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...everyday interests of its patrons, be they commoners or royalty; this was true of a Bach cantata or a Mozart serenade. Beethoven changed that. As the father of musical romanticism, he made music an expressive function of himself. Later composers carried the cult of music for music's sake too far, and divorced "serious" composition from the interests of large audiences. One reason that every year is a Beethoven year, not just 1970, is that no composer since has been able to match the towering combination of talent, energy and soul that made his self-expression worth listening...
...repeatedly stressed the wisdom of a straightforward approach in times when the U.S. economy has a headache. The shift of the Alka-Seltzer account reinforces a hard truth: no matter how much an agency strives to lift its promotions above the humdrum, advertising remains an art for sales' sake...
...dimension ... to fill its place with counterfeits, some of which lead in the end to contempt for man." One symptom of such contempt, the Pope seemed to imply, might be Australia's discriminatory immigration restrictions. "Do not close your limited circle," he said at one point, "for the sake of selfish satisfaction...
...made millionaire and first Republican Governor of Alaska, came to Washington with the reputation of a truculent and provincial booster, about as salubrious as an enzyme detergent. Conservationists winced at what became known as "Hickelisms." There is not much point, he said then, in "conservation for conservation's sake." Or: "If you set water pollution standards too high, you might hinder industrial development." When he became the last member of the Cabinet to gain confirmation, Nixon said heartily: "The last shall be first as far as this Administration is concerned...
Unfortunately, most others will know Blitzstein only for his adaptation and translation of the Brecht-Weill "Threepenny Opera." Few others will catch the similarities in "I've Got the Tune" between pretentious Mme. Arbutus (the advocate here of art-for-art's-sake) and Blitzstein's mother-in-law or hear the echo of his wife's suicide when, at Mr. Musiker's most despairing moment, a character jumps out the window to her death. Elite indeed will be the group that sees physical resemblance between Blitzstein and Lehrman, who has cut his hair in order to look like...