One of my favorite readers of all time sent me a note that made me wince hard. (Can you wince hard? I guess so.) She wrote, I was struck by something you said about Rahm Emanuel in this Corner post : making fun of him for being a ballet dancer. Now, I bow to no man in my dislike of Emanuel, but mocking his dancing seems an unnecessarily cheap shot, and unworthy of you. I find his ballet background one of the (relatively few) appealing things …
It’s just that the corner they’ve turned leads to a dead end and a very sheer cliff:
I’m on the mailing list for the Turkish Embassy in Washington. And I’m sort of a turkophile so I’m always interested to see what they have to say. Then just now I received their latest email entitled “Reviving Jazz at the Turkish Embassy & Washington.” And I was like, huh? I know about the late founder of Atlantic Records, Ahmet Ertegun , a Turkish-American who played a hugely influential role in the second half of the 20th century in American Jazz, Blues, R&B and Rock and a lot …
Palin’s speech reminded me to post a link to this piece by former prisoner of war ? Leo Thorsness we published a few years ago here. I mentioned it during a radio interview yesterday and thought someone, somewhere would appreciate a weekend Corner link.? Kathryn Jean Lopez
has got to be able to make use of this in our Corner image project.? Thought occurred to me at 90th anniversary of women’s suffrage event Susan B. Anthony List is hosting in NYC right now.? ? Kathryn Jean Lopez
has got to be able to make use of this in our Corner image project.? Thought occurred to me at 90th anniversary of women’s suffrage event Susan B. Anthony List is hosting in NYC right now.? ? Kathryn Jean Lopez
has got to be able to make use of this in our Corner image project.? Thought occurred to me at 90th anniversary of women’s suffrage event Susan B. Anthony List is hosting in NYC right now.? ? Kathryn Jean Lopez
has got to be able to make use of this in our Corner image project.? Thought occurred to me at 90th anniversary of women’s suffrage event Susan B. Anthony List is hosting in NYC right now.? ? Kathryn Jean Lopez
In Impromptus today , I start a little Salzburg journal — some notes from and on that little cultural capital in the center of Austria. Toward the beginning, I quote Vikram Seth, the great Anglo-Indian writer. (I do not use “great” lightly — as in, “What a great hamburger!”) (Of course, that hamburger may well be great.) In the afterword to his novel An Equal Music , Seth writes, “Music to me is dearer even than speech.” I reviewed that novel for NR when it came out in 1999 — go here , if you like. And the title of that review is “Seth, Rhymes with ‘Great’&rdquo…
In Impromptus today , I start a little Salzburg journal — some notes from and on that little cultural capital in the center of Austria. Toward the beginning, I quote Vikram Seth, the great Anglo-Indian writer. (I do not use “great” lightly — as in, “What a great hamburger!”) (Of course, that hamburger may well be great.) In the afterword to his novel An Equal Music , Seth writes, “Music to me is dearer even than speech.” I reviewed that novel for NR when it came out in 1999 — go here , if you like. And the title of that review is “Seth, Rhymes with ‘Great’” (which it does). Why…