The Talented Mr. Frid
With online streaming has come the opportunity to rewatch beloved television shows from our formative years, and to reassess those …
Tag Archives: creativity
Three Tall Women and Two Short Ones
I recently attended the wonderful revival of Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women, with Glenda Jackson, Laurie Metcalf and Alison Pill, …
Trash and Treasure, Part II
It is possible, in a single week, to see both the sublime and the ridiculous in almost anything. Exhibit #1: …
Purposeful Enchantment
In a documentary about the late English ballerina Margot Fonteyn, her one-time partner Robert Helpmann said that she had a …
An Acerbic Teacher
Last week we lost the playwright Edward Albee, best known for his caustic views of marriage and family relationships, his …
What does Golde think?
In the newest revival of the beloved musical “Fiddler on the Roof”, currently running on Broadway, Tevye is played with …
Amulets of the Heart
What is a talisman? One thinks of rattles, fierce masks, human hair – something meant to ward off evil or …
Genius in the Rests
On the “technology” campus of Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, there is a sculpture of Albert Einstein playing Frisbee. By …
Heroic Humor
A number of years ago the wonderful writer Frank McCourt wrote an essay for the New York Times on Mother’s …
Creativity and Chaos
What is it about creativity that manifests itself so powerfully in the human brain? I love it when I find …
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