The death of a beloved cousin is throwing me into the primal pain described by Tennyson and Auden.
Monthly Archives: September 2012
Refugee Poem Changed Liberty’s Meaning
The poem at the base of the Statue of Liberty get us to interpret the sculpture differently than the designer intended.
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Clara Bow, the “It Girl” of the Jazz Age
Even 85 years later, actress Clara Bow, the “It Girl,” still explodes off the screen.
Great Political Novels Not Agenda Driven
Great political novels are rich in spiritual attitude. Poor ones are agenda driven.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "Easter 1916", American Pastoral, Berger's Daughter, fathers and sons, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Henry James, Ivan Turgenev, Joseph Conrad, Literary Theory, Nadine Gordimer, Natalia Ginzburg, Orhan Pamuk, Philip Roth, political novel, snow, Stendahl, V.S. Naipaul, Vargas Llosa, William Butler Yeats Comments closed
Packers Screwed in Update of “The Jungle”
The locked-out NFL refs bring to mind the exploited workers in Upton Sinclair’s “Jungle.”
Paul Ryan: No Country for Old Men
Paul Ryan’s speech before AARP brings to mind the generational conflict described in Samuel Johnson’s “Rasselas.”
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Is Mitt Like Hemingway’s Dead Leopard?
Mitt Romney resembles the dead leopard in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” in multiple ways.
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Midsummer Madness–Orioles Chasing First
In this topsy-turrvy baseball season, as in Midsummer Night’s Dream, all things are possible and the Baltimore Orioles are a game out of first.
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