Many mammals and birds are capable of altruism. But human beings extend their generosity far beyond immediate blood relatives Charity begins at Homo sapiens
Art of Living & Literature Across Frontiers: One Matchless Time
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Now I realise for the first time, looking back from the vantage point of his mid-fifties, "what an amazing gift I had: uneducated in every formal sense, without even very literate, let alone literary, companions, yet to have made the things I made. I don't know where it came from. I don't know why God or gods or whoever it was, selected me to be the vessel.
• The Making of William Faulkner [English vs. American Theatre Criticism - The great drama critics were not always fair but they were inevitably interesting. Today we have critics better at writing consumer guides than at engaging art. The Butcher of Broadway; Love of the strangest kinds Bloomsbury's final secret ]
• · A veteran of the vibrant 1960s poetry scene, Camille Paglia argues that critics can no longer read, poets can no longer write, and the unacknowledged legislators of our age are writing advertising jingles for peanuts Rhyme and reason; Your eyes probably hurt just thinking about it: Tens of thousands of Japanese cellphone owners are poring over full-length novels on their tiny screens Books on cellphones take off in Japan
• · · The Redeemer Baptist story began in 1974, when around 30 families broke away from the Castle Hill Baptist Church in Sydney’s west, reaching out to local bikie groups, street kids, and others in need, offering live-in support and care Unholy devotion ; arlier this year, British advertising tycoon Charles Saatchi declared that 2005 will be the Year of Painting and accordingly mounted an exhibition called, The Triumph of Painting (art critic John McDonald suggested it might just as easily be called The Triumph of Marketing!) The Art of illumination
• · · · Movies can do all kinds of things: make us laugh or cry or stir us up in ways we don't expect. But sometimes it's good to see a film that simply allows actors to strut their stuff Film: Being Julia ; Whatever happened to the age-old Christian precept, "Hate the sin and love the sinner."? Denial of funeral contradicts human dignity
• · · · · Who is your global or virtual neighbor? In an age where egocasting, dynamic ranking and global awareness is abundant, Preople will tell you, definitely and undeniable, what your place, your ranking and your relation to all the other people in the world is in one number: Preople Ranking; For a different view on book retailing, the San Jose Mercury News profiles the Tennessee-based Book Market chain: "no-frills deep-discount bookstores that pop up in vacant storefronts, remain open for just a few months, then close Opportunistic Book Market; Latest Books & Books
• · · · · · In a piece on Günter Grass, he writes that "literature today, left solely to its own devices, is no longer able to discover the truth." A voice from beyond ; I will visit a graveyard this week. will walk softly on the sacred ground to the place that marks a life. It's almost all that is left, all I can touch to remind me that once I had a brother. Life and death … and love and literature