“Jeff Deck and Benjamin Herson, two word nerds and earnest agents of TEAL – the Typo Eradication Advancement League – visited Philadelphia Monday, and within 90 minutes Center City was the better for it, orthographically speaking.”
Tag: 08.18.10
Top Arts Official Quits To Protest British Columbia Arts Policy
“I may have blotted my copybook with the government, but I don’t want it to [appear] that way. This isn’t anger. It’s disappointment. And concern.”
Prominent Literary Critic Frank Kermode, 90
Prominent in literary criticism since the 1950s, Kermode held “virtually every endowed chair worth having in the British Isles.” He was knighted in 1991, the first literary critic to be so honoured since William Empson.
The Book Recommendations That Don’t Work (And Then What?)
“It’s lovely, how this enthusiasm for books and writing draws us together like molecules in liquid, gathering and binding us. We willingly become entangled in a sort of literary waltz, a pleasant to-and-fro of fresh discovery. But what about when someone presses a book on you, assuring you that you’ll simply adore it … and you don’t?”
A Snapshot Of The Culture Of College Freshmen
“Remember when Dr. Jack Kevorkian, Dan Quayle or Rodney King was in the news? This generation doesn’t.” There are 75 items on the 2010 Beloit College Mindset List (www.benoit.edu/mindset/). The compilation, released yesterday, is assembled each year by the private school of about 1,400 students in Beloit, Wis.
Where Are The Women Leaders Of Ballet?
Currently in the U.S. only four women direct ballet companies with budgets of more than $2.5 million.”
Dallas Symphony’s New(ish) CEO Walks Away
“Just two years after arriving as the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s president and CEO, Doug Adams is resigning, effective in 30 days. … ‘It’s about lifestyle,’ Adams said. ‘For two years, I’ve been in a commuter marriage, … [and] at this stage of my life, I didn’t expect to be living in an apartment’.”
Ballet Dancer Stabbed Onstage During Romeo and Juliet
“The Shakespearean line ‘Is this a dagger which I see before me?’ is associated with Macbeth – though it was also fitting for a Royal New Zealand Ballet performance of Romeo and Juliet after a dancer was accidentally stabbed on stage in Canberra.”
‘A Potential Doctors Without Borders for Arts Education’
“A group of enterprising young Canadians is Kenya-bound in January, trying to help bring back what they fear the country has sorely lacked in recent years: arts education.” The project, called Artbound, is “committed to putting arts back into global curricula by building dedicated arts schools that piggyback on the existing educational networks.”
Opera Australia Joins the Opera-at-the-Movies Crowd
“Opera Australia is about to gain a worldwide audience following a deal to screen its Sydney Opera House performances in cinemas around Australia and overseas.”