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...earlier age--real-life characters like Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey and Cab Calloway practically jostle you as they shoulder their way through smoky speakeasies, and the constant banging of the riveters provides a percussive sound track that drives the book. By the end, labor itself is the only pure thing left in Manhattan. Empire Rising is everything a period novel should be, but it illustrates a paradox bigger than any period: if they work hard enough, even flawed, ephemeral people can build monuments that are perfect, and endure...
...relegate the horrors of the Holocaust and those responsible for them to the realm of pure anomaly, to make them singular and unrepresentable—this is a failure to confront the moral complexity and the danger that those evetns reveal...
...keeping with the Zeitgeist’s image as a testing ground rather than a place for pure entertainment, the club does not sell food or alcohol and its audience tends to be serious about appreciating the music...
...show’s run by a cheekily-named organization called “The Critique of Pure Reason,” and in typically Kantian fashion they aren’t selling any advance tickets, so you’d better show up right around 8. This really is a once-in-a-lifetime chance, because the YWCA is about as big as your kindergarten gymnasium, and it’s rare that you get to be so intimate in such a setting...
...Concertino in Eb for Trombone and Orchestra,” by Ferdinand David, was acoustically the highlight of the evening. Professional soloist Nathaniel Dickey produced a tone sweet and pure, impressing the audience with his own virtuosic skills on the trombone and conveying a sensitivity the instrument is not usually associated with...