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The haunting soundtrack of this 1962 film presentation of one of the twentieth century’s most ambiguous heroes is not the only thing that leaves one wondering how such artistry could flourish among the certainties of that historical moment. Continue Reading »
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For Red Sox fans, 2003 was the year that we finally understood that our world is an evil place.
It was the anteroom to 2004’s glory. It was purgatory, a furnace of affliction. It was the sum of all our fears. For a moment, when we could not summon the strength to look away from the horror, it seemed that we had descended to hell. Momentarily, Dante was a sportswriter for the Globe, all was darkness, and the unbearable screaming just wouldn’t stop. Continue Reading »
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Though the word ‘Holocaust’ has become the most common cipher for one of mankind’s greatest crimes, many Jews and other rememberers of 1939-1945 object to the borrowing of this biblical term to name Hitler’s mass murder.
Why? Because a ‘holocaust’ is a burnt offering that satisfies God. Who, it is asked, can think that the extermination of European Jewry served any purpose, let alone the pacification of an angry deity? Continue Reading »
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Cool cars, expensive vodka, Italian suits, football, golf and its accoutrements, watches named after international capitals.
Oh, and cigars. Continue Reading »
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Two years later, the Red Sox fan still wakes up on the odd morning late in September thinking it never happened. It was a utopian dream, the comfort of the drugged and sleeping. Continue Reading »
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On any list of pure English-language business reportage, Barron’s would figure in the top ten. This newspaper-style weekly compiles more numbers than just about any other publication.
Though ‘fluff’ is not a word commonly associated with the Wall Street Journal, think of Barron’s as ‘WSJ without the fluff’. That’s how focused it is. Continue Reading »
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You can tell a lot about the readership a men’s magazine is trying to reach by scanning the first three car ads. In the issue in front of me, they flog the Lincoln MKZ, Range Rover Sport, and Audi A6. Continue Reading »
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In this most famous of biblical passages, it seems on an early morning like this one that a reader could almost substitute the word ‘God’ for the apostle’s ‘love’ and that the poem would still turn out right. This is no accident. Continue Reading »
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Biblical Languages—What’s the Use?
CU Chapter, Religious and Theological Studies Fellowship
4 March 1997
Several years ago, I was asked to say some words to the RTSF chapter at Cambridge University, under the title ‘Biblical Languages—What’s the Use?’ I would love to have know the pre-history of the brief text which that title was. It sounded as though some particular agony lay behind it, the kind that might set biblical scholars to arguing whether it was an individual crisis or, conversely, some undocumented communal upheaval that gave it birth.
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Question: Is there a better American English-language daily anywhere?
Answer: no. Continue Reading »
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Canter Bridge 