Eileen Atkins: “If you find me some brilliant boys who’ve voices that haven’t broken yet for Shakespearean use, then that’s fine, but there’s no excuse for the middle-aged men at all.”
Tag: 10.19.15
Yes, Of Course There’s Free Will – And We Should Start Quantifying It
“As we start to understand, and learn to measure, the capacities that underlie behavioural freedom, we can begin to put this natural free will on a scale. Paralleling the measurement of intelligence, we could call it the freedom quotient: FQ. Such a scale should give us new insights into the factors that hinder or enhance our efforts to shape our lives. In other words, FQ should tell us how free we are – and how we can become even more so.”
Doodling, Transformed For The 21st Century
“Those accustomed to doodling on scrap paper know this: the bliss ends the moment you stop, study the result, and decide to trash it. (The alternative being, after an embarrassingly prideful assessment, not doing that.) But who bothers with scrap paper anymore? With any number of apps, you can doodle on a screen, in infinite colors, with your index finger. You can erase smoothly and cleanly, in a way that is satisfying and therapeutic. You can start over, draw new lines. No self-doubt, no paper cuts. When the picture is done, it floats away into the cloud.”
How Amazon Became America’s Biggest Publisher of Translated Literature
“This year, AmazonCrossing plans to publish ’77 titles from 15 countries and 12 languages’ in the United States, which will almost certainly dwarf the output of Dalkey and its ilk. And, with this new $10 million commitment, the number of works in translation published by AmazonCrossing should continue to soar.”
The Lost Performance Of James Baldwin And Ray Charles At Carnegie Hall
“If the image of Baldwin and Charles on stage together rings no bells, it may be because negative press had buried it out of range of critics.”
The World Heritage Fund ‘Watch List’ Hits Home With Listings In The U.S.
“The U.S. sites tell an interesting story about the period of Spanish colonialism in the American Southwest. Both churches were built by indigenous labor for Spanish colonizers and together capture two distinct periods of the Spanish colonial era’s architecture.”
Misty Copeland Hits The Late-Night Talk Circuit
Ballet becomes melded with pop culture as Jimmy Kimmel wears a pink tutu to dance with Copeland.
Google Books Is A 21st Century Library For Everyone
“Friday’s ruling is a big deal not just for search engine giants, copyright lawyers, authors, and publishers, but also for ordinary people. Only a generation ago, doing scholarly research in the way that Google Books now makes possible was a game only academics could play.”
Accusations Of Financial Skulduggery At The DeYoung
“The complaint by the Fine Arts Museums’ longtime chief financial officer, Michele Gutierrez, has landed both at City Hall and state Attorney General Kamala Harris’ office. It centers on $450,000 Wilsey ordered paid to an ailing staffer, and both the city and museum Board of Trustees have been looking into it, the sources say.”
Theatre: A Biological Imperative (For Some Of Us)?
“In fact, over the Foundation’s 90-plus-year history, the theatre artist study is the first in which a specific career group tended to have Foresight over any other aptitude. For theatre professionals, the aptitude for seeing possibilities is a defining characteristic.”