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...title of this memorable performance was “20th Century Psalm Settings for Chorus.” Within that program Elkies was nestled among composers as diverse as Charles Ives and Ralph Vaughan Williams, in a program that presented a cross-section of great composers of the 20th century. Elkies was very much deserving of the company...
...when many Americans struggled to get enough to eat, they made the idle their idols. Avidly, avidly, they read newspaper columns about "cafe society" - rich folks "whose only occupation was to change clothes and go out," as Ralph Blumenthal writes in "Stork Club: America's Most Famous Nightspot and the Lost World of Cafe Society." Unlike a quarter of all adult Americans in the Depression, these madcap heiresses and showbiz Romeos had a job: to be seen being glamorous, by sitting in Manhattan night clubs that served as the fraternities of the leisure class, an Ellis Island for the elite...
This time is different. Twenty-eight Americans have died in the war since October, but the national mood remains resolute. Here, without argument, is one way in which Sept. 11 truly has changed the way we think. "The American public," says Ralph Peters, a retired Army lieutenant colonel and a military scholar, "is sensible about war and amazingly stoical." Who, six months ago, would have dared say that...
...pair of Salvatore Ferragamo loafers. What she badly wants: a pair of Prada sneakers. On a recent shopping expedition, she eyes a white cotton DKNY skirt. Her mother steps in, telling her it is "too fancy." But by the end of the day, Choi has bagged two blue, $70 Ralph Lauren shirts. "They are fearless when it comes to spending money," says her mother. "These kids don't really think?they just want to buy everything...
...This time is different. Twenty-eight Americans have died in the war since October, but the national mood remains resolute. Here, without argument, is one way in which Sept. 11 truly has changed the way we think. "The American public," says Ralph Peters, a retired Army lieutenant colonel and a military scholar, "is sensible about war and amazingly stoical." Who, six months ago, would have dared say that...