![]() ![]() Ken Hill wrote the script and lyrics for the 1976 musical Phantom of the Opera. Phantom of the Opera (1976) Ken Hill’s Phantom of the Opera Read 17 Interesting facts about Gaston Leroux’s ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ here. If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me.” “If I am the phantom, it is because man’s hatred has made me so. In the book, there were several very lovely passages. It was challenging for me to read the book since it read so much like a historical recreation of facts. The story draws some of its inspiration from actual nineteenth-century occurrences at the Paris Opera as well as an urban legend about the use of a former ballet student’s bones in Hector Berlioz’s 1841 performance of Der Freischütz. There wouldn’t be a Phantom of the Opera today without Gaston Leroux’s original rendition of Le Fantôme de l’Opéra. (first released in 1909) The original Gaston Leroux Novel Book: Le Fantôme de l’Opéra by Gaston Leroux by Gaston le Roux ![]()
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![]() ![]() Peirce is said to have given the club its name. Its members included three young men who would later achieve intellectual prominence – the philosopher and psychologist William James, the future Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendel Holmes Jr., and the brilliant polymath and father of semiotics Charles Sanders Peirce. The Metaphysical Club of the book’s title flourished for only a few months in Cambridge in 1872. He joined the Harvard faculty in 2003 as Professor of English and American Literature and Language. Unfortunately, according to Menand, the third and last moment has just passed.Ī distinguished scholar known for academic research as well as for essays and reviews in such publications as The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books, Menand is the author of “The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America” (2001), a best seller that won both the Francis Parkman Prize from the Association of American Historians and the Pulitzer Prize for History. 12 on the three moments when pragmatism, a quintessentially American philosophy that he defined as “an idea about ideas,” gained ascendancy in American intellectual life. ![]() (Staff photo Justin Ide/Harvard News Office)Ĭultural historian Louis Menand lectured Feb. Louis Menand frames his argument to a rapt audience at the Gutman Conference Center at the GSE. ![]() ![]() ![]() Much to the dismay of his parents, he dropped out of Princeton to spend two years training with the legendary sect of monks who invented kung fu and Zen Buddhism.Įxpecting to find an isolated citadel populated by supernatural ascetics that hed seen in countless badly dubbed chop-socky flicks, Matthew instead discovered a tacky tourist trap run by Communist party hacks. ![]() While in college, Matthew decided the time had come to pursue this quixotic dream before it was too late. Growing up a ninety-pound weakling tormented by bullies in the schoolyards of Kansas, young Matthew Polly dreamed of one day journeying to the Shaolin Temple in China to become the toughest fighter in the world, like Caine in his favorite 1970s TV series, Kung Fu. Bill Bryson meets Bruce Lee in this raucously funny story of one scrawny Americans quest to become a kung fu master at Chinas legendary Shaolin Temple. ![]() ![]() She doesn't want to be there one single bit.Īnd her cousins don't know what to make of Lucy either-she makes no attempt to even try to see any good in them, and it's hard to be friendly with someone who clearly doesn't want to be friends. And Lucy has nothing whatsoever in common with her cousins, and doesn't even have a room of her own. It is old on the inside, but in the process of being modernized (personal shudder) inside. ![]() The house is noisy-full of popular music, and television, and arguing. ![]() When her aunt dies, Lucy is sent off to relatives she has never met (an uncle and aunt with three children of their own) and finds herself in a completely alien environment. Lucy has lived a very quiet childhood brought up by her extremely old-fashioned aunt-playing spillikins and croquet, educated at home, and generally out-of-step with modern (1970s) children. Come Back, Lucy by Pamela Sykes (1977), published in the US as Mirror of Danger, is one I've been meaning to review for ages-it has an extremely loyal following of readers who were haunted by it, and was made into a television show that seems to have been equally popular. ![]() ![]() Fox to the Amazon to uncover the truth of his death. When one of her colleagues is reported to have died while following up on the progress of a field team based in Brazil, Marina is dispatched by Mr. Marina Singh is a research scientist at Vogel, a pharmaceutical institute in Minnesota, inconveniently in love with her boss, Mr. Tova Beiser, Brown University Bookstore, Providence, RIįrom the NYT bestselling author of Bel Canto and Run, a major and explosively ambitious new novel, set in the Amazonian jungle, both a gripping adventure story and a profound investigation of difficult human choices. Tova Beiser, Brown University Bookstore, Providence, RI Summer 2012 Reading Group This spellbinding, richly atmospheric novel raises ethical questions about scientific research and discovery, loyalty, honesty, and love. ![]() “When Marina Singh receives a note that her office mate, Anders Eckman, has died in the Amazon while investigating scientific work on female fertility, she is persuaded to follow him into the jungle in search of the doctor with whom he worked - who has also exerted a crucial influence on Marina's life - and to retrieve Anders' personal effects. ![]() St Joseph's University (Brooklyn Voices Series). ![]() |