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Monthly Archives: May 2010
SEEING KING JOHN VERSUS READING IT.
SEEING KING JOHN VERSUS READING IT. Reading all the Shakespeare plays is different from seeing them. There is good reason to being a completist. The Guerrilla Theatre cast found all kinds of things that I had not seen when I … Continue reading
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KING JOHN IS A GOOD PLAY.
KING JOHN IS A GOOD PLAY. I had never read King John, and had heard no good things about it. Seeing it confirms my view that lesser Shakespeare plays are good plays. As with the lightly-regarded Titus Andronicus and Henry … Continue reading
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A COMPLETIST GOES TO SEE KING JOHN.
A COMPLETIST GOES TO SEE KING JOHN. I am a completist. Mary Jane and I saw Shakespeare’s King John last weekend. It was done by the Guerrilla Theatre Company, and it was done splendidly. I wanted to see it because … Continue reading
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ENFORCING A 55 MPH LIMIT WHEN EVERY CAR IS GOING 75.
ENFORCING A 55 MPH LIMIT WHEN EVERY CAR IS GOING 75. I had been thinking about the previous post since I read the Custance article. I was not thinking about any particular game. Nevertheless, so that people who are not … Continue reading
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PLAYOFF HOCKEY AND PLAYOFF BASKETBALL.
PLAYOFF HOCKEY AND “PLAYOFF BASKETBALL.” The Sporting News had an article on May 24 by Craig Custance about how much hockey has improved in the last five years as a result of the determination to enforce the rules precisely during … Continue reading
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KAFKA AND JOYCE ON WORDS.
KAFKA AND JOYCE ON WORDS. Mark Harman, a distinguished translator of Kafka, has an article on approaches to translation in the Times Literary Supplement (May 21) which includes striking passages from Joyce and Kafka on how even the most basic … Continue reading
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A CHANGING MANHATTAN—AFTER 1968.
A CHANGING MANHATTAN—AFTER 1968. I think that when I came to New York I assumed that Manhattan and Greenwich Village had been unchanged from the thirties. For example, I was able to eat at Horn & Hardart Automats and Schrafft’s … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Economics, History
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A CHANGING GREENWICH VILLAGE—BEFORE 1968.
A CHANGING GREENWICH VILLAGE —BEFORE 1968. I was well aware of the changes in Greenwich Village and New York City after I moved there in 1968. Benjamin Schwartz has an article in the Atlantic (June 2010) which made me realize … Continue reading
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A SUCCESSFUL ECONOMICS EXPERIMENT IN A RICH COUNTRY.
A SUCCESSFUL ECONOMICS EXPERIMENT IN A RICH COUNTRY. Professor Roland Fryer has been conducting randomized economics experiments on whether cash incentives can improve educational performance. This article in the Economist describes some of the results. Cash payments based on course … Continue reading
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A SUCCESSFUL ECONOMICS EXPERIMENT IN A DEVELOPING COUNTRY.
A SUCCESSFUL ECONOMICS EXPERIMENT IN A DEVELOPING COUNTRY. When I studied economics, experiments were rare. Economists took data as they found them. Professors Duflo and Banerjee founded an institute at MIT which done over 200 economics experiments. One experiment dealt … Continue reading