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...There is not even the slightest pretense that the music being made by the avant-garde is commercially viable in its present form. The work is difficult at the best of times. But perhaps that is its point. "I guess the reason noise art is so poignant in China," says Ohlsson, "is that it's dramatically anticommercial in a place where everything is very commercial...
...collapse of credit. Confronted with that threat, governments seemingly cannot help turning to the remedy formulated by Keynes during the dark years of the early 1930s: stimulating demand by spending much more than they take in, preferably but not necessarily on useful public works like highways and schools. "I guess everyone is a Keynesian in a foxhole," jokes Robert Lucas, a University of Chicago economist who won a Nobel Prize in 1995 for theories that criticized Keynes...
...year-old men. I walked into my seminar the other day and literally had to do a double take. After backtracking out the door to make sure I was in the right classroom, I crept back in and took my seat among the old boys’ club. I guess it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Harvard, with its ivy-covered buildings and portrait-covered walls, is the epitome of New England pomp (or charm; call it what you will). But button-down shirts tucked into khakis, wool sweaters worn over collared shirts, and tweed jackets...
...Bertoz Concerto for Orchestra that had just been written 20 years ago,” he says. “I didn’t think anything of the concert, but everyone else thought, ‘Wow.’ Everybody was blown away, and I guess, basically my job was assured...
...Shaun Dakin, who worked in calling centers for the Democratic Party during the 2004 and 2006 election cycles, remembers the often profanity-laden responses he received from voters angered by mid-meal calls. "Some would tell me, 'Hey guess what, you're calling for X campaign, well then I'm going to vote for Y campaign." For this reason, he launched a movement to create a political version of the Do Not Call registry, arguing that voters should at least be able to opt out. His website, StopPoliticalCalls.org, even includes a "Robo-Call of Shame...