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...final season as music director of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO). If Yannatos is mourning his departure, however, he is not doing so through his selection of music. His choices pulsed with emphatic joy and were delivered with conviction by his orchestra. The evening began with a premiere of Carson Cooman’s “Flying Machine,” an HRO commission dedicated to Yannatos in celebration of his commitment to HRO as well as his 80th birthday, which is next March. The piece, depicting the construction and flight of a machine, immediately conjured the mystery...
Color has long functioned as a cultural mood ring. There was the rainbow cacophony that defined the free-love, footloose '60s and the avocados and vegetal yellows of the '70s, which style experts attribute to environmental empathy spawned by Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. Precisely how these trends catch on has always been hazy; the trail of bread crumbs is typically detectable only in hindsight. But there's big business in forecasting the color of the moment. A DuPont survey found that 39% of prospective car buyers would buy a completely different brand if unable to obtain their color preference...
...comics, Damiano's film was a grail: a Buttofuoco- or Lewinsky-like solid laugh line. "This is kinda strange country, isn't it?" asked Johnny Carson at the time when the movie was challenging Watergate as the topic du jour. "Judges can see Deep Throat but they can't listen to those [Nixon] tapes." Bob Hope said, "I went to see Deep Throat cause I'm fond of animal pictures. I thought it was about giraffes." When Bob Hope makes a joke about your porno movie, you've arrived...
...power and energy-efficient technologies is going to become the defining measure of a country’s economic standing.” This argument may be forward-looking, but it has already gone mainstream. If Friedman is trying to become the Energy Climate Era’s Rachel Carson, Garrett Hardin, and Thomas Malthus all in one, he seems to have forgotten that figureheads like Al Gore have already made his arguments accessible to the masses and, perhaps, in an even more appealing fashion. Friedman’s knowledge of the science behind a hot, flat, and crowded world...
...Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War—generated some controversy among Civil War historians when it was published in 1997, but has sold under 10,000 copies since it was first printed. Notable past winners of the non-fiction title include Rachel Carson, George F. Kennan, Gore Vidal, and Thomas L. Friedman. The other finalists were Annette Gordon-Reed, a professor at Rutgers and New York Law School, journalists Jane Meyer and Jim Sheeler, and Cambridge resident Joan Wickersham. Faust has said in past interviews that “This Republic of Suffering?...