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Well, the subtitle is here:
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The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age,
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but it's not accidental that he is playing off
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of this title of a ballet of Igor Stravinsky,
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because the ballet of Stravinsky was a kind of watershed,a touchstone,
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the benchmark from which Modernism can be calculated
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and against which it can be measured.
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So when the audience arrived there at the Theatre Champs
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Elysees in Paris--and that theatre still is there.
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You can walk down the Avenue Montagne
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it's where Hermes is and Gucci and all of these fancy stores;
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it's there in Paris--and go in and still hear concerts there.