Category: Cultural Trends
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The Metamorphosis of Narcissus
May 11 is the anniversary of the birth of Salvador Dalí. Had he lived, he would be 108…
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Everybody’s a Critic
In a recent post I made some comments critical of the Obama administration’s policies toward official transparency and…
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Impossible Things.
This weekend marks the traditional anniversary of the founding of Rome in 753 BC. Like so many historically…
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Colonel Mustard, in the Library…
One-hundred seventy-one years ago, Edgar Allen Poe published his “Murders in the Rue Morgue”: a genre was born,…
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The Play’s the Thing
There are no hard and fast rules about what is “highbrow” and what isn’t: like pornography, we all…
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Saying it with Flowers
The mere fact that twenty-six states have a State Reptile and at least one state (Louisiana) has a…
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Transylvania, Arkansas
There’s something jarring about looking around on a beautiful Spring day and seeing teenagers roaming the sunlit streets…
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