“His verse could be, by turns, intensely personal, or public-spirited, taking on the Vietnam War and a long list of social injustices, expressed in hot language. ‘This is fresh meat right mr nixon?’ begins one of his best-known poems, ‘In the Heart of the Beast,’ a response to the fatal shootings of student demonstrators at Kent State University in 1970.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
We Know How To Achieve Happiness On A Societal Scale – And We’re Destroying It Instead
“It is hard enough to judge, in our personal lives, what will make us happier. The difficulties in deducing the consequences of political programmes on our happiness, especially those whose connection to our own life is hard to judge, are significant.”
Los Angeles Times Workers And Readers Would Like The Paper To Be Owned By Angelenos, But That’s Not Happening
“Newsrooms everywhere are given to apocalyptic predictions of their own demise. But more than a dozen current and former Times and Tribune staff members — both in the newsroom and on the business side — suggested that The Times was facing a crisis more dire than any it had previously weathered. It has been battered by cutbacks for so long, they said, that it cannot wait any longer for the company’s strategy, which has shown few signs of working, to bear fruit. It must grow its way to the future, they said, not slash.”
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Here Are The 2015 Emmy Winners
Especially notable? “Olive Kitteredge” won a lot of awards; “Game of Thrones” broke a 15-year-old record for most wins; Viola Davis shattered a much more shameful record from the Emmys’ 67-year run.
A New Vinyl Pressing Plant Marks Another Tick In The Revitalization Of Record Albums
“For all the buzz about vinyl, sales are still small potatoes compared to digital downloads and CDs, making up only 3.6% of all albums sold in the US last year. But since 2009, their sales have increased by 260%.”
The Rise And Fall, And Potential Rise Again ,Of Damien Hirst
“His star fell sharply after he committed an art-world taboo by bypassing conventional sales channels—selling works slowly through galleries—and auctioned off nearly $200 million of his work directly at Sotheby’s in 2008. While the sale was successful and proved his popularity, it became his undoing.”
Denzel Washington To Bring All 10 Of August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle Plays To HBO
“‘I’ve been given the opportunity by the August Wilson estate, he did 10 plays—I’m directing, producing and acting in one, and I’m executive producing the other nine,’ said Mr. Washington. ‘I made a deal with HBO. We’re going to do one a year for the next nine years.'”
Big New Hollywood/China Deal To Produce Huge Chinese-Language Action Movies
“The new entity will develop, distribute and produce a slate of Chinese-language films, including global tent poles, for distribution in China and around the world. The first titles from the imprint could be released as soon as 2016.”
Right, Let’s Do Talk About Why There Aren’t Any Great Women Composers
“Clara Wieck was already thirteen years old when she started writing her piano concerto, and all of the composers on the aforementioned goodness scale wrote their masterpieces by the age of ten. Little-known fact: Strauss called the Four Last Songs that because he wrote them on the eve of his fifth birthday.”