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Pоссиянин из-за санкций Америки расколотил молотком свой iPad и iPhone...
Upon remarks received re the below from kind Russian/American Facebook friends, I stand corrected. Maybe it's not humor after all ... but the "real thing." Ifindeed so, please let me know. Best,...
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Different From vs. Different Than: Grammar and International Relations
Gaza war: The terrifying truth - by Aaron David Miller, CNN:Aaron David Miller is a vice president and distinguished scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and was a Middle...
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Sprezzatura
"According to the early sixteeenth-century etiquette manual, [Castiglione]'s The Book of the Courier, sprezzatura, the handling of the complexities of life with a light and nonchalant touch, a 'studied...
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Дело пахнет керосином
FromДа, мы тоже сперва думали, что эти слова — обычная фраза из лексикона пожарного, который, осматривая обгорелые руины, выдвигает версию умышленного поджога. Так вот: ничего подобного! У афоризма...
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Missing the USSR (sans the Western models)
For Cold War enthusiasts (who drank "fruit juices" from various versions of the below machines when they were in the USSR in various capacities); from a must-see photo reportage on the USSR in 1959...
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The irony of current Russian-Ukrainian relations
In all the wise commentary on the Russia-Ukraine tragic situation, I have seen few observations that 20th-century Ukraine, despite the achievements -- cultural, economic (to name a few) of the...
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Will the Crucifix Eliminate "Like"?
There is no language I love more than American English. Having grown up overseas, with French my native language, I felt linguistically liberated when I, a Boston-born Foreign Service brat, finally did...
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Homeland
Homeland: Behind the Buzzwordby James A. Bartlett _jbartlett@excite.comMost of us have an attachment to the place we call home. It can be the house, the town, or the family we grew up in, a college we...
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Folks
"In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, we did some things that were wrong. We did a whole lot of things that were right, but we tortured some folks. We did things that were contrary to our values."--U.S....
View ArticleA must-read on U.S.-Russian relations by David Remnick
Letter from Moscow AUGUST 11, 2014 ISSUE New YorkerWatching the Eclipse: Ambassador Michael McFaul was there when the promise of democracy came to Russia—and when it began to fade.BY DAVID REMNICKAt...
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A visit to Contemporary Poland -- by Ambassador Robert B. Gosende
Memory in Poland: Notes from a recent visit - June 8 – 23, 2014Ambassador Robert R. Gosende*Background: My wife and I served abroad, first as teachers in Uganda, and then with the now defunct United...
View ArticleLust and Verlust; interpretation and thought
"every question, a desire [Lust] - every answer, a loss [Verlust]"--Martin Heidegger, cited in Paul Bishop, "Think Big," The Times Literary Supplement (July 23, 2014), p. 10."everyone interprets; no...
View ArticleEuphuism
"The freshest colours soonest fade, the teenest razor soonest turneth his edge, the finest cloth is soonest eaten with moths, and the cambric sooner stained than the coarse canvas: which appeared well...
View ArticleBraque and Picasso
George Braque once said of Picasso, the artist in collaboration with whom he changed the course of twentieth-century art, that "he used to be a great painter. Now he is merely a genius."--Ben Eastham,...
View ArticleWilde on the modern
"it is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned."--Oscar Wilde, in The Decay of Lying; cited in Kathleen Riley's review of The Importance of Being Earnest,The Times Literary Supplement (July 25,...
View ArticleDescartes and St. Augustine
"I think, therefore I am."--Descartes"I live, therefore I am."--St. AugustineCited in David Van Dusen, in a review of Daniel Austin Napier, En Route to the Confessions: The roots and development of...
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Quotations from Chairman Robin (RIP)
From:1. "See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time."2. “Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.”3. “Do you...
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The Great American Novel
From: Letters to the Editor, The Times Literary Supplement (August 1, 2014), p. 6Sir,Sarah Graham recounts Larence Buell's fourfold thematic classification of the Great American Novel: classic...
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"Here's Why There Are So Many German-Americans In The US": Notes for a...
From; via JJ on FacebookHere's Why There Are So Many German-Americans In The USPAMELA ENGEL AND GUS LUBINOCT. 6, 2013, 10:35 AM Maps from Ancestry & Ethnicity in America, 2012, Grey House...
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Anyone notice a VOA logo on this photoshopped (?) pix of a Russian...
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