I believe starting on time, and I believe closing on time. And another one I had was, not one word of profanity. One word of profanity, and you are out of here for the day. If I see it in a game, you're going to come out...
Reading about how this part of earth became exposed from the depths of our planet, I learned that it was the closing of a long-gone ocean, the Iapetus Ocean, to be specific, after the super-continent Rodinia was breaking up into Gondwana, followed by Pangaea which leads us to our current...
John Lewis was an American civil rights leader and politician best known for his chairmanship of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and for leading the landmark Selma March in 1965. In 1986 he was elected to a Georgia district that includes At
being a little bit disappointed, and [disillusioned] perhaps, by the way parents of the youngsters in my English classes expected their youngsters to get an A or a B. They thought a C was all right for the neighbors' children, because they were all average. ...
Outside the church, with temperatures in the upper 80s, hundreds gathered to watch the service on a large screen; some sang the civil rights anthem “We Shall Overcome.” Pharrell Williams’ joyous tune “Happy” played as a closing song while a military honor guard loaded Lewis’ flag-drape...
WOMEN IN REVOLT…The New York Times(in 2020) describes 1931’sMädchen in Uniformas an“expression of anti-fascism and a lesbian coming-out story.” The film was a success throughout Europe, but was later banned as “decadent” by the Nazi regime. Above,Ellen Schwanneke, left, andHertha...
Historian Frederick Lewis Allen, who would go on to write the definitive history of the 1920s in his bestselling Only Yesterday (1931), offered some tongue-in-cheek advice on how the average American could contribute to renewed economic prosperity. An excerpt: Howard Brubaker also finished the ...
s 1996 neo-western noirLone Star. After the unexpected discovery of a body unravels the countless fictions propping up a Texas border town’s unstable status quo, Pilar’s defiant statement casts off the weight of mythology altogether. And yet, with that memorable bit of closing dialogue, the...
The peaceful nature of Lewis’s opposition did not protect him from run-ins with the police. He was arrested some 40 times, and subjected to several life-threatening beatings from law enforcement and opponents of the movement. In 1961, Lewis was attacked at a Greyhound bus station in Rock ...