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81Great Film Scores from Hollywood's Golden Age of Cinema
Review of the great film scores from Hollywood's Golden Age of Cinema. Film scores include: Gone with the Wind, Citizen Kane and Casablanca.
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64Why Gulf War II?
The "true" reasons for the second attack on Iraq are well-documented and were probably well-known within the Washington D.C. beltway before the war began. This article explores how the people of the United States should have known the war was not about WMD or Al Qaeda.
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70Hermann Lotze
Hermann Lotze was a German philosopher who set forth a teleological idealism that sought to include the laws of science as subordinate to moral ends and aesthetic values in the higher truths of man and the universe. Rudolf Hermann Lotze was born in...
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78Most Fascinating Clouds In The World, Virga And Kelvin-Helmholtz Clouds
Some of the most beautiful cloud formations are caused by unusual changes in atmosphere that don't happen often, but are very beautiful when they do happen. One type, known as Kelvin-Helholtz clouds, were most recently seen over Birmingham, Alabama. The others are known as "Virga" clouds and happen mostly in the desert Southwest.
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66On Vladimir Nabokov
That Nabokov never did win the Nobel is what’s at least partly to blame for what I’ve always called (with perhaps undue self-congratulation) Nabokov’s Stockholm Syndrome. Quick: what do Hermann Hesse, Saul Bellow, Boris Pasternak, Sinclair...
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72My top ten novels
What are your favourite novels? I consider fiction a great art form, and this is a list of ten of the most inspirational and life-changing novels that I have read.
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54Where is Jessie Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton for Herman Cain
We can all agree that Hermann Cain or his handlers should of been prepared and dealt with the first two allegations he knew about before it hit the media or at the beginning when the news came out. This fumbling by Hermann Cain doesn't give voters...
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71Visiting Berlin, Germany, with its prominent 'Fernsehturm' landmark: recalling Walter Ulbricht
It was the idea of Walter Ulbricht: build an enormous television tower (German: Fernsehturm ), which would become an unavoidable feature of the Berlin skyline, which generations of Germans and visitors would come to associate with the city and which...
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67Richard Wagner's Jewish Friends, Part 3: Wagner and the Rabbi's Son
The selection of the Jewish Hermann Levi,to conduct Wagner's Christian opera, Parsifal, posed serious problems for the composer. But Wagner had great repect for Levi as a conductor, and as a man, which he twice emphasized to his wife, Cosima. When Levi, living temporarily in Wagner's home, left because of a misunderstanding, Wagner begged him to come back, which he did, and conducted the opera to Wagner's full satisfaction,their friendship continuing until Wagner's sudden death.
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76On Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Regarding Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha Begun in 1919, Hermann Hesse completed and published Siddhartha in 1922. The novel, which was originally written in German then translated and published as an English edition in 1951, became influential in...
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