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Parsifal, Reloaded
Parsifal, Reloaded Parsifal, Bayreuth Festival, Germany, 21st August 2017, director Uwe Eric Laufenberg, conducted by Hartmut Haenchen, reviewed by Tony Cooper Parsifal, Wagner’s farewell to the world, was completed in January 1882 and was first seen in that year. This … Continue reading
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Tagged Bayreuth Festival, Hartmut Haenchen, Parsifal, Wagner
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Wisdom of the Ancient Greeks
Wisdom of the Ancient Greeks André Laks, Glen W. Most, Early Greek Philosophy, vols. I-IX, Loeb Classical Library, Harvard Press (2016) The subject of philosophy is often labeled ‘The Great Conversation’, an on-going dialogue linking contemporary wisdom-seekers with the sages … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristotle, Heraclitus, Loeb Classical Library, Plato, Protagoras
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The Reluctant Saint
The Reluctant Saint Film directed by Edward Dmytrk, reviewed by Thomas O Meehan A few days ago watching Turner Classic Movies I caught the film The Reluctant Saint (1962). It was strikingly like the religious films of my youth in its poor … Continue reading
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Tagged Edward Dmytryk, Jerry Lewis, Joseph of Cupertino, Maximilian Schell, TCM
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Bearer of the Flame
Bearer of the Flame Ernest Hemingway: A Biography, Mary V Dearborn, Knopf, 738 pp., $35; Ernest Hemingway: A New Life, James M Hutchisson, Pennsylvania State University Press, 292 pp., $37.95. Reviewed by STODDARD MARTIN PART ONE 1961 saw two great … Continue reading
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Tagged F Scott Fitzgerald, Hemingway, James Hutchisson, JFK, Mary Dearborn
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Churchill
Churchill Cast: Brian Cox as Winston Churchill Miranda Richardson as Clementine Churchill John Slattery as Dwight D. Eisenhower James Purefoy as King George VI Julian Wadham as General Bernard Montgomery Danny Webb as Field Marshall Alan Brooke Jonathan Aris as … Continue reading
Dunkirk
Dunkirk Cast: Fionn Whitehead as Tommy, a British Army private Tom Glynn-Carney as Peter, Mr Dawson’s son Mark Rylance as Mr Dawson, a mariner and Peter’s father Jack Lowden as Pilot Officer Collins, a Royal Air Force Spitfire pilot Harry … Continue reading
Wensleydale Heifer
The Wensleydale Heifer Em Marshall-Luck enjoys fine food in North Yorkshire The Wensleydale Heifer is an outstanding hotel, bar and seafood restaurant nestling in the village of West Witton under the benevolent, albeit looming gaze of Penn Hill. There are … Continue reading
Oakeshott’s World View
Oakeshott’s World View Noel O’Sullivan (ed.), The Place of Michael Oakeshott in Contemporary Western and Non-Western Thought, Imprint Academic, 2017; £19.95; pbk; 197 pages, reviewed in three parts by ALLAN POND [This collection includes some of the papers given at the … Continue reading
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Tagged Allan Pond, Collingwood, conservatism, Michael Oakeshott, Thomas Hobbes
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Contention City
Contention City Bill Hartley, in a mythic landscape In Tombstone, none of the locals knew precisely where Contention City was. They’d all heard of it but even the otherwise helpful ladies at the information office were at a loss. In … Continue reading →
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