Sight & Sound May 2021 bfi.org.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bfi.org.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Dear Reader,
About a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”:
“Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.”
Feb 24, 2021
IRON MOUNTAIN Dickinson County Library sites in Iron Mountain, Norway and Felch Township continue to offer curbside pickup of library materials and limited appointments inside the building. New materials for checkout are being added all the time at all three locations.Â
Some recent new adult non-fiction titles include  “One Hundred Dogs and Counting” by Cara Sue Achterberg; “Rome is Burning: Nero and the Fire that Ended a Dynasty” by Anthony A. Barrett; “South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War” by Alice L. Baumgartner; “What to Watch When: 1,000 TV Shows for Every Mood and Moment” by Christian Blauvelt;
Cartoons, JFKâs Victory and Other Letters to the Editor
Credit.Simone Martin-Newberry
To the Editor:
I am everything but a Black, queer, nonbinary American. Born and educated in England, I am a white, straight, unequivocally female naturalized citizen. Danez Smithâs review of Robert Jones Jr.âs novel, âThe Prophetsâ (Jan. 17), opened my eyes to a perspective I had never thought about and surprised my heart wide open with its lyrical charge and fierce passion.
Smithâs hopes, fears, history and honesty are unique to their experience but universal in their ability to move another human heart.
Gillian Renault
By Peter Tonguette Correpsondent
Most people would identify Snow White, Grumpy, and Sleepy as cartoon characters, but it would have been a mistake to call them that within earshot of Walt Disney. Upon the release of his masterpiece “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” in 1937, Disney objected to a journalist describing his film as a “cartoon.” “It’s no more a cartoon,” Disney said, “than a painting by Whistler is a cartoon.”
In an exhaustive and highly entertaining new book, journalist Reid Mitenbuler demonstrates that he shares Disney’s belief in the artistic value of animated works – though they are, too often, thought of as mere kids’ stuff.