It's only natural that "Legends of Blue Note," a concert presented by Jazz at Lincoln Center on Thursday night, would focus chiefly on that era, if only as a ratification of its enduring appeal.
Much has been written of this unusual book, called "a mixture of novel and natural history" by Legends of the Fall author Jim Harrison.
The real inspiration behind Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's vote to deny the child of an adulterous affair any contact with her natural father was the legend of King Arthur, Guinevere and Lancelot.
The effects were more pronounced for false political news than for false news about terrorism, natural disasters, science, urban legends or financial information.
Perhaps the most original temperament was that of Henri Bosco, author of four eerie, haunting Provençal novels about the boy Pascalet and his strange involvements with a gypsy companion, a fox, and a dog in a shifting, legend-shrouded natural world.
A new study published in Science finds that false news online travels "farther, faster, deeper, and more broadly than the truth". And the effect is more pronounced for false political news than for false news about terrorism, natural disasters, science, urban legends, or financial information.
A variety of legends interpreted natural phenomena, while historical accounts often described, with varying amounts of mythological elaboration, the migrations of people before they arrived at the island on which they were located, their adventures on the way, and the development of the culture following settlement.
At least three restaurants -- La Caravelle, the "21" Club and the Rainbow Room -- have recently created separate sections on their menus highlighting classic dishes, a shrewd way of alerting first-time visitors that they can actually snare, in their natural habitat, such culinary legends as quenelles de brochet, Dover sole anglaise and roasted chicken with champagne sauce.
Cheteshwar Pujara and Virat Kohli have been billed as the natural successors to India legends Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar, but both are enduring miserable series, with only one half-century between them in 18 innings.
There may be, however, a natural resistance to the mounting Legend of Puig, at least from viewers outside of Los Angeles.
