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Monthly Archives: September 2014
Ray Rice, John Wilmot, & Macho Culture
Ray Rice’s fury at his fiancé, like John Wilmot’s distrust of women, shows his inability to move from the world of men to that of women.
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The Secret Ecstasy of Reading
Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “Aurora Leigh” captures my own relationship with books.
Scotland’s Vote: Victory or Gory Bed?
Many have been quoting Robert Burns’ “Scots Wha Hae” as Scotland’s referendum on independence approaches.
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Why Do We Laugh? Various Theories
Whether you see laughter as benign or hostile may come down to what kind of person you are.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Anthony Ashley Cooper, Comedy, Laughter, Leviathan, Mikhail Bakhtin, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Hobbes Comments closed
The Seahawks: Prepared to Swoop & Kill
The Seattle Seahawks look prepared, once again, to unleash havoc on the other teams in the NFL–like the hawk in a Robert Cording poem.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "Feeding the Birds", Football, NFL, Robert Cording, Seattle Seahawks, Sports Comments closed
Estonia Calls, Obama Answers
Obama seemed to be responding to an Estonian poet in his NATO speech.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "Denunciation", Estonia, Marie Under, Russia, Stalin, USSR Comments closed
How Disney Appropriated Mary Poppins
“Saving Mr. Banks” doesn’t admit just how thoroughly Disney stole Mary Poppins from author P.L. Travers.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged emotional reticence, Mary Poppins, P.L. Travers, Saving Mr. Banks, Walt Disney Comments closed