“Justice is a machine that, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.”
John Galsworthy, Justice
Just because: Leonard Bernstein’s “The Age of Anxiety”
Krystian Zimerman, Leonard Bernstein, and the London Symphony perform Bernstein’s “Age of Anxiety” Symphony in 1986. The work, inspired by W.H. Auden’s book-length 1947 poem of the same name, is introduced by a short interview with Bernstein:
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Almanac: Kierkegaard on anxiety
“Anxiety is a desire for what one fears, a sympathetic antipathy; anxiety is an alien power which grips the individual, and yet he cannot tear himself away from it and does not want to, for one fears, but what he fears he desires.”
Søren Kierkegaard,The Concept of Anxiety
Replay: Fats Waller performs “Your Feet’s Too Big”
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Almanac: Nietzsche on laughter
“Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.”
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power
Almanac: George Bernard Shaw on flattery
“What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.”
George Bernard Shaw, John Bull’s Other Island
Snapshot: an interview with Helen Frankenthaler
Helen Frankenthaler is interviewed by Eugenia Zukerman on CBS Sunday Morning in 1984:
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Almanac: Emerson on painting
“Pictures must not be too picturesque.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Of Art”