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Monthly Archives: June 2011

Jenny McCarthy and the science majors at Google U.

Thursday, 16 June 2011

As in England, increasing numbers of parents in the United States chose not to immunize their children—for measles, mumps, and rubella, and for other diseases, too. As in England, outbreaks of vaccinatable diseases have re-emerged as a public health problem.

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· Bummed out by Skid Row research.

Wednesday, 15 June 2011

Just as in New York, it was a culture of lawlessness that had been tolerated for decades. If any of these researchers had bothered to go into the streets, they would have seen that.

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· Talent’s got Britain. Cowell’s got the world.

Monday, 13 June 2011

Michele Wandor: Cowell reminded us that, along with the £100,000 and a spot at the Royal Variety Performance, the winner’s career is assured. We know this from other talent shows, but the performing dog is now well out of the bag after Susan Boyle.

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· Richard Leacock’s camera made even going for lunch an adventure.

Sunday, 12 June 2011

Leacock said no – and only agreed to stand in the hallway shooting through the open doorway to the suite: shooting Kennedy walking back-and-forth thinking, determined and vulnerable as the district-by-district vote-counts were broadcasting on the suite-TV.

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· To hell with the blessed in heaven, says a deranged Dante.

Friday, 10 June 2011

For these medieval poets, whom I used to teach at Oxford, the central concerns of life were sex in general and girls in particular; they were likewise obsessed with God. Another preoccupation was a political one: wondering whether anyone would ever devise a decent method of organising human society.

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· Cello, bow, Bach, Bailey, brief.

Thursday, 9 June 2011

The cellist’s not playing the repeats tonight, and who could blame him? He dances us through each suite’s sturdy allemande, each suite’s svelte and arrogant courante, each suite’s sultry forbidden sarabande.

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· To make Greeks happy, declare them bankrupt and give them a devalued drachma.

Wednesday, 8 June 2011

The best scenario would be for Greece to declare bankruptcy, go back to the drachma, and devalue its currency. This money illusion will make Greeks feel better in that their salaries will not get cut in drachma terms even though in essence they will be poorer as all imported goods will cost more.

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A theologian explains panentheism to the bishops, beautifully.

Tuesday, 7 June 2011

…the Spirit not only dwells within the world but also surrounds our emerging, struggling, living, dying, and renewing planet of life and the whole universe itself. It illustrates this with Luther’s great image of God in and around a grain; with Augustine’s magnificent image of the whole creation like a finite sponge floating in an infinite sea, necessarily filled in its every pore with water; and with the beautiful image of the pregnant female body…

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· The anxieties of attending the 2011 E-Poetry Festival.

Monday, 6 June 2011

I anticipated attending E-Poetry might bring apprehension, a type of crisis to my research — that a new slew of dynamics might be unleashed, deviating beyond contexts I consider for the genre. They did not.

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Event: ‘David Holzman’s Diary’ at MOMA NYC, 15 June.

Sunday, 5 June 2011

…as much as anything else David Holzman’s Diary is one of the great New York movies.

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· The last place to look for reason is in an Egyptian revolution.

Friday, 3 June 2011

Magada wants to unburden herself, release the anguish inside. But it must be to someone who can help her son. She sits silently, the weight of her loss left unspoken bearing down upon her as much as the pressure of the sun’s heat sears her neck draining her of energy and hope.

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· It’s no secret that we’ve lost the will to guard our privacy.

Thursday, 2 June 2011

In our days, it is not so much the possibility of betrayal or violation of privacy that frightens us, but its opposite: shutting down the exits.

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From the Øιλοκαλíα to Franny’s pea-green book.

Thursday, 2 June 2011

Fr Andrew Louth: ‘The influence of the Philokalia can be thought of in two rather different ways. On the one hand, we can think of what one might call the reception of the Philokalia: that is, how it was read, who read it…On the other hand, we could think of the influence of the Philokalia in another way: how has the Philokalia affected the way its readers understand the nature of the Christian life, the nature of the Church, and even, in particular, the nature of theology?’

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· Benjamin Britten’s Midsummer Camp.

Wednesday, 1 June 2011

Michelene Wandor: The end of the first half culminates in Shorty pulling himself on his stomach, across the front of the stage, to end with his head in Gangly’s lap. Perhaps this is true happiness. Perhaps not.

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