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Günter Grass RIP
From the closing pages of his memoir, “Peeling the Onion” PS: And then, of course, there was the young man who wore a uniform a decade earlier: “The moral blindness of Gunter Grass” This NYT piece by Grass’s friend, John … Continue reading
One to the heart
Remember her name. My album of the week in today’s Sunday Times [£]: Indra Rios-Moore’s “Heartland”.
Superficially
Sathnam Sanghera [£] on the Oxbridge tutorial and the art of blagging: Though, of course, the third and most serious problem with the Oxbridge tutorial system is that it does not nurture intelligence as much as teach people how to act … Continue reading
Frankly
One ex-acquaintance of mine – an ultra-hip New Yorker – once told me, in all seriousness, that she refused to listen to Frank Sinatra because he wore a toupee. (For more on that famous artefact, see Gay Talese.) I couldn’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Gopnik, Belson Riddle, Billy May, Frank Sinatra, Madonna
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