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Looking back, I wonder how we learned anything before the internet, but somehow I read that George Lucas was planning to make a total of nine films in the series, each three years apart. I was thirteen, and would have to wait until I was forty to see them all.
“Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.” – Sophocles What is the value of the humanities? One powerful answer comes from an innovative project called “Theater of War,” which presents readings and discussions of two of Sophocles’ plays—written over 2400 years ago about events …
See also Jonathan Mahler’s “The Transformation of Andre Dubus“ “Andre Dubus on Story and New Truths” by Lisa Rivero is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Based on a work by Matt Reinbold at http://ittybittyurl.com/Wyb.
Today I have a post at Emblazon on the importance of supporting humanities education and the power of story for children. Head on over and share your own thoughts and ideas! The post was inspired by the recent video “The Heart of the Matter” from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences:
From Oscar’s Gift: I liked it best when he talked about the moving pictures. He described the moving picture The Great Train Robbery so many times that I felt I’d seen it myself and could replay it in my dreams. I imagined myself hiding with the masked bandits behind the water tower, waiting for the …