When these brilliant people contemplated writing for the “public,” it seemed they merrily left difficulty at home, leapt into colloquial language with both feet, added unnatural (and frankly unfunny) jokes, talked about TV, took on a tone chummy and unctuous. They dumbed down, in short—even with the most innocent intentions. The public, even the “general reader,” seemed to mean someone less adept, ingenious, and critical than themselves. Writing for the public awakened the slang of mass media. The public signified fun, frothy, friendly.
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Furtwangler and the Nazis
Joseph Horowitz, whose Understanding Toscanini (1987) deals extensively with the American career of Wilhelm Furtwängler, traditionally seen as an artistic opposite pole to Arturo Toscanini, reviews Roger Allen’s Wilhelm Furtwängler: Art and the Politics of the Unpolitical.
Sure, Literacy Is Good, But Teaching English Imposes A Cultural Cost, Too
Long after he had left the Alliance High School, Ngũgĩ was struck by how little he and his cohort had noticed, let alone responded to, their socialization into a Western-oriented outlook. Nor had he appreciated what role the school played in conferring class markers in a community that before hadn’t known that stratification. The school and everything it taught—and refused to teach—was accepted, even venerated, by the community. “The language of power is English and that becomes internalized,” he explained. “You normalize the abnormal and the absurdities of colonialism, and turn them into a norm from which you operate. Then you don’t even think about it.”
Local Funding For The Arts Is Down In UK
According to figures released by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, authorities across England have allocated a total of £392 million on culture and heritage for 2018/19, compared to £400 million for the previous year. The statistics claim that revenue expenditure by local authorities has tumbled more than £100 million since 2011/12, when it was £501 million. Local authorities include county and district councils, as well as metropolitan authorities such as city councils and London boroughs.
The Technologies That Will Build Better Humans?
Moving far beyond the prevention of genetic illness and advanced prosthetics for those who need them, these rapidly emerging technologies could – to borrow a phrase from Daft Punk – make it possible for anyone (with deep pockets) to be harder, better, faster, stronger.
You Thought MoviePass Was Dead? Not So Fast…
The company announced a plan. Gone is the previously planned price hike to $15 a month from $10. Instead, the company is targeting the 15% of users a month who are “stressing the system,” in the words of chairman and CEO Ted Farnsworth. They will do so by limiting the use of the subscription service to three movies a month. The new plan will take effect August 15. Shares immediately jumped 80% on the news.
LED Lighting Is So Cool, And It’s Also Threatening The Health Of Humans And Everything On The Planet
This is not good: “The hyper-aggressive marketing of bright, white LED street lighting to cities and towns has advanced to a breathtaking level. The US Department of Energy (DoE) and a group of international partners have launched an effort called ‘Rise and Shine: Lighting the World with 10 Billion LED Bulbs’ in ‘a race to deploy 10 billion high-efficiency, high-quality and affordable lighting fixtures and bulbs (like LEDs) as quickly as possible’.”
Most Literature Is Filled With Struggle. And This Is Good For Us?
“Generalization is treacherous, but let’s posit that at the center of most modern storytelling, in particular most literary storytelling, lies the struggling self, or selves, individuals seeking some kind of definition or stability in a world that appears hostile to such aspirations: life is precarious, tumultuous, fickle, and the self seeks in vain, or manages only with great effort, to put together a personal narrative that is, even briefly, satisfying.”
Charlotte Rae Of ‘The Facts Of Life’ And ‘Diff’rent Strokes’ Has Died At 92
Rae began her career elsewhere: She “was a fixture on Broadway and television for six decades. But along with other stars from the golden age of Broadway like Betty Garrett and Bea Arthur, she found her greatest success in sitcoms, beginning in the early years of television.”
Under Mounting Pressure, Apple Removes InfoWars Podcasts From iTunes
And Apple isn’t alone: “Apple has removed a number of podcasts created by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his InfoWars site from the Podcasts app and iTunes store. The decision to remove the content comes as Facebook also censures Jones, un-publishing four of the radio host’s pages this morning for violating the social network’s rules against hate speech.”