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Kaohsiung, Oct. 30 (CNA) The Vienna Philharmonic orchestra held its first-ever performance at the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying) on Saturday night, with over 3,000 people watching a live broadcast of the show from the venue's lawn.
Elizabeth Hardwick once remarked, “It is easy to reach an ironical wisdom from a low spot, especially if you are disinclined to hopeless feats of emulation and not easily moved to admiration.” Hardwick, in life and in literary criticism, possessed that ironical inclination that every fine essayist must-have. Perhaps it helped that she had herself been in a low spot when she eked out a living in midcentury New York by writing for Partisan Review. That she was not prone to vain imitation or cheap praise also helped. Isaiah Berlin, to Hardwick’s delight, called her “much more bitchy” than Mary McCarthy, “but sharper and more original.” That originality consisted in her staunch refusal to rely on prefabricated phrases or cliched sentiments. Confident of her talents, she had no emulative impulse.
Alienation and belonging, eros and disgust: The four feelings were central in 19th-century attempts to define identity. Composer Richard Wagner embraced them and made them "German."