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...hero of Winterreise by noting that Schubert consistently describes reality in a minor key and changes into the major only when he is shifting into fantasy. This is a somewhat technical point, necessarily, for most writing about music is either technical or gush. In addition, Robinson has the wit to confess "that I occasionally make the music say more than it really wants to, that I have extracted unearned intellectual capital from a phrase, a passage, or a modulation whose true significance remains ineffable--i.e., purely musical...
While perhaps not as pithy or insightful as some of its cinematic counterparts, “waydowntown” certainly provides interesting commentary and sarcastic wit to boot. And though thoroughly depressing for those destined to empty lives as corporate minions, “waydowntown” doesn’t hold back in exposing corporate behemoths as the soul-stealers they...
...best look yet at a man who described himself as "someone whose principal work-and-amusement is writing, and reading and thinking about things." He had a love affair with learning, and he gave his correspondents glimpses of this passion that were enhanced by vivid imagination and caustic wit...
Regan has indeed kept his wit. After a newspaper story last week reported "tension" between him and Bush, Regan remarked to the Vice President, "You and I have to cut out this feuding." Bush asked what it was they were feuding about. "I'm not sure over what, but it's in the paper," said Regan. Later, visiting Reagan in his hospital bed, Regan told him, "Mr. President, you've got to tell George to stop picking on me," before showing Reagan the story and assuring him that there was nothing to it. Regan's joshing approach defused in advance...
...hundreds of books a year since then on arms control, arms negotiations, plans for peace, manuals on how to survive nuclear catastrophes. In the past two or three years, an entire intellectual community has been born around the Bomb, a portable Algonquin Round Table (minus the wit) made up of such people as McGeorge Bundy, George Kennan, Harold Brown, Robert McNamara and several retired military leaders, many of whom were among the policymakers who originally protected the secrecy of the Bomb and who have now gone public with strategic theories and proposals for arms limitations...