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Like the 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...
...symbolism, a U.S. presidential election is not a contest between good and evil, a referendum on war, or a race between philosopher-kings that dissidents can safely ignore because party leaders have rejected the loftiest candidates. Viewing the election in such terms is no more realistic than the dreams of McCarthyites who expect to take over the Democratic Party after Humphrey loses. That hope is likely to be foiled by party professionals who, unlike the McCarthy amateurs, work at politics full time; much the same happened on the Republican side, when the pros shut out the Rockefeller forces who refused...
...have correctly identified true American patriotism grounded in the purest motives and motivated by the loftiest ideas. Pity that we are blind to the truth and have not the ability poetically bemoaned by Robert Burns to see ourselves as others see us. THE REV. W. EUGENE HOUSTON Manhattan...
...MacLeod lives in an Edinburgh flat, identified not by his name plate but by a passport-size portrait. He travels much of the year, preaching the lona ideal in a glass-shattering baritone that still needs no microphone to reach the farthest corner of the loftiest church. He bristles when addressed as "Sir," on the ground that ministers should not use hereditary titles-although he has no objection if his wife is called Lady MacLeod, since "she's not a minister." Elevation to the peerage has not changed his views. "I hope," he says, "that people will continue...
...Shih, as the Dairen youths affectionately called him, philosophized pungently: "With our night soil ladle, we shall remove all the mire remaining in society and root out revisionism to build a bright new world." As NCNA commented: "Although their hands were smeared with filth, these sanitation workers had the loftiest and purest souls...