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32386 Piaget (was Whorf) -- rank: 1000

[posted from a non-sub'd address - Maureen, did you change your address when you succumbed to Powerbook fetishism?] Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 19:42:31 -0600 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: Maureen Anderson <maureen at uchicago.edu> Hey Chuck, >God Maureen, this was eons ago. Then this one's only decades late. (Sorry -- my seven-year-old computer finally died this week. But after days of consumer angst I'm now typing, in fetishistic awe, on a sleek new G3 Powerbook.) >But no, I t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 19 17:48:38 PST 2001

32387 Money & Art (was Re: Jazz) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Money and art >Are far apart > >Langston Hughes Money is a kind of poetry. - Wallace Stevens

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Date:	Fri Jan 19 16:55:29 PST 2001

32388 Kristol/Marx -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin/Nancy Bauer wrote: >Doug: > >Lost that piece about Kristol on Marx. Could you send out again? X-From_: owner-lbo-talk at dont.panix.com Thu Jan 18 16:18:31 2001 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: dhenwood at popserver.panix.com Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 16:18:07 -0500 To: lbo-talk <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> Subject: Kristol on imagination Sender: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 19 15:14:34 PST 2001

32389 Jazz -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >i however would like someone to make that case that music and the >arts do matter to left politics As a prefiguration of utopia, maybe? Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 19 14:45:57 PST 2001

32390 Jazz -- rank: 1000

Eric Beck wrote: >Fusion was "invented" by jazz musicians like Ornette Coleman and >Miles Davis, and all of a sudden rock musicians saw a way for their >stupidities to be taken seriously--associate their music with jazz. "When you can't play jazz and you can't play rock you play jazz-rock, and what you get is one big piece of shit." - Lou Reed, ca 1976

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Date:	Fri Jan 19 11:55:39 PST 2001

32391 TNR Online | Carvin' the Bird by Leon Wieseltier (On the Ken Burns PBS doc.) -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > Heh, the last time I fwded. some Wieseltier (the slam of Cornel West) I >got some heat! >(Leon's slam of E.P. Thompson [with a blurb by Henry K.] in his book on >nuclear strategy and the Freeze, was a lowpoint in his stuff. At the same >time, Thompson was being attacked by types from the Soviet Peace Council, >along comes Wieseltier to accuse , Thompson of pro-Soviet symps!) > >http://www.thenewrepublic.com/012201/wieseltier012201.html "B ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 19 11:51:42 PST 2001

32392 Jazz -- rank: 1000

LeoCasey at aol.com wrote: >Certainly, Marsalis' and Crouch's approach to jazz >is unambiguously and unapologetically located within a conscious, politically >deliberate celebration of the cultural creativity and virtuosity of >African-Americans. Doesn't Marsalis really play up the high-culture angle, though, and play down what Charles mentioned, the roots of jazz in black party music? That's one of the things that bothers me about the high-seriousness of jazz cultists - it's like th ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 19 10:00:38 PST 2001

32393 Jazz -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >These are the kind of irritating snob remarks ...and... Justin Schwartz also wrote: >Back to the woodshed with you. This opinion is extarordinarily >ignorant; it's like saying that Abigail van Buren is a better >philosopher than Quine because Quine doesn't offer advice on how to >live. If you can't hear the structure of Parker's workm you need to >educate your ear. ...and... Justin Schwartz wrote: >I am a hopeless and proud elitist. So "irritati ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 19 09:52:10 PST 2001

32394 Jazz -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin/Nancy Bauer wrote: >Um, Doug, that's Phil Schaap. How goddamn embarrassing. Sorry. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 19 09:49:02 PST 2001

32395 Jazz -- rank: 1000

jf noonan wrote: >hen there's the nifty >fact that when a former 'reporter' from KUHF left she took a PR >job with the Texas Medical Center. Lots of journalism schools have repositioned themselves as broad schools of "communication," which includes advertising and PR in the curriculum. It's not uncommon for a journalist who wants to make some more $ to hop to the PR game. One of the delights of doing a radio show is that you get listed in directories, and therefore called by p ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 19 09:47:43 PST 2001

32396 diary -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of an attachment] From: "Christine Petersen" <ottilie at hotmail.com> To: lbo-talk at panix.com Subject: sf junkie/non-pol. Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 07:13:22 -0800 This is interesting. My acquaintance who gave me this link lives 3 blocks from 16th and mission, which is chock full of people like this kid. Oxygen.com is taking out a victorian to put up its headquarters one block from that intersection at 16th and Capp, probably the most prostitute associated intersection ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 19 09:37:59 PST 2001

32397 Jazz -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >BTW, if you're ever in the mood to give Charlie Parker another chance, the >easiest way to hear the good recordings (plus some almost comically >knowledgable background) is to tune into WKCR any weekday from 8:20am to >9:30am. Phil Schaap plays his stuff every day in that slot in a show >called Birdflight. KCR is available over the internet as well. I actually spent several months last year waking up to just this show. I'd lie still and listen attentively ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 19 08:01:10 PST 2001

32398 organizing college footballers -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - January 19, 2001 UCLA Football Players Turn to United Steelworkers for Advice on Improving Conditions By WELCH SUGGS The United Steelworkers of America is advising a group of current and former football players at the University of California at Los Angeles, who are organizing to fight for stipends, better health insurance, and job training from the National Collegiate Athletic Association. "We put our bodies and even our lives on the line," ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 19 07:55:25 PST 2001

32399 Jazz -- rank: 1000

John Halle wrote: >Of course, the pwog-left has long >since given up on classical music as it is just ever so terribly elitist. Not me. I'm all for high bourgeois culture. I started listening to classical music as a youngster, and spent years studying it too. But after a while, I burned out on the canon - there's only so much really good stuff, and after 20 years, you've heard it all a million times. You can always unearth an obscure toccata by an obscure Silesian, but it would probably be ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 19 07:48:17 PST 2001

32400 Jazz -- rank: 1000

John Halle wrote: >Bartok, Schoenberg, Berg, Shostakovich, Ives, or the Beatles (for that >matter) etc. are not on the LBO map, it seems. (Quincy Jones just got the >national humanities medal. What about him?) > >Perhaps Doug wants to put in a word for Madonna (after he gets done with >Edward Luttwack on the radio.) > >Are these opinions representative of the intelligentia? The "intelligentsia" just doesn't listen to canonical classical music anymore - Bach, Br ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 18 15:43:54 PST 2001