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4. Symphonic performance : Furtw ä ngler's 1942 performance of Beethoven's 9th , recorded live. Has to be heard to be believed. Obviously there was a lot at stake and furthermore Hitler was in the audience. This performance will terrify you.
1. Movie, set in : One, Two, Three captures a bit of comedy from the Cold War and shows Jimmy Cagney to be a surprisingly versatile actor. Wings of Desire has stunning moments, most of all in the Staatsbibliothek with the angels and in the indie music club. Goodbye, Lenin! shows German movies can be funny, as does Run, Lola, Run !. I don't like films about either the rise or fall of the Nazis and I couldn't get through Berlin Alexanderplatz .
1. Movie, set in : One, Two, Three captures a bit of comedy from the Cold War and shows Jimmy Cagney to be a surprisingly versatile actor. Wings of Desire has stunning moments, most of all in the Staatsbibliothek with the angels and in the indie music club. Goodbye, Lenin! shows German movies can be funny, as does Run, Lola, Run !. I don't like films about either the rise or fall of the Nazis and I couldn't get through Berlin Alexanderplatz .
1. Movie, set in : One, Two, Three captures a bit of comedy from the Cold War and shows Jimmy Cagney to be a surprisingly versatile actor. Wings of Desire has stunning moments, most of all in the Staatsbibliothek with the angels and in the indie music club. Goodbye, Lenin! shows German movies can be funny, as does Run, Lola, Run !. I don't like films about either the rise or fall of the Nazis and I couldn't get through Berlin Alexanderplatz .
1. Movie, set in : One, Two, Three captures a bit of comedy from the Cold War and shows Jimmy Cagney to be a surprisingly versatile actor. Wings of Desire has stunning moments, most of all in the Staatsbibliothek with the angels and in the indie music club. Goodbye, Lenin! shows German movies can be funny, as does Run, Lola, Run !. I don't like films about either the rise or fall of the Nazis and I couldn't get through Berlin Alexanderplatz .
6. Interview with Paul Seabright (older but still good); hail Paul Seabright! (And here is the new edition of his book .)
Originally published in 1938, it just came out in English for the first time in complete form . I'm only on p.200 (of about 800), but so far it is a gripping albeit slightly schlocky Continental novel of ideas, set in 1923 Berlin, and pitched roughly at the level of a John Forsythe novel. It's also notable for its incorporation of monetary theory throughout the narrative. Fallada had a good grasp of the costs of hyperinflation, the associated accounting problems, the difficulty of personal ec...
That is from Rajan's Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy . Most of this book is on the financial crisis — and not health care — and it is one of the two or three best books on that topic.
The link to the source is here .
I am walking along the main shopping street, seeing many Turks but actually thinking it would be nice to read more on Edwin Chadwick, when I stumble across a bookstore with a largish section of Augustus M. Kelley reprints , no Chadwick but they do have the everyone-should-now-reread-it Herbert Feis, Europe the World's Banker, 1870-1914 , and I stumble upon the section on Greece and the International Finance Commission of 1898.
6. Singer : Tarkan comes to mind and he is well represented on YouTube. There is an entire strand of Turkish popular song, in the direction of Sezen Aksu , YouTube here . But overall my pick is Edip Akbayram , imagine a Turkish version of Tropicalia.
5. Favorite recording showing the unities behind Turkish and classical music : Istanbul, Dimitrie Cantemir, by Jordi Savall . Quite the revelation and it makes you wonder how well we understand the true story of classical music.
4. Opera, set in : The Abduction from the Seraglio , maybe the Beecham recording, or Krips , plus I like the overture of the Harnoncourt version , much more Turkish-sounding than the others. And I don't have to tell you my favorite Rondo.
4. Opera, set in : The Abduction from the Seraglio , maybe the Beecham recording, or Krips , plus I like the overture of the Harnoncourt version , much more Turkish-sounding than the others. And I don't have to tell you my favorite Rondo.
2. Non-fiction book, set in : There is Runciman and Kinross and Stephen Kinzer . Is the Osman book good?
The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life , by Paul Seabright, revised edition. But I must run, and cannot report on how the new edition differs. Here is the book's home page .
Most of all, it reminded me of Jacob's Ladder and especially Michael Powell's Stairway to Heaven (A Matter of Life and Death ), two movies worth rewatching in any case. The final scene, while the credits roll, is simply that of a plane crash with no survivors. I view the show's cosmology as reflecting the existence of all possible universes and we get to see, and live with, a few of them. That includes the universe where they all die in the initial crash, the universe where they all die in th...
Most of all, it reminded me of Jacob's Ladder and especially Michael Powell's Stairway to Heaven (A Matter of Life and Death ), two movies worth rewatching in any case. The final scene, while the credits roll, is simply that of a plane crash with no survivors. I view the show's cosmology as reflecting the existence of all possible universes and we get to see, and live with, a few of them. That includes the universe where they all die in the initial crash, the universe where they all die in th...
Sheena Iyengar, The Art of Choosing , reviewed by Virginia Postrel here . Stephen M. Davidson, Still Broken: Understanding the U.S. Health Care System (intelligent book, bad timing since it pushes a non-Obama reform). Peter Heather, Empires and Barbarians The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe ; good book but I've read too much on this topic lately. What We See: Advancing the Observations of Jane Jacobs , has the pluses and minuses of an edited collection. Boris Groysberg, Chasing Stars: Th...
Sheena Iyengar, The Art of Choosing , reviewed by Virginia Postrel here . Stephen M. Davidson, Still Broken: Understanding the U.S. Health Care System (intelligent book, bad timing since it pushes a non-Obama reform). Peter Heather, Empires and Barbarians The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe ; good book but I've read too much on this topic lately. What We See: Advancing the Observations of Jane Jacobs , has the pluses and minuses of an edited collection. Boris Groysberg, Chasing Stars: Th...
Sheena Iyengar, The Art of Choosing , reviewed by Virginia Postrel here . Stephen M. Davidson, Still Broken: Understanding the U.S. Health Care System (intelligent book, bad timing since it pushes a non-Obama reform). Peter Heather, Empires and Barbarians The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe ; good book but I've read too much on this topic lately. What We See: Advancing the Observations of Jane Jacobs , has the pluses and minuses of an edited collection. Boris Groysberg, Chasing Stars: Th...
Sheena Iyengar, The Art of Choosing , reviewed by Virginia Postrel here . Stephen M. Davidson, Still Broken: Understanding the U.S. Health Care System (intelligent book, bad timing since it pushes a non-Obama reform). Peter Heather, Empires and Barbarians The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe ; good book but I've read too much on this topic lately. What We See: Advancing the Observations of Jane Jacobs , has the pluses and minuses of an edited collection. Boris Groysberg, Chasing Stars: Th...
Sheena Iyengar, The Art of Choosing , reviewed by Virginia Postrel here . Stephen M. Davidson, Still Broken: Understanding the U.S. Health Care System (intelligent book, bad timing since it pushes a non-Obama reform). Peter Heather, Empires and Barbarians The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe ; good book but I've read too much on this topic lately. What We See: Advancing the Observations of Jane Jacobs , has the pluses and minuses of an edited collection. Boris Groysberg, Chasing Stars: Th...
Sheena Iyengar, The Art of Choosing , reviewed by Virginia Postrel here . Stephen M. Davidson, Still Broken: Understanding the U.S. Health Care System (intelligent book, bad timing since it pushes a non-Obama reform). Peter Heather, Empires and Barbarians The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe ; good book but I've read too much on this topic lately. What We See: Advancing the Observations of Jane Jacobs , has the pluses and minuses of an edited collection. Boris Groysberg, Chasing Stars: Th...
Sheena Iyengar, The Art of Choosing , reviewed by Virginia Postrel here . Stephen M. Davidson, Still Broken: Understanding the U.S. Health Care System (intelligent book, bad timing since it pushes a non-Obama reform). Peter Heather, Empires and Barbarians The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe ; good book but I've read too much on this topic lately. What We See: Advancing the Observations of Jane Jacobs , has the pluses and minuses of an edited collection. Boris Groysberg, Chasing Stars: Th...