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A good pair of scissors is like your right leg. You don’t realize how easy it makes regular life until you lose it. (more…)
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Few selections of Paul’s written discourse with his followers cause as much consternation as the seventh chapter of his letter to the Romans. The latter portion of this chapter is taken up with the struggle of an ‘I’, the identity of which is one of biblical interpretation’s great conundra. (more…)
Posted in paterfamilias, reseña on August 6, 2007| Leave a Comment »
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This relatively inexpensive Citizen Quartz watch has a thin profile and swings easily on the wrist. Mine is identical to the Amazon site photo except that the entire band is gold colored rather than alternating with stainless steel silver. (more…)
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For this reviewer’s ears, there is no more consistently joyful music than that of Antonio Vivaldi, the Venetian Baroque master. I find him particularly born to compose for the cello. (more…)
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Boccherini’s Quintets for Guitar and Strings do not highlight the guitar as solo instrument in the way that better-known Baroque concerti frame and focus upon their respective solo instruments. Rather, the instrument insinuates itself into a company of strings and plays along with them, sometimes providing a steady background and occasionally emerging as a conventional soloist. (more…)
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If you think about economics, you need this Economist/Bloomberg Press publication or one very much like it.
For clarity on all matters of the public record–not just economics–nobody beat The Economist newspaper, a British ‘news magazine’ whose largest national readership is now in the USA. (more…)
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Appreciative readers (they tend to be long-term readers as well) of The Economist sometimes wonder why misspellings and non sequiturs are virtually absent from that superb weekly magazine. (more…)
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‘We plead and we pray, for the breaking of day’, Dan Fogelberg emotes in one of this album’s more gripping sagas of angst, existential despair, lost love, and incessant yearning.
It’s the kind of turning a phrase that makes some souls reverberate to Fogelberg’s musical soul exposure and others whince when they hear his name as though it were not well to say the word in polite company. This reviewer is among the reverberators. (more…)
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Two Nashville gentlemen who have mastered the task of teaching men to be gentlemen without coming across as stuffy wrote this splendid little volume on the art of the toast. As in the rest of the Gentlemanners books, John Bridges and Bryan Curtis set a tone that is not framed by rules but by consideration for others and deference to those who ought to be in the limelight of a special occasion. (more…)
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At the risk of inverting priorities, let me begin this review with a word of disclosure about the reviewer:
I love travel, am on the road half the time for professional reasons, travel to all the continents, have lived on three of them for extended periods of time, and nurture a quiet reservation about people who ‘get to know’ faraway places by the convenience of a short visit to an affluent resort. (more…)
Canter Bridge 