Today’s bandiers of obscenity could learn a thing or two from Greek. The post The Four-Letter Failure appeared first on The American Conservative .
Takimag The Four-Letter Failure Today’s bandiers of obscenity could learn a thing or two from Greek. TakiMag Photo by Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images As an unfortunate birthday approaches, my movie director friend Michael Mailer asked what wish I’m about to make: “Keira and Lily, I’d even give them up for Americans to stop using the F-word,” was my answer. Be it used as an adverb, noun, or verb, the F-word is now as ubiquitous as “hello” once was, proof that the barbarians have breached the gates and are now lords of the manor. Hollywood, of course, heads the mob of vulgarians, inserting the ghastly word in every script, dialogue, and speech. And the fools follow. As no one reads any more, the message is transmitted…Open
Professional players once were heroes, not celebrities. The post The Lost Charms of ‘Football,’ and of Life appeared first on The American Conservative .
Takimag The Lost Charms of ‘Football,’ and of Life Professional players once were heroes, not celebrities. TakiMag Americans, like Indians, have largely been immune to the charms of soccer, or what we in Europe call football, and so am I, though in my case it was not always so. Whether the current World Cup changes that remains to be seen. When I was a boy, I thought soccer was important, though never quite as important as Bill Shankly, the manager of Liverpool Football Club, thought it. He said that football was not a matter of life and death—it was much more serious than that. The sport has changed out of all recognition since I first attended a professional match in England more than sixty-five years ago. The changes have been…Open
The loss of distinctions in dress and speech has made the world sadder and more vulgar. The post The Baseball Cap Maketh the Man appeared first on The American Conservative .
Takimag The Baseball Cap Maketh the Man The loss of distinctions in dress and speech has made the world sadder and more vulgar. TakiMag President Trump has been criticized, in my view rightly, for wearing a baseball cap at a ceremony for U.S. servicemen killed in the war against Iran. His cap is undignified at best and wearing it at the ceremony was lacking in respect for men who had died carrying out his policy. No doubt by wearing the cap he was showing himself to be a man of the people, and doing so in a sense quite accurately: It is true that much of the population of the Western world has lost any notion that there are different registers in the way one should speak or dress, and that what is appropriate in one social circumstance…Open
In recent years, Americans have known what to expect from our Neronian Super Bowl halftime shows: mediocre music veneered over with gaudy, flashily lit, but ultimately […] Source