Word: solomonic
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...Raina appears as an Angel and the Song of Solomon is sung in Craig...
...elegant rejoinder. Benjamin Disraeli, on the receiving end of an anti-Semitic slur in the British Parliament, had this to say: "Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the Right Honorable Gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon." Thank God, anti-Semitic attacks are no longer acceptable discourse in Europe. When we really want to clobber someone, we call him a Nazi or compare him to Hitler. But that doesn't play so well, as Berlusconi and Däubler-Gmelin have learned. So here is a suggestion...
...Barber and trumpeter Dave Douglas, or leaven tradition with deep house, like Norwegian Bugge Wesseltoft, or with klezmer, like John Zorn's Electric Masada. If that's all too demanding, no problem: a full weekend's schedule can be crafted with the likes of Bonnie Raitt, Steve Winwood and Solomon Burke. No one's keeping score; the idea is to keep the beat...
...hear that scientists are finally losing their infatuation with all the hype about genes as the final word on human nature, it's just as apparent that they're still a long way from a real understanding of why we do what we do. My search will continue. SOLOMON DIXON Redondo Beach, Calif...
...suit and tie. Thomas Krens is hard to miss in any setting; in Venice, he attracts knowing glances from the art world crowd. Even at the Biennale, a premier event on the international art calendar, the big American may be the biggest show in town. As director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Krens, 56, controls the world's farthest-flung museum empire, an endowment projected to hit $78 million by the end of the year and one of the most important collections of modern art on the planet. He is the architect of the Guggenheim's expensive and controversial...