In Search of the Once and Future King: A Stranger In A Strange Land
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
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The past, if you will permit me to begin in the fashion of a high school book report, is a foreign country; they do things differently there. It is, or was, inhabited by people so very similar to us but whose modes of thought and world view were nevertheless informed by their differing social, cultural and political circumstances. The conventions and contextual underpinnings of these historical societies were plastic, changing over time in reaction to internal pressures and outside stimulus just as the shape and character of our own society is inevitably shifting around us. If the polities and civilizations of the past were malleable and occasionally even volatile constructs, so too were the cultural touchstones and inheritance that passed through them.
Nigéria : le jour où les joueurs de l équipe nationale ont dormi nus à même le sol
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Coronavirus: L armée suisse avoue avoir été dépassée
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Actor s death reminds us of the value of Huckleberry Finn
Bill Ellzey
Hal, Huck, Jim, and Black History Month; by coincidence, they all crowded in this winter, just as I was running out of things to say about total knee replacement.
Actor Hal Holbrook died last week, age 95, after pretending to be Mark Twain on stage for more years than Samuel Langhorne Clemens used the same literary pseudonym. He drew heavily on Twain s masterpiece, Huckleberry Finn, mining the novel for its humor and vernacular language, including its coarseness and its pervasive use of the N-word for the former slave Jim who was Huck s companion and friend.
ENTRETIEN AVEC… Bernard Bangoura, directeur par intérim de l Ecole nationale des Arts de Dakar : «La musique classique n est pas seulement l apanage de l Europe…»
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