Life in a Northern Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. B.M.A.T.C., and Etruscan typewriter erasers. Blogged by David Gorsline.
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Belly laugh of the day: "All Things Considered" interviews a South Boston bartender on the local practice of marking shoveled-out parking spaces with lawn furniture and rubbish cans. Mayor Menino has proscribed the practice and has directed sanitation workers to remove all such markers; in an interesting arms race, the shovelers have taken to staking their claims with dilapidated white goods that ordinarily wouldn't be picked up by the trash trucks. But what makes the piece is the musical bumper at the end. A mournful baritone brass instrument, perhaps a trombone, plays the verse to Bernstein/Sondheim's "Somewhere" from West Side Story, which bears the lyric, "There's a place for us." posted: 11:43:46 PM |
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Ben Kenward et al. report evidence of tool construction by a hand-raised New Calendonian Crow (Corvus moneduloides) in the absence of contact with other crows that could have transmitted the cultural knowledge. The authors provide video of the crow "Corbeau" making a probe from a Pandanus leaf. posted: 11:32:58 PM |
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Dale Keiger is teaching a nonfiction writing course, and is making the course materials available online. I especially appreciate the reminder about compound adjectives.
One way to judge, in most circumstances, whether or not you have a compound
adjective requiring hyphenation: Use a hyphen when either of the two
modifying
words would not make much sense be itself: I have a red-haired
father. It makes
little sense to say you have a "red father" or a "haired father."
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More Shakespeariana today: Ron Rosenbaum reviews The Shakespeare Company: 1594-1642, by Andrew Gurr.
The implicit argument of Gurr's book is that the phenomenon we know as
"Shakespeare" was the product not so much of a single man as of a team, and
that Shakespeare himself should be looked at less as a lone genius than as a
team player, his works really the product of "a collective."
Gurr makes the provocative claim that the "bad quartos" were cut-down playing versions of Shakespeare's longer final drafts. (Thanks to Arts & Letters Daily.) posted: 10:18:02 AM |
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