About six miles from Maastricht, in the Netherlands, lie buried 8,301 American soldiers who died in “Operation Market Garden” in the battles to liberate Holland in the fall and winter of 1944. Every one of the men buried in the…
Category: Stories and Film
The Russian-Ukrainian Village, Evening Bells
In the 1960s I earned a minor in Russian Studies at university which interestingly enough, provided me with a lot of background to what I would observe when I visited Ukraine and central Russia in 1991 and 1992, when…
The Fatal Glass of Beer by W C Fields, 1933
Speaks for itself
Comparing 20-year old music tastes in 1965 and 2022
Culturally this is no small matter. Moreover, natural laws of cultural survival are at stake as well. It’s not that bunch of old farts simply think their music tastes were more civilized. You should make a study of every generation…
Word-Pictures of What Nazis Pretending to be Civilized Look and Sound Like
“The Stranger” was a 1946 post-war film noir vehicle about a Nazi SS mass murderer who had escaped to America, and of course, the War Crimes Commission was looking for him. Orson Welles directed it, and played the Nazi, who…