Category: Manners
I Won’t Live In a ‘Must-Read’ World!
Am I the only one put off by the phrase “must-read”? I receive five or six such messages a day...
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From the Heights of the Last Century to the Present
From Carol Burnett to Kathy Griffin, From Cecil B. DeMille to Michael Moore, From Walter Cronkite to Jim Acosta, From Johnny Carson to Jimmy Kimmel, From Dick Clark to Howard Stern…
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Will Our Dog ‘Mandy’ Go to Heaven?
After a fashion, dogs think, make choices, obey, or disobey although not rationally. Yes, they have souls.
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Oh, No, Mr. Eliot: October is the Cruellest Month
I don’t blame my parents for believing him, but the man was ignorant as dirt of what really happens in Virginia in October.
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The Near Occasion of Sin Which Is Driving
For many drivers, the legal speed limit is only a suggestion.
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The Film Billy Liar, a 60s Take On the ‘Me Generation’
The film Billy Liar, produced in Britain in 1963, addressed the self-centered urge to fulfill one’s deepest desires as beautifully as any movie I know.
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Can Culture Be Whatever?
Real culture does not incite the curiosity of the guilty, but the wonder of the innocent.
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The Woman In a Wheelchair
It was a Saturday afternoon, around 2 pm when Roseanne notified me that she received a phone call from a woman in distress. My first reaction was not to respond to the call….
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Charles III: Shakespeare For Dummies
For me, Mike Bartlett’s play “Charles III” sinks of its own cleverness and drowns in a flood of clichés.
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Boys Will Be Boys? A Tale of Three Pictures
An appearance, or a “fashion,” ought to ideally have something to do with reality, but plain experience tells us that very often the ideal does not obtain; hence, good sense advises men to look beyond what they see.
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“Time must have a stop”— The Hubris of Daylight Saving Time!
Setting aside my overall beef that most of us feel like zombies twice a year, on the average for about ten days, and that Tenebrae services are held too often in daylight, I find myself wondering why people felt so compelled to change something so fundamental to experience.
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Action! Camera! Kill Whitey!
The “paper of record” didn’t reveal the principals’ races until the third paragraph (that is, after many readers moved on to the next story) or that racism had anything to do with the crime.
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