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...early 50s, and my wife and students regard me as about that age. People think I am joking when I tell them my age. I have an active life as a writer, speaker, counselor and father. I am also a poet, artist and musician, and I enjoy a happy, productive life. I am aware of my age but also my youth. I accept both. Reza Rezazadeh Platteville, Wisconsin, U.S. Weil's idea of aging gracefully seems to involve living in a cushy bubble. He forgets that many of us have to worry only about whether there will be enough food...
MOBY, pioneering electronic musician: I have a friend whose Swedish mother--she's in her mid-60s--goes online to meet men. I was with my friend as he drove her to the Hilton to meet a Canadian doctor she'd encountered online, and I thought, How disconcerting. Because it was 10 at night and most likely she was going to meet this guy and stay in his hotel room. Go back 50 years, and she would have been in her Swedish village, depressed, a bit lonely and sad. Instead she's in midtown Manhattan, preparing to spend the night...
DIED. SKITCH HENDERSON, 87, avuncular, Grammy-winning maestro of TV's Golden Age; in New Milford, Conn. Born Lyle Russell Cedric Henderson, the classically trained musician got his start on radio shows starring Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby (who gave him his nickname) before landing a job as the Tonight Show's first bandleader. With his Vandyke beard and audience-participation games, he was a key part of the show, bantering with Steve Allen and, later, Johnny Carson. After a jail stint for income-tax evasion, he founded the symphonic orchestra New York Pops, which he directed until his death...
Assuming you've got drive, dreams and skill, is all ambition equal? Is the overworked lawyer on the partner track any more ambitious than the overworked parent on the mommy track? Is the successful musician to whom melody comes naturally more driven than the unsuccessful one who sweats out every note? We may listen to Mozart, but should we applaud Salieri...
...this changed, however, in The Mountain Goats’ two latest albums, “We Shall All Be Healed” and “The Sunset Tree.” Studio-recorded (the latter in coordination with musician John Vanderslice) with a more refined sound and wider instrumentation, these albums have been received with reservations by fans accustomed to the raw truthfulness of previous work. In addition, both albums abandon the traditional song-series and their fictional narratives, telling instead an autobiographical account of Darnielle’s childhood. Writing closer to home, Darnielle drops the overbearing hysterics...