At 8:58 PM +0000 10/1/2002, Robin Hamilton wrote:
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>... or 'anti-American' in the OED and Where It Came From
Amidst all this talk about "anti-American", I find it odd in these
well-informed circles that there's been no mention of the current
villification of that quintessentially American composer John Adams.
He is being attacked as "anti-American" and condemned for
"romanticising terrorists", "anti-Semitism" and other ugly crimes for
his 1991 opera The Death of Klinghoffer, which has been, well, if not
"banned", then recommended that it "not be performed".
So clearly "anti-Americanism" isn't confined to the British.
But this kind of smearing looks to me more like McCarthyism, I'm
afraid. And it's sad that it's already being used to disgracefully
discredit one of America's greatest artists.
Best
Alison
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