Dark (K)nights, Literary Offenses and Academic Misdeeds
According to David McCullough, Harry S. Truman was supposedly fond of making the observation that the only thing new under the sun is the history that you do not know. How right the haberdasher from Independence, Missouri was!
Although he never attended college,“Give’ Em Hell Harry” was an avid reader. Sadly, many disinterested people would never know it because they care nothing for the past and have little patience for current events. Some contemporary cynics call these people “Democrats.”
One of my cousins refuses to watch black and white movies because they are “too old fashioned.” From the standpoint of cinematography and film preservation, black and white film stock is arguably a much more expressive and permanent medium than colored film. More importantly, I think that some younger viewers are missing out when they refuse to watch older films. Many of the scripts filmed when the production code was still ... Read More...
