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...before the Romantic era introduced a more heroic, self-indulgent conception of the artist; still, even some of Bach's contemporaries were afflicted with careerism and flashes of temperament. Bach, throughout his life, merely tried to do an honest job. "I was obliged to be industrious," he said. "Whoever is equally industrious will succeed just equally well...
...felt for Effie in a measured view of the manners and morals of both parties and of the age in which they lived. For all its peephole pettiness, the story stirs the mind like a psychological melodrama and flows as smoothly as any contrived 18th century novel of manners. Whoever was right, whatever their pangs and posturings, the Ruskins emerge as vivid and graceful correspondents. If no book like this ever celebrates the famous domestic wrangles of the present day for future readers, part of the blame must be placed on the telephone...
...Holy Roman Empire never could agree about who should walk into the conference room first; they finally agreed to enter together, and so ended what was known as the War of the Grand Al liance. In 1801, Thomas Jefferson adopted the rule of "pellmell" for diplomatic meetings-whoever arrived first, entered first. That solution has long since been dropped by protocol-conscious officials. Numerous efforts have been made to regulate matters of precedence. The Congress of Vienna in 1815 established four classes of diplomatic representatives (ambassadors and Papal legates; ministers plenipotentiary; ministers resident; charges d'affaires). Heads of state...
...well-educated, middle-class young men and women. The barrage of epithets helped convince some policemen that their opponents were scarcely human-and they all too often shed their own humanity. Witnesses frequently noted that if a demonstrator being chased by police got away, the cops would simply club whoever else was handy. A Chicago doctor drove up to one officer to report that protesters were dumping trash baskets into the street. The officer snapped: "Listen, you goddam - -, get this - car out of here." When the doctor tried to explain, the cop shouted: "Listen, you son of a bitch, didn...
...Whoever wins is unlikely to tinker drastically with such success. No less encouraging is the fact that the election has not been marred by riots, as in 1958, or terrorism, as in 1963. On a continent where military dictatorships are more the rule than the exception, Venezuela's military leaders took the unusual step of publicly promising to "respect and enforce respect for the verdict that emerges from the election...