Working through a measure of George Walker’s “Lyric for Strings,” conductor Scott Speck cautions members of the Mobile Symphony Orchestra to think about the cues they take from one another: “You have to watch as much as listen, with this distance,” he says. It is the evening of Friday, Oct. […]
Words
Tucker Carlson on Monday night shared his thoughts on the resignation of Blake Neff, his Fox News program’s top writer, who was revealed to have penned racist and sexist messages using a pseudonym. “What Blake wrote anonymously was wrong,” Carlson said towards the end of the hour on Monday. “We […]
We all make spelling mistakes from time to time — in fact, “misspelled” is itself often misspelled as “mispelled.” It’s easy to get many words wrong, particularly homophones. These are words that sound the same but have different spellings. For example, “there,” “their,” and “they’re” are all pronounced the same […]