The voice of the Indians for as long as I can remember. The obit in this morning’s Times was all about his sadly abbreviated playing career, but didn’t mention his thirty-plus years as a broadcaster. My earliest baseball memories were of him on the radio, doing play-by-play for teams that were going nowhere fast. I [...]
Dead at 96. All I’m going to say is that “The Good War” is an unforgettable book.
We’re getting a little punchy here. It was a beautiful day — sunny and a nice temperature — to walk up-and-down the rows in three different cemeteries looking for headstones that matched the names. We got a lot of exercise, but didn’t find too much of immediate use. Still, with views like this how can you complain?
I first stumbled across his work when I read “Shipping out: On the (nearly lethal) comforts of a luxury cruise” in the January 1996 issue of Harper’s. Harper’s continued to publish several of his essays over the years, such as Ticket to the Fair, a postmodern deconstruction of a midwest county fair. [sorry, these links [...]
The composer Donald Erb died the other day, at age 81. A prof at the Cleveland Institute, he was big on the scene in the ’70s when I was first paying attention to “serious” music. “Serious” is in quotation marks, because Erb was sort of an exemplar of how unserious and fun that music could [...]
A former professor of mine died last week. Here’s his obituary from the Cleveland Plain Dealer. He was my European History prof when I was a freshman. As a freshman in the music school my interest in the subject was, shall we say, not exactly obsessive. Nevertheless, he hung in there and tried his best [...]
Because him dying was so not-funny.
Sad news, my aunt Sarah died this afternoon after a long illness. Sarah was the mother of our regular contributor Shari, and as warm and generous a person as you’d ever want to meet. Please take a moment to post a condolence, thanks.
Died Monday night at age 82. He’d been very ill for a long time after (I think) a series of strokes made it very difficult for him to work. I always enjoyed the light, playful and transparent feeling of his work.
In the latest edition of my college’s alumni magazine, I learned of the death of Dr. Lawrence Hartzell this January of cancer.
I first ran into Dr. Hartzell in the summer of 1974. I’d gotten a scholarship to attend the B-W Summer Music Clinic, and among the activities were classroom sessions on music theory and [...]
The Princeton professor and noted translator died today. If you’ve ever labored under the idea that the Greek classics were boring, stuffy, or just not action-packed enough for today’s modern world then you’ve never read his translation of The Odyssey.
The credit for the brilliant pacing and development of Odysseus’ long journey home, and which [...]
About fifteen years ago a friend had an extra ticket to go see a taping of two episodes of “Firing Line,” Buckley’s talk-show forum which he shared with Michael Kinsley at the time. While my own political views are pretty much the opposite of his, I came away impressed. He was honest, funny — articulate [...]
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