“One of the intriguing aspects when teaching translation is watching students struggle with sentences that say things they didn’t expect them to say.” Tim Parks offers examples – from D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf and Niccolò Machiavelli – of when translators changed the meaning of sentences without, apparently, even realizing it.
Tag: 05.09.13
Filmmaker Bryan Forbes Dead At 86
“Together with Richard Attenborough, he set up Beaver Films in 1959. … His directing career began in 1961 with Whistle Down the Wind, featuring child star Hayley Mills.” Among the many films he helmed during the 1960s and ’70s were Seance on a Wet Afternoon and The Stepford Wives.
Measuring Success: Data-Driven Dance
“Judgment [in the dance field] is often based on aesthetic or taste, usually informed by exposure, and it tends to limit the conversation to ‘like’ or ‘dislike’. … Our goal, instead, should be to guide and instruct performers and audiences in how to evaluate the quality of a product beyond an actual performance – including how to lead to performance and advance beyond it. But how do we best determine what those include?”
Why I Teach a College Class On How To Think About Pornography
“Most of my students were born in the early-to-mid-1990s; they hit puberty under the influence of two conflicting social realities: the widespread availability of broadband and the Bush-era abstinence-only sex education policies. … [This] meant that Internet pornography became the primary and ubiquitous source of information about [sex] … It’s as if instead of offering driver’s ed, we taught you how to operate a car by showing you a James Bond movie.”
Merrill Brockway, 90, Who Brought Dance To Millions In The U.S.
“Modeled after the dance numbers in Fred Astaire movies, ‘Dance in America’ became known for showing dancers’ bodies mostly in full. Mr. Brockway said his collaboration with Balanchine influenced that approach.”
Diaghilev, The Ballets Russes, And The Guys Onstage
“Into this pastel-tinted world marched the Ballets Russes, with its hot colors, new music — and men. Electrifying, beautiful, sexy men.”
No, You Do Not Have To Be A Musician To Write About Music
“One of the things I had to actually learn was how to be a journalist. ‘Music critic’ isn’t satisfactory to me. I’ve learned to do reporting, to do research. It’s not about saying, ‘This music makes me feel this way!’ The context and the story behind it are often just as rewarding, and are crucial to understanding the actual music.”
Let’s Say Barnes & Noble Sells The Nook To Microsoft. What’s Left?
“Barnes & Noble would lose the unit that added attention and store traffic…and kept its stock higher. It’s not a clear parallel yet to Borders, but it’s hard to ignore the comparison.”
Yet Another Client Sues Defunct Knoedler Gallery
“The once-celebrated Knoedler & Company gallery has been closed for more than a year and a half but the lawsuits keep coming. Last week, the philanthropist and former ambassador to Romania, Nicholas F. Taubman, became the sixth former client to sue the gallery in federal court.”
Jonah Bokaer Dances With His Father
“In February 2011 the choreographer and dancer Jonah Bokaer was to perform a duet, Replica, in Carthage, Tunisia. The performance, significantly, would have been Mr. Bokaer’s first visit to his father’s native land. But things didn’t go quite according to plan.”