The Glittering Cast of Vienna's Postwar Émigrés - The American Spectator
Cockett does a fine job of explaining why Vienna produced so many impressive men and women — but in a surprisingly plodding way.
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Cockett does a fine job of explaining why Vienna produced so many impressive men and women — but in a surprisingly plodding way.
From the blog of Jarrod Tanny at The Times of Israel
Major social changes of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuriesthe rise of mass culture, womens striving for emancipation, and t
Many intractable controversies in today’s culture wars relate to issues of sex and gender. Americans disagree, for instance, about whether marriage is limited to a man and a woman, who can use which bathrooms, and whether we should hope that mothers should take care of children—at least in their formative years. These controversies are emblematic of the inability to say what a man is, what a woman is, or even whether stable sexual identities are linked to our bodies.
The classical music world has long been preparing composers for the entrepreneurial role they perform today.