El Chacal de Nahueltoro
07/02/2012
I found it! Axé.
Currulao
07/02/2012
Axé.
Juan Bosch
06/02/2012
More on the Dominican theme. I don’t remember the US backed coup of 1963, but I do remember the US backed invasion of 1965, when we were also putting Mobutu Sese Seko into the Congo and escalating in Viet Nam. I cannot believe people witnessed these things, yet did not understand the drumbeat that led … More Juan Bosch
Rafael Fernández Dominguez
06/02/2012
I needed video from the Dominican Republic and the search caused me to find some amazing things. Axé.
Rampal, Stern, Accardo, Rostropovich, and some dolphins
06/02/2012
Axé.
On always blaming the faculty
05/02/2012
Until very recently the administrative staff alleged we were Luddites and technophobes. We were using too much chalk and not enough computers. Now they are clucking that we “have become dependent on technology.” Axé.
Hippolyte Taine
05/02/2012
Nietzche did not get tenure, it is said, due to the committee’s disinterest in The Birth of Tragedy, his tenure book; he never got another academic job. Now it appears that Taine failed the agrégation. From the Johns Hopkins Guide: Although he was clearly the outstanding student of his class, he failed his final examination … More Hippolyte Taine
Claudio, ancora
05/02/2012
I am of course also an aggregator of just a few Italian songs. It has come to me that of persons from the past about whom I know nothing, Monteverdi might be fun to meet. I am guessing we could speak in some form of Romance, and go out to hear raucous music. It is, … More Claudio, ancora
M.S. Aurelia
04/02/2012
Catching up on the Costa Concordia news, hoping to hear the ringtone which apparently exists of Gregorio de Falco saying “Ritorni a bordo, cazzo,” I noticed that this ship was over ten times the size of the one I took to Europe long ago. When I rode on the M.S. Aurelia it took ten days … More M.S. Aurelia
Sobre el verbo atreverse a
04/02/2012
Two of my friends from elementary school now have college age children who, according to their mothers, are all too cautious in life. They do not understand it, as they at the same age were not so cautious themselves, and as they have not raised their children to be fearful. One of these children, for … More Sobre el verbo atreverse a
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