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barefoot kicker: Boccherini: Quintets For Guitar And Strings

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Boccherini’s Quintets for Guitar and Strings do not highlight the guitar as solo instrument in the way that better-known Baroque concerti frame and focus upon their respective solo instruments. Rather, the instrument insinuates itself into a company of strings and plays along with them, sometimes providing a steady background and occasionally emerging as a conventional soloist. (more…)

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a good reference gets even better: Graham Bannock, Dictionary of Economics, Fourth Edition (The Economist Series)

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If you think about economics, you need this Economist/Bloomberg Press publication or one very much like it.

For clarity on all matters of the public record–not just economics–nobody beat The Economist newspaper, a British ‘news magazine’ whose largest national readership is now in the USA. (more…)

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OK, who ordered the numbers?: Richard Stutely, The Essentials of Business Numeracy, Fifth Edition (The Economist Series)

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Appreciative readers (they tend to be long-term readers as well) of The Economist sometimes wonder why misspellings and non sequiturs are virtually absent from that superb weekly magazine. (more…)

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upon a time: Dan Fogelberg, Nether Lands

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‘We plead and we pray, for the breaking of day’, Dan Fogelberg emotes in one of this album’s more gripping sagas of angst, existential despair, lost love, and incessant yearning.

It’s the kind of turning a phrase that makes some souls reverberate to Fogelberg’s musical soul exposure and others whince when they hear his name as though it were not well to say the word in polite company. This reviewer is among the reverberators. (more…)

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a few words, well spoken: John Bridges and Bryan Curtis: A Gentleman Raises His Glass. A Concise, Contemporary Guide to the Noble Tradition of the Toast

Posted in clarity, paterfamilias, reseña on August 6, 2007| Leave a Comment »

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Two Nashville gentlemen who have mastered the task of teaching men to be gentlemen without coming across as stuffy wrote this splendid little volume on the art of the toast. As in the rest of the Gentlemanners books, John Bridges and Bryan Curtis set a tone that is not framed by rules but by consideration for others and deference to those who ought to be in the limelight of a special occasion. (more…)

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see the world without getting bruised by it: Condé Nast Traveler

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At the risk of inverting priorities, let me begin this review with a word of disclosure about the reviewer:

I love travel, am on the road half the time for professional reasons, travel to all the continents, have lived on three of them for extended periods of time, and nurture a quiet reservation about people who ‘get to know’ faraway places by the convenience of a short visit to an affluent resort. (more…)

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rrhythmia: the habit of facing forward

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You haven’t seen rain until you’ve raced through one of these tropical downpours, water in the street rushing at your leg above the sock level. Everywhere else in the world, rain falls. Here it is thrown down from some preternatural height at unnatural speed. It’s a wonder the whole country doesn’t wash away. Occasionally a chunk of it does, leaving a reddish slit where simple houses once stood, and a row of coffins amid grieving relatives in the morning paper three days later.
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a tribute to my son

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Tonight the number one soccer team in the state of Indiana beat the number two team and will likely wrap up the state championship after a few more perfunctory victories.

Unfortunately, the number two team is the North Central High School defending state champion team on which my son John plays left midfielder. (more…)

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shared death, shared life: Romans 6

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Theologians would eventually invent the term ‘mystical union’ to describe the solidarity between Christ and his follower that the apostle Paul is at pains to describe in the fifth chapter of his letter to the Roman believers. Others would talk about ‘covenantal solidarity’, a way of underscoring that God the Father views believers in the same terms by which he assesses the beloved son, since the former have seen their identity inseparably and even juridically joined to that of Christ. (more…)

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It’ll do: Sirius Sportster 4 Satellite Radio Receiver with Car Kit

Posted in paterfamilias, reseña on August 5, 2007| Leave a Comment »

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I spend enough time in my car on business to justify satellite radio. It squeezes out the dead zones between major urban areas and the quality stations that emanate from them. For my son, it provides him with Universo Latino and, so, the Latin music with which he grew up. (more…)

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