Commentary
MaterialismI have been thinking that it's really not helpful to speak about "materialism" as if it were a unitary belief system that someone "holds." Michael Bettencourt To Eat Or Not To BeAmerica has no cuisine, it has Walmart. But it also has, in its vast, chaotic geography and culture, the joy of tastes of cuisines from almost every cooking culture in the world. Arthur Danin Adler Trash I've had a year-and-a-half of therapy to wrestle with all kinds of demons and sit with the feeling it is all kinda pointless because we're all human and this is all just so common.Claudine Jones The Watergate Since the 1970's, "Watergate" has been used as a metaphor for scandal. Remove "water" and add any term with the suffix " -gate" attached and you have created a scandal du jour. Les Marcott Edward Hopper and the Tourist From SyracuseIt evoked for me the opening scene of the 1946 film version of The Killers in which the hit men arrive in the small town and approach the diner. Gregory Luce The Education of a Connoisseur Part 4: Continuing EducationThe most rewarding way I've learned about wine has been to visit vineyards and meet with great vignerons. Those tours have been my postgraduate symposia. Patrick Walsh
June 2022
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