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Who robbed the Louvre right answers only

Akimbo is such a Tom Wolfe word. Can someone confirm whether it’s in every one of his books?

YOUR FAVORATE PRESIDENT IS MAKING THE TRUMP KENNEDY CENTER GREAT AGAIN!!! NO MORE WOKE ART. GOODBYE LESS MISERABLE, HELLO MORE MISERABLE!!!

“Please taste it on your pasta” 😳

The latter.

Ooh what do you put in your strawberry shrub? Kind of vinegar/any aromatics?

The “What is truth?” question is included in the Gospel of John, but no response is recorded there.

Immaculate Mary (low-mid) and Pange Lingua (high), imo

Sincere thanks for this post. It may not be on your radar, but the NEA also just announced a revision of its Grants for Arts Projects priorities to focus on projects that honor the 250th anniversary of the United States. Officially they will still consider all projects, but the intention is clear.

(7) 20 U.S.C. § 951(1), passed by congress in 1965, states that “The arts and humanities belong to all the people of the United States.” I weep for this loss for all Americans, and I weep for what we are becoming.

(6) improving education and healthcare outcomes, and a host of other tangible and intangible benefits to our lives…

(5) True art does not merely celebrate; it questions and challenges as often as it uplifts. The loss of the NEA’s funding will decimate the arts and culture sector, which supports 4.9 million American jobs, in addition to unifying our communities, improving our well-being, driving tourism, …

(4) Compared to other departments and agencies, the NEA’s budget is minuscule. But that money will now be used to produce only art that valorizes our history and is deemed permissible by the administration: in other words, propaganda. Or in yet other words, state-directed art…

(3) in our lives. Grants for Arts Projects will now focus narrowly on “honoring the semiquincentennial of the United States of America (America250). Funding priority will be given for projects…that celebrate and honor the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.” …

(2) and eviscerated its Grants for Arts Projects— its largest program and the one that has supported everything from children’s theater productions to creative aging programs to ambitious new works of the visual and performing arts, to after-school music instruction, to every facet of the arts…

It closes this album, one of my very favorites during Advent.
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I really enjoyed both of those. You might add these two to your list. A delightful exploration of magical practice during the Age of Enlightenment, set against the Abolitionist movement in England and the French and Haitian Revolutions. Virtuosic, compelling. Highly recommend!

Very glad to see you again!