THE END OF CIVILISATION AS WE KNOW IT

Dennis Prager sees it in the decision to alter the result of a one-sided schoolboy baseball match: "The winning team's coach asked the scoreboard keeper to change the score. He and some of the parents were concerned that the boys on the losing team felt humiliated."

I heard it in the stultifying New Age tinkling of Ludovico Einaudi, a composer who fills concert halls wherever he goes.

Comments

[Richard Havers]

I'm a music lover, write about, and spend more time than most listening to it. Someone once gave me an Einaudi CD and said. "This is brilliant, you'll love it." It was worse than stultifying and I felt insulted!

[Brenda]

Einaudi...double the n...remove a few vowels and the consonant 'd'...and you have an appropriate french word, eh?