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...jazzy “My Love Is,” fit in very snugly. That track is pure velvet, an upright-bass-supported masterpiece that channels pure melancholy joy. I’m a sucker for good lyrics, and Myles’ words are simple, desperate and content all at the same time. When Golightly croons perfect lines like “My love is a deep blue sea / So deep that I’ll never be free,” you get her immediately...
...likes of Jack White, whose track “It’s True That We Love One Another” featured her as the third part of a musical ménage à trois with himself and fellow White Stripe Meg, but she’s still content to let her own talent speak for itself. And for the relative few who will be willing to give her sad soulfulness a chance, that should be very happy news...
...also underway at the University of Michigan, Oxford University, Stanford University and the New York Public Library—will begin the daunting task of digitally scanning Harvard University Library’s (HUL) massive library holdings, beginning with some 40,000 volumes. This random selection of content from the Harvard Depository will soon be searchable online at Google Print—a site that harnesses the power of Google’s internet search capabilities for an online library catalog...
...result will be a whole new way to search the library: unlike HOLLIS, WorldCat or other similar online catalogs, Google Print actually searches the content of the books for keywords and returns the appropriate titles and locations—and sometimes passages. The project plans to make holdings in the public domain completely available online and some excerpts from copyrighted material as well. Furthermore, this service will be available to more than just undergraduates of the respective participating universities, but to the public at large. If all goes well with the pilot program, HUL has the option of allowing Google...
...looking at modern mores should seem like it could be a remake of a 1950s Cary Grant-Warren Beatty comedy. Walking out, there is the realization that there are a lot of problems ahead in trying to find a place in the real world that could make me content, but no understanding of how to find that contentment...