Nick Kristof runs a contest, and here’s part of one response:
“I’ve told myself my voice alone
Won’t make a difference, but that I
Should not interpret that: Don’t try.”
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Inside The Sprawling, Controversial Museum Of The Bible
It’s the brainchild of the evangelical Christian who owns Hobby Lobby and whose company paid a $3 million fine for intentionally mislabeling smuggled ancient Iraqi artifacts, and it’s opening soon. “Organisers contend that the museum is non-partisan, non-sectarian and educational rather than evangelical, appealing to people of all faiths or no faith. … But that is not how it began.”
Beloved, Prolific French Actress Danielle Darrieux Has Died At 100
Danielle Darrieux was only 14 years old “when she made her screen debut, with a supporting role in 1931’s Le Bal. With her expressive face, liquid eyes and original, slightly nasal voice, Darrieux quickly became a favorite of French directors, appearing in films by heavyweights Claude Chabrol, Jacques Demy and Andre Techine.”
Trying To Keep Up On A 12-Hour Lunch Date With Joni Mitchell
It was a trip: “As urban centers all over America were banning smoking in public places, life for Joni Mitchell was still a noir film from the 40s, full of nicotine and screwball repartee. She kept smoking in public as long as she could, until she was eventually reduced to e-cigarettes…. She loved to be what she called a ‘pot stirrer.’ She was trouble—and she was really good at it.”
The Last Gasp Of The 20th-Century Scientific Suffix ‘Tron’
In the mid-20th century, “‘Stat’ signalled something measurable, while ‘matic’ advertised free labour; but ‘tron,’ above all, indicated control. To gain the suffix was to acquire a proud and optimistic emblem of the electronic and atomic age.”
The Unsung Heroes Of British (And Other Countries’) Theatre
Lyn Gardner: “The best teachers teach, do and more importantly they enable the future and support and inspire the young. Many have just as much artistic talent as those who appear on our stages and in movies, although they spend more time covered in paint in the school hall than on the red carpet. Their role and dedication is more important than ever at a time when opportunities for the rising generations are drying up, social mobility is stagnant and arts education is under siege in schools because of the EBacc.”
Pacific Standard Time: How The Getty Climbed Down From The Hill
Basically, with the three (so far) iterations of Pacific Standard Time, the Getty has spread out across the city and, says architecture critic Christopher Knight, “has threaded itself into the contemporary cultural life of Los Angeles and Southern California. The Getty has not only paid for and otherwise supported important scholarship on the cultural history of Los Angeles, helping topple cliches and complicate over-simplified narratives about its art movements in the process. It has also used the PST effort to redefine itself.”
The Painful Secrets Of Harold Pinter
Harold Woof was childhood buddies with Pinter, and his book”paints a nostalgic but unsentimental picture of his boyhood friendship with Pinter in east London and of the other members of the ‘Hackney gang’ – a small band of firm friends who met at Hackney grammar school in the early 1940s. As Jews, Woolf and Pinter were sometimes set upon by local fascist thugs, Woolf recounts, but Pinter, who was a talented schoolboy sportsman, gave as good as he got.”
JK Rowling Is Europe’s Highest-Paid Celebrity
Rowling is the only celebrity on the list who is chiefly known as a writer, although British chef and television personality Gordon Ramsay, who is ranked at No. 6, is the author of several books. The rest of the list is dominated by musicians and athletes.
United Airlines’ Latest Victim: Ai Weiwei
On Tuesday, the artist was supposed to fly to São Paulo for a special screening of his documentary Human Flow. But the United ground crew at Newark airport refused to let him board the plane, insisting – because they misread the paperwork – that his (entirely valid) Brazilian visa had expired.