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Almanac Today's entry: François Mauriac on the making of poets....
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Almanac Today's entry: Alexander Pope on critics....
Matter of opinion ... the "best" opinions are based on information ... they are not just random thoughts...
Considering the Creative Ecology Slides and audio from my public presentation last week in Austin, Texas....
Almanac Today's entry: George Herbert on critics....
Almanac Today's entry: Somerset Maugham on old age....
Wild Thing Kirov guest star Diana Vishneva in ABT's "Swan Lake"...
Congress Phones Homes When Congress uses technology to build relevancy more effectively than the arts we know we're slipping...
Almanac Today's entry: H.L. Mencken on moral men vs. men of honor....
Almanac Today's entry: Chekhov on success....
Almanac Today's entry: Chekhov on talent....
First Glass Glass's piano music is personal. He plays it himself. At the same time, he welcomes others playing it ... He got me a copy of the etudes he wrote in 1994...
Almanac Today's entry: Chekhov on grace....
What Are Life's "Enduring Questions"? The NEH posed that question to educators last year, and here's what they replied....
Almanac Today's entry: Sir Thomas More on public taste....
Great Study. But What's It For? On the importance of putting arts research findings to actual use...
Almanac Today's entry: Nietzsche on memory and pride....
The evolving hybrids in corporate structure Business Week explores the middle ground between for-profit and nonprofit forms....
Almanac Today's entry: Billy Collins on playing favorites in poetry....
Resolve ... a dissonance, a departure from the harmonic (or melodic, or rhythmic) norm needs to be brought back to normality ... "action" needs resolution...