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...allowed Tocqueville to both construct and critique America’s political ideology and the pulse of its society. As Tocqueville himself once said, “Everything I see, everything I hear, everything I still see from far away, forms a confused mass in my mind that I may never have the time or ability to disentangle. It would be an enormous labor to present a tableau of a society as vast and un-homogenous as this one.” Damrosch’s careful labor in recreating Tocqueville’s journey is not unlike his subject?...
Members of the engineering faculty at Brown said in interviews yesterday that they hope the Corporation will approve the proposal at its May meeting...
...other thing is to just be nice. That sounds so cliché, but you will meet the same people going up as you will going down. So treat the guy who has a lot of money you want to invest in your project the same as the pianist who may have gigged your show, because that guy may go one to become a composer and he could become a very important person in your life down the line...
...hint that this is a pop album at its heart comes at the very start: unlike nearly all of Sigur Rós’ more symphonic releases, the best song on “Go” is the first one. “Go Do” may back Jónsi’s familiar soaring falsetto with chiming percussion and orchestral flourishes, but it is nonetheless a consummate pop song—and a great one. From the opening, cheerfully syncopated vocal samples through the disconcertingly straightforward verse-chorus-verse structure, “Go Do?...
...may seem limiting to constantly compare Jónsi to Sigur Rós, but Jónsi invites the association by making music that has so much in common with his band—his own heartrending falsetto, simple but perfectly arranged orchestral support, and an unabashedly emotional atmosphere—and then self-consciously moving away from much of what defines them. Where Sigur Rós were sprawling, Jónsi is concise. Where Sigur Rós were languorous, Jónsi is propulsive. Where Sigur Rós were grandiose, Jónsi is playful...