Frost may allude to the belief that we become more conservative as we age, but his own poetry refutes the claim.
Monthly Archives: January 2012
Growing More Liberal as We Age
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Jilted by Your Fiancé? Turn to Austen
A student distraught when her fiance dropped her used Jane Austen’s ironic wit in “Sense and Sensibility” to regain perspective and reenter the world.
Choose, GOP: Rich Mobster or Sleazy Pimp
Columnist Jonathan Chait compares the current battle between Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich for GOP voters to the love triangle in the Scorsese film “Casino.”
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Dear Frustrated in Love: Read a Classic
Literature is better than any self help book for relationship guidance.
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Will GOP Base Play the Sap Yet Again?
Is the Republican establishment simply exploiting its base, like Tom (in “Mill on the Floss”) exploits Maggie and as Brigid O’Shaughnessy (in “The Maltese Falcon”) tries to exploit Sam Spade?
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Newt Gingrich, Shades of The Wasteland
Newt Gingrich reminds me of “the young man carbuncular” in “The Wasteland,” “one of the low on whom assurance sits as a silk hat on a Bradford millionaire.”
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With Me Stood a Rescued Throng
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s poem “Fishers of Men” invokes Jesus’s words to Peter as she appears to talk about her work on behalf of slaves.
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