Paul Greenberg
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A word for the Elizabethans
Posted: November 4, 2009 4:11 a.m.
There is no end to the writing of books, said the author of Ecclesiastes, and today he could have said it of translations of the Bible.
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COLUMN ONE Coming Home
Posted: November 1, 2009 4:38 a.m.
You need some time to prepare before looking at an exhibition of Carroll Cloar’s pictures. And some space—some distance from the ever twittering, tweeting, all-engulfing and devouring present. You don’t want to rush into his vision of the past—which is yours if you’re from anywhere in or around the Arkansas Delta.
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COLUMNISTS The Holocaust and me
Posted: October 28, 2009 2:57 a.m.
WARSAW (AP)—The memorial museum at Auschwitz has launched a Facebook page hoping that the popular social-networking site will help it reach young people around the globe and engage them in discussions about the former Nazi death camp and the Holocaust. . . .
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COLUMN ONE The new Newspeak
Posted: October 25, 2009 3:40 a.m.
“In our time, it is broadly true that political writing is bad writing.” —George Orwell Ours is an age of euphemism.
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COLUMNISTS It’s all Henry Adams’ fault
Of Barack Obama and Thomas Jefferson
Posted: October 21, 2009 2:48 a.m.
My downfall started at the University of Missouri. In the history department, to be exact. The faculty was quite small at the time, composed almost entirely of (a) young professors who would go on to make great names for themselves at schools like Stanford, or (b) older ones who were coming back from stints at Oxford or the Sorbonne to write the definitive book on their specialty.
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COLUMN ONE This way to the Tower of Babel
Posted: October 18, 2009 4:58 a.m.
What ever happened to all those books attacking God, or at least the idea of God? They were quite fashionable not long ago.
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COLUMNISTS From crime news to wisdom
Posted: October 14, 2009 3:18 a.m.
Dear Diary—It’s been a quiet week in Arkansas just the usual murder, mayhem, arson and sensational trials and indictments pertaining thereto. Naturally I am above reading such tabloid trash. And yet I notice those are the first stories I turn to in the paper. And devour every word. I suspect a lot of us are like that.
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COLUMN ONE Welcome to Bobby Joe’s
Posted: October 11, 2009 4:40 a.m.
Strategically located at the corner of Fifth and Capitol in downtown Little Rock, the Olde Radiator Shoppe and Cafe was the place to go for a radiator flush or an unoriginal thought, both guaranteed to soothe the system.
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COLUMNISTS Heaven arrives
Posted: October 7, 2009 3:43 a.m.
The old boy walked his bike out the door of his house in Little Rock and realized: The weather’s turned cool. He felt it, but he couldn’t believe it, not at first. It had been summer for so long and, strangely enough in these latitudes, not much of one. He tried to remember the last time he’d heard the standard greeting in these parts, “Hot enough for ya?” He couldn’t.
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COLUMN ONE An interview with History
Posted: October 4, 2009 4:11 a.m.
She arranged her tunic delicately about her like a little girl settling in as she took a seat. "Call me Clio," she announced.
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