Of Many Things
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Of Many Things
Big cats—lions, tigers, leopards and jaguars—are admired for their strength, their speed, their agility. They figure prominently in heraldry, in folk tales and in children’s stori...
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Next stop, Dobbs Ferry,” the amiable conductor says, so I’ll know when to get off the train. It is odd to be back in New York after 22 years (can it be?) in Chicago. The last time I liv...
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The creation of dictionaries and grammars of languages in the Americas, Asia and India is one of the accomplishments for which Jesuit missionaries of past centuries were known. In order to bring th...
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This last week the stories of two women brought home to me the pains inflicted by the absence of an Israeli-Palestinian peace. One is is Sharihan Hannoun, a young woman who has been living on the s...
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As a retiree, my mother finally has the time to indulge her contemplative streak. While I was growing up, she would rise at 5 a.m. to sit alone with her coffee, enjoy the quiet and browse the newsp...
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The Tilles Center for the Performing Arts, on the C. W. Post campus of Long Island University, is a state-of-the-art facility that hosts a variety of artists and ensembles throughout the year: the ...
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I have been a news hound as long as I can remember. Even in my pre-teen years, my younger brother, Philip, used to complain that my news watching kept him from viewing cartoons. While the real news...
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Over the last few years, I have conducted something of an unplanned survey on parish life around the country. Since 2006 I have visited around 50 parishes—mainly in New York, Connecticut, New...
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I came home from a recent trip to London with a renewed sense of the cost of democracy and the contours of an old transatlantic friendship.
At the Globe Theatre I saw a new play by Trevor G...
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People with what is sometimes called a late vocation are a curious lot. Being one myself, I sometimes compare notes with others who come my way. The most recent was Bryan Pipins, an energetic Austr...
