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In 1967, four years after he was judged an "immortal" worthy of being seated by the Brazilian Academy of Letters, Joāo Guimarāes Rosa donned the official gold-braided uniform and formally took his chair. Publicly, he explained the delay by saying he had been too busy...
It isn't that New York's Lincoln Cen ter is scrabbling frantically for funds, or faced with the gloomy prospect of closing its doors if more money is not forthcoming. Yet even with nearly $170 million in the kitty, the Center is still almost $6,000,000...
Armah can barely allow his character the luxury of hope. Out of the once-crushed idealist's instinct for self-protection, he cannot allow himself any hope at all-in the text. But what a tidal wave of yearning surges under that title! For Armah, at heart, is still...
Nevertheless the effort to understand this aspect of the Who was not wasted. Such close attention to examples of this kind in their songs is not mere critical pedantry or an attitude of more-scrupulous-than-thou but dealing as it does with the core of the Who's enterprise...
On Friday night Arlo Guthrie was outstanding, and there can no longer be any doubt that Arlo knows other "songs" besides "Alice's Restaurant." Arlo is an artist who is incredibly witty and imaginative and although his raps are somewhat reminiscent of Jack Elliot's, he is a great story...