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“... lover that she is pregnant by another man. He replies – ‘generously’, in the assessment of Harvey Sachs – that the child will be theirs, transfigured by their love. Over the past century, the moral objections to Dehmel’s scenario have waned and the music’s harmonic swerves are heard as lush rather than lax. The modernity of Verklärte Nacht ...”

“... years later he went to Harvard, where he studied under the neoconservative political philosopher Harvey Mansfield, author of Manliness, who has testified to his protégé’s non-effeteness: ‘He was very smart, but not a future professor – a man of action.’ Cotton struck a pose as a brave ‘contrarian’, writing a column in the campus paper and ...”