Word: legacyism
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Ormandy, it is true, held on too long, and the Philadelphia musicians have embraced Muti so warmly in part because he is not Ormandy. But an edifice that took more than four decades to erect should not lightly be dismantled. For all the talk of versatility, it ought to be...
The train stops in the stillness of time. Passengers in this single car of the Orient Express luxuriate forever in a reverie of richness. The burnished wood of the dining car, the deep upholstery of the seats, the soft, shaded lighting make the figures stand out in relief, their clothing...
The Marcos who came to power by democratic election in 1965 was a nationalistic social reformer. In his first inaugural address, he claimed that "our government is gripped in the iron hand of venality, its treasury is barren . . . its armed forces demoralized and its councils sterile." Marcos strongly identified himself...
When Victus and his comrades decide to extend their Communist campaign to uncharted territory, they typically select a remote group of villages that have received little largesse from the central government. The first step is to dispatch an advance team to live in the home of a local family. Unlike...
Within days of his 21st birthday, the Times of London printed a notice of his death. Fortunately, the whole thing was a mistake. The eight wounds that Robert Graves suffered in July 1916 during the Battle of the Somme in France were serious but not fatal. When the time finally...