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Nixon Speaks
"When I compare the monstrosity of Lincoln Center with the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, I realize how decadent the modern art and architecture have become."
-Recently released documents from the Richard Nixon collection show the 37th president to have been something of an aesthete, and not actually wrong about everything.
….And then we abandoned the Academy to build the Kimmel Center, where the acoustics are worse than my office bathroom. (And less entertaining.)
+9,000 (You beat me to it!)
Depressing, isn't it? I love the Academy.
Sssh! Philadelphia needs all the good press it can get. And the philistine ravings of America's least popular dead president is about the best they've had in a long while. Thank you, Michael Vick.
There's lots of negative terms I'd use for Lincoln Center — "alienating," "vast and dehumanizing" — but "decadent" isn't one of them. Doesn't something have to be sinisterly gay to be decadent? Lincoln Center strikes me as fairly sexless.
If Richard Nixon could sniff out anything, you'd think it would be sinisterly gay. I mean, he had how many decades with Hoover?
By "decadent," Nixon meant "Jew."
Bullseye.
Philip Johnson + opera =?