Fantasia on Dummy Keys; Before Clocks Were Digital; After the Fall; Amazonas.com; Erich Wolfgang Korngold; The Last Newsboy; Hitting the Silk; Bargains Are by Definition Faustian; Opposing Colonizations; Robinson Crusoe to Capt. Dreyfus; Energy Crises; A Course in Sax Education; Production Values; Gowns by Adrian; The Garden of Yellow Jack; The Devil and Daedalus; Fashions of 1903; The Last Cigarette Girl; Dance; Free Trade in Mitteleuropa; Where Is Gutzon Borglum Now That We Need Him?; Inventing the Subdivision; The Last Elevator Operator, or, Mr. Otis Regrets
Edith and Woody and Nancy and RonnieFishers of Men; Unto Temptation; Guidelines for a Cover Illustration; Crystal But Not Crystal Ball; Models; The Last Chaperon; Update for Francis Joseph; The Passion of 1934; Administrating; One Third of a Triptych; Self-Guided Tour; Report of the Monuments Commission; Eclogue against Ecology; Soldiers Three in the Big Easy; Afterward
As he approaches eighty, Turner Cassity may finally be out of control. His hatchet has never fallen more lethally, meaning if you have the stomach for him he is more enjoyable than ever. Under the blade come Martha Graham, Johann Sebastian Bach, musicologists, tree huggers, Frank Gehry, folk music, folk art of all times and all places, folk ... There are, however, his unpredictable sympathies: Edith Wilson, skyscrapers, Pontius Pilate, Pilate's legionnaires. He obviously has a soft spot for Pop Culture, although he cannot avoid seeingit de haut en bas. As usual, he is all o
