Vaclav Havel's funeral was, perhaps unexpectedly, quite uplifting, a reminder that speaking the truth with courage and conviction can still be the most powerful weapon of all.
Presenting them during onboarding, having visual reminders, and speaking about them are all good ways to reinforce those values.
And it's a potent reminder that such music speaks a higher truth.
If so, it was a reminder that the spoken language is the real miracle.
If so, it was a reminder that the spoken language is the real miracle.
This small selection of work by artists living in Brooklyn is a reminder that, geographically speaking, Long Island's western reaches harbor an art community every bit as vital as the more celebrated one at its eastern end.
The set starts with the brooding drumming of Naná Vasconcelos, which recalls Afro-Brazilian Candomblé ceremonies, accompanied by Seun Kuti's spoken reminder of the musical links to Africa and the slave trade.
I'm rarely moved by the rhetorical style of Ivy League valedictory addresses, so when people say "the president made a great speech," it's just an unnecessary reminder that actions speak louder than words.
"[T]he law does not excuse copyright infringement, no matter how fulsome the infringer's acknowledgment of his copying," Posner explains, "but the acknowledgment will exonerate him of any charge of plagiarism". Perhaps even more fundamental is Posner's reminder that, strictly speaking, in modern law there is no such thing as a legal claim for plagiarism.
"'All The Things She Meant To Say' is a reaction to carelessness, a reminder to think before one speaks," explained TYGAPAW in an email to THUMP.
