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From “Act of God,” the fourth episode of Season One of The Crown.

Like many classics, John Milton Gregory’s The Seven Laws of Teaching is a book which is read because it is assigned. If reading the book were merely an option, few people would make it beyond the first few lines. “Teaching has its natural laws as fixed as the laws of the planets or of growing organisms. It is a process in which definiteContinue reading “A Review of John Milton Gregory’s “The Seven Laws of Teaching””

Of all the vices, none is easier to hide than cowardice.   In a prosperous society like ours, vices like lust, greed, envy, and gluttony are provoked constantly, but cowardice is a vice that can go unpracticed and unnoticed for years.   When his luck is good, the average man has no need of courage. He canContinue reading “Cowardice in Peacetime”

We’re screwed.

Or “profound imagery.” I swear, the same people who pour over music videos looking for Easter eggs will tell me I’m “reading too much into” the twentieth canto of the Paradiso.

In Class, Paul Fussell notes off-handedly that sports favored by the aristocracy tend to be played with small balls, whereas proletarian sports are played with large balls. Thus, tennis and golf and polo for the rich; basketball and soccer and football for everyone else. While he doesn’t explain this, I would note that in sportsContinue reading “Small Balls”

It’s rare in a film for plans to fall through. Nearly everything the hero purposes to do works out–and this is true of the major ordeal and all the minor ordeals, as well. I think this is why I find myself so bored with most action films. An elaborate plot is hatched to steal thisContinue reading “Can I Have Another Necklace?”

Jarvis Cocker has been looking forward to being old since he was quite young. All the preparation and anticipation has served him well.