The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary
Greek I.31 With Audio and Greek Composition
Holiday is over, and it is time to buckle down. Please memorize the forms of the Present Medio-Passive and the Aorist Middle. Be sure to consult paragraphs 527, 530 for full paradigms.
Buster Keaton, the Great Stone Face by Vince Cornell
A genius in constructing gags, a man well ahead of his time in understanding how to manipulate the technology of cinema to tell a joke, and almost the polar opposite of Charlie Chaplin in terms of sentimentality….
Wednesday’s Child: Headline Terror
This post is pure plagiarism, but not because I’m lazy or because today, for us Orthodox, it’s Christmas and I’m breaking the fast in some extraordinarily time-consuming, lamb-devouring, deck-the-halls way.
The Best Revenge: Manzo Brasato
I have been making Manzo Brasato (Braised Beef Lombard Style) for well over thirty years. My original recipe source, a book I still consult regularly, was Ada Boni’s Regional Italian Cooking.
Pursuing Happiness, I: Misery and Gin
In the old dormitory bull sessions, if the subject of happiness came up, someone would be sure to use the old trope of the contented cow in the pasture. The cow certainly experienced something like pleasure, but could a rational human being agree with the cow?
The Best Revenge: Risotto Hoppin John
Several decades ago, we discovered an Italian version in Luciano Bugialli’s excellent The Fine Art of Italian Cooking, which is actually a book on Florentine cuisine.
New Year’s Poems
Three quite different poems on the New Year, by Richard Wilbur, Kenneth Patchen, and Lord Tennyson
Wednesday’s Child: Our Kind Don’t Kill
The child is only four, but neighbors are already beginning to ask why he isn’t in school.
