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Last week, though, when Hindemith's death was tolled in the German press, the critics freely spoke of him as the giant of modern German composers. Perhaps because his music in retrospect seems eminently German, few of the German obit writers remembered to mention that he was a U.S. citizen who had not lived in his homeland for 25 years. His works stand as a crown to the German baroque tradition, and in his early music especially, there is an almost impressionistic reflection of the anarchy and despair that gripped Germany after World War I. He wrote within...
...youth-which seemed to have kindled in young people all over the world an almost personal sense of loss. There was his style-which now shone with an ever-increasing glow, and made many of his countrymen feel a sudden deprivation of grace and beauty. And there was, in retrospect, a realization that he would have led a gallant and slashing campaign and almost certainly won re-election-and now those Kennedy years were not to be. There was, too, his image-or better yet, his person. Few could now articulate all the qualities that they would ascribe to either...
...three killers were very likely insane. None had a criminal past. But the national passions aroused by their crimes seem, in retrospect, a chilling echo of the assassinations themselves. Guiteau went raving to the scaffold, where a crowd that had paid as much as $300 each for the pleasure of seeing him hang heard him cry, Glory, glory, glory," as the door was sprung from beneath his feet. Czolgosz was electrocuted only 46 days after McKinley died, and a carboy of sulphuric acid was poured into his coffin afterward, by way of post-mortem punishment. Sergeant Boston Corbett, the soldier...
Their gravest blunder, and in retrospect the least excusable, was the notion that they could participate--even lead--in whipping up the most extreme and uncompromising attitudes among their constituents and local party delegations, then restrain these attitudes in time to avert misfortune.... By going so dramatically and forcefully on record in favor of the extreme position, Davis and his colleagues encouraged, if they did not ensure, the political result they did not really want...
...Council in such matters are not utterly random or unprincipled, but are supposed to be based on the laws and regulations of the University. Our association, of course, recognizes the power of the Faculty committee to enact any rule at any time and to make it applicable even in retrospect. However, we cannot see how we could be condemned on the basis of a law which has not been enacted, and which the Council has not, to date, recommended that it be enacted...