“In the English-speaking world, over the past half-century, the proportion of students studying humanities at university has hardly changed. … And, very importantly, the rapid expansion of higher education in the world over the past couple of generations means that, in absolute numbers, more people are studying the humanities than ever before. The question is why humanists have not been able or willing to recognise their own sustained success.”
Tag: 12.17.15
Winner Of Poetry-In-Translation Award Returns Prize Money And Withdraws
In November, Allen Prowle won the Stephen Spender Prize for Johnson Brothers Ltd, his translation of a volume by Dutch poet Rutger Kopland. “But Dutch poetry site Nederlandse Poëzie Encyclopedie claimed last week that Prowle’s submissions this year ‘aren’t superb translations at all, but blatant plagiarism’.”
The Twenty Most Misused Words In The English Language
But don’t perseverate. “It’s easy to get too caught up in being perfectly “correct” and become a tedious language snob. Remember you probably want to come across as intelligent and thoughtful, not uptight and pedantic.”
Mansplaining ‘Lolita’: What Happened When Rebecca Solnit Had At Esquire’s Books-Every-Man-Should-Read List
“I was arguing not that everyone should read books by ladies … but that maybe the whole point of reading is to be able to explore … and experience being others. Saying this upset some men. Many among that curious gender are easy to upset, and when they are upset they don’t know it (see: privelobliviousness). They just think you’re wrong and sometimes also evil.”
How Hipsters And Foodies Were Fooled Into Buying Terrible Chocolate At $10 A Bar
“As artisanal food surges in popularity, whether it’s chocolate, liquor or jam, the Mast Brothers’ story highlights how a company can have great success selling a product of dubious quality as something ‘artisanal’ or ‘handcrafted’ with beautiful packaging and handsome, bearded founders.”
How Did This Depressing Joni Mitchell Piece Become ‘A Traditional Christmas Song’?
“Perhaps it’s ascended to holiday-hit status precisely because it’s an antidote to all those ‘songs of joy and peace.'”
The Trumpets Of Handel’s ‘Messiah’
“In a brass player’s equivalent of scaling Everest without oxygen, some trumpeters take pride in playing — and meticulously tuning — Handel’s solo on so-called natural trumpets without holes.”
What Does Mahler Mean?
“Even Mahler’s bucolic idylls were conditioned by his busy life. The resorts where he went were fashionable and increasingly crowded. Good rail connections linked them to the major centers of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, making them ‘microcosms of the very cities from which the composer so often claimed to take refuge.’ The experience was more like Davos than Caspar David Friedrich. Mahler’s love of nature was predicated on his separation from it.”
The Music Equivalent Of Tate Modern – London’s Plans For A New World Class Concert Hall
The new centre, which could open in September 2023, aims to have “the same transformative effect on public engagement with music that Tate Modern brought about for contemporary art”. It will deliver “world-class acoustics” and have “education and accessibility at its core”.
Why We’re Having Difficulty Simulating The Human Brain
“Ultimately, we need to reproduce the things that make the brain work; but to spot those, we need to understand how it works or at least have a theory the simulation can test. Alas, we don’t.”