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Rostropovich went by the nickname "Slava," meaning glory - or, in the translation preferred by the American composer Leonard Bernstein, "possessed by the gods." I knew Slava through my father, Lynn Harrell, who belongs to a generation of cellists that inherited an instrument Rostropovich had changed forever. My memory of our...
"Why do people do this? There's an obvious benefit," says Elizabeth Loftus, a professor of psychology at the University of California at Irvine who is famous for her critical work on the recovered memories of alleged sexual-abuse victims. "It may not be immediately financial. But certainly being bathed...
Although Daniel Radcliffe fans will disagree, “December Boys”—while easy on the eyes—lacks the originality to make it noteworthy. An adaptation of Australian author Michael Noonan’s eponymous text, the film chronicles coming-of-age trials in...
Anyone who has read Ackroyd's bestselling London: The Biography (2000) - or almost any of the 40 volumes of fiction, biography, history and literary criticism he has written since the 1970s - will know that London is his consuming passion, that his reading of history is distinctively nonlinear, and that his...
As a non-catholic, I found that the article spiritually validated the notion that doubt is inherently necessary to the human condition and serves as the fundamental catalyst that propels altruistic greatness. Mother Teresa's struggle with honest skepticism is a refreshing alternative to the hypocrisy that is so prevalent...