Wednesday’s Child: Open This End
The “How To” manual is a familiar genre, elements of which can be traced to antiquity. It shares the bookshelf in the den with Harlequin romances and other extrusions of the Edwardian epoch….
The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary
Game Plans
In a podcast of January 14, I was asked if Trump could actually accomplish some good for the American people. Partly joking, I answered:
Poems by Conrad Aiken
Conrad Aiken was born in Savannah but after his parents’ death (when he was two), he was reared by an aunt in Cambridge, Massachusets . At Havard, he and Eliot were friends and colleagues.
Greek I.6 The A-Declension
Feminine nouns of the -A declension, adjectives, word order of nouns plus adjective
Anti-Semitic Semites
Is Donald Trump doing the right thing by expelling Semites accused of anti-Semitism? Absolutely.
Italian II. 4
This lesson includes conversation that are built from the words and phrases of the first three lessons. It also reviews what you should already know, the present tense of regular verbs in -are and the plural forms of the definite articles.
Wednesday’s Child: The Sacred Cow
“She is an idol,” wrote Baudelaire of the woman in Le Peintre de la Vie Moderne, “who must be adorned to be adored.”
Birthright of Lies
Donald Trump has reopened the debate on ius soli citizenship, or what people ignorant of both law and Latin insist on calling birthright citizenship. So much nonsense is being written by both sides of the question that it is probably a waste of time to say anything.
