No, the title of this brief announcement does refer to the birth of a baby, trailing clouds of glory, into the abyss of human life in the New America. It is the title of a Charles Williams novel that has been termed a “theological thriller.”
This is the text of a little speech I gave at the New York City Yacht Club in 1992. Yes, don’t say it, a rather unusual venue for a professional trouble-maker.
I don’t know how many of our readers know enough French to work through this brief poem, but for them, I shall give a few notes as well as the bald translation. If anyone knows of a good translation, I shall add it to the post.
In the next elections–and for succeeding elections in the foreseeable future, the propaganda campaigns of opposing candidates and parties will certainly seek to portray many of the races as a conflict between liberals and conservatives. Perhaps it would not be a waste of time to explore some of the implications.
This is the eye of the hurricane. The Russians are preparing for a winter offensive. No doubt they have in mind the winter offensive of 1943, Operation Koltso (Ring), the final blow in the Battle of Stalingrad, which is just East of the current fighting.
The slogan “Kinder, Küche, Kirche,” otherwise known as “the three Ks,” makes most people think of the Third Reich which famously adopted it, but in fact this slogan dates back to the German Empire.
The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, and we are all happy that a repulsive gaping sore in American law is gone and that Satan’s helpers have got a swat on the snout… However,
The play is a veritable choreography of vengeance. A negative appraiser might find the complexities tedious and contrived, but we might, by examining some of the characters, come to a more positive conclusion;
Douglas Young was a classical scholar, poet, historian, and Scottish nationalist. He died in 1973 after unwisely taking up running for his health.
