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Article: Running out of victims?(COMMENTARY)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- February 12, 2002
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Byline: Balint Vazsonyi, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
We must be running out of victims among the living. Can it be that everyone who feels unappreciated has been accounted for and handed out the place, position, honor, or title coveted?
It must be so, because some people are looking among the dead for the next victim to be adopted as a cause. Their choice, I must admit, seemed weird at first. As any reference book will inform you, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, epitome of the "golden youth," was as gifted, brilliant, wealthy, fortunate, revered and celebrated as anyone could wish in their wildest dreams. One of the greatest pianists of all time, a composer of ...
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