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Devastation in the Arts
A chilling article in the NYT:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/26/a...atre-arts.html
"During the quarter ending in September, when the overall unemployment rate averaged 8.5 percent, 52 percent [!] of actors, 55 percent [!] of dancers and 27 percent of musicians were out of work, according to the National Endowment for the Arts."
“'My fear is we’re not just losing jobs, we’re losing careers,' said Adam Krauthamer, president of Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians in New York. He said 95 percent of the local’s 7,000 members are not working on a regular basis because of the mandated shutdown. 'It will create a great cultural depression,' he said."
God help us.
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"You sea! I resign myself to you also . . . . I guess what you mean,
I behold from the beach your crooked inviting fingers,
I believe you refuse to go back without feeling of me;
We must have a turn together . . . . I undress . . . . hurry me out of sight of the land,
Cushion me soft . . . . rock me in billowy drowse,
Dash me with amorous wet . . . . I can repay you."
Walt Whitman
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