Finally, germane to Harper Simon: do the children of superstar musicians have more "right" to be derivative?
It made me wonder what we really know about him and whether what we have learned over the years from all the articles, interviews and books about him (85 books, according to one recent count) is even germane to what he does.
I've seen massive shifts on lobbying and delegates pulling their bills because they know I'll amend them and that I know how to do it in a germane way".
After examining the Universitys fee program under the three-part test outlined in Lehnert v. Ferris Faculty Assn., 500 U.S. 507 (1991), it concluded that the program was not germane to the Universitys mission, did not further a vital policy of the University, and imposed too much of a burden on respondents free speech rights.
"We're living in a society now where we've discovered that it's increasingly more important and germane to us that we do cross boundaries in working together," said the Rev. Carroll Baltimore, president of the PNBC, citing common interests in poverty, education, health disparities and incarcerated black men.
"A lot of academics used to have the attitude of 'what does this have to do with anything?' and don't see it as germane," says Ross. "Now they increasingly do.
But if the question is germane to the topic and of interest to the rest of the audience the decision of what to do next comes down to do you know the answer or not.
While trying to imbue the tracks themselves with significance is futile — it would be like plucking a carrot medallion from a pot of stew and evaluating it as a meal — the act of segregating a vocal melody does feel germane to our cultural moment, in which decontextualization has practically become its own practice.
I'm certain this factor is in play (it's also germane to Puzzle #2), but it doesn't solve the puzzle.
Included in "Readings" are excerpts from a fictitious manual called "Principles of Necrophysics," about how to ventriloquize ghosts, which asserts, "To yield your mouth to the voice of another, you must suppress what you may be used to thinking of as 'your own' voice". The instruction sounds as germane to writing fiction as it does to communicating with the dead.
But if the characters are captivating and the storytelling is germane to who these people are, I don't think the audience is really interested in how much of the producer's hand was in the show.
