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Chailly and the Concertgebouw bring the strictness to life, but not without a little flair. It's quite a change from the calm, reserved playing the orchestra usually produces in performances of the standard Teutonic masterworks. However, one can almost see a bunch of musicians in Moscow, completely ignorant of...
The Bolivians had not been in Cup play since 1950, had not been in these finals before that since 1930, had never even scored in the World Cup, much less won a game, and I had never seen a soccer game, so Bolivia was easy to cheer. The Germans won...
The French government's crusade to purify French culture appears eerily reminiscent of Germany's infamous cultural campaign leading up to World War II. The German government banned and confiscated "degenerate" works of art and encouraged citizens to burn "impure" foreign books. Still, as far as I know, Germany did...
Such talk raises hackles among the victims and victors of World War II who fear a resurgence of Teutonic arrogance. When former British Cabinet minister Nicholas Ridley in 1990 called the E.C. "a German racket designed to take over the whole of Europe," the cry of "Hear, hear" rose across...
Fighting words in any language. Still, Wagner should not be blamed for Hitler's final solution, even though it is true that the Fuhrer -- who saw himself as a Siegfried-like embodiment of the Wagnerian Teutonic ideal -- was lionized annually at the Bayreuth festival and Wagner's music sometimes sounded...