E.B. White on the beach with his dog Minnie, circa 1940s. (Wikipedia) * * * It Didn’t Work Then, Either Some things never change. The Hawley–Smoot Tariff Act, sponsored by Representative Willis C. Hawley and Senator Reed Smoot and approved June 17, 1930, raised tariffs on more ...
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YOU CAN BE FAMOUS, FOR JUST PENNIES A DAY…E.B. Whitemocked an NYU letter that promoted its “hook-up” with theLiterary Digest,wryly suggesting that recognition in NYU’s Hall of Fame for Great Americans was within reach of magazine subscribers. The photo above (circa 1935) shows the Ha...
this had happened to me only while readingAnna Karenina, and twice more later, after readingThe Metamorphosisby Kafka andThe Strangerby Camus. If you write yourself, you want to give up your writing after reading these books, as it seems like everything has already been said by those authors...
Tennis also improves flexibility, balance, and range of motion, "because flexibility is necessary in tennis to reach, to stretch, to pivot, and to de-accelerate after each burst of movement," says Hainline. The sport reduces one's risk of heart disease as well, in part, because its high...
The dramatic changes of recent decades, however, have altered the general framework and threaten the traditional balance: climate change on the one hand and changes in land-use on the other, with the addition of the financial and economic crisis of recent years [7]. The complexity common to ...
It seems like an impossible feat to get right even once, and yet part of the dizzying, dazzling brilliance of b i o m e i.i is that Kate achieves it over and over again, and with Darwinian abundance. For me, performing on this project was like transforming into a series of pulsing ...
The priests of his parish and others of surrounding parishes came to recognize that they needed more prayerful reflection to balance their priestly lives. They were going about doing good, and—like Mary, Martha’s sister—they were busy about many things, but perhaps not giving sufficient ...
I am not a “paid disinformation agent,” of course, but the fact that paranoiacs continue to believe that I am gives me no grief at all. I have nothing to prove to conspiracy theorists. This blog wasn’t meant for them anyway; it was meant to reach people who are still capable of...
Bill Dalzell of Salem, MA, a longtime friend of mine who read this post, reminded me of one of his and also my favorite things to do in New York City in the past: take the Staten Island Ferry to Staten Island and back. My friend Bill used to live in Manhattan, but no longer doe...