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I don't much like David McCullough. He is too laudatory. Agreed, insofar as the subject of the settlement of the Old Northwest Territory is concerned. The vast physical and moral beauties of the place beggar any description a historian might give, even one like McCullough who hails from adjacent, a...

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The Missing Link
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mhO-3ni71 ... q-iaKiP2Pg

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David McCullough's forthcoming book on the Northwest Ordinance and the settlement of the Northwest Territory:

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4681311/ ... -ordinance

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4667124/ ... t-pioneers

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And also why perch, which used to be a common fish, is no longer available anywhere. Are they extinct? Completely fished out? Try fishing in Lake Erie: commercial as well as sport fishing for walleye and yellow perch, among others. https://image.cleveland.com/home/cleve-media/width600/img/egan_impa...

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Reporter Abby Phillip might also have asked Trump the same question Dodger second-baseman Eddie Stanky in 1947 asked Phillies manager Ben Chapman:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/MkKK49vrd ... &version=3

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david johnson wrote: ↑
Sun Nov 11, 2018 5:05 am
I am speaking of Waters.

Speak well of her. The less she deserves, the more merit in your bounty.

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Maxine Waters deserves all the mocking she can get, and probably more. I do not know much about the others. The issue is not how much mockery and ridicule Congresswoman Waters deserves, but whether in a public forum the President ought to ridicule, bully or verbally abuse a member of Congress (Mia ...

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lennygoran wrote: ↑
Sat Nov 10, 2018 8:29 pm
Yeah he's just disgusting.

Trump can be verbally abusive to reporters because they can't talk back, or like Jim Acosta, they'll lose their job. In any other arena (teaching, courtroom, broadcasting, sports, retail, etc.), such behavior woulda got him fired long ago.

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jbuck919 wrote: ↑
Sat Nov 10, 2018 3:14 pm
And Judge Judy beat you to the first three words of that.

Appearances notwithstanding, this ain't reality TV — it was FLOTUS Hillary. https://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/15/.../ ... oulda.html

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John F wrote: ↑
Sat Nov 10, 2018 12:43 pm
That recording I found more than 50 years ago, in the Minute Man record store off Harvard Square.

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jbuck919 wrote: ↑
Sat Nov 10, 2018 11:30 am
"Meddling intellect," as you invidiously call it

Shoulda, coulda, woulda, only Wordsworth beat me to it.

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The Washington Post — PARIS — President Trump’s verbal assaults against black reporters, candidates and lawmakers has renewed criticism that the president employs insults rooted in racist tropes aimed at making his African American targets appear unintelligent, untrustworthy and unqualified. Over t...

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Trump and Minimalism! Lordy, a combo heaven-decreed. Imagine a 2½-hour opera, in Korean, The Fascist Who Mistook His Wife for a Doormat , consisting of two chanted melodic lines, the first for Russian basso-profondo Putin, the other for wussy-castrato Cruz: 담합도 없다! Damhabdo Eobsda! ( No Collusion! )...

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I do like some of your thoughts-so glad Avenatti, Stormy, McDougal are all back in the news! We must be sure who the president is when he's jailed-someone who won't immediately pardon him! Regards, Len :lol: I think, however, in recognition of his always putting America first, before himself, Donal...

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I am listening to a rip of the webcast of the 2018 Met performance as I type this.

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Trouble in Tahiti - like Mass , wonderful and so American in spirit! The theater brought out Bernstein's special talents as a composer. Of course, he was also a musician of the first rank and an urbane village explainer to boot. Full orchestration 0_j3T9zrvGk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_j3T9z...

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jbuck919 wrote: ↑
Sat Nov 10, 2018 1:32 am
You call that classical music? Sheesh.

Meddling intellect mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things.

jbuck919 wrote: ↑
Sat Nov 10, 2018 1:32 am
. . . I couldn't find it

Sanctus is to be found at 1:17:05 --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tjsKzhpSwE&t=4625s

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Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. The US Attorney for the Sovereign District of NY should indict Donald J. Trump, Sr. now . He stands accused, as the 9 Nov. WSJ story suggests, of conspiring with Michael Cohen to violate federal election laws: he should be booked, fingerprinted, b...

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And Jefferson, himself a Deist, denied the divinity of Christ. As for Whitaker, I heard and saw the video clip tonite and interpreted, wrongly I hope, his remark about the DOJ and judges upholding New Testament values as an oblique attack on Jews in the judiciary. Re: the Constitution. Doesn't the T...

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Credos

https://v637g.app.goo.gl/sLHvuJpQx5yXzE416

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Also sprach Matt Whitaker: judges require a "Biblical" (i.e., "New Testament") orientation. Sorta leaves out, don't it? the likes of Brandeis, Frankfurter, Goldberg, Ginsburg, Breyer & Kagan.

Whitaker as QTD by the NY Times wrote:[the courts] “are supposed to be the inferior branch” [to the legislature]

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Donald Trump Played Central Role in Hush Payoffs to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal Federal prosecutors have gathered evidence of president’s participation in transactions that violated campaign-finance laws By Joe Palazzolo, Nicole Hong, Michael Rothfeld, Rebecca Davis O’Brien and Rebecca Ballha...

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As many fans of LB did, I acquired the LP edition of Mass when it first came out, and have disliked it ever since . . . . IMHO, the Serenade and the Second Symphony (The Age of Anxiety) are Bernstein's great classical works. Originally felt the same way about the LP which I still own but the work h...

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Perfectly serious. "Mass" is "serious Bernstein", if not great Bernstein; and the composer's ego, or lack of it, has nothing to do with assessing its quality as music.

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There is very little in Mass that qualifies as classical music, and my whole point was that Bernstein was a superior modern classical composer. He also had a titanic ego, which meant that this was not enough for him . . . . Mass is serious classical and seriously good. Bernstein's hat size doubtles...

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[Bernstein] never came up with anything better than the mixed-message Mass . I agree that the Serenade is one of LB's finest works. But the only mixed I hear in his Mass is the macaronic. Otherwise the message conveyed by both words and music is consistent. Because it is so very much of its time, M...

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barney wrote: ↑
Sun Nov 04, 2018 4:53 pm
It is the highest of high Anglican churches I have ever been to, which includes a lot of cathedrals. I wouldn't choose there to worship God . . . .

I've heard the Anglican Church praised for keeping Christianity at bay in England.

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[Moses] took the [golden] calf that they had made, burned it with fire, ground it to powder, scattered it on the water, and made the Israelites drink it.

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This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house Against the envy of less happier lands. https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7011/6487119771_955089f341_o.jpg Saint Thomas Church (New York City) by Darren Barnes (Dwood Photography) , on ...

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Just stumbled upon this amazing site of what I always thought was hands down the most drop-dead glorious church in Manhattan. I used to walk there from my apartment just to absorb some of its beauty. Broadcasts of Eucharist and Evensong services, organ recitals and more. The church just installed an...

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beyond improbable that there could be an ocean with liquid water that far out in the solar system . . . Beyond improbable, unless of course Europa has a heated core and a mineral-laden mantle below its icy crust for water to interact with. In fact, there is recent evidence of "hot spots" on Europa ...

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Richard Wagner: TRISTAN und ISOLDE Spas Wenkoff (Tristan) Catarina Ligendza (Isolde) Yvonne Minton (Brangäne) Donald McIntyre (Kurwenal) Karl Ridderbusch (Marke) Herbert Steinbach (Melot) Heinz Zednik (Junger Seemann & Hirte) Heinz Feldhoff (Steuermann) Chor und Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele C...

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I am embarrassed when I recall how insolent I was!! As an adult, I did challenge one professor, a Cleveland State Univ, Ed Psych prof, self-proclaimed Harvard PhD who dressed for every lecture in a white suit, for mocking working-class folks and Catholics repeatedly . Challenged him during a public...

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that's exactly what I did in my teens; read all the plays I could get my hands on In my view, all things being equal, plays require more of a reader than novels and often are more rewarding. Plays were a very big deal for me in school where TV, radio and movies were conspicuously absent. I student-...

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Sure, I haven't seen the flick but the play, dated as it now must seem, openly discusses the topics of bullying and sexual orientation. Strong stuff for the 1950s. The movie, just like Kazan's Streetcar Named Desire film, suppresses all mention of that taboo subject. I spent a summer reading nothing...

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My bad: the first Martin Dysart on Broadway was Anthony Hopkins, not Richard Burton. But IMO Anthony Perkins was great, maybe even unsurpassed, in this role. Perkins appeared on and off Broadway across three decades, 50s thru 70's, starting with the notable Tea and Sympathy in 1954, a play that made...

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https://www.cleveland.com//tv/2018/10/o ... tflix.html

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I saw that "Salesman" with George C. Scott too. Never has Willy Loman seemed so angry, but it's a legitimate interpretation. For Equus I saw Richard Burton, on Broadway (also in the movie but that wasn't as impressive). I recall a purposively out-of-character George C. Scott during his bows laughin...

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On this side of things, George C. Scott in Salesman, Anthony Perkins in Equus and Carol Channing in Dolly!

One of my favorite British actors is James Mason. Plus Cary Grant, Peter O'Toole, Angela Lansbury, Emma Thompson and Michael Caine.

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After reading "Kitchen Confidential" you may never want to eat in a restaurant again. :D Never on Monday, anyway. This book shores up words I've not ever heard nor seen. And to think I used to pry mussels open and devour'em raw on the shores of all places to breathe my last, Buzzards Bay , and stil...

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PROFILES IN SCIENCE: How Do You Find an Alien Ocean? Margaret Kivelson Figured It Out https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/08/science/margaret-kivelson-europa.html https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/10/09/science/09SCI-KIVELSON1/merlin_143373834_46f92060-88fc-4c02-8011-40a995d00fbb-jumbo.jpg?quality=9...

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Given to me for winning a Latin essay contest, this book was one of the two most important I ever read as a kid. My childish faith was severely shaken by the author's acceptance of the higher criticism in the Gospels, and I descended into a state of high anxiety after reading it. https://3m7ajlsrzj9...

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Ormandy

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Sibelius Is one of the great symphonic composers of the past century. Either one of Akeo Watababe's cycles, 1962 Epic, which I own, or 1981 Denon.

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jbuck919 wrote: ↑
Wed Oct 24, 2018 8:52 pm
Oh come off it.

It seems rather presumptuous of the pot to look crosseyed at the kettle.

Finlandia is musically interesting, all of it. I listen to it often. I also like Bolero bigly. Early Philip Glass too.

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We are living in terrifying times, and this interview sends absolute shivers down my spine. It's difficult to get me frightened; even a recent diagnosis of cancer doesn't terrify me like this does, believe it or not. I'm thinking of my adult children. New Yorker Oct 22, 2018 Three years ago, when w...

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Europe has effectively of late kept Christianity at bay.

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I was familiar with Weimar figures individually, Hindemith, Brecht and Hesse, but Peter Gay pulled them together into a coherent narrative. I had never even heard of a 'Weimar Culture' before I picked up his book in the late 60s. Gay gave a Freud-tinged analysis of that culture, which I was greatly ...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dN9iqOb368

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An absolutely magnificent quote! I hadn't read it before. I wonder what he [Shakespeare] would have written today about the internet and kindles? He might derisively have called them "newfangled" — and that would have been sorta newfangled of him — this word was relatively new when he used it in So...

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