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John Cage (1912-1992) [by Lewis Saul]
In July 1973, I got a call from my high school alma mater — The Interlochen Arts Academy — inviting me to join other recent Composition Major graduates for a symposium with John Cage.…
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Cie Les Orpailleurs: practicing the dangerous art of thought in muscle & blood, skin and bone
“Failles”, Jean-Christophe Bleton, Laurence Bertagnol: Dance for all. Photo: Patrick Girard © couleursurlaville Through their dance troupe cie Les Orpailleurs (“Gold-Panners”), Jean-Christophe Bleton and Laurence Bertagnol run an annual open dance program called Groupe…
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Sommer Browning: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
________________________________________________________________________ Great Things from the Department of Transportation My mother desires to track my location on her phone. My mother announces…
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from “The Fraying of America” [by Robert Hughes]
It took a while but Time got around to reporting Nietzsche's brainstorm announcement. The question mark is merely a rhetorical cover-up. And here are some thoughtful paragraphs from "The Fraying of America" by the magazine's…
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From a work in progress [by Mitch Sisskind]
The dry cleaning business was extremely important on my mother'sside of the family. My Uncle Nate hadn't been a combat soldier likeNorb Berlowitz, but Nate had still been in the army during the war. He was assigned to a…
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The Great Paradox [by Lionel Trilling]
"Some paradox of our natures leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to go on to make them the object of our pity, then of…
