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Dana Gioia's avatar

It was a perfect touch to include Theodor Adorno offering his blockheaded views on popular music and then hear his own derivative and sterile "serious" music in the coda.

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Michael D. Purzycki's avatar

If you find it difficult to defend the free speech rights of someone you detest, I find it helps to frame it this way: “I hate this fucker and what he stands for and we shouldn’t make him a martyr by trying to silence him.”

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