Tag: Red October 2012
Some background from today's New York Times— From DeLillo's novel Mao II in the paragraph immediately preceding the Ritz-hat passage quoted by Soltan— "He could have told George he…
From triplecanopy, Issue 16 — International Art English, by Alix Rule and David Levine (July 30, 2012) … In what follows, we examine some of the curious lexical,…
Related entertainment— The song being performed in the above trailer for Air America is "A Horse with No Name." See "Instantia Crucis" and "Winning."
"At Cambridge, where he studied in the 30s, he had a reputation for omniscience. Running the local Communist party cell from the set of college rooms beneath Wittgenstein's, the youthful…
(Continued from Tuesday, Oct. 2) From today's online New York Times— "The Schoenberg proved the highlight of the evening, sandwiched between polished but otherwise routine performances of Bach’s…
(Continued) "In the master's bedroom, they gathered for the feast…." — Suggested by the current film Hotel Transylvania "For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross." –…
"And how do we keep our balance? That I can tell you in one word!" — Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof "The object and characteristic of 'traditions,'…
"Self-evidently true and just" — The late Stephen Jay Gould on a book by the late Barry Commoner. Commoner reportedly died on Sunday. Update of 5:42 PM ET—…