He and his friends poured over Western books, enjoyed Western classical music and even began to opt for Western-style toilets over Chinese ones.

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It consists of poetry (often the briefest of fragments), a selection of essays, including several about authors from classical antiquity, and even the libretto of an opera.

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This is not the Tuscany of Renaissance masterpieces and grand classical architecture--it's not even an extension of the cosmopolitan, Anglo- infiltrated countryside the English like to call Chiantishire--but perhaps a few days' diversion from all that, a place kept true to its roots partly by being overlooked.

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The irony with the above is that while the General Theory marked Keynes lurch away from Classical School theory, even amid his 1930s and 1940s renaissance (he died in 1946), Keynes still appreciated quality thinking.

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Brahms, the conservative scholar and Bach-worshipper, is often blamed for contributing to the museum culture which classical music was becoming even in his day.

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