plus several passages Millett has lacerated with ellipses and paraphrase. Then, he brings to the analysis such delicacy and compassion for Lawrence that the section often moves along with the surge of a hymn, and may perhaps be among the finest pieces of Lawrence criticism to date...
...bronchitis, Comstock is at a loss to explain the relationship. (Maybe all that hymn singing helps clear the tubes.) In any case, he has a name-or at least a nickname-for the whole phenomenon, which he humorously calls the "Leo Durocher" syndrome. "Nice guys," concludes the good doctor, "do seem to finish last...
...work of every great creative artist, Beethoven's music evokes different deep, personal responses in different people. The one trait he symbolizes to everyone, however, is freedom-his own freedom as an artist, all men's freedom to live their own lives. Beethoven's loftiest hymn to that core symbol is Fidelio, which today has a special pertinence to those European countries, as Austrian Conductor Karl Böhm puts it, "that experienced foreign occupation and domination within the recent past." Thus it was thoroughly proper that the Met's new Fidelio was entrusted largely...