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8.05.2013

Happy Birthday Wendell Berry!

“The complexity of our present trouble suggests as never before that we need to change our present concept of education. Education is not properly an industry, and its proper use is not to serve industries, either by job-training or by industry-subsidized research. It’s proper use is to enable citizens to live lives that are economically, politically, socially, and culturally responsible.    Read more »

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8.02.2013

Who Is Mr. Serling Talking About?

“Where will he go next, this phantom from another time, this resurrected ghost of a previous nightmare – Chicago? Los Angeles? Miami, Florida? Vincennes, Indiana? Syracuse, New York?

“Anyplace, every place, where there’s hate, where there’s prejudice, where there’s bigotry.

“He’s alive.

“He’s alive so long as these evils exist.

“Remember that when he comes to your town.    Read more »

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8.01.2013

“I Fled Him, Down the Arches of the Years” *

 

“They say a man isn’t old till regrets take the place of dreams.”

 — John Barrymore in “Barrymore” by William Luce

(Then again:)

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”

— C.S. Lewis

(*A line from the first verse of “The Hound of Heaven,” by Francis Thompson, quoted near the end of “Barrymore.”)      Read more »

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