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ORATORY VERSUS OAFISHNESS

ORATORY VERSUS OAFISHNESS

Man­ners may “maketh the man”, but words dis­tin­guish leadership.
A few hours before the U.S. raid into Venezuela, I watched “The Dark­est Hour”, which ends with Sir Win­ston Churchill’s speech, that  Edward R. Mur­row encap­su­lat­ed as: “He mobi­lized the Eng­lish lan­guage and sent it into battle.”Read the rest

THE SPLENDOUR OF AN UNFORGIVING LAND

THE SPLENDOUR OF AN UNFORGIVING LAND

“Green­land is Nature’s reminder of its utter indif­fer­ence to humankind”. I have no idea of who said that, but a week of cruis­ing and vis­it­ing small vil­lages along a coast­line that tru­ly mer­its the much over­worked adjec­tive “awe­some” has giv­en me rea­son to cel­e­brate it.Read the rest