6/10/2023 0 Comments The plague stuart gilbert![]() ![]() How did we end up so unprepared, so caught off guard? The first images of the dead, especially in Bergamo, Italy, a kind of ground zero on the European continent, were unbelievable for those of us living in first-world nations, particularly the United States after all, that could never happen here. The images of the dying, alone in hospital beds, some on respirators, others waiting in an endlessly long queue for respirators, were shocking. In fact, at the time we weren’t even sure if we were dealing with a pandemic at all. ![]() ![]() When the first images of the dying were beamed into our homes or on computers and cell phones in early 2020, we were still uncertain about the severity of what would become the COVID-19 global pandemic. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() And not a few dancing bears stalk its pages. ![]() It didn't hurt that author Allan Bloom – egged on by University of Chicago colleague Saul Bellow who contributed the foreword – could turn a phrase, minting one of the more memorable descriptions of college leaders caving to bolshie student activists: "A few students discovered that pompous teachers who catechized them about academic freedom could, with a little shove, be made into dancing bears."īy design of its title and subject, The Coddling of the American Mind invites comparison with this near-namesake. Published in 1987, The Closing of the American Mind was a recondite jeremiad against cultural relativism and declining academic standards – not the material of your average blockbuster. There's a running thread –"campus craziness" – devoted to them on conservative TV channel Fox News and they were the subject of a cantankerous bestseller credited with fomenting the US culture wars. Affronting popular sensibilities at taxpayers' expense, Leftist excesses on campus reliably inflame middle America. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments The chess player zweig![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Zweig’s interest in psychology and the teachings of his friend and compatriot, the Austrian Jewish neurologist Sigmund Freud, is discernible in much of his work, but especially in. Stefan Zweig's acclaimed novella Chess is a disturbing, intensely dramatic depiction of obsession and the price of the past. This high-stakes match is what makes a film about chess not only eminently watchable but also downright nail-biting, even for those who don’t know how to play. At first, they crumble, until they are helped by whispered advice from a stranger in the crowd - a man who will risk everything to win. ![]() a baseborn great chess champion stands out, the reigning chess champion. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil.Ī group of passengers on a cruise ship challenge the world chess champion to a match. Stefan Zweig - Chess Story - review - Fascism had an antagonist movement. Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-SmithĬelebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Once and then series![]() ![]() A teenage Gleitzman was buoyed by the publication of a short story in Dolly magazine. Before becoming a published children’s author, Gleitzman worked in a variety of jobs including as a paperboy and department store Santa Claus. Gleitzman earned a degree in Professional Writing at the Canberra College of Advanced Education. His books are published in more than twenty countries, endearing him to children (and parents) all over the world. Gleitzman’s audiobooks are punctuated by offbeat humour, poignant adventure, and unexpected moments – exploring confronting subjects with charm and wit. The Once series includes Once, Then, Now, After, and Soon audiobooks. Soon, the fifth book in the Once series, was named young reader book of the year for 2016 by the Children’s Book Council of Australia. This story takes us on an incredible journey with courageous young Felix, making his way through the world with the kindness of strangers, in a time where extending such kindness can mean risking it all. ![]() Which tells the story of Felix, a child of Jewish parents who has been left at a convent orphanage in war-torn Poland during the time of Nazi invasion. Gleitzman and Jennings also co-authored the Deadly short story series which includes titles Nude, Brats, Stiff, Hunt, Grope, and Pluck.Īnother series of books by Morris Gleitzman is Once Morris Gleitzman has collaborated with fellow children’s author Paul Jennings on the six part Wicked! book series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The rules that I drew up required that every member, in his turn, should produce one or more queries on any point of Morals, Politics, or Natural Philosophy, to be discuss’d by the company and once in three months produce and read an essay of his own writing, on any subject he pleased. “I should have mentioned before, that, in the autumn of the preceding year, I had form’d most of my ingenious acquaintance into a club of mutual improvement, which was called the Junto 54 we met on Friday evenings. ![]() “So convenient a thing is it to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.” ![]() He took old copies of The Spectator, found sections he liked, and wrote down hints to what they were saying.Then, after a few days, he tried recreating those sections in his own language based on the hints.First, he realized that his word choice could be better, so he forced himself to turn the sentiments into poetry to stretch his vocabulary.Then, he tried mixing up the order of his hints, to see how he thought about and could improve his structure. Franklin’s process for improving his writing: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Wayne County Public Library, Wooster, OH, children's librarian, 1964-65 University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, Chicago, IL, children's librarian, 1967-68 Booklist, Chicago, reviewer, 1968-69, children's books editor, 1973-85 Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, children's books editor, 1985-94, consulting editor, 1994-2007. Office-Graduate School of Library and Information Science, 501 E. Education: Wooster College, B.A., 1964 University of Chicago, M.A., 1968, Ph.D., 1985. Born October 6, 1942, in Wilsonville, AL daughter of Kenneth (a doctor) and Elizabeth Gould (an architectural historian) married Michael Claffey children: Joanna Hearne, Elizabeth Claffey. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Sartori imajica![]() ![]() ![]() He went back inside to join the line for the toilets, leaving Jude at the door, watching the blobs of wet snow pass through the lamplight. When they exited, there was sleet in the wind. Light had come into the world again, even if it was to the accompaniment of tap-dancing elves. In the end, with Charlie Parker angels wailing on the stable roof and Santa crooning at the manger, the piece collapsed into high camp. The second half was even more of a grab bag than the first, the suspicion growing in Jude as she watched that the parody and pastiche was a smokescreen put up to cover the creators’ embarrassment at their own sincerity. “I don’t know whether it’s a comedy or a satire or what the hell it is,” he said. The show’s eclecticism offended his rationalism deeply. “But it doesn’t make any sense,” he complained, in deadly earnest. The kid gets born, the kid grows up, the kid gets crucified.” “I mean, it’s not like there’s any mystery about it. ![]() “Do we really need to stay for the rest?” he asked her as they sipped coffee in the tiny foyer. He concealed his boredom through the first act, but by intermission he was itching to be away to claim his prize. If indeed he’d secured the tickets as a way of bribing her between the sheets, he suffered for his lust. “What about the rest of the time?” he hollered after her. “Marlin, sometimes you’re sublime,” she said, dumping her purchases and racing to change. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments A storm of swords 2![]() You have two options of launching the mod. The mod includes Engine Overhaul Project (EOP), it allows us to have online battles. ![]() ![]() We are also using WTW HS patch by Jadli, it includes the following - small adjustments to recruitment (changes to ships, removed the availibility of standard mercenaries in settlements, etc), removed majority of scripts, fixed some recruitment scripts, enabled forts, added siege equipment and agents, added freeupkeep to all house units, stat changes to GBs, added siege equipment and agents, balancing to economy, armies, etc. You can find more info on the project and battle implementation in the link below. ![]() Hello everyone! Here we shall delve back into the World of Westeros with a whole new twist online battles! We can finally continue with our strategic plans as before, but we shall be implementing the amazing Enginbe Overhaul Project (EOP) by youneuoy so that we can fight it out on the field. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Malum by Amo Jones![]() ![]() Their lives are one big chess match and you don’t want to cross Tillie and her Kings. It’s no more King of the Hill their playing, now it’s King of the World and watch out world, because these boys mean and do what they say. Malum part 2 brings on a whole new ballgame for The Kings. Malum part 1 felt like boys playing King of the Hill on the schoolyard. ![]() He had just evolved tremendously from part 1 to now. ![]() However, there is one person that can slip past her defenses no matter how many times she puts a wall up. He gave money to the poor, while Tillie defends those that are frailer and weaker than her. She is hardcore, smart, will defend herself and others, if needed. ![]() I’m still unsure how I’m being put back together, but my love for Tillie and Nate is strong. I’ll admit I said this before about a couple of books, but Malum part 2, truly did destroy me and rip me apart. Jones is going to throw another one of her epic monkey wrenches in everything and take that away. Dare I say happy? I’m afraid if I do, Ms. I am wrecked, flabbergasted, suspicious of everything and everyone. Don’t hesitate, don’t think twice, just one-click this baby and read.’ However, that really isn’t a review now is it? Seriously, a part of me wants to just say to you all, ‘Just read the book. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Famous shakespeare sonnets![]() ![]() Sonnet 18 is one of Shakespeare’s most famous sonnets. This couplet, the last two lines of the poem, reveals the entire point of the sonnet: The speaker does not need to exaggerate the beauty of his mistress to love her deeply. It’s almost an insulting poem until you get to the final two lines:Īnd yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare ![]() Her breath is not as lovely as perfume and may even have an unpleasant odor. Not every Shakespearean sonnet lets the form control the meaning in this way, but many do.įor example, in Sonnet 13, the first 12 lines are making ordinary and even unfavorable comparisons about the beauty of the speaker’s mistress. Then in the final couplet, the true meaning of the poem is revealed. The three quatrains that make up the first 12 lines explore a common theme. In many cases, the Shakespearean sonnet form also affects the content of a poem. ![]() |