Professor Chusid Report archive

1/28: "Conflict drives drama."

1/28: "The gods play a great role in mythology."

1/30: "The eyes have tremendous meaning for us. We read people mostly by reading their eyes."

2/6: "Diminutives often have an endearing quality."

2/11: "Independence Day [in India] is when they celebrate their independence from England."

3/6: "Nowadays the happiest ending is when the crooks get away with it. ... We should be angry as hell, but we aren't. Funny thing about human nature."

3/25: "We don't have a classical education anymore... we study science, math--the practical things, that can give us the atom bomb, and the other achievements of our modern society."

3/27: "It's practically impossible to deny these charges [of witchcraft], because it would be self-serving to deny it, and you would be expected to deny it even if you were possessed by the devil, or believed in the devil, or whatever."

4/10: "Minor keys, of course, are good for dark, dramatic situations."

4/15: "Women are usually thinner than men, less muscular."

4/29: "A person's skeleton--the bone structure--is really what determines what a person looks like."

5/6: "Rhythm is a very complicated affair."