“Not only does it signal that the plutocracy believes it successfully eluded financial Armageddon. At a stroke, the sale made clear that the rich are back in their rightful place at the apex of the world.”
Tag: 02.16.10
On DVD, Watching Leonard Bernstein Craft His Persona
“[B]esides composing and conducting, Bernstein was a champion talker about music, and these [1950s] ‘Omnibus’ appearances, which range from 33 to 76 minutes, were his first opportunities to try out his lecture style on television.”