The history of the commemorative silence is debated, but the originator may have been a Melbourne journalist and first world war veteran, Edward George Honey, who was living in London in 1919. "During the War, we observed what we called the 'three minutes' pause'.
Literature & Art Across Frontiers: Books Beat
People say that life is the thing," said Logan Pearsall Smith, "but I prefer reading." According to a recent biography, Cary Grant felt much the same. That witty sophisticate looked forward to an old age spent reading in bed.
Neither man was a mere couch potato. Reading is a way of getting around the world — and through time. If we only live, we know one life; if we read, we know innumerable lives in our own times and in several past periods. So get up and read.
• [Many Hollywood actors would have stormed out of the meeting. Cheadle offered to call Smith and Washington personally. "You read some scripts, and you know you have to be a part of it For Cheadle, story comes first ]
• · · You can't collect $9 million in $10 contributions. You get it in chunks of thousands. Nobody turns over thousands without wanting something back. That's evil We need more philosophers like this one
• · · · When humanities scholars gaze in the mirror, what is reflected? Scholars Mull Their Separation From the Mainstream River
• · · · · Don Quixote at 400: Still Conquering Hearts [In this ambitious tome Shlain sweeps the millennia, suggesting that all of the puzzling or bizarre human behaviors seen nowhere else in the animal world boil down to a simple economic truth: women need iron-rich food (meat) that only men can acquire; and men need sexual access to women. How Women's Sexuality Shaped Jozef Imrich ]
• · · · · · Why Truth Matters: If I know anything, it is that I don't know everything and neither does anyone else Double the power of your truth ; [Double Dragon: True to Literary Life ]