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...viewed as too commercial and too popular,” O’Connor says. “But until the late ’50s it was known largely as ‘hillbilly music’—in a sense, you can’t get more folky than that. It occupies its own funny segment of the music world...
...work’s insubstantiality. “A novel in fragments” may be the phrase of choice in the marketing materials, but the truth is that “Laura” is hardly more than an assemblage of disconnected scribblings; reading diligently, one can get through the entire thing in under an hour. The difference in quality between this and Nabokov’s other works, too, is painfully clear. However much Nabokov’s other posthumously published work “The Enchanter” existed primarily as a sketch...
...wish was that it be burnt should he die before its completion, a worst-case scenario that came to pass in 1977 when the complications of fever took him in Switzerland. The literary world at once divided in two: the “publish” camp happy to get their hands on whatever they could from the man they considered a genius, and their “perish” antagonists urging incineration lest any imperfection blacken the Nabokovian halo. One might assume that the recent green light points to some newly unearthed document or deep philosophical revelation...
...pace of the Task Force has slowed because of the economical situation, but our modes of financial support for the arts did not get cut,” said Jack Megan, Director of the OFA. “We were not able to increase them, obviously, but to keep [funding] programs fully intact is pretty remarkable...
...this bad economy, we’re looking for where the university can get the most bang for its buck. This means thinking about resources that are not strictly financial. For example, the richest resource we have is the intelligence and energy of our students,” said Kelsey. “If we are to realize the dream of the Task Force, we need the students’ involvement...