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Category Archives: Doing Nothing
Doing Nothing Comment
Written by Steve Balch | 6th November 2023Steve Balch is the emeritus Director of The Institute for the Study of Western Civilization at Texas Tech University. He is also the founding President of the National Association of Scholars. If you’ve ever wondered what the practice of medicine would look like viewed through a proctoscope, the answers are here and they’re mainly hilarious….
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Birgit Nilsson Recital (From Doing Nothing)
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 6th May 2009The following account of a recital by Birgit Nilsson appears in my novel Doing Nothing. Though I heard La Nilsson many times this report is entirely fictional. NK …he (Richard Grollman the novel’s protagonist) had a ticket to hear Birgit Nilsson sing that evening at (Chicago’s) Orchestra Hall. The Swedish soprano had made quite a…
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