Monday, July 25, 2016

Hillary Clinton Says She Was "Saddened" By A Republican Convention She Didn't Watch--And Admits She Didn't Understand...

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From Sunday night's 60 Minutes interview with Scott Pelley : Scott Pelley: Madam Secretary, did you hear the Republican convention c...
Monday, June 13, 2016

Garry Apgar's Mickey Mouse is a Symbol for Our Time

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In his two recent books on the celebrated American rodent--a magisterial art historical survey published by the Walt Disney Family Found...
Thursday, June 02, 2016

With Dr. Thorne, Julian Fellowes Takes Alistair Cooke's Chair...

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    A recent email from Amazon.com announced that the latest costume drama produced by Downton Abbey impressario Julian Fello...
Monday, May 23, 2016

Morley Safer, Remembered...

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Permit a few words of tribute to pay my respects to Morley Safer, who died last week aged 84.  At a time when the public's...
Monday, May 09, 2016

America's Post-9/11 Foreign Policy Evolution: Appeasement-Collaboration-Confrontation

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It has become a cliche to cite Winston Churchill's famous wisecrack about Americans, yet one is hard put to find a better explanatio...
Friday, April 29, 2016

Isadora Duncan Goes To Washington

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Idealism met reality in Washington on April 16th, when Harvard University's Center for Hellenic Studies hosted " Maenads and ...
Friday, April 15, 2016

Russian Lessons for the Next President

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"Russia Policy for the Next Administration" panel at CGI (l-r) Michael Purcell, Andrew Kuchins, Thomas Graham, Nikolai Zlobin ...
Tuesday, April 05, 2016

A Canadian Clash of Civilizations

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L-R: Louise Arbour, Simon Schama, Nigel Farage, Mark Steyn April Fools Day 2016  was an appropriate date for the Munk Debate over: &q...
Friday, March 25, 2016

Shakespeare's Hit Parade

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The Complaint of a Lover Forsaken of His Love , 1611-1656 SOURCE: http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/ballad/30040/image A  Poore Soule ...