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“He photographed Latin American revolutions, the Woodstock music festival, the civil rights movement. After three civil rights workers were killed by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi in 1964, he and a reporter lived with the family of one of the victims, James Chaney, for a day or two.”

“His congregation, which had never numbered more than 25, grew in the next few years to include a kind of nonsectarian contingent of writers, performers and, eventually, 3,500 season-ticket subscribers.”

“He knew how to create a nucleus of young students and experts that would represent in future years the true elite. The world of Italian cinema owes him a lot.”

Until his retirement from the stage last year, Quasthoff was one of the most admired concert singers alive. Now he and variety artist Michael Frowin have launched a satirical cabaret act called Keine Kunst (No Art) in Berlin’s West End.

“As co-creator of [the experimental troupe] Mabou Mines, Ms. Maleczech directed and/or appeared in many of the company’s productions. A regular presence in the downtown theatre scene in the 1970s and 1980s, she became something of an earth mother figure not only to her own outfit, but to the New York avant garde theatre community in general – a role only buttressed by her warm, matronly aura.”

“If you’re in the business of translating ideas in the academic realm to a general audience, you have to simplify … If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn’t read them: you’re not the audience!”

“When he published ‘The Hunt for Red October’ he redefined and expanded the genre and as a consequence of that, a lot of people were able to publish such books who had previously been unable to do so.”

“The country has had practically 40 years now of Reaganism. That’s going to take a while to turn away from. It’s still very hard to talk, in ways that make sense, about what government is in a democratic society. … There are many flaws in the machinery. But the machinery is worth having faith in. ‘worth working toward a better and better functioning of it.”

“A Warsaw court has thrown out a case against the author and publisher of a book that had supposedly defamed the memory of late Polish-Jewish pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman.” The book quoted without comment a Holocaust survivor accusing Szpilman of collaborating with the Nazi occupiers.

The words “all thy sons command” in the English national anthem suggests that only male loyalty is being invoked.