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Jan/Feb 2012

"Showered with sound"

On January 4, 1955, three engineers and producers for Mercury Records—Wilma Cozart, C. Robert Fine, and David Hall ’39—caught...

Jan/Feb 2012

Globalism, ca. 13,000 BCE

The caves of Altamira in northern Spain and Lascaux in southwestern France are famous for their Paleolithic artwork, at least 15,000 years old....

Jan/Feb 2012

Object lesson

James Merrill (1926–95) was an American poet celebrated for his refined lyric gift and skeptical moral intelligence. But he was also...

Jan/Feb 2012

You can quote them

Two columns ago, I called Mark Twain the preeminent US “quotation magnet”: so compelling are his wit and fame that he’s...

Jan/Feb 2012

The making of modern

In the 1970s, when others were collecting Chuck Close ’64MFA, Christo, and David Hockney, John C. Waddell ’59 started buying Donald...

Mar/Apr 2012

From Claire's corner to yours

In 1975, when downtown New Haven wasn't exactly known for its food, Claire Criscuolo established Claire's Corner Copia—a vegetarian...

Mar/Apr 2012

A composer's journeys

Composer Jeffrey Stock ’88 has written works ranging from an operetta about Prohibition to an instrumental piece (Lulie the...

Mar/Apr 2012

When the Titanic went down

April 15 marks the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. Of the many moving stories from that iconic event, six belonged...

Mar/Apr 2012

Left in the lurch

After the Occupy Wall Street movement recast the conversation about income inequality in America last fall, it slid into a period of uncertain...

Jul/Aug 2008

It takes a master to make a masterpiece

Fred Shapiro’s researches into the pre-1943 citations of something like the Serenity Prayer are governed, he acknowledges, by the power...

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