“As a confirmed wallower in that scandal, I've always believed that Nixon either ordered the break-in or gave a non-specific order that that kind of thing be done.”
“This was conducting of real intellectual grip, conscious that Brahms is above all a master of concision and musical structure, not the sonic wallower to which lesser conductors reduce him.”
“One senses that he could travel miles with a problematic character, paving the downhill slope of a tragic downfall for a ludicrous wallower in self-indulgence.”