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by cafard 7mo ago
Trollope eventually got quite responsible work at the post office. Some writers found consular and diplomatic posts: among the Americans, Hawthorne, Howell, and (James Russell) Lowell; among the French, Chateaubriand and Stendhal. Louis Auc
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by cafard 7mo ago
I am not in that market, but this seems implausible. My neighborhood is pretty prosperous, but I doubt that $400k/year is the standard. Yet kids do go off to daycare.
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by cafard 7mo ago
That was the story that was current back then, at least the tying to a tree part. It may have been invented, but not by the New Yorker writer.
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by cafard 7mo ago
This is in the US? I have rarely heard political homilies.
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by cafard 7mo ago
What does this have to do with the post?
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by cafard 7mo ago
An acquaintance made some money as cantor to a synagogue around here. He was not Jewish, but I gather that the combination of singing and getting paid felt just fine.
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by cafard 7mo ago
In 1982 the Secretary of the Interior, James Watts, announced that Wayne Newton would perform at the National Mall on Independence Day, at least implying that the Beach Boys, who had been there the year before, really didn't reflect go
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by cafard 7mo ago
Jaroslav Pelikan's history of Christian doctrine runs to five volumes. I haven't read the last, but the first four are very readable. The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition (100-600) runs to something under 400 pages. Given the
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by cafard 7mo ago
Elite distance runners are likely to be running farther than a half marathon every day. There used to be a notion that your weekly mileage ought to be triple the distance you are training for, which for a marathon is about 79 miles per week
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by cafard 7mo ago
Kids today miss the chagrin of damaging a protruding door handle, and the entertainment of one of their elders entirely removing one against some obstacle.
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by cafard 7mo ago
The most important Latin scholar in the world at that time? That is quite a claim. My recollection from Bernard Knox's essay "Closet Modern", collected in Essays Ancient and Modern is that Houseman's work, whatever its
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by cafard 8mo ago
The FBI used to like to hire the young from southwestern Virginia, western North Carolina, and such places: generally the kids wouldn't have traveled at all far from their birthplaces, and so security checks were that much easier.
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by cafard 8mo ago
I don't use TikTok, but I can think of more than one Epstein who is not Jeffrey but whom I can imagine somebody sending a message about, for example Joseph Epstein.
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by cafard 8mo ago
This seems to be the week for retrenchment in Bezos World. The Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go stores are closing, The Washington Post is laying off half of its foreign correspondents, and the Post was planning to send nobody to the Winter Olymp
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by cafard 8mo ago
Something to do with being located between Germany and Russia? Or, if you will, Prussia, the Hapsburg Empire, and Russia?
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by cafard 8mo ago
I don't quite get your point about the blurring of church and state. What a government employee does with his own time can hardly be considered an act of the government. Having said that, I otherwise agree with you, though I don't
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by cafard 8mo ago
As far as I know, all branches of the US military write up a "fitness report" for each officer once a year. "Above Average" is a certain career killer. But somebody who was a dean at (I think) Virginia Tech wrote that th
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by cafard 8mo ago
Americans don't celebrate failure? Well, there's the Alamo. There's Custer's Last Stand. There's Douglas MacArthur getting a Medal of Honor for being chased out of Luzon. And I urge American HNers to walk or drive a
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by cafard 8mo ago
History: about halfway through The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium by Anthony Kaldellis. (About halfway through 918 pages, not counting notes etc., so you will see that it holds the interest.) Philosophy: about halfway through A
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by cafard 8mo ago
There were point-shaving scandals in the 1950s and 1960s. (And, I see, 1970s and 1980s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_shaving ).
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by cafard 8mo ago
Didn't Dykstra say that what one needed was mathematical maturity and the ability to express oneself well in one's native language? Shouldn't a decent education in the liberal arts provide or at least help with the latter?
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by cafard 8mo ago
Don't lead off your question with a capsule autobiography (unless relevant), and do not frame your question to let the rest of the audience know how much you know.
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by cafard 8mo ago
My fiftieth college reunion (if I were to attend--I'm not planning to) is not far away, so a lot of things have changed. But yes, it was worth it. It would have been more worth it had I taken more mathematics and foreign lannguages.
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by cafard 8mo ago
I look and form unfavorable judgments on new construction here and there in my neighborhood. Do I count? Also, I think that "sidewalk superintendent" deserves a mention. That one I heard from a contractor who worked on our house.
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by cafard 8mo ago
I don't think there's a substitute for listening to your body. I came to this conclusion after trying to run through a sore knee 45 years go. Somehow the memory faded, and about seven years ago I ran myself into a painful case of
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by cafard 8mo ago
A family friend was a Discalced Carmelite nun, ergo a member of a cloistered community. She later, we heard, became a hermit. I imagine that she had quarters of her own on the convent property, but I don't know.
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by cafard 8mo ago
Do you live in a metropolitan area, and if so, which? I know a number of places one can volunteer where I live, but if you are on the other side of the country, that wouldn't be much help. Given that you have an anxiety disorder, you m
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by cafard 8mo ago
My recollection--from Ohio, Colorado, Maryland, and Washington, DC--is that in the US the property owner is generally responsible for the sidewalk. We are wary of salt, having damaged a stretch of sidewalk in a rowhouse development by heavi
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by cafard 8mo ago
I found out that, as I thought, I'd probably rather have read Frederick Law Olmsted on his travels in the antebellum South than Tony Horwitz ( Spying on the South ) on Olmsted on etc. I found out that falling out of bed is not just for
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by cafard 8mo ago
I offer an upvote for a plausible interpretation of "I feel like I am tap dancing ..."

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