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...talked on, you know, you went and saw him and he pontificated rather, but taught one: 'my dear Christopher, what evidence is there that Bach wrote the chromatic fantasy and fugue--dear sir, who wrote the Jupiter Symphony?' He was sometimes showy, but very often asked just the right question that a kid that age needed. 'Stravinsky died 30 years ago and nobody has noticed'--this was while Stravinsky was still alive...
...posthumous man unravels his tale, he twists and turns around an extraordinary tangle of ideas: the nature of artifice, the Darwinian crisis of faith, the courtship of History and Romance. Invoking his ancestor Sir Walter Raleigh, and setting much of the action in the New Elizabethan Age of the 1950s, he fashions a narrative as fiendishly witty and sinuous and fluent as an Elizabethan sonnet. But at its heart is a simple, all but unanswerable question: "What is the difference between belief and make-belief?" Some readers may be exhausted by the pinwheeling frenzy of paradoxes and parallels; others, though...
There was Sir Cloudesley Shovel, "The Cobbler'sBoy Who Became an Admiral"; William Carey, "TheShoemaker who Translated the Bible into Bengaliand Hindostani"; Samuel Drew, "The MetaphysicalShoemaker." John Greenleaf Whittier began as ashoemaker's apprentice and honored the occupationwith his ode, "To Shoemakers," not one of his moredistinguished works. ("Ho! workers of the oldtime, styled/The Gentle Craft of Leather!/ Youngbrothers of the ancient guild,/ Stand forth oncemore together...
...role fits, as it does with Baldwin and Alda and Hirsch. When a show really goes wrong, performers are rarely the problem, anyway. Last week's biggest Broadway fiasco was a ponderously staged pedantic pageant from stage luminaries -- writer John Guare, actors Stockard Channing and James Naughton and director Sir Peter Hall, the founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Like all Guare's plays, Four Baboons Adoring the Sun deals with ordinary people's inability to accept ordinariness, their yearning for mythic and epic significance. But it thwarts itself by hanging its plot on a somber and respectful treatment...
Among Lederer's favorite student bloopers was that of a young historian who wrote, "Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world--with hundred foot clippers...