Why does everything get a standing ovation now?
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Why does everything get a standing ovation now?

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 13, 202616 min
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Call it standing ovation inflation: these days, it feels like it's mandatory to stand and clap for live performances. Has our please clap era gone too far? That's what one Throughline listener wanted to know. So we traced the winding road from Shakespeare’s epilogues to Broadway divas to ridiculously long film festival ovations… and how they helped engineer the way we applaud. Guests: Roger Gilbert, professor in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell Kyle Buchanan, reporter and columnist for the New York Times Support public media with NPR+ and enjo...

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This message comes from Pushkin Industries. In his new audiobook, The American Way of Killing, Malcolm Gladwell asks where America's gun violence epidemic came from, from the Second Amendment to shooting ranges

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to ER doctors. Get it wherever audiobooks are sold. Okay, Rund, I'm gonna start today's episode by taking you back to a time in history

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