There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't know what kind of performances his music gets. He wrote symphonic music and some chorale music.


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In 1964, at the age of 39, Flannery O'Connor died from complications of lupus. She had lived wit...
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Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.
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Most people imagine music playing in their heads, but some hallucinate music; some cannot sleep beca...
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In the spring of 1993, I married Beverly and moved to the woods. This is something I could never hav...
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A new laboratory technique, positron emission tomography, uses radioactively labeled oxygen or gluco...
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Neurologists have a host of clinical tests that let them observe what a brain-damaged patient can an...
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A risk for a poet-novelist is imbalance: The poems can flatten into prose or lose their intensity of...
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I'm a writer who simply can't know what I'm writing about until the writing lets me disc...
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I think one of the primary themes in my work is the paradox of memory, at once fundamental to our se...
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I feel that I'm a poet first. Not only was poetry the first genre in which I wrote, it's the...
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Through his long, productive career, Paul Theroux has mixed nonfiction books about exotic travel wit...
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I became demented overnight. Sudden onset is one factor that distinguishes my form of dementia from ...
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If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind...
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Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, stic...
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My cerebral cortex, the gray matter that MIT neuroscientist Steven Pinker likens to 'a large she...
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Eliza Factor's first novel, 'The Mercury Fountain,' explores what happens when a life dr...
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Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of...
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Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Sa...
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgett...
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My wife is a painter, musician, and fiber artist. We married in 1993, and as she worked, I found tha...
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I've forgotten what it's like to remember. I've lost the mindless confidence that a mome...
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At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow s...
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When memories fade, can one ever really return home?
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For if you train hard and responsibly your confidence surges to a maximum.
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I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.
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Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
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The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step clo...
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CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the high...
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I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a ca...
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I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best wa...
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I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have e...
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It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.
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I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years...
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It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be ve...
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The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and...
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CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake ...
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The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer abo...
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No other country in the world gives protection like that, but it is not absolute protection. People ...
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It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometim...
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I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawye...
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My role in it was not as central as it was in some of the later cases considering I was younger then...
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I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this an...
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I know a lot of reporters certainly will go to jail to defend confidential sources. Some have even g...
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I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn'...
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I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The N...
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Here we have a situation where a defendant in a case agrees to an interview with Dan Rather. It happ...
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There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest...
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I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I ...
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Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law...
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So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point ...
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When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think o...
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