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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