AMERICANGREATNESS (James Bowman) - Movie Review: ‘Pressure’
Courage, said Ernest Hemingway, is “grace under pressure”—which is also a good description of the quality that people once most valued in a leader. It’s […] Source
NPR (Don Gonyea) - This English professor has run with the bulls in Spain for two decades
When Bill Hillmann was 19 years old, he read Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. That book inspired him to pursue two dreams: a career in literature and to run with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain.
THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Taki) - The Dumb and Joyful Masses
Staring at your phone won’t make for a rich or exciting life, but at least you’ll be happy for a while. The post The Dumb and Joyful Masses appeared first on The American Conservative .
Takimag The Dumb and Joyful Masses Staring at your phone won’t make for a rich or exciting life, but at least you’ll be happy for a while. TakiMag Gustave Flaubert was a French writer who wrote the great Madame Bovary novel, among other lesser ones. A close friend of his once wrote to him asking for advice on happiness, and Gustave wrote back offering his fail-proof method to achieving joyfulness: “One needs good health, and also good luck. And of course stupidity, but if the last one’s missing, all’s lost.” Good old Gustave, he certainly knew things. If he were around today, he’d be finding some very happy people…Open
THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Taki) - The End of the War-Hero Writer
Expect no great man of letters to emerge from the bloodied fields of Iran. The post The End of the War-Hero Writer appeared first on The American Conservative .
Culture The End of the War-Hero Writer Expect no great man of letters to emerge from the bloodied fields of Iran. Modern warfare does not a good movie make. Nor a good book, I suspect. Drones zipping about like flies and being chased by other drones and interceptors are not the same as John Wayne charging with his Marines onto the beach at Iwo Jima, not to mention Gary Cooper as Sergeant York picking off the Germans on the Western Front. Old-style warfare tended to get the creative juices flowing throughout history. Papa Hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald became stars following the First World War, with their war-background books, as did…Open