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- ARE PEOPLE LESS VIOLENT? (COMMENT). (2)
- Dick Weisfelder: My prior comment was just in the context of sports. Whether or not from Pinker, I have seen the...
- erik: It seems doubtful that human nature has changed. The most likely explanation would be that modern culture gives...
- HOW BANKS PREPARED FOR A U.S. DEFAULT. (2)
- GREECE’S ADVANTAGE IN THE CHICKEN GAME. (2)
- Nick: That makes sense. It reminds me of the stories Pater Familias would tell me about how in Boston the person with...
- Dick Weisfelder: Greece seems to me to be playing a game that Karl Deutsch called “underdog.” While one...
- FOOTBALL PLAYERS DELIBERATELY CAUSING CONCUSSIONS? (3)
- Nick: It was my understanding that boxing gloves were to protect the puncher’s hands and not the...
- Dick Weisfelder: Remember the Roman arenas? Bare knuckled boxing? Such injuries were taken as natural and accepted in...
- Mary Jane Schaefer: This isn’t about football. Or even sportsmanship. Well, it is about sportsmanship. But what...
- A 25 % CHANCE OF A EURO DEFAULT? (1)
- Nick: The fact that this has gone on for so long is pretty perplexing. The Economist is referring back to articles it...
- DECIDING WHAT KIND OF PATIENT YOU ARE. (1)
- Dick Weisfelder: One can be very open to new technology, but also risk averse. The recent debates about how to...
- THE EUROZONE—A CHICKEN GAME WHERE EVERY MEMBER CAN BLOW IT UP? (1)
- Mary Jane Schaefer: This is not a matter of chicken. These are all turkeys.
- ARE PEOPLE LESS VIOLENT? (COMMENT). (2)
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Monthly Archives: June 2007
BIPARTISAN FOREIGN POLICY–A NEW GENERATION.
BIPARTISAN FOREIGN POLICY—A NEW GENERATION. I was pleased for two reasons to see the Realclearpolitics site linking to this article by Carl Minzner. The first reason is that I know Carl’s distinguished parents, Pam and Dick Minzner. The second reason … Continue reading
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ALAN AYCKBOURN’S LEGERDEMAIN.
ALAN AYCKBOURN’S LEGERDEMAIN. The 16 interrelated plays I described yesterday are the kinds of plays that Ayckbourn writes. This is a man who once created two interrelated plays that ran simultaneously in adjacent theaters. The actors would make an exit … Continue reading
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ALAN AYCKBOURN–INTIMATE EXCHANGES.
ALAN AYCKBOURN–INTIMATE EXCHANGES. I am going in to New York this evening with my son Nick to see an Alan Ayckbourn play. The play tonight is one of a set of 16 (the set of 16 is entitled INTIMATE EXCHANGES). … Continue reading
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LISTENING TO BASEBALL GAMES TO GO TO SLEEP (COMMENT).
LISTENING TO BASEBALL GAMES TO GO TO SLEEP (COMMENT). Charlie Finley was a maverick owner of the Oakland Athletics. He was something of a baseball genius, having built the great Oakland A’s teams of the early seventies singlehandedly, without a … Continue reading
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UNHEARD TRAINS (COMMENT).
UNHEARD TRAINS (COMMENT). Annalisa commented on yesterday’s post that she hears the songs of birds when she is trying to sink into sleep. My father was a commuter so we always lived near the train station. For a number of … Continue reading
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THE SONGS OF BIRDS.
THE SONGS OF BIRDS. I posted yesterday about how my young son heard the noise of crickets, and I heard it only when he called it to my attention. Mary Jane is fond of the passage in the book THE … Continue reading
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THE ROAR OF THE CRICKETS.
THE ROAR OF THE CRICKETS. I noted about a week ago that the roar from seventeen-year cicadas can be as loud as a bulldozer. When my son Nick was almost two, I was reading him a bedtime story. It was … Continue reading
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PASSPORT ERRORS–IT’S PROBABLY THE SYSTEM COMMENT).
PASSPORT ERRORS—IT’S PROBABLY THE SYSTEM (COMMENT). My niece, Molly Lazar, asks whether the passport office errors are due to hiring marginal workers to meet the overwhelming backlog. It is tempting to say that the schools are not preparing students to … Continue reading
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A JIG AT THE END OF THE TRAGEDY.
A JIG AT THE END OF THE TRAGEDY. James Shapiro in A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 1599 tells how when Shakespeare wrote his early tragedies, it was the custom to have what was called a “jig” at … Continue reading
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THE CLOCK IS UP.
THE CLOCK IS UP. I noticed driving past today a large clock prominently displayed on the set that Shakespeare on the Sound has erected two blocks down the hill from our house for THE COMEDY OF ERRORS. I noticed the … Continue reading
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