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Adventures With Jean
… troops, and one of his generals was Judy Garland. She told me this with an air that conveyed both a cheerful sense of the ridiculous and a feeling of profound dismay. Then there was the time Lowell wanted to become a Catholic and insisted that Jean go to early Mass with him. When she had …
Read MoreWhat Comes Naturally
… the lane people were milling. Young men were unzipping without a trace of embarrassment, and other young women were brazenly squatting in full view beside the lane. Rafa and his wife had seen the same thing every summer for years and were not a bit surprised, but I was astonished. Fifteen feet away, one young
Read MoreBony Ramirez
… hopes his works encourage viewers to understand the full diaspora of the Caribbean. “Caribbean contemporary art hasn’t had much of a place in art history yet,” he says. “I try to make sure that all elements of Caribbean life and culture are incorporated so that if you’re from there, you feel included, too.”
Read MoreA Poet of the Soil
… fraught with meaning:
Before the kite plunges down into the wood
and this line goes useless
take in your two hands, boys, and feel
the strumming, rooted, long-tailed pull of grief.
You were born fit for it.
Stand in here in front of me
and take the strain.
It was a delight to …
For Want of Touch
… and also a lying-in hospital where she delivered babies, all the while being personally hunted by Anthony Comstock.
Davis dismantles the notion that progress toward individual freedom, and acceptance of sex and gender nonconformity, is inevitable—or even the norm.
Fierce Desires is animated by a central idea and mission: to explore, over the …
Teach the Conflicts
… Every assignment we professors make should allow students to see matters from at least two sides. No Karl Marx without a generous helping of Edmund Burke. No Michel Foucault–style determinism without exposure to an articulate apostle of human freedom. Ralph Waldo Emerson would be my choice. His observation that he hates “the builders of
Read MoreThe Source
… announcement is for Conchita, whose vision, I learned one morning in early summer, is abysmal. María’s comments are not just comments, not just conversation, but information fed to Conchita.
Conchita turned 94 in August. Her mind seems sharp enough, her limbs function fine, and she walks several blocks with only the aid of María …
Others
… at the end of two quatrains in which Goethe alleges that every “rhymer” and “fiddler” thinks himself the best, and urges us not to reproach them for feeling this way. But then he asserts, in a translation by Tess Lewis: “And I really couldn’t fault them; / When we honor others, / We must deprecate ourselves …
Read MoreCelebrating an American Icon
… exploration with three additional essays. In “The Power of the Common Soul,” the distinguished musicologist J. Peter Burkholder delves into Ives’s scores and finds a pervasive feeling of hope, one that is eminently necessary in our fraught times. In “The Sound of the Picturesque,” Tim Barringer, one of our leading authorities on 19th-century …
Read MoreAnchoring Shards of Memory
… James’s Americans abroad, or better still like Mark Twain’s innocents abroad.” Of these two famous assessments, Gilman’s was more apt. Bernstein’s—which he repeated as late as 1987—misreads Ivesian complexities as untutored. As an undergraduate at Yale, Ives composed a song, “Feldeinsamkeit,” that bears comparison with the lieder of …
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