“We will not be sold out on the last night. We will not be sold out in a week’s time. You can buy tickets every single day.”
Tag: 10.26.12
Why Should Book Publishers Get Special Antitrust Treatment?
Some legal scholars say they shouldn’t – and that publishers are “just another cartel.”
The Price Of Freedom – How Standing In Line For Free Tickets Changes You
“As reality sunk in, we remained in line, unwilling to leave the spots we had clung to. Curly and Gray said how nice it was to meet us. Harvard and Radcliffe said they’d learned how to fight for their rights. I wished my line comrades the best as they rushed off to catch a free show at the Met. But I wasn’t ready to leave.”
Why Preserve Buildings We Don’t Care About?
“In a world of ever-diminishing resources, it seems unconscionably profligate not to allow future generations to decide for themselves which architectural works of the past they wish to enrich their own times. The choice should be theirs, not ours.”
Why Beauty Doesn’t Matter
A group of scientists set out to discover whether physically attractive people also have appealing character traits and values, and found, according to Lihi Segal-Caspi, who carried out part of the research, that “beautiful people tend to focus more on conformity and self-promotion than independence and tolerance”.
Jacques Barzun, 104, Cultural Historian
“[He was] a Columbia University historian and administrator whose sheer breadth of scholarship – culminating in a survey of 500 years of Western civilization [From Dawn to Decadence] – brought him renown as one of the foremost intellectuals of the 20th century.”
Ban This Filth! Rereading Letters From Britain’s Top Anti-Filth-In-Media Campaigner
“Here, the bottomless capacity for affront of morally upright, often evangelically Christian, middle England clashes repeatedly with the patrician disdain of those men (and they were overwhelmingly men) who ran the culture industries, be they telly, theatre, cinema, magazines or pornography.”
Protecting Didi, Gogo and Willy Loman
Arthur Miller’s estate just cracked down on an Australian production’s revision of Death of a Salesman (no epilogue, and Willy gasses himself rather than dying in an auto accident). The Beckett estate is notorious for its insistence on no deviations whatsoever from the script. Terry Teachout considers the limits of such protectiveness.