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...just this side of splendid. The pleasures of Grey Gardens are more mixed. It boasts a glorious performance by Christine Ebersole as both mother and daughter (I'll explain later), and Best Support by Mary Louise Wilson, in a smart show whose main deficiency is exactly what so many modern musicals lack: good music...
This distinction does not make him the best musician anywhere, as he will be the first to admit. Tomlin's How Great Is Our God (which he co-wrote with Jesse Reeves and Ed Cash), currently the second most popular modern chorus in U.S. churches (after Tim Hughes' Here I Am to Worship), is not particularly profound--the title pretty much sums it up--but it's heartfelt, short and set to a stirring soft-rock melody that sticks in the mind like white to rice. That's Tomlin's gift: immediacy. "I try to think, How do I craft...
...Fortunately, Edward Luce was not put off by this advice. The South Asia bureau chief for the Financial Times from 2001 to 2005, Luce is the author of In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India, a recently published work that is the latest in a line of tomes seeking to explain how the erstwhile land of snake charmers and flying carpets has become the world's newest economic power. It is also, far and away, the best...
...still be miniscule within India, but it is spreading, and the terrorists who blow up trains in Bombay are at least as great a threat to India's economic future as any that Luce lists. For the most part, though, In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India is an exceptional book, and that's because its author is unusual: he's a foreigner who gets India...
...perfectly executed. According to the program, though the four cantatas performed were short sketches of ancient myths, they were also meant to understood as they would be to a baroque artist. While this was a bit of a stretch for the first two cantatas, the parallel between myth and modern life was seamless by the end. The first cantata, “Orphée,” told the story of Orpheus’s journey to the underworld to rescue his wife, Eurydice. Kathy D. Gerlach ’07, who sang the part of several characters including...