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...house -- a handsome, substantial Midwestern paterfamilias place that he has just acquired. He divides his time among this house, another on Minnesota's Moose Lake and stops on his lecture tours. The Minneapolis house feels cleansed of ghosts and even gentrified. A poet named Louis Jenkins (author of a splendid collection called All Tangled Up with the Living and other books) is doing some work around the place for Bly and emerges from the basement from time to time as if he had been down there rewiring the house's unconscious. Bly sautes scallops for his solitary lunch, which...
...discover in the pages of a book the secret of the sweet life -- the joys of a bountiful climate, brilliant sun and a splendid cuisine. The problem is that contentment is a tough subject for a writer. Travel literature is rich, the annals of staying put sparse. Cookbooks fill libraries, but the revelations of satisfied palates, at least accounts that seduce and inspire a reader, are scarce...
...erstwhile Soviet masters, plays only traditional Russian works, rarely touches Mozart or Wagner or anything from the 20th century. The outside world hardly needs new versions of La Traviata, and an indifference to new music also characterizes Western opera. Furthermore, the Bolshoi's traditionalism has helped preserve some splendid but otherwise neglected music. Still, Soviet opera musicians feel constrained and constricted. "The country strives to reacquire its cultural identity, to restore the natural chain of cultural history that has been forcibly interrupted," says general director Kokonin. "That is precisely what concerns us here at this theater...
...What we have in common, first, is a splendid continent full of natural resources. Then we have a history of a network of relations among us. Those have been unpleasant as well as pleasant, but unhappy memories too can be a source of unity. We have the Constitution and Bill of Rights. We have a future in common, which means a great deal. And we have denim jeans. That's a shared loyalty, from the Indians to the yuppies. As for the teaching of history, you have a choice for your children. You can tell them the truth about their...
...folks who make up the heart and soul of the nation . . . Frankly, we'd rather listen to you than the self-styled experts in Washington." However, his definition of real people is curious: beyond the weekly Republican fund raisers -- or the session at Christie's -- Sununu rarely leaves his splendid cocoon...