Friday, August 13, 2010

Quote of the Day (Alexander Pope, on “True Wit”)

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“True Wit is Nature to Advantage drest, What oft was Thought, but ne'er so well Exprest, Something, whose Truth convinc'd at Sight w...
Thursday, August 12, 2010

This Day in Rock History (JT’s “Fire and Rain” Enters Charts, and Legend)

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August 12, 1970— James Taylor’s quiet but pitch-black meditation on friendship, failed dreams, life and death, “Fire and Rain,” appeared fo...

Quote of the Day (Samuel Pepys, on London’s Great Plague)

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“The people die so, that now it seems they are fain to carry the dead to be buried by daylight, the nights not sufficing to do it in. And my...
Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Quote of the Day (R.W. Church, on Cardinal Newman)

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“Cardinal Newman is dead, and we lose in him not only one of the very greatest masters of English style, not only an eminent example of pers...
Tuesday, August 10, 2010

This Day in Film History (“Sunset Boulevard” Premieres)

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August 10, 1950—Billy Wilder’s mordant melodrama about Hollywood, Sunset Boulevard , premiered at Radio City Music Hall, on its way to an al...

Quote of the Day (Norris Church Mailer, on Bill Clinton)

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“I would have so liked to be able to talk to him about world affairs and politics. But we frankly never talked much.”—Norris Church Mailer, ...
Monday, August 9, 2010

Quote of the Day (Robert Townsend, on Sex-Crazy Execs)

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“It’s interesting that otherwise competent businessmen, capable of budgeting a complex operation, can't figure out that the cost of main...