Archives for March 2007

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“A beauty is not suddenly in a circle. It comes with rapture. A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.”

Gertrude Stein, “A Circular Play”

Chris Thile, the mandolin-playing sparkplug of Nickel Creek, is now leading a group of his own, the Tensions Mountain Boys. They

I review two new revivals in today’s Wall Street Journal drama column, Eric Bogosian

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“Creeds must disagree: it is the whole fun of the thing. If I think the universe is triangular, and you think it is square, there cannot be room for two universes. We may argue politely, we may argue humanely, we may argue with great mutual benefit: but, obviously, we must argue. Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence. To say that I must not deny my opponent’s faith is to say I must not discuss it.”

G.K. Chesterton, Illustrated London News, Oct. 10, 1908