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Speaking at Harvard in 1986, acclaimed composer Leonard Bernstein talked about arranging a Rosh Hashanah dinner in his hotel for two political enemies in a divided Austria. Bernstein muses on the degradation of language and true meaning, as well as love and forgiveness.
Now, being a hostess is not exactly my forte, and here I was trying to conduct a social symphony, if you will, of amazing complexity, especially when it would get to that tricky scherzo at 10:30; but I was possessed, and inspired with the notion of exposing this concept, this Begriff [idea], that we call “enemy,” and returning it for good, for constructive action. I will spare you the details; suffice it to say that it worked.
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Speaking at Harvard in 1986, acclaimed composer Leonard Bernstein talked about arranging a Rosh Hashanah dinner in his hotel for two political enemies in a divided Austria. Bernstein muses on the degradation of language and true meaning, as well as love and forgiveness.
Now, being a hostess is not exactly my forte, and here I was trying to conduct a social symphony, if you will, of amazing complexity, especially when it would get to that tricky scherzo at 10:30; but I was possessed, and inspired with the notion of exposing this concept, this Begriff [idea], that we call “enemy,” and returning it for good, for constructive action. I will spare you the details; suffice it to say that it worked.
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