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Incongruously, we came upon an all night truck stop, mid-way to nowhere. There appeared to be no sign over the door, and I went to get coffee to go. Too late, I discovered that hatred hadn't advertised--perhaps the sign had blown off in a storm. When I...
BACH: THE ST. MATTHEW PASSION (London). Karl Miinchinger and the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra give the masterpiece an interpretation that is lovingly faithful to Bach's design. It has an appropriately reverent quality rather than the overwhelming emotional thrust of massed voices that most often dominate baroque oratorios. Among the...
Rising to demand a vote of confidence in Parliament last week, Greek Premier George Anthanassiadis-Novas quoted the author of The Frogs, to describe the man who sought to destroy him. Ex-Premier George Papandreou, said Novas, in the words of Aristophanes, was just another demagogue apt for "rousing the...
On the way down, Dante encounters three giants, 30 monsters, dozens of demons, and 128 spirits he can call by name-among them Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Ulysses, Mahomet, Brutus and Judas Iscariot. He also meets some of his best friends, but finds them leniently dealt with: his old teacher, for...
The murderers swim forever in a river of blood; the flatterers wallow in human excrement; the sowers of discord are split up the middle and stagger through eternity with their entrails hanging out. From time to time, with the brutality characteristic of his age, Dante personally assists their torment -he...