Mob Rule
On a recent visit to France we experienced, in the course of two weeks, three general strikes and one slow-down, …
On a recent visit to France we experienced, in the course of two weeks, three general strikes and one slow-down, …
It is impossible to obtain true numbers due to lack of data, but the estimate is that one hundred billion …
What is it about stories that demand retelling? We are human, we like stories. We tell them to each other, …
On view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art at the moment is an exhibition entitled “Seurat’s Circus Sideshow,” a collection …
Whenever an opportunity arises to see Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, I leap at it knowing that I will probably find …
When I told my beloved dissertation advisor and now emeritus professor that my chorus was preparing Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis for …
Many years ago as a student in Strasbourg, France, I had many great conversations with Mme. Farès, the middle-aged cleaning …
Once, a dear friend commented on something small that had been left me by my grandmother, saying, “I don’t have …
“And death shall have no dominion”, the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas asserts, paraphrasing St. Paul and making a lyrical case …
The Greek god Dionysos, god of many names, known to the Romans as Bacchus, god of wine, of theatre, of …