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If the NCAA sanctioned an intercollegiate sport called Cranky Light Sleeper, my wife would be the Division I national champion. Meanwhile, I’m the guy who needs to chill and read for a while before drifting off to sleep, maybe even have a chat …
And they say us guys aren’t relational. Continue Reading »
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There is something amusingly ironic about the phenomenon. Keyboard master Friedrich Gulda plays pieces originally composed by J.S. Bach for beginners on a modern piano that Bach might have felt was a machine lowered from Mars. If he knew about Mars. Continue Reading »
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When an historian treats a great figure of the past or touches upon the canon of literature, his or her speculative choices gain credibility to the degree that he or she controls the data.
Stephen Greenblatt’s intensely speculative exploration of William Shakespeare is data-driven and anchored in a stupendous familiarity with the poet’s historical moment and the documentary fund that allows us access to the time and place in which the Bard strode large across the land. Or at least across London, where his profession was and his family was not. Continue Reading »
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Something there is about a heavy corkscrew. It makes things seem right with the world. Continue Reading »
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A good pair of scissors is like your right leg. You don’t realize how easy it makes regular life until you lose it. Continue Reading »
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Few selections of Paul’s written discourse with his followers cause as much consternation as the seventh chapter of his letter to the Romans. The latter portion of this chapter is taken up with the struggle of an ‘I’, the identity of which is one of biblical interpretation’s great conundra. Continue Reading »
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This relatively inexpensive Citizen Quartz watch has a thin profile and swings easily on the wrist. Mine is identical to the Amazon site photo except that the entire band is gold colored rather than alternating with stainless steel silver. Continue Reading »
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For this reviewer’s ears, there is no more consistently joyful music than that of Antonio Vivaldi, the Venetian Baroque master. I find him particularly born to compose for the cello. Continue Reading »
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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. Continue Reading »
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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. Continue Reading »
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