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the adherents of a philosophy which has since degenerated into a mere ideological sport, fulminate in pre-1933 fashion against artistic distortion

When Brecht became a panegyrist of its harmony, his lyric voice had to swallow chalk, and it started to grate.

Aporia of this sort multiply until they affect the Brechtian tone itself, the very fibre of his poetic art

Tacit acceptance of the claim that one half of the world no longer contains antagonisms is supplemented by jests at everything that belies the official theodicy of the other half

the economic transactions presented as the machinations rapacious traders are not merely puerile [...] they are also unintelligible by the criteria of even the most primitive economic logic