From Round to Square (and back)

For The Emperor's Teacher, scroll down (↓) to "Topics." It's the management book that will rock the world (and break the vase, as you will see). Click or paste the following link for a recent profile of the project: http://magazine.beloit.edu/?story_id=240813&issue_id=240610

A new post appears every day at 12:05* (CDT). There's more, though. Take a look at the right-hand side of the page for over four years of material (2,000 posts and growing) from Seinfeld and country music to every single day of the Chinese lunar calendar...translated. Look here ↓ and explore a little. It will take you all the way down the page...from round to square (and back again).
*Occasionally I will leave a long post up for thirty-six hours, and post a shorter entry at noon the next day.

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Newsprint Nonpareil—Shakespeare at 450

Click here for the "Newsprint Nonpareil" Resource Center—(all posts available) 
Click here for the introduction to the Round and Square series "Newsprint Nonpareil"
This is a "small" (小) post—click here for an explanation of Round and Square post lengths.
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11 April 2013—China's Lunar Calendar 2013 04-11
11 April 2013—New Religion: All Under Heaven
11 April 2012—La Pensée Cyclique: Embodied Wholes
11 April 2011—Breaking the Vessel: Exile and Response
[a] Coverage PD
Der Größte—The Biggest (of the Bigs)

[b] Covered RF
"His work is the most fascinating that any writer has brought out." These aren't my words, although I concur wholeheartedly. "But William Shakespeare is still a mystery."

Yup-yup.

I marvel every week at Die Zeit's cover story. They cover management, current events, hundred year-old wars, and popular culture. I am always surprised at what is coming, and I reserve Thursday nights for reading the story. Part of the charm is the combination of current and "historical"—and the newspaper's distinctive ability to show how they fit together. Only a tiny handful of newspapers in the world can pull off this level of cultural investigation amidst a flurry of Breaking News! This isn't the AP, after all.

Happy reading. If you don't "do" German, there is still a plan. A nice pass through, say, The Tempest—or even Twelfth Night—might be in order. Let us hunt...the 心 (the heart-mind).
[b] Mysteries RF

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