Ancient Greek has four moods/modes. Like Latin, Italian, French, and Modern Greek, it has indicative for statements and questions of fact, imperative for commands, subjunctive to express uncertainty or probability, and Optative
Harold Lloyd, the last member of the trio of early cinema’s silent clowns, is simultaneously highly recognized and completely forgotten.
This is a revised version of a talk given to a group of high school history teachers in Louisiana in 2007.: Pius IX, an almost forgotten “great man”
As I noted here a month ago, my interest in the Titanic originated in my four-year-old’s obsession with the maritime disaster, which I had at first found as inexplicable as other children’s obsession with dinosaurs.
Some of my friends are supporting Trump’s intervention in Venezuela and, likely, again in Iran. Ok, we disagree, but let’s remain friends. Politics divides too often.
For several decades I have been doing variations on Italian meat sauce. I was initially inspired by watching The Godfather, the scene where the family and allies are hunkered down and Peter Clemenza (played by Richard Castellano) shows Michael how they made meat sauce in prison.
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The demonstrations, in Minneapolis and other cities, against the enforcement of US immigration law are a vivid illustration of what the American people, in their childish pursuit of what they imagine to be human right, have become.
Simplifying ideologies drain the life out of most of us, and any form of subjectivism leads quickly to relativism, and thus indifference. From “You say potahto, I say potayto,” the descent to every erotic eccentric’s defense, “Don’t knock it until you’ve tried it” is rapid.
