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Teicher remarks that "the poet trains to hear clearly and, as much as possible, without interruption, the voice of the mind, the voice that gathers, packs with meaning, and unpacks the language the poet knows." While this description is somewhat abstract, Teicher's concept of voice works because he situates it in large part in the poet's experience of language and life.
In these essays and lectures, Brendel considers sound, silence, sublimity, humor, and the performer's critical role in the experience of music. What also makes this collection so relevant is just how appealing his analysis and commentary are to scholar, performer, and amateur listener alike-a rare accomplishment for anyone writing about classical music.
Image by Lia Kantrowitz/Photo courtesy Bluhm Legal Clinic, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law "Dazed and numb," Ronald Kitchen recalls, "I descended the stairs leading from Area 3 Violent Crimes-the hellhole where I had been tortured and kept prisoner during the previous 24 hours.... That first night, in the lockup across town, my body finally started coming alive.
Samuel Johnson said the greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write. But reading, unlike writing, is a pursuit decidedly devoid of glory. Ideally, it cultivates the quiet virtues of patience, attention, and self-denial.
When revolt has no object, it turns on itself, opposing all imagined foes in wanton destruction of imagined barriers.
Few have ever witnessed the dehumanizing potential of mass society so up close as Bruno Bettelheim. After internment at Dachau and Buchenwald, Bettelheim came to America, where he served as director of the Orthogenic School at the University of Chicago from 1944 to 1973.
The nation's kids scrutinize all the nation's teachers every school day. All those kids are growing, and their minds are developing, and they're prone to note the oddities of their teachers' personalities, sartorial choices, and pretty much everything else.
"FIRST AND FOREMOST," Vladimir Putin claimed in 2005, "it is worth acknowledging that the demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century." "As for the Russian people," he went on, "it became a genuine tragedy."
MARILYNNE ROBINSON IS A WRITER of unique vision. Throughout her work, her religion and politics find urgent but humane expression as her tone modulates easily between prophetic and earnest, impassioned and contemplative. A life, for her, is most meaningful when wedded to aesthetic and religious engagement and, following from them, political engagement.
Everyone knows war is hell, but those in war have their own versions of hell to tell. , the debut novel from Brian Van Reet, weaves together three narratives of three combatants in the Iraq War to show with profound depth and power just how complicated hell can be.