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This week’s definitions have circled around the citizen: rights, law, speech, and equal standing before the state. Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man is a fitting musical companion. It is solemn without being pompous, grand without being royalist, and public without being partisan. It sounds like civic dignity — not the glory of rulers, but the worth of ordinary people.


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