Cactus Corners
Ed
On this date in 1959 Columbia University English instructor Charles Van Doren admitted to a House committee investigating television quiz show rigging that, "I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception. The fact that I too was very much deceived cannot keep me from being the principal victim of that deception, because I was its principal symbol."
Only recently a Time Magazine cover subject for his appearances on Twenty One, Van Doren lost his faculty and NBC correspondent appointments, subsequently pled guilty to perjury before a grand jury, and withdrew from public life. His later recollection of those events in The New Yorker broke a silence of nearly 50 years.
Charles Van Doren, All the Answers (The New Yorker, July 28, 2008)
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Avantgarde & Classical
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Saturday 11/02/2013 @ 2:00PM - 4:00PM
Artist | Song | Album | Label | Comments |
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Silk Road Ensemble | Playlist for an Extreme Occasion | A Playlist Without Borders | Sony Masterworks | Featuring Yo-Yo Ma, cello |
Quark | Aureole | Trust in Time | Home | |
Quark | Waltz for Eric | Trust in Time | Home | |
Quark | Le Rayon Magique | Trust in Time | Home | |
Land of Kush | Sharm El Bango | The Big Mango | Constellation | |
Land of Kush | Sharm El Bango | The Big Mango | Constellation | |
V/A: Random Radar Records | Mars Everywhere: Attack of the Giant Squid! | A Random Sampler (1977) | Random Radar Records | |
Pauline Oliveros | Horse Sings from Cloud (1975) | The Wanderer | Lovely Music (1984) | |
Unit Charge | Midst of the Garden | Outer Gods / Unit Charge split EP | Persistentmidnight015 (2013) | https://outergods.bandcamp.com/track/midst-of-the-garden |