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Maggie Smith – the Dowager Countess of Grantham – tells you: "I Forbid It."
For more on the Dowager Countess watch her make fun of a swivel chair.
Maggie Smith – the Dowager Countess of Grantham – tells you: “I Forbid It.”
For more on the Dowager Countess watch her make fun of a swivel chair.
Favorite Commercials (Super Bowl edition): The dog is funnier than the Darth Vader kid
Favorite Commercials (Super Bowl edition): Matthew Broderick reprises his role as Ferris Bueller
A Dance to the Music of Time – by Nicolas Poussin
The famous painting by Nicolas Poussin in the 1630s, which also inspired the novels of the same name, A Dance to the Music of Time. I’m not a big fan of Renaissance painting, nor this one, but the them creates endless thoughts in my mind. “the music of time” “dancing around time” “is time’s music a …
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Anglophiles rejoice, another British epic – Anthony Powell's novels, A Dance to the Music of Time
Seven Reasons to Read A Dance to the Music of Time In the fall of 2009, I left the United States to spend a school year teaching English in China. There were many things to do before leaving, but one of the more pleasurable was choosing which books would see me through the year. When …
Anglophiles rejoice, another British epic – Anthony Powell’s novels, A Dance to the Music of Time
Seven Reasons to Read A Dance to the Music of Time In the fall of 2009, I left the United States to spend a school year teaching English in China. There were many things to do before leaving, but one of the more pleasurable was choosing which books would see me through the year. When …
Important words: Patience
pa·tience// ˈpāSHəns The capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset. Synonyms: forbearance – endurance – sufferance – solitaire
"Everything is connected" – Ban Ki-moon urges the developed world to innovate sustainably
Speaking at Davos this year: The Secretary General of the UN has told industrial leaders they have a social and moral duty to innovate, in the drive to turn around the global financial crisis. Ban Ki-moon said that many countries were calling for the economy to be revitalised, social inequality to be addressed and the …