The incorporation of folk forms of expression into works of higher art is an old tradition in Western music, and we find some of that tradi...

Parents usually surprise me by approving of my wife's and my intent to educate our children ourselves. Older folks and people without...

from,  The Life and Letters of Benjamin Jowett: Master of Balliol College, Oxford . by Evelyn Abbott and Lewis Campbell. 1897. Vol I. p. 1...

Sallust. Bellum Catilinae . 13. (Trans. J. C. Rolfe. 1921) . . .the passion which arose for lewdness, gluttony, and the other attendants...

Martin Heidegger. Poetry, Language, Thought . "What Are Poets For?" Translated by Albert Hofstadter Poets are the mortals who,...

Once upon a time when I was a was a wee lad of a teacher, a student needed to make up a test. Lo! The naughty boy did not do so when he sho...

The end of The Mikado has, for my money, the jauntiest rhythm and wittiest rhyming in Gilbert and Sullivan. My favorite bit is the duet ...

When you grow angry with someone absent, do not indulge your temper, your wit's ability to craft clever insults, or your imagination...

I don't have much fondness for holidays, thinking as I do that what is worth commemorating by such a grand gesture is worth remembering...