<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=565969" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Mystic Chord</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Memory, whose mystic chord<br>suggests existence of the Lord, <br>draws some to Gustav's music, Mahler, <br>many others to Kabbalah, <br>and even when agnostic, mystics<br>responsive to Pascal’s statistics, <br>find Leon’s Moses, sephirotic, <br>believable, because erotic.<br>Castilian writings that they dust off<br>appeal to me far less than Gustav.<br>Who’s right we may find out in olam<br>haba, but surely not from Scholem.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Richard Bernstein reviews “American Culture, American Tastes: Social Tastes: Social Changes and the 20th Century, ” by Michael Kammen (Alfred A. Knopf) (“Lowbrow? Highbrow? Culture Raises an Eyebrow, ' the NYT, August 25,1999) . Kammen, the author of 'Mystic Chords of Memory, ” pointing out that since the dominant role of television around 1960 cultural stratification and the existence of distinct brow levels have become blurred where they haven't been overtly blended. He traces the decline of traditional cultural authority and its eclipse by mass culture: “The entrepreneurial power of commerce totally crushed the recommendations of such cultural authorities as John Crosby, Jack Gould and Gilbert Seldes–– prominent television critics who pleaded for diversity.”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">8/25/99,1/26/07</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gershon+Hepner">Gershon Hepner</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=565969" data-title="Mystic Chord de Gershon Hepner" data-description="Memory, whose mystic chord suggests existence of the Lord, draws some to Gustav's music, Mahler, many others to Kabbalah, and even when agnostic, mystics responsive to Pascal’s statistics, find Leon’s Moses, sephirotic, believable, becaus..."></div> </div> </div>

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