About Levi Strauss: Levi Strauss was a German-American businessman of German Jewish descent who founded the first company to manufacture blue jeans. His firm, Levi Strauss & Co., began in 1853 in San Francisco, California.
An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions.
In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now seem to us to have been of comically little worth.
Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.
If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void.
We can understand, too, that natural species are chosen not because they are 'good to eat' but because they are 'good to think.'
