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United States · United StatesFor centuries, polyglots and the linguistically curious have pointed out the similarities between certain languages of the Eurasian continent. Dante stirred controversy when he first posited that all the Romance languages—Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and Romanian—derived from Latin. But by 1786, the British judge and philologist Sir William “Oriental” Jones was applauded when he famously asserted that Sanskrit, Latin, and Greek had “spr…Read Article
Lingua Obscura - The American Scholar
South Dakota · South DakotaThe Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American West by Martha S. Sandweiss; Princeton University Press, 368 pp., $32 Few periods grip the American imagination like the bloody “Indian Wars” of the latter half of the 19th century. The Library of Congress contains nearly 80,000 titles on the subject, 800 of them from this century alone, and nearly all of them focus on bloodshed from the European perspective. Only starting in the late 1…Read Article
An Enigma at the Center - The American Scholar
New York City · New YorkStorms, volcanoes, avalanches, and even the Apocalypse itself—these are the metaphors from nature that were used time and again to describe Franz Liszt’s playing, according to New Yorker music critic Alex Ross. Liszt was a showman. Thinking back on his own experiences with live performers, Ross recalled only one who possessed a similar power: the free-jazz pianist and composer Cecil Taylor, who gave Ross the feeling of being so engulfed in sound…Read Article
