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Solti did not go. In fact, it quickly became clear that he was not quite the ogre his Germanic brusqueness suggested. The musicians soon realized his remarkable talents and total dedication. They fondly began collecting "Solti-isms" that result from his frenzied blend of Hungarian, German and English. Examples: "Dis...
The bigger its scale, the more "important" the picture: so a common American reflex goes. Indian art never shared it. The proof is India's most developed form of painting: the miniature. Commissioned by rajahs, Moguls and well-off merchants, bound in albums and luxuriously scrutinized, these tiny images...
He asked to be picked up at Loc Ninh, near the Cambodian border, a town that his troops had captured last spring. Seven UH-1 helicopters, painted with white stripes to signify that they were in the commission's employ, picked up Tra and 29 of his officers, still...
To many blacks, for example, the 50 stars have come to signify so many stations of racism. To the poor, to disaffected minorities, to antiwar demonstrators, the pledge is the reverse of truth (one nation divisible, with liberty and justice for some). To them, the flag sometimes seems a distress...
Twenty, years later the Crimson recorded the disgraceful period of selfish imperialism and expansion. Today it decries that period, its purposes as well as its methods. The principles of self-aggrandizement and power which guided the nation at that hour are attacked by the Crimson as they reappear today as...