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Here is a brief excerpt from an interview of Francis Ford Coppola by Jake Coyle for the Associated Press. To read the complete article, please click here. * * * If filmmaking is a war, then Apocalypse Now was very…
Read MoreHow would you like to tour Disneyland…with Walt Disney as your guide? Well, you can if you click here. And to learn much more about Disney’s life and work, please click here.
Read MoreWe know very little about William Shakespeare (1564-1616), although we know a great deal about the world in which he lived. We also know that Simon Callow (born in 1949) is one of the most talented (albeit underappreciated) actors who…
Read MoreWho said it first? Steve Jobs? Pablo Picasso? T. S. Eliot? W. H. Davenport Adams? Lionel Trilling? Igor Stravinsky? William Faulkner? Apocryphal? Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Garson O’Toole for Quote Investigator, a blog that…
Read MoreHere is a reprise of a blog post that offers several valuable reminders at a time when civility remains an endangered species in our society. The way I heard it, Coach Bryant told the following story at a Touchdown Club…
Read MoreI once asked Jim: What do you think will be the characteristics of the new generation of leaders? I think humility is a good start. I think we got to a point where people thought that if you wanted to…
Read MoreI am among those who are convinced that workers must be self-motivated to become actively, productively, and happily engaged in the given enterprise. However, it is possible to create a workplace environment with appropriate supervision within which people are most…
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Overlooked No More: Georgia Gilmore, Who Fed and Funded the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Klancy Miller. This is a portion of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. The photo below is of Georgia…
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