WEB BOHEMIAN
Weekend Edition (Saturday/Sunday, Sept. 29-30, 2012)
(1)- TOM
STOPPARD AT 75 -- One of the greatest living playwrights is also a
sought-after screenwriter and a conservative modernist. As his adaptations of
"Anna Karenina" and "Parade's End" arrive, he talks…
(2)- MAGIC
-- It’s no accident that the study of magic and ritual flourished during the
wane of the British empire; the beliefs of native cultures were collected and
studied so they could be corrected.
(3)- APOCALYPTIC
THINKING -- The classic apocalypse has four horsemen, and our modern
version follows that pattern, with the four riders being chemicals, diseases,
people, and resources. Let’s visit them each.
(4)- MERITOCRACY
-- “Elite” wasn’t always a dirty word. Before the 19th century, the term
described someone chosen for office. Because this typically occurred in the
church, the word had ecclesiastical connotations.
(5)- MEGAN
DAUM WRITES -- I realize this is not the most opportune moment to attempt
to justify or clarify the rather muddy message of one of the most controversial
books on sexual politics of the last quarter century.
(6)- FROM THE BOOK,
SILENCE: “I have nothing to say and I am saying it.” It’s a self-devouring
paradox and John Cage’s modest avowal neatly draws attention to the
impossibility of saying nothing.
(7)- WILLIAM
RUSHER -- Rusher’s characteristic hallmarks: it was media-savvy, cynical,
manipulative, embarrassing to the establishment, possessed of a nasty racial
edge, and too clever by half.
(8)- THE BOOK
-- When is a book a book, and when is it something more? What is it that
matters about books, and where is that meaning made? Why, and how, do we value
books? And how has the meaning of books changed?
(9)- LANGUAGE
-- A language is invented, new words added, a grammar devised, an approved
syntax established, and in one of countless possible ways it proves inadequate,
opponents gather, snipers fire verbal shots, polemical grenades are flung,
canons lined up, and war is underway.
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