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Thursday, September 19, 2024

Those sympathetic with terror of course disagree

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      I grew up in what can be considered the golden age of Israeli ingenuity. From defeating the massed Arab armies in the Six-Day War in 1...
Wednesday, September 18, 2024

They're eating the plantains!

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Figurines at the 2014 Haitian vaudou show at the Field Museum.       Haitians eat plantains.      I must rush to add that Haitians eat other...
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Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Keep Trump safe so he can lose Nov. 5 and go to prison

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Portrait of Napoleon (Rijksmuseum)       Nah, I don't believe these feeble assassination attempts — two and counting — are deliberately ...
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Monday, September 16, 2024

In search of black licorice

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    I've never met anyone who didn't like chocolate. Who waved off a proffered square of Ghirardelli with, "I'm sorry; not ...
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Sunday, September 15, 2024

Flashback 2007: Found in translation —The sexy side of 'Georgics'

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     I'm still on vacation — lots of accumulated days to burn through. Here is the companion review to yesterday's look at Virgil...
Saturday, September 14, 2024

Flashback 2007: What's old is new: Homer translator takes a whack at Virgil's 'The Aeneid'

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The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro, London, 1654 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)      The Sun-Times once had a book editor, and an excellent o...
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Friday, September 13, 2024

"I saw it on television"

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        I'm on vacation all this week, since coming back from New York on Monday. It's been nice. In fact, I don't remember enjo...
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