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...writer is the Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government...
...stranglehold of the "complexity boys" (as critic-composer Virgil Thomson called them) was challenged by such older American tonalists as David Diamond and Ned Rorem and weakened in the '80s by the deliberately repetitive music of Philip Glass and Steve Reich. But minimalism has proved too simple-minded to satisfy serious listeners hungry for accessible yet challenging new scores. Liebermann, Daniel Asia, Jorge Martin, Paul Moravec and George Tsontakis were among the first younger composers to snub its stuttering chatter in favor of a full-blooded style that is at once unmistakably contemporary (Liebermann, for instance, was influenced...
William Cobbett is a pompous English import who bloviated in his Porcupine's Gazette on behalf of Hamilton and his law-and-order Federalists. His rival in vitriol is James Thomson Callender, wanted for sedition in his native Scotland. He was Jefferson's hit man who, when slighted by the Sage of Monticello, spread informed innuendo about his arrangement with slave and lover Sally Hemings. Public reaction to the disclosure makes the Clinton-Lewinsky affair look like a casual game of spin the bottle...
...from The Book of Revelation: that the equation of sex with power is evil, that the sadistic torture of a male can seem shocking to those who take the similar treatment of females in erotic literature for granted. But such readings seem crimped and reductive in the presence of Thomson's spellbinding narrative. To share his protagonist's search for the meaning of his captivity is to embark on a chillingly haunted quest...
...Thomson's unnamed protagonist is a dancer, 29, with a ballet company in Amsterdam. He is, at the outset, a happy man. His well-regarded initial efforts as a choreographer allow him to look forward to a satisfying career when his performing days come to an end. He remains in love with Brigitte, a fellow dancer with whom he has lived and to whom he has stayed faithful for seven years. When she asks him to go out and buy her a pack of cigarettes, he teases her about smoking too much but walks willingly into the spring sunshine...