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...Author and neurologist Oliver Sacks knows all this - and too much else besides, to attempt any glib definitions. On the first page of Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, he writes that music "has no concepts, makes no propositions; it lacks images, symbols, the stuff of language. It has no power of representation. It has no necessary relation to the world." His book is ostensibly just a survey of research and case histories of patients whose inner lives have been fundamentally changed by music. Yet in revealing the exquisite complexity of the ways in which our minds are attuned...
Paulus Berensohn, author of “Finding One’s Way With Clay,” recently came to the Harvard Dance Center to lead the workshop “Clay Body, Human Body: the practice of art”. The self-described weaver, bookmaker, journal-keeper, poet, doodler, dancer, and teacher doesn’t have a cell phone or e-mail address, but FM was able to catch up with the multi-talented guru—but only after he attended to a mass of adoring fans, the last of which presented Berensohn with an apple...
...homosexuality, Gomes announced that he was gay. “Reverend Gomes came out and identified himself for the first time as being gay, and that took a lot of courage,” Sears said. “And we think it made a big difference in giving authority to the acceptance of gay people in the Christian community.” Former recipients of the Freedom of Worship Medal include Coretta Scott King and Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust scholar and Nobel laureate. Last night’s ceremony, held at the Chelsea Piers complex on the West Side...
...future generations. “We’ve been looking at the diversity in faculties for several years now, originally we were doing this but focusing on women because there seemed to be more interest in that,” said the study’s principal author, Donna J. Nelson, a professor of chemistry at OU. “We felt like, from our previous studies, minorities are a little farther behind.” Undergraduate leaders of minority student groups said that the lack of minorities in the sciences can be felt in the lecture halls...
...culinary writing go unrecognized by the American public. But despite their anonymity, food writers have crafted some of the best prose of the twentieth century. They face a unique challenge in trying to represent in words experiences that are primarily smell- and taste-oriented. Laurie Colwin, a little-known author who, during her short life, published a few novels and several stories in the New Yorker, is one of the great American food writers. This summer, working three jobs to make rent and reduced to herbivory, I would open up “Home Cooking,” Colwin?...