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Author Archives: Michael Hendry
Who(m) Can You Count On?
If you’re looking for a snow shovel three days into a blizzard: Home Depot. Martin’s (our local high-end grocery chain) sold out on Friday, when the blizzard was just getting started. By Monday, Walmart had been out of snow shovels … Continue reading
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Just a Suggestion . . . .
Perhaps I’m just addicted to bad jokes and cultural allusions, but if I were Terry Teachout, I would have titled his latest post “Top of the world, ma!”.
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Blizzard!
The view from my front window late this morning: Renting means not having to shovel the steps, like the home-owner across the street. The view from my back window:
An Unfortunate Coincidence of Names
Prufrock Press “is the nation’s leading resource for gifted and talented children and gifted education programs”. I hope the name is not a literary allusion. Gifted and talented children have enough trouble with accusations of nerdliness and worse: they really … Continue reading
Posted in Culture: Poetry, Work: Teaching
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Method in Madness
There nearly always is method in madness. It’s what drives men mad, being methodical. (G. K. Chesterton, The Man Who Knew Too Much, VI. “The Fad of the Fisherman”)
Posted in Culture: Fiction
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What Does This Even Mean?
Seen on a T-shirt worn by an 8th-grade Latin student (male): Satan is a nerd.
A Journalist in 1922
Harold March was the sort of man who knows everything about politics; and nothing about politicians. He also knew a good deal about art, letters, philosophy and general culture; about almost everything, indeed, except the world he was living in. … Continue reading
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High School Humor
One of my Latin II students, a 9th-grader, told the class that she wants to have three sons so she can name them Alvin, Theodore, and Simon. I told her that if she does that she’ll end up spending tens … Continue reading
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Quotation of the Day
“I don’t like men that are always eating cake.” (Gertrude Wentworth, in Henry James, The Europeans, I)
Review: Sweeney Todd at ShenanArts
In three words: very well done. I was going to add “for a little theater production”, but I’ll just leave it at that. The principals, Brian Holsopple as Sweeney Todd and Barbara Spilman Lawson as Mrs. Lovett, were particularly strong: … Continue reading
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Just Wondering . . .
Terry Teachout titles a post “FAQ and A”. Is that a pun on “F***in’ A”, or do I just have a dirty (and pun-obsessed) mind?
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Hume on the Roman Poets
Ovid and Lucretius are almost as licentious in their style as Lord Rochester, though the former were fine gentlemen and delicate writers, and the latter, from the corruptions of that court in which he lived, seems to have thrown off … Continue reading
A Missed Opportunity for Aesthetic Synergy
The American Shakespeare Center is currently doing four plays in rotation at the Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton: I Henry IV, Merry Wives of Windsor, Much Ado About Nothing, and Titus Andronicus. All are delightful in their different ways. Unfortunately, Titus … Continue reading
Posted in Blackfriars, English Literature, Latin Literature, Theater Reviews
Tagged Seneca the Younger, Shakespeare
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Ahem . . . .
When you have an event scheduled for August 24th, you should probably not have it listed under August 25th on your website: Clicking the date on the calendar takes one to another page that lists the date as August 25th … Continue reading
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And You Thought Roman Numerals Were Unnecessarily Complex . . .
Eugene Volokh quotes M. I. Finley’s warning about the unreliability of numbers in ancient authors: Even the rare figure to which an ancient author treats us is suspect a priori …. [W]hen Thucydides (7.27.5) tells us that more than 20,000 … Continue reading
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No One Can Escape the Tentacles of the State
I don’t generally waste money on ‘organic’ or ‘natural’ foodstuffs, but when I buy a delicious gooey granola bar from a man wearing a fringe beard, straw hat, white shirt, and suspenders, I really don’t like it to have quite … Continue reading
The Merry Wives of Windsor (ASC vs BBC) I
Like everything else they’ve done, I’ve immensely enjoyed the American Shakespeare Center‘s production of The Merry Wives of Windsor, playing through the end of November, along with Much Ado About Nothing and Titus Andronicus (more about them later). 1 Henry … Continue reading
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The Merry Wives of Windsor (ASC vs BBC) I
Like everything else they’ve done, I’ve immensely enjoyed the American Shakespeare Center‘s production of The Merry Wives of Windsor, playing through the end of November, along with Much Ado About Nothing and Titus Andronicus (more about them later). 1 Henry … Continue reading
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Shakespeare at the Blackfriars Theatre in Staunton
I moved to Staunton, Virginia a year ago last week for a number of reasons, but primarily so I could go to plays at the Blackfriars Playhouse. I’d been driving 4 1/2 hours each way from Raleigh every few months … Continue reading
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Good News, I Guess
It would take 10 shots of Absinthe to kill me Created by Bar Stools (þ Cold Fury)
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