The Swedish committee praised the 69-year-old French writer for “the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation.”
Tag: 10.09.14
L.A. Seems To Be Swooning Over Australian Ballet’s Dancers
“The dancers have transfixed LA locals – and staff at their hotel. One man arriving with room service for Ms Lockett noticed a hanging tutu. ‘He was just fascinated,’ Ms Lockett said. ‘He said, ‘Stop it! You’re a ballerina!’ She tipped him generously for his enthusiasm. ‘We’d had such a lovely chat.'”
The Broad Appeal Of Theater About Theater
“The playwrights of three current Broadway plays within plays – Tom Stoppard, Terrence McNally and Donald Margulies – discuss why these insider shows draw big audiences.”
Belgrade Philharmonic’s Long Climb Out Of The Rubble Of War
“The reinvention of the orchestra – from an ensemble that had virtually shut down around the time of the NATO bombing campaign to one that has current international tours and dreams of expansion at home – has often been unconventional.”
My Life With Doris Lessing (Words Can’t Describe…)
“When she died last November at the age of 94, I’d known Doris for fifty years. In all that time, I’ve never managed to figure out a designation for her that properly and succinctly describes her role in my life, let alone my role in hers. We have the handy set of words to describe our nearest relations: mother, father, daughter, son, uncle, aunt, cousin, although that’s as far as it goes usually in contemporary Western society.”
Let’s Reconsider This Idea Of “Genius”
The term “genius” in its modern sense was first adopted in the eighteenth century and it involved a conflation of two Latin terms: genius, which for the Romans was the god of our conception, imbuing us with particular personality traits but nevertheless a supernatural force external to us, and ingenium, a related noun referring to our internal dispositions and talents, our inborn nature.