Attention, Lovers of Italian
After completing, sort of, the three levels of Living Language Italian, I am happy to continue with a little further study. There are several lines that might be pursued:
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Decadent Verses
First, a French manifesto of the Parnassien school that preached art for art’s sake, and then a few English poems by Andrew Lang that give some small idea of the French style.
The Burden of Personal Responsibility
Here is my take. Crimes should be about a human being harming another human being against the latter’s will (this includes property crimes).
Wednesday’s Child: The Young, the Cheap, and the Frugal
Hopper was very frank in his pronouncements, and one of the truths he imparted was that Clint Eastwood fled California and made for Italy in the 1960’s to escape persecution, ostracism, and unemployment.
Podcast: The American Way of Murder
Presidential assassinations and assassination attempts are an indication of deeply flawed political morality.
Wednesday’s Child: Girl Talk
The gentle reader is aware by now of my fascination with “true crime,” as it was called when Britain ruled the waves.
Pope Leo and a Particular Issue
It is a peculiar feature of our culture that those outside the Catholic Church often appear acutely aware of the Church’s negative prescriptions on sexuality, if not the positive message they serve. Yet such matters are rarely mentioned in sermons at mass, to which the Church hopes eventually to welcome those currently outside it.
It is a peculiar feature of our culture that those outside the Catholic Church often appear acutely aware of the Church’s negative prescriptions on sexuality, if not the positive message they serve. Yet such matters are rarely mentioned in sermons at mass, to which the Church hopes eventually to welcome those currently outside it.
