Carnegie’s libraries were the one good thing about him. But as fewer and fewer people read books, I wonder how a library becomes overcrowded. I worry they’ll cease to exist except as warming dens for the homeless. Just another boomer memory: rainy weekends at the library reading through the collections of English mystery writers (Sayers, Christie, Conan Doyle, Rey).
Thanks for linking the WSJ article about "nerve deafness." Not being a subscriber, I could only read the first few paragraphs, but at least I now have a name for yet another of my many afflictions. I'm still waiting for science to classify the post-senescent despair I suffer daily, but I think a subscription to the WSJ would only exacerbate it.
It was not universal, but in 1945-47 a noticeable number of Jewish living heirs to and owners of property in Poland were killed when they returned home to claim to it. The current governing party's Natdek predecessors also did a great job of anti-Semitism when they were trying to gratify their base and attempting to ally with the Nazis, who were having none of it for some reason. (I'm alive because my father saw the police fail to aid an old Jew being beaten by a mob in 1936 or -37 and got out as quickly as possible…I just wish I were energetic and competent enough to get out of here in time.)
With that sign in the doorway, is one allowed to wear a mask or, heaven forbid, a burka in those hallowed halls?
Obligatory JFK quote: “A city of southern efficiency and northern charm.”
Carnegie’s libraries were the one good thing about him. But as fewer and fewer people read books, I wonder how a library becomes overcrowded. I worry they’ll cease to exist except as warming dens for the homeless. Just another boomer memory: rainy weekends at the library reading through the collections of English mystery writers (Sayers, Christie, Conan Doyle, Rey).
At the Apple Store, I imagine a flash-mob style cajón jam breaking out.
Thanks for linking the WSJ article about "nerve deafness." Not being a subscriber, I could only read the first few paragraphs, but at least I now have a name for yet another of my many afflictions. I'm still waiting for science to classify the post-senescent despair I suffer daily, but I think a subscription to the WSJ would only exacerbate it.
It was not universal, but in 1945-47 a noticeable number of Jewish living heirs to and owners of property in Poland were killed when they returned home to claim to it. The current governing party's Natdek predecessors also did a great job of anti-Semitism when they were trying to gratify their base and attempting to ally with the Nazis, who were having none of it for some reason. (I'm alive because my father saw the police fail to aid an old Jew being beaten by a mob in 1936 or -37 and got out as quickly as possible…I just wish I were energetic and competent enough to get out of here in time.)