“Unlike other fictional heroines of the time, Fanny [Price of Mansfield Park] gains happiness because she is aware of her faults.”
Tag: 12.16.16
Emoji Are Bi – That’s Bi-Directional, Says Linguist
“Emoji are bidirectional: Not only can they express actions, but they can also directly represent spatial relationships. Emoji are a special case for her discipline – linguists disagree about whether they’re even words, and society’s use of them is maturing before their collective eyes.”
Guard At Musée d’Orsay Tells Noisy Students To ‘Shut Their Mouths’, And All Paris Argues About It
The students in question come from a “education priority zone,” and their teacher complained (on Facebook, of course) that middle-class white students could make noise without getting yelled at.
Conviction Of Picasso’s Electrician For Stealing Art Upheld By Court
“The court of appeal in Aix-en-Provence upheld the suspended two-year prison sentence of Pierre Le Guennec, 77, Picasso’s electrician, [and his wife, Danielle,] who hid 271 works stolen from the artist for over four decades.”
Why Does Time Sometimes Seem To Slow Down Or Speed Up? Scientists Now Have An Answer
“Since the brain estimates the passage of time by how much information is stored within a given interval, richer memories make it feel like more time has passed. What’s neat is that this explanation sheds light on other ways that time can feel bendy to us, on all different sorts of scales. For instance, if you look up at a clock on the wall, you’ll notice that as you first look at it, the second hand seems to be frozen in place, then after a moment proceeds to move normally. That’s because the brain pays more attention to new stimuli.”
Someone Stole A Rhode Island Ballet Company’s Nutcracker Costumes. Dance Companies Across The US Pitched In To Help
“According to AP, ensembles in Ohio, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Illinois, Missouri, Alabama, New York, and New Hampshire sent costumes and props to Providence, charging only minimal fees for shipping, warehouse restocking, and costume cleaning.”
Norman Lear’s Classic Sitcoms May Get Remakes
“The idea currently being discussed by Lear and Sony executives would be to have new actors recreate classic episodes of the shows, working from the original scripts, and package them as short, six-episode anthologies. The scripts would be treated similar to plays being mounted in new productions.”
Will Brexit Be Bad For Literature? Maybe Not (Oops, Is That The Wrong Answer?)
Author and translator Tim Parks writes of taking part in a recent London panel discussion: “It was evident that we were expected to find Brexit detrimental. … All the same, none of us were quite able to conjure up the required predictions of post-Brexit literary decline.”
Composer Karel Husa Dead At 95
“[He] won the Pulitzer Prize in Music in 1969 for his String Quartet No. 3, and the 1993 Grawemeyer Award for his Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, and many other composition prizes over his career.”
Is The Rise Of Post-Apocalyptic Art Telling Us Anything?
“Rather than focus on the gory details of how the world might end, post-apocalyptic art casts its gaze upon the reality of the world that follows catastrophe and persists without human beings, as nature gradually reasserts itself over the architectural remnants of society. The emerging genre is not without its critics, and many practitioners remain uncertain or divided about what affect — if any — such post-apocalyptic imagery might have on its audiences. But as issues like deindustrialization and climate change rattle the globe, these artists are popularizing the forgotten or unseen places that are already being affected — and potentially mobilizing their massive online audiences to seek solutions.”