Monthly Archives: October 2013

Left in the Lurch

Left in the Lurch LESLIE JONES reviews a resume of Weimar political culture Weimar Thought: a Contested Legacy, eds. Peter E Gordon & John P McCormick, Princeton University Press, Princeton & Oxford, 2013 Provocative historian Jan T Gross points out … Continue reading

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ENDNOTES – Prokofiev, Szymanowski, Vaughan Williams and Arnold

Endnotes – Prokofiev, Complete Works for Violin; Szymanowski in the High Tatras; Malcolm Arnold and Vaughan Williams in classic recordings STUART MILLSON looks to Europe’s east Sergey Sergeyevich Prokofiev (1891-1953) is, possibly, one of the most difficult composers to discuss. For … Continue reading

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Monday night

Monday night   The roundest moon was resting on our road, Making of the lane a silver stream – A chilly channel running from some Sea To carry its Tranquillity to me.   I waded in those waters ‘til it … Continue reading

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Is it time for a new teleology?

Is it time for a new teleology? PATRICK KEENEY enjoys an ambitious assault on the materialist underpinnings of modern science   Mind and Cosmos:  Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False Thomas Nagel.  Oxford:  OUP, 2012, … Continue reading

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ENDNOTES – Bruckner from Saarbrucken

ENDNOTES – Bruckner from Saarbrucken STUART MILLSON is re-entranced by the magnificent Eighth The recording of Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony by the Saarbrucken Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Stanislaw Skrowaczewski is not a recent issue. Nor is it considered one of … Continue reading

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Fuzzy Math

Fuzzy Math STODDARD MARTIN steps gingerly into an ethical quagmire Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz, Thomas Harding. Heinemann, Sept 2013. £20 Literature to do with the Holocaust implicates all of us. … Continue reading

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