by Daniel J. Travanti | Sep 27, 1994 | Essay
New York City “SIAO YU” and “An Inspector Calls” Play Sylvia Chang is earnest. Bright, intense, pretty. She’s been in ninety movies! An assistant told me. She directed nine films. The building where the production offices are located is a...
by Daniel J. Travanti | Feb 9, 1994 | Essay
The real problem of higher education for the highly educated one is that the rest of the world—most of it—is not very bright and doesn’t know very much. Therefore it cannot operate on a high intellectual level; so it brings down the level of thinking to...
by Daniel J. Travanti | Dec 8, 1993 | Essay
Don Ameche died yesterday. He was 85. He was born in my hometown, Kenosha, Wisconsin. When his picture appeared in TIME Magazine in 1985, my picture was on the same page. Ameche was in a bathing suit standing on a diving board, I was in one of the morrow...
by Daniel J. Travanti | Dec 6, 1993 | Essay
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by Daniel J. Travanti | Dec 5, 1993 | Essay
You have to be free to care about art—especially for its own sake—which bothers me these days; hanging on walls. Photos of “museum quality” seem so artificial, meaning fake. It’s an art-ifice, artful sometimes, not exactly living, if it doesn’t mean life but only...
by Daniel J. Travanti | Nov 22, 1993 | Essay
However effective religions claim to be, they are too varied, inconsistent, arbitrary and self-concerned to be much help to anyone. Morals vary from tribe to tribe and century to century, continent to continent. Nature—hence science—is ONE:...
