Trump and Vance attacking Zelensky is like the harpies of the shore plucking the eagle of the sea in Holmes’s “Old Ironsides.”
Tag Archives: Oliver Wendell Holmes
Trump vs. Zelensky, Harpy vs. Eagle
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Washington Post, a Harpy of the Shore
In which I direct Oliver Wendell Holmsian indignation (as expressed in “Old Ironsides”) at the billionaire owners of “Washington Post” and “L.A. Times.”
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When Reading Dante Was a Radical Act
In Matthew Pearl’s 19th century murder mystery “Dante Club,” translating Dante is dangerous business.
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Chicago’s Harpies Take Down LeBron
The thuggish way that the Chicago Bulls ended the Miami Heat’s streak recalls Oliver Wendell Holmes’s “harpies of the shore.”
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Literature about Health Care Reform
At present I am one of those liberals in a high state of anxiety about the prospects of Obama’s attempts to bring us universal health care. I find myself careening through the highs of hope and the lows of fear. I watch the political proceedings minutely, then turn away discouraged, then read some columnist […]
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Emily Dickinson, George Eliot, health care, Hope is that thing with feathers, J. R. R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, Middlemarch, Old Ironsides, politics Comments closed
