Word: talese
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At the beginning of May 1945 it was clear to even the most zealous of Hitler's followers that his "Thousand Year Reich" was doomed. The Fuhrer was dead. Berlin had fallen to the Red Army, and from west and east the Allies were sweeping into the German heartland. Some...
The music on Fleck's new CD, "Tales from the Acoustic Planet," is not simply to be defined as bluegrass, folk, jazz, blues, funk or classical. It sounds something like jazz, but it's scored like classical and played on a banjo. Fleck has sculpted an acoustically-based musical style...
Fleck has produced an album that is honestly original and revolutionary. "Tales from the Acoustic Planet" cannot be described adequately in the usual musical vocabulary. To do it justice, slip on your shoes and pick it up at your trusty, neighborhood record store. Maybe you can take the old basset...
YOUR DECONSTRUCTION OF PHILIP K. Howard's antiregulatory book, The Death of Common Sense, was right on [Ideas, April 10]. I seriously doubt that Howard wanted to dig too deep into the facts behind his sketchy anecdotes about regulatory mischief. He is working squarely in the tradition of other zealots...
Reading Helprin's marvelously imaginative tales has always required wafting along with a flood of eloquence and accepting that floods are by nature excessive. There are few authors of whom it is less profitable to ask what in the world he may be getting at. Among novelists who fall into...