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That playful tone wasn’t the only thing that made him shine through as a theatrical presence. Perhaps the most thrillingly strange aspect of Tuesday’s concert, and of most of Meloy’s recorded work with the Decemberists, is how utterly and astonishingly genuine he sounds when he croons out those elegant strings of lies about Manchurian secret agents and deceased chimney-sweeps. In a sense, he’s a member of a rare and dying breed of musicians—those who can act. Those who can create a character wholly different...
Sadly, the popular aspect of Elkins’ history also takes Imperial Reckoning off-track. In an attempt to help her non-academic audience understand the Mau Mau, she uses tropes like “Nazism” for comparison’s sake and drops the word “genocide” numerous times. Eager to make this relatively unknown episode seem relevant to book-buying audiences, she has avoided using “Mau Mau” in her work’s title. Instead, she gives the out-of-context label “gulag?...
...learning to forgive those who have hurt me. Forgiveness works. It lets us be pals again. Anna Victoria Reich Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S. While reading your report on happiness, I felt a touch of sorrow that science seems to be nosing its way into every aspect of humanity. Can't we go back to the days when people lived passionately without wondering what chemicals in the brain made them happy? Since when has happiness been a technical thing? Janet Ma Rochester, Michigan, U.S. Labeling the Insurgency In "hunt for the bomb factories," about the massive weapons depots around Baghdad...
Harvard hung around by collecting 15 offensive rebounds and capitalizing on 18 Big Red turnovers, but despite taking 19 more shots than Cornell, the Crimson could not slow down any aspect of its offense. From the point where the game was tied at 40, the Big Red hit seven of its next eight shots to take a commanding 56-47 lead with 3:22 left...
Like bands such as Ampere or Wolves, there is an aspect of “Art for the Revolution” in Tiny Hawks’ empowerment-through-music, though the message is much more visceral than the latter group of theory-enthusiasts’ frequent over-intellectualizations: “Let’s start to clap our hands to match something as loud as the dogs themselves…as joy is thrown to the wolves we’ll take it all back in song, as the root, as the main sail.” In this...