FILLING OUT FORMS PART 2
YESTERDAY, LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS contributor Jonathan Sawday introduced us to filling out form A. 2042. Today in Part 2, we learn more of this and other bumf in Brit … Continue reading
FILLING OUT FORMS PART 1
JONATHAN SAWDAY’S “FILL IN THE BLANKS,” London Review of Books, June 29, 2023, shares vignettes of official correspondence employed by the British during the First World War. Like other LRB … Continue reading
TOYOTA TOYOPET DE LUXE—A 65-YEAR LOOK BACK
“WE BELIEVE,” WROTE R&T IN March 1958, “this is a first complete report of any kind of a new car whose significance may not be fully realized for at least … Continue reading
LISTEN UP! BUT TO WHAT? AND HOW?
THERE’S CONTROVERSY GALORE about old fashioned AM radio these days. At first thought, I would have said this is akin to arguing the merits of floppy discs or BetaMax or … Continue reading
RICH GUYS, ETHICS, AND THE LAW
ANATOLE FRANCE, 1921 NOBELIST, wrote in 1894, “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal … Continue reading
SAMOAN DAYS—REPEATED, LOST
THE INTERESTING FACTS WEBSITE NOTED that “In 1892, Samoa had two July 4s in a row.” “The international date line,” Interesting Facts says, “established in 1884, lies smack dab in … Continue reading
BABY TALK—DOLPHIN STYLE
WE’VE ALL HAD GENTLE LITTLE CONVERSATIONS with infants, this “baby talk” helping them to learn how to speak. What’s more, Beki Hooper Ph.D. reports in Psychology Today, July 3, 2023, … Continue reading
PURITANICAL PACHYDERMS
H.L. MENCKEN DEFINED PURITANISM as “the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” G.K. Chesterton wrote, “A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.” … Continue reading
WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL COPENHAGEN PART 2
YESTERDAY IN PART 1 IVOR HIORT’S COPENHAGEN AND ENVIRONS displayed how aircraft, radiophony, and automobiles set the stage for this Danish capital’s earning its high livability ranking (2nd among the … Continue reading
LIVABLE, LIVABLE COPENHAGEN PART 1
IN FOLLOWING UP WITH the Economic Intelligence Unit’s analysis of the world’s most livable cities, here in Parts 1 and 2 today and tomorrow are tidbits about No. 2 on … Continue reading
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