What is the difference between the voice of the mob and the voice of the people?
The core of the film is a compelling dialog about democracy. The general just might be right. The beleaguered president still has one thing the general does not have, an electoral mandate. When he explains what that means, it is worth listening.
My IMDB review
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058576/reviews-61
Recommended for adults.
Living up to expectations
Il generale della Rovere (1959) has been released, at last, on DVD.
A measured story of spiritual growth, self-realization, and redemption in the worst of times. For adults.
MY IMDB review.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053856/reviews-7
Recommended to all students of the human condition.
Will graduates please Like this page on Facebook. I hope so.
Bertrand Russell and Niccolo Machiavelli
Will one of you smart people, please put me right on this?
The Prince is a handbook for gangsters, he said, or did he?
Alumni corner
Keep in touch with classmates by adding a comment here. There are pictures of most of my classes. Find yourself.
This is a place for graduates to get in touch with each other. When the blackboard unit of study web site ends, students can shift to this one. When I have occasion to contact graduates I will ask them to visit this blog and leave a comment. Open this post and you may find yourself pictured.
Then and now: the working day, the working week.
Things have changed … slowly, for the better.
Those good old days! Before Dawkins. (Don’t know what a Dawkins is? Hit google for “John Dawkins.”)
Continue reading “Then and now: the working day, the working week.“
The Paradise Report 2010
The top three for this visit were (1) Shangri-La, (2) Pacific Aviation Museum, and (3) Waiklele Premium Outlets. Each is recommended.
We kept a travel diary on this trip, as we always do, but it now competes for input with Kate’s blog
http://knittatpug.blogspot.com/
and mine https://theory-practice.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/
Not to be out done, Julie also blogged their part of the excursion
http://julie.stuffworld.info
Return to Paradise
We have been here many times before, yet there reamin many new things to see and do.
We are taking another winter vacation in Waikiki.
Then and now. Space the first frontier.
Classrooms are at a premium.
Over the next weeks I will post my own exit poll on my four decades at the University of Sydney.
The necktie
As long as it is unconventional, radical, and daring, that long shall I wear neckties!
The time has come to address the neck tie.
I knew it would come to this one day, and that day is now, not nigh.