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...would seem to give composers a wide choice of possible styles, in reality it has had the opposite effect. For rigorous systems often restrict a composer under the guise of giving him order. Both neo-classicists and the most advanced experimenters find themselves in danger of mimicking some master. Slavish Fadism is far too common...
Thus Author Sheed sums up the strange paradox that the Socialist welfare state, instead of liberating the mind from economic concerns, has actually committed its favorite sons to a slavish preoccupation with wealth and the good will of the master class. The special irony of that situation is expressed in the novel's epigraph from Hilaire Belloc...
...noted time and again. Within 50 years, he predicted in 1831, "the government of England will become exactly what Lafayette wished to make France-a nominal monarchy, but virtually a re-publick." He added: "The prestige of their detestable aristocracy will for a long time linger in the slavish minds of their people." When in France, he wrote that England "is a country which knows well how to handle a king." Straight Bourbon was too much for his republican stomach, and there were other unpleasant things about France-"a strange country made up of dirt and gilding, good cheer...
...book. The Conscience of a Conservative (Victor; $3), Goldwater sets down what he thinks 1960's U.S. conservatives should stand for. He thoroughly belies the U.S. liberals' caricature-belief that an Old Guardist is a deep-dyed isolationist endowed with nothing but penny-pinching inhumanity and slavish devotion to Big Business. He calls for a U.S. drive to win the cold war, including liberation of the Communist satellites, outlines a creed of social and economic philosophy that both Edmund Burke and Thomas Jefferson could ratify. Planks in Goldwater's platform...
...serious was all this press criticism against Kishi in his homeland? One of democracy's odd manifestations in post-war Japan is the way all newspapers, including the conservative sheets, are compulsively antigovernment, perhaps as a reaction to the slavish and subservient newspapers of the war years (explains one Japanese newspaperman seriously: "To do otherwise would be to act feudally...