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Anthony McCarthy / Free Content

19 Jul, 2025

The Master Builder

The London theatre-goer has to get used to seeing what he reveres systematically demeaned. Such a thought occurred to me as I watched ‘My Master Builder’, a play very loosely based on Ibsen’s striking late work The Master Builder.

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Fleming / Free Content

6 Jul, 2025

Media Maniacs

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I have often imagined award ceremonies to pay tribute to what is most typically American. My first thought was a PT Barnum Award for the American who most contributed to the degradation of the American character.

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Fleming / Free Content / Uncategorized

1 Jul, 2025

The Mentality of Walter Scott

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For the average Scottish or English reader, Waverley must have been an exhilarating backwards trip through time and history, which enabled him to see both the feudal and tribal loyalties of Scots who adhered to the Stuart cause in much the same way their ancestors had flocked to the standards of Wallace and the Bruces.

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Free Content

17 May, 2025

Greece in November

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We are tentatively planning a small group trip to Greece of about 10 days for November 2025.    The rough plan is to arrive and spend perhaps three nights in Athens and see the usual sights, then a bus will take us to Nauplion/Nafplio on the East coast of the Peloponnesus and from there visit Mycenae and Epidauros, and perhaps Tiryns and/or Nemea