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Classical Notes: May 13, 2011 Archive
The Short Version: Close Call
Posted at 8:00 AM on May 13, 2011
by Bill Morelock
Filed under: The Short Version
How many irreplaceable imaginations, unknown and therefore unmourned, have been erased by the political and military vagaries of their times? By way of evasive answer, meet one of the luckier ones, well-known and therefore unmourned, the products of whose imagination are etched, indelibly, in ours.
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