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...years “of great turmoil” during which the Players temporarily became a monarchy—actually. Marshall tells the story best himself: “Prior to 1969, for four or five years, the Players were a quasi-professional theater dominated by brilliant conductor and musical director James Paul. Key orchestra members and several principals were paid,” he writes in the letter.But not all members were satisfied with HRG&SP’s move towards a paid system. Soon, the group shattered.“An acrimonious controversy over this policy...
...coexist with the problem. Then some entrepreneur sees a business opportunity: Let's bring in bigger monkeys to solve the problem of the smaller ones. The entrepreneur's income adds to the gdp, and society learns to coexist with the bigger problem. That's what India is today: brilliant entrepreneurs in a society that is content to coexist with poverty, illiteracy and corruption. Manav Saxena Iowa City, Iowa, U.S. Global Warning? Re "Warming to a global theme" [Nov. 13]: Climate change has been occurring since the beginning of Planet Earth, and it will continue to do so. It is ridiculous...
...because he controls the facts and the narrative, aiming for a satisfying conclusion. The tensions between science and nature, knowledge and wisdom, between what we can do and what we ought to do, have always been great narrative engines. Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote The Birthmark in 1843, in which a brilliant scientist, obsessed with his beautiful wife's Georgiana's tiny handshaped birthmark, is determined to use his vast skills to remove it, and render her perfect. The potion he gives her does indeed make the birthmark fade from her cheek... as it kills her. That story's lessons press even...
...Shawn Carter) seemed to know he had cheated the odds when he announced his retirement in 2003. Then 34, he had lived the Ur-rap narrative--make tapes, launch a label, buy a De Beers diamond mine--and bragged about it on a dozen often brilliant albums. But no rapper is immune to the pull of the mike, and on Kingdom Come, his heavily hyped comeback, Jay-Z tries to subvert the problem of having said everything by saying everything a little differently. Where once his delivery had the ring-a-ding-ding smoothness of Sinatra--another vocalist who made...
...normal person over 35 is going to find [Baron Cohen's character] Borat horrifying" [Nov. 6]. I disagree; I'm 37, and although I thought the film was as vulgar and far removed from political correctness as you can get, I was not horrified. It is an absolutely brilliant satirical look at global prejudice and unquestionably the funniest movie in years. I seriously doubt you have to be under or over a certain age to know a sharp work of satire or pure comic genius when you see one. Shawn Fitzgerald Melrose, Massachusetts...