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...text should read, “The Kirshmeister has unleashed the Beast...
...actually participate in it--doesn't offer much to the serious biographer. Jacqueline Kennedy, who brought youthful chic to the White House but didn't test any of the limits of her role, has inspired dozens of books in which the photographs often seem more important than the text. With Mrs. Kennedy: The Missing History of the Kennedy Years (Free Press; 406 pages; $25), Barbara Leaming seeks to correct the balance, arguing that Jackie played a key part in her husband's presidency...
...wastelands, more concerned with the definition of plagiarism or the mechanics found in college-level writing than with the thinking required of college-level argument. A year-long course will offer plenty of time for instruction in writing as well as (or, indeed, as part of) instruction in the texts. A student’s best writing will come when he or she is intimately engaged with a text and genuinely enjoys working with it. Good writing requires good thinking, and good thinking requires something to think about. There can be no better material than the world?...
Islam, like all faiths, has its twists and turns, and the Koran, like all holy books, has been interpreted in tangled ways over the course of 13 centuries. The same text that promises that “even if you stretch out your hand against me to kill me, I shall not stretch out my hand against you to kill you” also exhorts the faithful to “slay or crucify or cut the hands and feet of the unbelievers, that they be expelled from the land with disgrace and that they shall have a great punishment...
...last sort of New York song isn?t overtly about New York at all; but even if the city?s streets and landmarks aren?t explicitly mentioned in the text of the song, and even if the song lacks lyrics entirely, the spirit of the city comes through all the same. George Gershwin?s instrumental piece "Rhapsody in Blue" doesn?t have to mention Manhattan to evoke the city?s soul. The opening clarinet winds its way up like morning light hitting an apartment building, the brass instruments sound like crosstown traffic. Saxophonist John Coltrane?s "Central Park West" also...