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Or rather a problem, I should say, but a fairly big one. I brought it up the other day to someone who has studied economics and worked in that field. She had never heard of it, so later I went looking around on the web for some sort of quick intro. And almost everything I found…
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Actually, I still haven't quite finished it, but I'm close, and I'm impatient to say what I think: this is a wonderful document. I mostly kept to my intention of avoiding commentary about the work, wanting to encounter it with as little preconception as I could manage, but it was impossible to avoid hearing the…
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Glenn Gould's humming sometimes makes it seem like there was a lunatic lurking in the recording studio.
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Advent Weekend Music I was actually looking for the English hymn based on the traditional Latin, and ran across this, which is quite lovely.
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I guess I should say "Ordinariate-related." "Anglican" is both more and less accurate, as it isn't in the name of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, on the face of which designation you would not know that its purpose is the preservation of the Anglican patrimony in union with the Catholic Church. …
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There are probably going to be a number of these brief reviews of mostly old movies over the next month or so. We are about to cancel our "cable" TV service (actually over the phone lines–AT&T's TV+Internet service). It's crazy for us to keep it, since we almost never watch anything but PBS, TCM, and…
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Rock Around the Clock This is a completely negligible movie, apart from a couple of musical performances. There's Bill Haley and his Comets performing the title song, of course, as well as a couple of other tunes. Even better are the two performances by The Platters, and best of all their performance of "The Great…
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Not to accept everything, but to understand everything; not to approve of everything, but to forgive everything; not to adopt everything, but to search for the grain of truth that is contained in everything. To reject no idea and no good intention, however awkward or feeble. –Elisabeth Leseur (via Magnificat)
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Marcus L. Urann, the inventor of canned jellied cranberry sauce. I love this stuff. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. The story is actually pretty interesting from the socio-economic as well as the gustatory perspective. I didn't know that Ocean Spray is and has been from the start a growers' cooperative.
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So, Pope Francis has published an "apostolic exhortation," and I see indications that the Catholic blogosphere is lighting up with comments about it. And I'm tempted to skim the thing as quickly as possible and deliver some quick comments of my own. But I'm going to resist that impulse. This thing is about 50,000 words…
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