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Carly Simon's privileged youth as the daughter of Simon & Schuster's founder was racked by the deception in her parents' marriage. Now, a year after her mother's death, Simon is trying to put to rest old memories of the web of eroticism, jealousy, and lies that surrounded the family's Stamford home. MARIE BRENNER hears the remarkable story behind Carly's songs. ....
A glance at the movers and shakers over a century, and some who have starred in the past 25 years (reprinted from PW s 125th Anniversary issue in July 1997) ....
When a scientific experiment uncovers a new phenomenon, a scientist is pleased. When an experiment fails to reveal something that the scientist originally expected, that, too, counts as a result worth analyzing. A sense of the “nonappearance of the expected” was my first impression of Ezra Vogel’s Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China. The term “human rights” does not ....
When the music of Beethoven mingled with the music of Gandhi’s spinning wheel In the year of Beethoven’s 250th birth anniversary, remembering how two Europeans brought together Gandhi and the German composer. Wikimedia Commons This year marks the 250th birth anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), one of the greatest exponents of western classical music. It also marks the conclusion of the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. However, beyond this insignificant calendrical coincidence, was there any connection between the two? How could there have been? Gandhi, after all, was an ascetic who eulogised and practiced brahmacharya (narrowly understood as a life of celibacy). Beethoven, on the other hand, famously said: “Music, verily, is the mediator between intellectual and sensuous life.” ....