“I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.”
Max Beerbohm, “No. 2, The Pines”
Snapshot: Erroll Garner plays “Misty” in 1961
Erroll Garner plays his “Misty” on The Ed Sullivan Show. This episode was originally telecast live by CBS on March 26, 1961:
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Almanac: Henry James on tradition
“A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.”
Henry James, “Robert Louis Stevenson”
Lookback: a visit to the memory hole
From 2016:
Read the whole thing here.In December of 1969, Esquire invited twenty-five venerable celebrities to offer end-of-the-decade advice, most of it predictably platitudinous, to the magazine’s younger readers….
My question is this: how many of those names do you recognize?
Almanac: Evelyn Waugh on the rich
“He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.”
Evelyn Waugh, Scoop
Just because: a 1953 TV interview with Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh is interviewed by John Freeman on a 1953 episode of Face to Face, originally telecast by the BBC:
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Almanac: Evelyn Waugh on love
“I don’t believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn’t been told about it. It’s like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn’t been told it existed.”
Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall
Replay: Sydney Lucas sings “Ring of Keys”
Sydney Lucas sings “Ring of Keys,” a song from Fun Home, adapted by Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori from Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel, on the 2015 Tony Awards telecast:
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