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The Democrats were crushed in the midterm elections. The Republican juggernaut pounded the Democrats, and the pundits say they will not really know what happened to the Democrats until they find the black box.

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Anton Webern

Comprehensibility is the highest law of all. Unity must be there. There must be means of ensuring it. All the things familiar to us from primitive life must also be used in works of art.

Art, Familiar, Law, Mean, Primitive
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The idea is distributed in space. It isn't only in one part; one part can't express the idea any longer, only the union of parts can completely express the idea. The idea found it necessary to be presented by several parts. After that, there was a rapid flowering of polyphony.

Distributed, Found, Ideas, Presented, Space, Unions

It's always the same: mediocrities are over-valued and great men are rejected.

Great Men, Mediocrities, Mediocrity, Men, Rejected

Unity is surely the indispensable thing if meaning is to exist. Unity, to be very general, is the establishment of the utmost relatedness between all component parts. . . the aim is to make as clear as possible the relationships between the parts of the unity; in short, to show how one thing leads to another.

Aim, Establishment, Leads, Possible, Unity

The time was simply ripe for the disappearance of tonality. Naturally this was a fierce struggle; inhibitions of the most frightful kind had to be overcome, the panic fear, 'Is that possible, then?' So it came about that gradually a piece was written, firmly and consciously, that wasn't in a definite key any more.

Frightful, Keys, Kind, Overcoming, Ripe, Struggle

Art is a product of nature in general, in the particular form of human nature.

Art, Form, Human, Human Nature, Nature
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