Word: canonizations
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...especially in view of some neighbors we have," presumably meaning those troublesome Chinese. His theory is a sort of global extension of the fact that most murders occur within families or close circles of acquaintances. It also contains a beguilingly sinister suggestion that mutual understanding, that canon of civilized thought, can be fatal...
...deep breath and then say it. As a dramatist, Samuel Beckett can be, and frequently is, a crashing bore. His world-renowned play Waiting tor Godot has been called a masterpiece so repeatedly that any revival of it seems to come gift-wrapped in its exalted reputation. In the canon of dramatic literature, Godot is an original stunt, a clever game, but no masterpiece. It has spoken to the inner spirit of an age that is antiheroic, narcissistic, self-pitying, and prone to believe that man's journey through life is a pointless shuttle from nothing to nowhere. When...
More important, the canon that those who care about an activity ought to raise money for it disintegrates rapidly in depression years. Even in the booming '60s, the Corporation had to come to the rescue of the Ed School, whose alumni generally proved too impecunious to save it. The financial crisis may soon force the University to choose between proportional cutbacks in every department or even outright elimination of one of the Schools. "I wouldn't bet my life," said one Faculty source, "that the School of Education will be here five years from now." One hopes that the Corporation...
...event, Miss Baez sang with the casual magnificence that is well known to Cambridge audiences. She sings without ever forcing a note, jes' letting that cool voice float out of her slightly open mouth. Although the humorous songs in the Baez canon are superb, the quieter ones are even better, and Mary Hamilton, which Miss Baez sings softly with very little modulation in volume, was clearly the high point of the evening...
...Shakespearean canon, "Troilus and Cressida" comes after "Hamlet" and the powerful tragedies and at a time of the moody, enigmatic comedies that are unresolved and express a general distaste for life. There was a time when pedants were convinced that Shakespeare had suffered a nervous breakdown. Romanticists are sure that the Dark Lady of the Sonners had betrayed him more wantonly than usual, and that, like Jimmy Durante, he was in a mowing mood...