Word: fittingness
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Of course, not all music invites analysis. There's no need to parse the meaning of Sheryl Crow's song Love Is a Good Thing (the point, it's pretty clear, is that love is a good thing). Muddy Banks, however, is more complex. It's a raw, fast, loud...
The fox knows many things," wrote the ancient Greek poet Archilochus, "but the hedgehog knows one big thing." In his famous 1953 essay, the British philosopher Isaiah Berlin used that conceit to divide Russian writers into hedgehogs and foxes. Hedgehogs, he suggested, are individuals who relate everything to a single...
It is fitting that the heroine of the author's fine, quietly melancholy second book, Naked Sleeper (HarperCollins; 235 pages; $23), should share her predecessor's vocation, for she too seems compelled to intensify her sense of disconnect. Though Nona never leaves her native Manhattan, she teaches English to lonely...
"It's heritage," said Jack J. Mahoney, one of 50-odd participants in the march to the commission. "I think it's very fitting that the City of Cambridge remember [the Irish]. They had a lot to do with the politics and history of Cambridge."
In that sense, the Crosby, Stills and Nash song "Been Here Before" was fitting.