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This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. (See out link policy) (1968) ‘With the Fall, Linda decides to return to the U.S. She does not seem to share my penchant for the gray brick, the black and white romanticism of A Taste of Honey. Besides, she […]

“In our enthusiasm and excitement we welcomed back all the forgotten or discredited dreamers, from William Blake to Lewis Carroll, from the American Indian to Walt Whitman. Out of the overwhelming materialism of the fifties we tried to institute the abiding power of the spiritual, and we were not talking about going to church.” (From […]

Gandhi’s life spoke to me, an idealistic youth, and it did so with both moral authority and humor: the image of Gandhi meeting with the impeccably uniformed representative of His Majesty’s government while draped in simple, traditional garb? This upstart behavior — if you thought about it — was entirely reminiscent of those difficult colonials […]

PLAN Are we the country of the Marshall Plan, or the country of Abu Ghraib? We have been both. (From ETHAN RUSSELL:AN AMERICAN STORY ) This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. (See out link policy)

“With the malicious glee of an Ebenezer Scrooge, I watched the unraveling of the Nixon Presidency, noticing very early on Nixon’s incredible mistake of pitting his word and his Presidency against the entire American political system, legislative and judicial — thinking to myself, now he’s done it: it’s the system or him. On television a […]

FROM AN AMERICAN STORY: “We drove down Highway One past the pine forests that grew in Point Lobos; then the trees cleared, and the road paralleled the ocean, shortly to start a steep climb winding up the mountain. The hills were brown, dried by the summer sun. Mountain lions still lived there, I was told. […]

Incomplete 6-10-12 TIME TO BREAK http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5VhCvrEcPY&feature=youtube_gdata_player This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. (See our link policy) Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen: I need not pause to say how very delighted I am to be here tonight, and how very delighted I am to see you […]

This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. In AMERICAN STORY a great deal of appreciation and attention is paid the work of Neil Postman’s book Amusing Ourselves to Death and in it he writes about two visions of the future: George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s […]

This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. “In a huge valley in the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York, the changing leaves crept over one ridge line to slowly transform the entire valley. On television, Richard Nixon continually affirmed his innocence while we sat around and […]