Some people are capable of learning a great deal, but you are not one of them. You’ll never be a student. And why should you be? You don’t need to. You have other gifts. You are more gifted than I, you are richer and you are weaker, your road will be more [...]
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There was between Tonia and Yuri, of course, great friendship and undying love and devotion. What there was not was passion, and for a man like Yuri Zhivago a life without passion was a wasteland, not devoid of delights and comforts, but barren of the energy that made his life mean something and could [...] The book is formatted as a series of short stories, each with its own beginning and end loosely related by subject. In fact, the book resembles nothing so much as a shelf filled with photograph albums labeled with the chapter headings and containing old photos, each with its own story. Kevin O’Hara’s richly evocative [...] Incomprehensibly, the names and visages of the Founding Fathers are now being usurped by the latest secessionist impulse, that of the so called Tea Party. Every scholar of the colonial era must groan when the names of Adams, Washington and particularly Jefferson, who was nothing if not out of step with his Southern [...] “But, Doctor, you’re a scientist; surely you don’t believe that superstitious nonsense!” “We faeries aren’t creative, like you humans are. On our own, we can’t make art or music, or come up with new ideas – we have to learn all those things from you. But at the same time, having faeries close by makes humans more creative, so it works both ways. [...] This is real Frank Capra stuff, real “Mr Smith Goes to Washington” stuff. I defy anyone, regardless of what they may think of Obama, to walk away from this book not saying this is the way the American political system is supposed to work. All politics is local. Many books are likely to be [...] In the middle of recession there are invariably questions about how we got into it and what we can do to get out of it. Politically, it quickly devolves into a conflict between the market driven laissez-faire economists and the interventionist Keynesian ones. Television and radio infotainers yammer on using their own [...]
I never tire of watching the DVD of The Secret of Roan Inish! Even were I not Irish, I would love it; the fact that I am is just an added benefit. As a species, we humans have a penchant for creating myths. Of particular relevance to this article are the heroes. From Achilles to Sampson to Cuchulain, to Superman, we seem to want someone who can by-pass the mundane and messy process of conflict resolution and use whatever powers they have to just get [...] |
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