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Moral fire
Joseph Horowitz writes in Moral Fire: \"If the Met's screaming Wagnerites standing on chairs (in the 1890s) are unthinkable today, it is partly because we mistrust high feeling. Our children avidly specialize in vicarious forms of electronic interpersonal diversion. Our laptops and televisions ensnare us in a surrogate world that shuns all but facile passions; only Jon Stewart and Bill Maher share moments of moral outrage disguised as comedy.\" Arguing that the past can prove instructive and inspirational, Horowitz revisits four astonishing personalities—Henry Higginson, Laura Langford, Henry Krehbiel and Charles Ives—whose missionary work in the realm of culture signaled a belief in the fundamental decency of civilized human nature, in the universality of moral values, and in progress toward a kingdom of peace and love.
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The Tomb of the \True German\: Kuno Francke and the American Rejection of a German Ideal
From the time of Goethe and Schiller, much has been written on the question of \"What is Germany?\" and \"Who are the Germans?\" Kuno Francke was a Germanborn professor of Germanic languages and literatures at Harvard, who because of the fact that he lived outside Germany was able—or so he thought—to detect the essence of the \"true German.\" The present article explores Francke's concept of the \"true German\" and claims that America ultimately rejected what Francke believed to be the contribution of the \"true German\" to civilization.
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