December 2013
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It's a commonly heard question among college and university faculty. Well, here's one answer. I do find it pretty amusing that it's a "diversity coordinator."
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Music for Gaudete Sunday A few nights ago I was looking for Advent music to post this weekend. I came across this hymn, which I hadn't heard before. I played it once, only half-listening, shrugged, and then ran out time for looking without finding anything better, so ended up not posting anything. But we sang…
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Not me. I hadn't been planning to, and I didn't see the first one, either–considerable after-the-fact reflection on the Lord of the Rings movies had left me wanting no more of Peter Jackson's treatment of Tolkien. Not that the movies were all bad by any means, but enough Hollywood-izing was enough, and then some. And what…
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Or rather a problem, I should say, but a fairly big one. I brought it up the other day to someone who has studied economics and worked in that field. She had never heard of it, so later I went looking around on the web for some sort of quick intro. And almost everything I found…
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Actually, I still haven't quite finished it, but I'm close, and I'm impatient to say what I think: this is a wonderful document. I mostly kept to my intention of avoiding commentary about the work, wanting to encounter it with as little preconception as I could manage, but it was impossible to avoid hearing the…
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Glenn Gould's humming sometimes makes it seem like there was a lunatic lurking in the recording studio.
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Advent Weekend Music I was actually looking for the English hymn based on the traditional Latin, and ran across this, which is quite lovely.
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I guess I should say "Ordinariate-related." "Anglican" is both more and less accurate, as it isn't in the name of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, on the face of which designation you would not know that its purpose is the preservation of the Anglican patrimony in union with the Catholic Church. …
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There are probably going to be a number of these brief reviews of mostly old movies over the next month or so. We are about to cancel our "cable" TV service (actually over the phone lines–AT&T's TV+Internet service). It's crazy for us to keep it, since we almost never watch anything but PBS, TCM, and…
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Rock Around the Clock This is a completely negligible movie, apart from a couple of musical performances. There's Bill Haley and his Comets performing the title song, of course, as well as a couple of other tunes. Even better are the two performances by The Platters, and best of all their performance of "The Great…
Light On Dark Water 