A Boat Against the Current

A cultural "omniblog" covering matters literary as well as theatrical, musical, historical, cinematic(al), etc.

Sunday, September 27, 2015

Flashback, September 1945: Who Murdered ‘Mildred Pierce’?

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Warner Brothers was delighted to see that Mildred Pierce , which premiered 70 years ago this month in the U.S., fulfilled all its hop...

Quote of the Day (St. Boniface, on the Church as a ‘Great Ship’)

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“In her voyage across the ocean of this world, the church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life's different stres...
Saturday, September 26, 2015

Photo of the Day: Reaching for the Sky, at Brooklyn Botanic Garden

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I’m not sure about the name of this particular form of plant life, but it did strike me as visually striking when I visited the Brookly...

Quote of the Day (Ralph Ellison, on How ‘Humanity is Won’)

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"Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat." —Ralph Ellison, I...
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MikeT
I'm a librarian (no, NOT a "cybrarian" or "information scientist" or any of the other trendy terms the profession has come up with), as well as a freelance writer/researcher; my political leanings are contrarian, much to the dismay of friends on the left and right, and so I will give anyone looking for my vote exactly what they deserve -- the back of my hand
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