Monthly Archives: July 2010

Christ as a Wounded Knight

By Robin Bates | Published: July 4, 2010

Spiritual Sunday I received some very confusing signals from the high school I attended.  That’s because it was an Episcopalian military prep school.  I remember hearing the phrase “church militant” and marching to church to the strains of “Onward, Christian Soldiers” (“marching as to war, with the cross of Jesus going on before”). Years later […]

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Poetry at Wimbledon

By Robin Bates | Published: July 3, 2010

Sports Saturday I’m still trying to process the Ghana and Brazil defeats and will write about the World Cup in the next two Friday posts.  For the moment, I’ll take a breather and turn to tennis. Trust Wimbledon, the classiest of the tennis tournaments, to work poetry into the occasion.  I wrote last year about […]

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The Greatest Generation’s Citizen Kane

By Robin Bates | Published: July 2, 2010

Charlie Kane sold to a bank  Film Friday Several weeks ago I wrote about the impact that the movie Citizen Kane had on my father in the months before he was drafted into the army in 1942. I was so fascinated by his response that I collaborated with him on an article about what Citizen […]

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Declining Numbers of English Majors

By Robin Bates | Published: July 1, 2010

I mentioned yesterday an article in American Scholar (Autumn 2009) on “The Decline of the English Department: How It Happened and What Could Be Done to Reverse It.” (My thanks to my father for sending it to me.) The author’s solution: put literature first.  Which I indeed think we should do but doubt that it […]

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