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Schickaneder, Emanuel,
97
,
99

Schoenberg, Arnold,
57
,
61–62
,
115–118

“Schoenberg and Progress” (Adorno),
116

Schonberg, Harold C.,
114

Schubert, Franz Peter,
9–12
,
16
,
87

Schumann, Robert,
114–115

Science: Cultural Marxism and,
48–49
; current conflicts and “settled,”
24
; modern idea of supremacy of,
4
,
12–13
,
17–18
,
20

Scorsese, Martin,
112–113

Searchers, The
(film),
32

Second Amendment,
139–140

Sexual Personae
(Paglia),
166

Sexual relations: consequences of sexual revolution,
143–148
; Eternal Feminine saving power and,
79–81
,
85–90
; God and the fall,
137–139
; Left's attack on transcendence of,
73–79
,
204–205
; Marxist rage and,
82–85
; repeated consent required,
173
; timing of,
88–89
; underclass morals and devaluing of family,
73–81
.
See also
Abortion
;
Rape

Shaffer, Peter,
127–128

Shakespeare, William,
36
,
50

Shaw, George Bernard,
105

Silverglate, Harvey,
76

Social justice, and equality of outcome,
15
,
121
,
129

Sondheim, Stephen,
107

Sorge, Richard,
43

Sorrows of Young Werther, The
(Goethe),
53

Soviet Union,
24–25
,
43
,
134
; collapse of,
47
,
59–60
,
71–72
,
92
,
185–191
; Germany and Operation Barbarossa,
43
,
56
,
188

Special Air Service (SAS) motto,
160

Stalin, Josef,
25
,
43
,
46
,
56
,
83
,
135
,
188

Stoker, Bram,
100–101

Stone, Oliver,
77

Strachey, Lytton,
167–169

Strauss, Richard,
21
,
62
,
128

Stravinsky, Igor,
115–116

Study in Scarlet, A
(Conan Doyle),
105–106

Study of History
(Toynbee),
74–75

Suicide,
58–59
,
76
,
85
,
94
,
109
,
117
,
140
,
208

Symphonie Fantastique
(Berlioz),
53

Symphony No.
40
in G Minor (Mozart),
112

Tannhäuser
(Wagner),
126

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich,
200

Ten Commandments,
79
,
121
,
167

Thatcher, Margaret,
187

Thermopylae, Battle of,
206–207

Thing, The
(Chesterton),
86–87

Tolerance, Marcuse and repressive,
44–46
,
61
,
109
,
151–152

To Live and Die in L.A
(film),
51

Tolkien, J.R.R.,
206

Toynbee, Arnold,
74–75

Trenchard, John,
68

Trial, The
(Kafka),
140–141

Trigger warnings,
173

Trotsky, Leon,
68

Trow, George W.S.,
72

Truman, Harry,
176

Turandot
(Puccini),
26

Turner, Christopher,
144
,
145

Twain, Mark,
117–118

Twelve-tone system (dodecaphonicism),
57
,
62
,
113–119

Ulysses,
15
,
160

Unexpurgated Code, The
(Donleavy),
184

Unholy Left, use of term,
4

Ur-Kampf
(primal conflict), of good versus evil,
17–30

Ur-Narrative, of West,
4–7
,
14
,
18
,
26–27
,
29
,
47
,
66–68
,
91
,
101
,
140
,
159
,
209

Vampire myth,
100–101
,
103

Verklärte Nacht
(Schoenberg),
61–62
,
117

Viereck, Peter,
54
,
55
,
56

Vietnam War,
88
,
104
,
176–177

Villi, Le
(Puccini),
103

Violence, Left's war on,
204–208

von Karajan, Herbert,
108

Wagner, Richard,
124
,
126
,
137
;
Das Kunstwerk der Zukunft
,
84
;
Die Meistersinger
,
125
,
128
;
Flying Dutchman
,
10
,
12
,
85
,
103
;
Rienzi
,
124
; Romanticism and,
54
,
56
,
63
;
Tannhäuser
,
126
; “Tristan chord” and,
61–62
.
See also
Parsifal
(Wagner)
;
Ring of the Nibelung
cycle (Wagner)

Wall Street
(film),
77

Weber, Carl Maria von,
11
,
12
,
53
,
103

“White privilege,”
153–155

Whittle, Bill,
91

Who Framed Roger Rabbit
(film),
139

“Why Not,”
18–19
,
34
,
88
,
104–105
,
177–178
,
209

Wild One, The
(film),
77

Wilson, Woodrow,
190
,
198

Wolfe, Tom,
86
,
178

Wolff, David,
77

Wolff, Robert Paul,
44–45

Women: light and darkness and,
100–102
; women's right movement,
85–86
.
See also
Abortion
;
Eternal Feminine, as saving power

World War I,
7
,
198
,
201

World War II,
169
,
201
,
202
; U.S. and cultural inferiority after,
1–3
,
6
,
88
,
96

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