They decided to interview all women, which is interesting since I can see what they are wearing. All have sensible shoes, a little too old for them, like these, but I probably need those to look conservative enough for the kind of thing I am applying for and because I can no longer wear real … More Job interview outfits … for half senior faculty, half administrative positions
I do not agree that communicative approaches, those methods referred to as grammar-translation, the direct and natural methods, and so on, are merely teaching “styles” — they have different goals and produce different results. Since we as a group do not have a common approach, the de facto departmental method is that used by those … More I should not say this in real life now, but…
He is wedded to the idea that we and ours are inferior because of projection. Due to projective identification I am the enemy by virtue of being who I am, no matter what I may actually feel or do. There is no direct solution for this. Axé.
This is one of his Moscow factories, abandoned but now restored as an office building. He also had a larger, green one at Lenin Sloboda 19, which has been boarded up but not demolished. That man staring at it is my cousin. The commission on heritage says that as a late nineteenth century wooden structure … More Aleksandr Venyaminovich’s factory
…of the kind that look bad to me today, but will look good to me in the future. Axé.
I checked out nine new books on Vallejo and there are others. The Stephen Hart biography is fascinating. I should never have quit Vallejo. All it would have taken is a no to that editor, or negotiations with that editor on deadlines for and content of that book, and I never should have quit Vallejo. … More Tulane LAL
Some of my Moscow family in 1902. Axé.
Here we have my great-aunt Lidia and son Cyrill riding in a carriage, Moscow 1915. From about 1971 to 1982 we corresponded, in French of course. Axé.
I have received photographs of family graves in Moscow. They are sharing headstones. Fyodor and Anna Samoiloff Aleksandr and Cyrill Voskresensky Lidia Voskresenskaya and Henrietta Kahn Axé.
…homologar la tortura y el genocidio a las generalidades de la Neurosis traumática es desconocer su especificidad, la que radica en que es otro humano –un semejante– el que tramita racionalmente nuestro oprobio o destrucción. A partir de allí –y a perpetuidad–, la pregunta de quién es el prójimo se planteará sin cesar con otra … More Marcelo Viñar
