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...mirror reflecting the nature of the community where it is published. ... On the contrary, the newspaper in any of these 28 cities could probably change its content . . . without losing much circulation or causing much criticism or even having the changes noticed, if it made them slowly enough. Indeed, a sordid commercialism could find moderate support for its kind of newspaper in our 'best' cities; a competent idealism could find support for its kind of newspaper in our 'worst' cities...
...typical of a fairly widespread misconception about Mozart. The writer of "Pro Musica" discussed at some length the E-flat Symphony, and then went on to say: ". . . where a Mozart rises above his environment and ignores, a Berlioz would have sought to picture it in its most sordid details. It is a never-ending tribute, we feel, to the greatness of Mozart that he could continue composition of 'happy' music even when he himself was most 'unhappy.'" Such a statement as this is dangerous not only because it contains a basic misunderstanding of the true greatness of Mozart and Mozart...
...debt to Degas, with whom he spent much time as a student and from whom he continually borrowed methods of technique and presentation and adapted them to suit his own purposes. Toulouse-Lautrec, in his own right, was a genuine artist, one who delved deeply into the earthy, sometimes sordid aspects of life. His brush was strong, his eye was piercing, and in all of his work a sharp feeling of cynicism, often bordering on harshness, can be detected. I was surprised, though perhaps I should not have been, to find that he had produced such a brief master-piece...
...most shameful exhibition of military imperialism in modern times. In Germany, professors were the first to proclaim the justice of the Kaiser's war, and to acclaim his invasion of Belgium and France. In England, professors made speeches, wrote articles and books, headed propaganda agencies, which painted the sordid European struggle as a Hl-like crusade to end war, to save civilization, and to make the world safe for democracy. In America, professors led the baying pack which drove the nation into the war in 1917, and carried our boys across the seas to fight and die on European battlefields...
...were told this thing about the war of 1914-18. Every war is always "different" from other wars while it is being fought and the glamor of heroism and sacrifice is still upon it. But when "the cold gray dawn of the morning after" has come, the sordid reality is revealed. The last war, as the documents have proved, was not holy at all. And this war is the continuation of that war! So says the Hon. Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the British Empire, who ought to know. Addressing the House of Commons in his famous speech on August...