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’And I,’ he says. ‘I the European intellect, what is to become of me? What is peace? It is perhaps a state of things in which Man's natural hostility towards his fellow expresses itself in creation rather than degenerating into the destruction of war. It is a time of creative competition, of the struggle of products. But I, am I not tired of producing? Have I not exhausted the desire for extreme attempts and have I not abused scholarly mixtures? Must I leave aside my difficult duties and my transcendent ambitions? Must I follow the trend and imitate Polonius, who is now directing a major newspaper? Or Laertes who is somewhere in aviation? Or Rosenkrantz, who is doing I know not what under a Russian name?’ Valery, What is to become of the European Spirit?
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Is less more? Minimalism often took to an extreme credos pioneered by previous
waves of abstract art. Those artists were tired of art as an illusion, a trick
by which one object represents something else. They wanted the work to be
stripped of such artifice, pared down to the bare essentials so that the viewer
looks only at the thing itself (rather than a picture or sculpture of
something). Stravinsky on euthanasia One doctor has stated that "anyone over sixty-five should not be
resuscitated if his heart stopped." (But Schoenberg dramatized his own
resuscitation by a needle directly into the heart, at an age well beyond that,
in his String Trio.) And another doctor has argued that our already overstrained
medical resources should not be wasted on anyone over eighty and very ill. (But
I was both when I wrote my Variations and Canticles, and they are superior, I
think, to some of the music I was writing in my early seventies.)
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In defence of high culture This independent and forthright opinion is typical of the New
Criterion, a magazine so committed to high culture that it refuses, on
principal, to run movie reviews. As it enters its 20th year of publication, it
remains one of the liveliest and most controversial cultural journals in North
America. To its many admirers, the monthly magazine is a brave defender of the
beleaguered values of high art in a cultural environment poisoned by political
correctness. To an equally large number of detractors, The New Criterion is the
dour and dyspeptic voice of cultural reactionaries who inflexibly reject new
developments in art. • Realism in Kabuki of the Early Nineteenth Century
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