Everything else about The Bird Catcher is gloriously real. Like Women About Town, it's a novel of observation, a novel that swoops and soars in its dizzy flights to worlds you never imagined, a novel about catching life on the wing (and occasionally in mid crawl). Charles calls the wood thrush "the John Cage of birds." The Bird Catcher is the wood-thrush song of novels — in Jacobs's words, "Improvised, vaulted, and green."
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Anthony Lewis's free-speech credentials are impeccable: among other things, the former New York Times columnist is James Madison Visiting Professor of First Amendment Issues at Columbia University's Journalism School
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While riding the New York subway one warm night in 1922, Hotchkiss-schooled, Yale-educated Henry Robinson Luce conjured the name of his epoch-defining magazine after spotting an arresting advertising placard.
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- Lessons learned
" Lock-up Lessons " by Lance Tapley (April 8) is a superb article and perfectly timed.
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Get your Jewels bearings
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In 1967, George Balanchine created Jewels for New York City Ballet, and in short order this evening-length triptych — Emeralds , Rubies , and Diamonds — became the crown jewel of 20th-century dance.
- Dancing to the music?
Seeing Mark Morris Dance Group do his L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato here in Boston back on January 20 and then New York City Ballet perform George Balanchine’s Concerto Barocco and Symphony in C the following evening in New York was a reminder that the two 20th-century choreographers most noted for their use of music couldn’t be more different.
- Oppositions
The end of a three-week, thousands-of-miles-from-home season is never the right time to assess a dance company.
- Altar and ego
Mark Morris’s Dido and Aeneas
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