Besides, our ancestors, we should always bear in mind, were not really civilized people. They were descended from Goths and Saxons, Franks, Normans and Lombard. To the extent they were civilized, it was the result of the Christian Church and the study of the classics.
We exchanged some pleasantries, he patted my son on the head, and then he said, “You’ve gained some weight, haven’t you?”
This was a talk written for a Summer School in 2003 but perhaps not delivered. Lack of access to my old records prevent me from finding out.
The bigger news is voters will decide Proposition 50 on Nov. 4. Given it affects the whole country, shouldn’t this be a national referendum?
My paternal grandfather and I would listen to the Grand Ole Opry on Saturday nights on WSM-AM radio out of Nashville in the late 1950s and into the 1960s. Besides standard country & western, we particularly liked Bluegrass.
Will the Baltic states be next? Or was the invasion in his view a preemptive strike against an existential threat to the Russian nation? Is it possible that the present conflict in Ukraine might have been avoided if the chancelleries and intelligence services of the Western powers had made a more thorough study of their enemy
In the very years when Pius IX was defending his little kingdom, another war was waging on the other side of the world. There, too, an old-fashioned people in the Southern states were fighting to preserve their independence and their agrarian way of life against an aggressive industrialized power in the north.
The grassy knoll has firmly established itself in the narrative in the form of a Dairy Queen in Orem, Utah, but there are a myriad other suchlike tropes.
