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In January 1999, Diana Rigg (Emma Peel of "The Avengers") and her London company brought Jean Racine’s plays "Phèdre" and "Britannicus" to New York at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

A contemporary Rip Van Winkle, awake after 20-some years and walking around downtown Aurora, might not, at first glance, notice any changes. Most of the buildings look the way they

Modern English literature has been produced since around the year 1500, and we now have more than six centuries worth, plus American lit, and it’s not as if the tradition

The question in the headline is borrowed from Montesquieu’s 1721 epistolary novel, "Persian Letters," in which two travelers from a distant eastern country visit Paris and comment on what they

Many readers probably remember the "Seinfeld" episode with the cigar store Indian where Jerry, trying hard not to appear insensitive, desperately avoids words like "reservation" and "ticket scalper" when attempting

Before the pandemic, our after-service discussion group at the United Ministry of Aurora latched on to the subject of rejection. A member of the group, Herb Thomas, a retired psychiatrist

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Ed Rossmann Special to The Citizen There’s no evidence that John Quincy Adams, librarian of Auburn Theological Seminary, ever made an issue of his name, which is of course also the name of the sixth president of the United States. In his memoir, "An Old Boy Remembers," Adams makes no mention of the fact. He was born Aug. 8, 1849, in Ogden, Monroe County, son of Caleb Kimball and Laura Keeler Adams. He graduated from the University of Rochester in 1874, and from the Auburn Theol...

Ed Rossmann Special to The Citizen In the late 1990s, when she was 13, Lorna Finlayson decided to quit school. She had come to understand what high school education really was: “The real purpose ... of the school system was to instill the habit of obedience ... to our superiors.” ("Diary: I was a Child Liberationist," London Review of Books, Feb. 18, 2021). Her father, whose dyslexia had made his schooling a nightmare, did not object, and her older brother had left the cou...

Ed Rossmann Special to The Citizen Recent events in Washington reminded me of something that happened in Paris 80-some years ago, which may be of interest today. On the evening of Feb. 6, 1934, a right-wing mob of several thousand people on Concord Square prepared to assault the Chamber of Deputies, seat of the National Assembly, the French parliament. The immediate cause was the Stavisky scandal, in which a Jewish-Ukrainian broker with ties to the government had sold worthless bond...