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Home: Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Star Wars Culture - Terry MattinglyWhile tweaking the original Star Wars movie for re-release, director George Lucas decided that he needed to clarify the status of pilot Han Solo's soul. Read more... Steady As She Goes - Theodore DalrympleThe relation of language to thought has long been a philosophical puzzle, one to which no universally accepted answer has yet been given. Read more... Suggested Reading - Children's Literature - Michael D. O'BrienThe books listed here will help make clear what it is that good literature is meant to do and why what so often passes for literature these days fails to live up to that high calling. Read more... Summer Sleepers - John PrizerCommitted Christians should take a step back before going with the flow of summer movies. Even though this pop-culture carnival is designed primarily to entertain, the values propagated by many of its products can be toxic. If you’re willing to look beyond the Hollywood hype machine, you can find smaller, lower-budget films that are equally involving but don’t depend on celebrity superstars, state-of-the-art special effects or the exploitation of sex and violence to hold your attention. Read more... Tampon in a teacup - Stefan BeckAnyone seeking a little comic relief in the wake of Yale University’s alternately sickening and embarrassing "abortion as art" scandal need look no further than Terry Zwigoff’s 2006 comedy Art School Confidential. Read more... Ten perfect poems and one little brown man - Paul JohnsonIt is said that when the British public is asked, ‘What is your favourite poem?’, the one chosen by most people is Kipling’s ‘If’. Read more... The "Extra" Synod Father: Raphael - Anthony VerdonThe reproduction of his "Disputation on the Sacrament" by Raphael has been placed in the hall of the synod on the Eucharist. Timothy Verdon, whom Benedict XVI has called to Rome as an expert consultant, explains why. Read more... The (Mis)Guided Dream of Graham Greene - Robert RoyalGraham Greene was a Catholic novelist of considerable spiritual insight whose own unfortunate life-style ultimately weakened his art. Read more... The 2002 Year in Movies Review - Steven GreydanusIt was a better year for families at the movies than in quite some time. There were more worthwhile family flicks in 2002 than in the previous two years combined and 2002 was a remarkable movie year for religion. Read more... The Academy vs. the Humanities - Sir Frank KermodeAS a retired professor of English who now and again returns to teaching, I am aware that the work I try to do with my students has less and less in common with what is going on in adjacent classrooms. I regret being out of step, but it is too late to break the habits of a lifetime, and in any case I cannot believe that they are bad habits. Read more... Pages: [<<] ... 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 ... [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: 26-Feb-2011 - 11:00:16
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