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Meihan Liu
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Dr. Stuart will undoubtedly be remembered as one of the great representatives of that historic line of educational missionaries in China.
“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“Shostakovich read in a shaky voice before breaking off a short way through, leaving a “suave radio baritone” to finish his speech, and decided to expose the sham. Jumping to his feet, Nabokov loudly asked if the composer supported the recent Soviet vilification of his great compatriot Igor Stravinsky. Shostakovich worshipped Stravinsky as a composer, if not always as a man, but he was forced to parrot the official line. To Nabokov, this was proof enough that Shostakovich was “not a free man, but an obedient tool of his government.”
― Moscow Nights: The Van Cliburn Story-How One Man and His Piano Transformed the Cold War
― Moscow Nights: The Van Cliburn Story-How One Man and His Piano Transformed the Cold War
“America fell prey to a hysterical Red Scare, fanned by Senator Joe McCarthy, which sought to expose Communists and fellow travelers in every area of public life, including classical music. In this toxic atmosphere, anything Russian was beyond the pale. One producer at the Voice of America, the nation’s external broadcaster, asked the music library for a recording of a popular piece called “Song of India” and found that the Red baiters had banned it. “It’s by Rimsky-Korsakov,” the librarian explained, “and we’re not supposed to use anything by Russians.”
― Moscow Nights: The Van Cliburn Story-How One Man and His Piano Transformed the Cold War
― Moscow Nights: The Van Cliburn Story-How One Man and His Piano Transformed the Cold War
“Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.”
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“So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation which, in the midst of civilization, artificially creates a hell on earth, and complicates with human fatality a destiny that is divine; so long as the three problems of the century - the degradation of man by the exploitation of his labour, the ruin of women by starvation and the atrophy of childhood by physical and spiritual night are not solved; so long as, in certain regions, social asphyxia shall be possible; in other words and from a still broader point of view, so long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, there should be a need for books such as this.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
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