WEAVNG A LIFE OF ART: DOROTHY LIEBES
FIBER ARTS HAVE FASCINATED BOTH Wife Dottie ( “We Keep Sheep, Y’Know”) and Daughter Suz (“On Stage at Scripps College”). Thus I was interested to read Katherine Roth describing “An … Continue reading
MY MY FAIR LADY PART 2
YESTERDAY WE SAW Pygmalion evolve from Greek legend to George Bernard Shaw play to Leslie Howard/Wendy Hiller movie to Broadway’s My Fair Lady and its Hollywood flick to my entertaining … Continue reading
MY MY FAIR LADY PART 1
I’M ENJOYING MY FAIR LADY on Turner Classic Movies in multiple viewings: Conveniently enough, the first one coincided with the closing notes of “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly,” the second one … Continue reading
NOT SO SILENT
MY FAVORITE TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES are from the pre-Code Thirties, though I confess to enjoying the occasional silent film. Indeed, a couple of the latter are real keepers having been … Continue reading
YOU CAN COUNT ON US
I’M TALKING ABOUT THE CENSUS, not just matters of communal reliance. Indeed, John Lanchester offers 6500 words in “Get a Rabbit,” London Review of Books, September 21, 2023. Here are … Continue reading
TIN PAN ALLEY
NEW YORK CITY’S TWENTY-EIGHTH STREET between Fifth and Sixth Avenues is the legendary Tin Pan Alley, the center of American popular music at the turn of the century. (That old … Continue reading
THE THEATRICAL PRINTS OF THE TORII MASTERS
“CREDIT FOR THE BEGINNING OF KABUKI,” Howard A. Link recounted, “goes to a female shrine dancer from Izumo named Okuni. Around 1600, the very year of Hideyori’s defeat by Ieyasu, … Continue reading
L.J.K. SETRIGHT’S TIMESCALE PART 2
WE’RE CELEBRATING THE WIDE TALENTS of L.J.K. Setright, as exemplified in his Timescale, a multifaceted timeline in his Drive On! A Social History of the Motor Car. Leonard John Kensell … Continue reading
TIDBITS FROM SETRIGHT’S TIMESCALE PART 1
AUTOMOTIVE JOURNALISTS WRITE ABOUT AUTOMOBLES. But some, like L.J.K. Setright, widened their field of vision considerably. His classic Drive On! is accurately subtitled A Social History of the Motor Car. … Continue reading
ON OLD REFERENCE BOOKS
I PONDER OCCASIONALLY, AMIDST SCADS OF BOOKS, whether a few clicks of the computer keyboard wouldn’t replace them all. This, in a sense, is the idea being LLM, large language … Continue reading
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