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"Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle."
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
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"Tuesday in November," a 1945 documentary featurette about elections in America made by the Office of War Information for overseas distribution. It was directed by John Houseman and scored b…
From 2011:
I just got another wonderful e-mail from the Bulgarian translator of Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong. Here it is, verbatim and in its entirety….
Read the whole thing here.
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"The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion."
Edmund Burke, speech at a County Meeting of Buckinghamshire (1784)
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Bing Crosby and Bob Hope are seen auctioning off War Bonds at a 1944 golf tournament in a newsreel clip. Also seen is Frank Sinatra:
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"Every hero becomes a bore at last."
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men
Continue reading Almanac: Emerson on the staying power of heroes at About Last Night.
In today's Wall Street Journal I review a webcast of the Irish Repertory Theatre's revival of Eugene O'Neill's A Touch of the Poet. Here's an excerpt.
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Clairemarie Osta dances Fauré's "Sicilienne" in the Paris Opera Ballet's 2005 staging of George Balanchine's "Emeralds," the first section of Jewels, his full-evening plotless ballet:
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"Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed."
Anthony Powell, Temporary Kings
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"People think because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Because a novel's invented, it is true. Biography and memoires can never be wholly true, since they …
Vladimir Horowitz plays Scriabin's Vers la flamme in the living room of his Manhattan apartment:
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"A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose."
Hortense Calisher, Queenie
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From 2010:
I, too, once felt the mad desire to own every jazz record ever made, and to have them all shelved in chronological order at arm's length from my desk. Today I own just two racks, …
"I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. Books are unconvertable assets, to be passed on only t…
It's just short of seven months since the death of Hilary Teachout, my beloved wife. I was close to despair when I returned from her deathbed to my locked-down apartment, and though I though…
Jeri Southern sings Frank Loesser's "Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year":
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wedn…
"Every one can master a grief but he that has it."
William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
Continue reading Almanac: Shakespeare on grief at About Last Night.
In today's Wall Street Journal, I review a webcast of the Mint Theater Company' 2018 revival of Miles Malleson's Conflict. Here's an excerpt.
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Langston Hughes reads his poem "The Weary Blues" on the CBC in 1958, accompanied by a jazz combo:
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"Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil."
G.K. Chesterton, "The Flying Stars"
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A new episode of Three on the Aisle, the podcast in which Peter Marks, Elisabeth Vincentelli, and I talk about theater in America, is now available on line for listening or downloading…
"She hasn't got any intellect to speak of; but you don't need any intellect to be an intellectual."
G.K. Chesterton, "The Scandal of Father Brown"
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In today's Wall Street Journal "Sightings" column, I take a look at a little-known survey that sheds light on the future of theater in America. Here's an excerpt.
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Shirley Horn sings "Here's to Life" with John Williams and the Boston Pops in 1993. The arrangement is by Johnny Mandel:
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"To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it."
G.K. Chesterton, A Short History of England
Continue reading Almanac: G.K. Chesterton on rights at About La…
