Apocryphal Wisdom, 5-7
In Chapter 5 “Solomon” continues his discussion of the just man in an unjust society, where, when the just is rewarded, his former persecutors are dismayed:
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I Saw How President Carter Slighted Our Military
I served in the U.S. Army from Feb. 1978 to Feb. 1982. The first three years were under Commander-in-Chief Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at age 100, and the final year under Commander-in-Chief Ronald Reagan. I’ll tell you what it was like.
Italian II.1
A number of people have asked to continue the Italian lessons, which we shall do at a slower pace so long as there is one student. I do ask everyone is working on these lessons to respond to each post, if it is only to say, “Present.”
Greek I: Introduction
I shall in the future try to post these Greek lessons on Monday. But, since I promised to begin in January, here we are.
Wednesday’s Child: Christmas in Damascus
I’m not personally acquainted with Mrs. Assad, but I’m sure she’s a perfectly nice woman who just happened to be an accomplice of a historically significant war criminal. I could well have met her – she had been living in London until 2000, when she met her future husband and moved to Damascus – as I had many Arab friends at the time. The point is that accomplices of criminals, and on occasion the criminals themselves, are often perfectly nice people.
Ethnic Identity: A Conversation
I have begun to wonder how many generations it takes for immigrants to lose their ethnic identity.
Wednesday’s Child: Sacred and Profane
As I have noted here on a few occasions, good Catholics though they are, Italians are as distant from Christianity as any pagan.
Fifties American Sleepers
On my century-spanning big list of favorite movies, there are more titles from the fifties than from any other decade.
More Apocryphal Wisdom: Chapters 3-4
It is pretty clear why the rabbis eventually rejected a book whose third chapter begins with a promise of immortality for the just:
