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October 22, 2006 by Cyrus Patell

Meeting Mark Crispin Miller

Recently we invited the media critic Mark Crispin Miller to give the inaugural FYRE lecture at the residence hall where I am a Faculty Fellow. (NYU has the same same relation to acronyms that Samuel Johnson claimed that Shakespeare had to the pun. “FYRE” stands for “first-year residential experience.”) The FYRE lecture series was the [...]

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October 21, 2006 by Cyrus Patell

Bush-League America

On the eve of the 2006 World Series, with an important national midterm election looming soon afterward, it’s worth reconsidering what the literary scholar Jacques Barzun wrote half a century ago: “Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game.” After all, a [...]