While cleaning up my office – the more I clean the messier it gets – I came across a New Yorker clipping from the 5/27/96 Talk of the Town segment about a speech by art critic Robert Hughes. It is entitled “The Case for Elitist Do-Gooders” and was written when the NEA (along with the [...]
Archive for December, 2005
On Art
Posted in Art, The New Yorker on December 16, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Thinking about Gogol
Posted in books on December 14, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
What do people think of Gogol, I wonder? I listened to a couple of his short stories on tape last year (“The Overcoat” and “The Nose”), but I don’t quite know what to make of them. As an aside, the only interesting thing (to me, I know others liked it) about last year’s pallid novel, [...]
12/5/05 New Yorker
Posted in The New Yorker on December 12, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
The December 5 issue (Bush and Cheney as the odd couple on the cover) has a great article on the Pennsylvania trial on teaching intelligent design in high school biology classes. The author, Margaret Talbot, skillfully evokes the courtroom scenes and the personality of the judge and lawyers. She says the trial was like “the [...]
Harry Potter VI
Posted in books on December 11, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
I was holding off reading the latest HP, but finally sat down with it last week. It was a lot of fun at first, and seemed much lighter than the dark and angst-ridden “Order of the Phoenix”. The sorting out of the teen boy-girl issues was handled well. The escalation of violence up to the [...]
The missing New Yorker
Posted in The New Yorker on December 9, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
I knew something was missing in my life and I discovered it while going through and discarding a stack of catalogs – the Oct. 24 New Yorker (Ballerina cover)! I was most impressed with the article about malaria, which Bill Gates is determined to eradicate. I read an article about malaria some years ago, which [...]
