Books
‘Taps’ .. the Bugle Call immortalized in ‘From Here to Eternity’ …
James Jones wrote the Army’s riposte to Margaret Mitchell’s ‘Gone With the Wind’ in which Sergeant Milton Anthony Warden is the counter of the suave, sensitive, albeit brutal, Rhett Butler. Where as the motion picture GWTW won the then highest count of Academy Awards, the black and white, FHTE became famous on account of the beach frolic of Burt Lancaster [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )The Afghan War …
US President Barak Obama has recognized a rare truth - winning the war in Afghanistan is highest priority. For one thing there is History.
The Russians with their steam roller tactics did not last a decade; and the Brits, when they ruled India, made three expeditions, in the first of which only one medical man, mounted on [...]
M*A*S*H … Alan Alda … & History…
M*A*S*H is an American television series adapted from the 1970 feature film MASH (based on the 1968 novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors, by Richard Hooker).
The series is a medical drama/black comedy that follows a team of doctors and support staff stationed at the 4077 Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in South Korea, during [...]
Plutarch … the provincial moralist …
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. Character is simply habit long continued.
Passion for fame, a passion which is the instinct of all great souls. I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.
If [...]
Omar Khayyam’s couplets …
Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night
Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:
And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
The Sultán’s Turret in a Noose of Light.
One Moment in Annihilation’s Waste,
One Moment, of the Well of Life to taste–
The Stars are setting and the Caravan
Starts for the Dawn of [...]
Anne Frank …
Whoever is happy will make others happy too ………………… No one has ever become poor by giving.
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
And finally [...]
Lord Chesterfield …
From ‘Lord Chesterfield’s Letters’. Not intended for publication, the celebrated and controversial correspondence between father and son dates from 1737. They reflect the political craft of a leading statesman and the urbane wit of a man who associated with Addison, Pope and Swift. The letters reveal the authors political cynicism, views on good breeding and [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Hitler’s friend and possible(?) Successor …
Albert Speer, born on 19 Mar 1905 and died (due to a heart attack while on a visit to London) on 1 Sep 1981. Wise and brilliant.
Possibily the most intelligent and cool Nazi, who was Hitlers personal friend yet who escaped the death sentence at the Nuremburg Trials – his deptuy was hanged.. He impressed [...]
The Original ??? …
Bit disconcerting, when you had credited some one with something, to find that some other, much earlier had said the same.
Case in point. The great Gibbon, in his magnum opus, has observed –
“The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were considered by the people as equally true; by the by the [...]
Did anyone use the word ‘excoriate’? …
Hamlet, thou thy father has much offended ___
Mother, my father thou has much offended.
Come, come, you answer with an idle tongue ____
Go, go, you question with a wicked tongue.
Hast thou forgot me? ___
You are the queen, your husbands brothers wife, and – were it not so, you are my mother. ….. Come, come sit you [...]
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