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Third place? Well, for a program that hasn't won the League title in the twentieth century, it's no small matter...
Rather, postmodernism's ideology is founded on the defanging of the beasts of twentieth-century evil. Consequently, the Holocaust always lurks menacingly in the background of these essays. In the introduction to the book, Himmelfarb herself calls attention to the Holocaust as a 'rebuke to historians, philosophers and literary critics who, in their zeal for one or another of the intellectual fashions of our time, belittle or demean one of the greatest tragedies of all time...
...cultural institution: Family Values. Koestenbaum's recollection of a recording of Carmen designed for little children strikes a humorous chord in anyone who has wondered how the lithe, scantily clad, and sexually uninhibited gypsy girl of Merimee's novel came to be transformed in the opera houses of mid-twentieth century America into the postured prima donna in the floor-lenght dress whose idea of sexual flirtation is to glue her chin to her chest and to peep out coquettishly from behind a feathered black fan. The initially negative reaction of the audience at Carmen's premiere in Paris...
However, "Casey at the Bat" does not owe its popularity just to the quality of its writing. De Wolf Hopper, a well-known musical comedian of the early twentieth century, was given the newspaper clipping of "Casey" to recite for one of his acts...
...days, art history was very Western-focused and was based on the idea of progressive evolution--that Egyptian art led to Roman art which eventually led to twentieth-century art forms," Winter says...