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Well, the Alabama-Auburn game, aka the Iron Bowl (because it used to be played in Birmingham, which was built on the iron and steel industry) is coming up tomorrow. For those who haven’t been around Auburn and Alabama fans, which I expect is almost everyone who reads this blog, this piece will give you a…
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The existence of language is one of the many phenomena—of which love and music are the two strongest—which suggest that human beings are very much more than collections of meat. —A.N. Wilson
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Weekend Music Well, the music by married couples, or bands including married couples, theme has pretty much run its course. I’m down to couples who weren’t happily married and got divorced long ago, and/or whose music I’m not that crazy about. I’m afraid I never liked Fleetwood Mac a great deal, at least in their…
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From the moment that man died on the cross, the word sacrifice became a huge word, a great word, and it revealed—as when the sun rises, like a sun that rises—that the whole life of every man is woven of sacrifices, is full of shudders of sacrifice, is, as it were, dominated by the need…
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I think this thesis of this piece, that "Sarah Palin's happiness is what really irks liberals," is only partly true. Her detractors can present much more solid reasons for finding her an objectionable political personality. But there's probably a little something to it. For an awful lot of people who are on what I call the…
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“Mahler’s childhood was not idyllic: His first composition (age six) was a Polka with an introductory Funeral March.” —James Penrose, reviewing a new book about Mahler in the November New Criterion (not available online except to subscribers)
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With great precision and no mess. Perhaps you've already seen this; if not, you should. Be sure to watch the video. The natural world is full of astonishing things. And the more closely we look at them the more astonishing they seem. I recall watching my little dog Andy one night as he considered whether…
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Just a few quick notes–I had sort of wanted to comment at more length on these but ran short of time: The Future of Social Democracy: English (Telegraph) columnist wonders why the U.S. is starting down the path that Europe seems to be coming to the end of. Related sentiments from Germany: "The US has lived…
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I may lose it if I hear the word "iconic" many more times in trivial contexts such as "the iconic Thanksgiving dinner."
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Sunday Night Journal — November 7, 2010 (This will be brief, as I was out of town all weekend.) I went to a wedding this weekend. As is often (or is it always?) the case at a Catholic wedding, one of the readings was the story of the wedding at Cana. I’ve always thought there…
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