Friday, November 22, 2024

Song Lyric of the Day (Steely Dan, on ‘Any Minor World That Breaks Apart’)

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“Any major dude with half a heart surely will tell you my friend Any minor world that breaks apart falls together again.”—“Any Major Dude,” ...

Quote of the Day (Damon Runyon, With a Female Example of ‘The Underworld Complex’)

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“Waldo Winchester says the underworld complex is a very common complex and that Basil Valentine has it, and so has Miss Harriet Mackyle, or ...
Thursday, November 21, 2024

This Day in Jazz History (Birth of Tenor Sax Titan Coleman Hawkins)

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Nov. 21, 1904— Coleman Hawkins , who became the first important tenor saxophonist with his mastery of the art of vertical improvisation, was...

Quote of the Day (Margaret Renkl, on the Paradoxical Faith of the Bluebirds)

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“Take your cue from the bluebirds, who have no faith in the future but who build the future nevertheless, leaf by leaf and straw by straw, s...
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Flashback, November 1959: ‘Ben-Hur’ Remake Charges to Front of Nation’s Box Offices

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Sixty-five years ago this week, struggling MGM bet that the market for cinematic biblical epics was not yet exhausted. The game paid off han...

Quote of the Day (Hara Estroff Marano, on Resilience, ‘The Capacity to Adapt’)

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“At its core, resilience is the capacity to adapt, to update ourselves, to adjust to new conditions after an unexpected and almost invariabl...
Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Quote of the Day (Henry Adams, on Friendship)

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“One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of t...