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...nothing funny about Blind Lemon Jefferson and Blind Blake, who in their time exerted a huge influence on the evolution of popular music. A pair of new compilations from Shanachie, painstakingly assembled from old recordings from the 1920's and enhanced for maximum audio quality, provides a valuable insight on the oeuvre of both of these unique performers...
...Diddie Wa Diddie") and Jorma Kaukonen can hear where it all started on these tracks. The Blake collection also benefits from better fidelity, perhaps a function of the guitarist's forceful playing style, which projects with considerably greater impact than Jefferson's. But both anthologies provide a fascinating insight into the origins of the American guitar slinger and the vast blues tradition that evolved around...
...Nobel Prize, but Carlsson soon made another. For years, doctors prescribed drugs for schizophrenia with a kind of blind chemical faith; the medications reduced symptoms, but no one knew just how. In the 1960s, Carlsson discovered that they work by preventing nerve cells from taking up dopamine. That penetrating insight led directly to better antischizophrenia drugs...
Personal experience is no guarantee of deep insight or good teaching. And the misguided demand for authenticity, if played out, could easily lead to exclusive and homogenous academic departments--by that reasoning, a white person is as little qualified to teach African-American literature as a non-white person is to teach Shakespeare...
...student at Harvard, so I assume she would no longer take this view," Ozick added during the question and answer period. "I just found it so amazing that she could say 'It's funny.' She was so far from who she was portraying. There's no insight at all into the character...