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...maker than a harpsichord to a piano. Also, the excessive pressure of modern fittings is causing cracks, so that we have an ever increasing number of played-out Strads. The only solution to this vandalism: restore the original fittings and make the instruments true baroque violins that will blend with the harpsichord instead of drowning...
Sharing Poverty. The festival's curious blend of saintliness and savagery, paganism and piety, is typical of the ancient, isolated Ethiopian Church, which has managed to keep Christianity alive in its corner of Africa for more than 1,500 years, despite the aggressive proselytizing of Islam. Most of its priests are uneducated and cannot understand the words of their exhausting liturgies, which are celebrated in a long-dead language called Geez. Although monks and nuns are bound to celibacy, the rule has frequently been ignored. The clergy share the poverty of the people, even though the church itself...
...artists today is that they exist by busily grinding out tardy repetitions of styles already arrived, or even through and done with in the world's major art capitals. Fernando Botero, 34, is the kind of exception to this dismal pursuit of fashionable copies that suggests a rule: blend your native vision with the history of all art and forget critics...
...adjust the buttons. Any role you play is accidental. You were at the right place at the right time." But most authors consider the editorial function a little more important than that. In a left-handed compliment, Critic Leslie Fiedler once described the typical book editor as "an odd blend of schoolmarm and Jewish mother...
Another plan they endorse would open up more internship programs during the school year "along the lines of the Neighborhood Law Office." This would blend "classwork with actual legal participation...