▰ For You and Me
In being silent, voiceless, the land itself is often left out of politics and economics.
That is from Soren Callo’s “A Quiet That Cannot Defend Itself” at the website of the Sierra Club.
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▰ Top Score
I thought about the stockings that Willy buys for the other woman, and I thought, If those stockings had a sound, what would it be? Or when Willy talks about his admiration for an older salesman who settles down in the evening with his green velvet slippers: If those green velvet slippers had a theme of their own, what would that be?
That is composer Caroline Shaw speaking in New York magazine with Justin Davidson about her score for the revival of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman.
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▰ Chasing Waterfalls
Trump’s phone could be heard ringing during a recent press conference in which he discussed a proposed 50 percent tariff on Apple. The familiar sound of the default “Reflection” ringtone—you know the one, the synthesized waterfall of xylophone tones—was a reminder that the tariffs targeted the company that makes his beloved device.
That is Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer (with additional reporting from Jonathan Lemire) in The Atlantic on the sitting president’s phone, security concerns, and the history of White House inhabitants’ affection for making and taking calls.