The tone of the rubebe was similar to that of the lower register of the modern viola. As it possessed but two strings, however, its range was necessarily limited.

Shortly after World War I started, a painful arthritis in his knees hospitalized him.

Consequently, I have no intellectual appetite in devoting my energies and intellectual capital simply pointing to the complicities of colonized bodies thus leaving the disaster of Eurodominance 'off the hook'.

You look at his stuff and imagine the sociorealist masterpiece he might produce if he were to engage in some heroic Steinbeckian research.