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	<title>The Toynbee convector &#187; Britain</title>
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		<title>Welshmen and Bretons</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Welshman resident in Jersey once told the author that he was able to carry on a Keltic conversation with the Breton peasant women who came over from the mainland for a fair; yet though the Welsh and Breton dialects are so little differentiated, there is no common consciousness whatever between the populations that speak [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidderrick.wordpress.com&blog=279863&post=14049&subd=davidderrick&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The War Game</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:16:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The films about the possible end of human life that we are being asked to watch now (October 29 and 30 posts) are divertissements compared with the docudrama that I was made to watch at school in 1968 or ’69.
Peter Watkins’s The War Game (UK, 1965) was intended for the BBC, but “The effect of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidderrick.wordpress.com&blog=279863&post=13988&subd=davidderrick&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A noble paire</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“It is not growing like a tree
In bulk, doth make Man better be,
Or standing long an oak, three hundred year,
To fall a log at last, dry, bald and sere:
A lily of a day
Is fairer far in May,
Although it fall and die that night –
It was the plant and flower of light.
In small proportions we just [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidderrick.wordpress.com&blog=279863&post=13145&subd=davidderrick&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was a Depression, not Crash, song, but it will do to mark the anniversary.
The market slid on Thursday October 24 1929, but the catastrophic collapse occurred on Monday and Tuesday, October 28 and 29.
The song was written in 1931. The lyrics were by Yip Harburg, the music by Jay Gorney. It was sung by, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidderrick.wordpress.com&blog=279863&post=13862&subd=davidderrick&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Frank Lloyd Wright and other mysteries</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What’s My Line?, CBS, 1950-67.
Frank Lloyd Wright. June 3 1956.
Surreal to have this nineteenth-century gentleman, born in 1867, here. He died in 1959.

Salvador Dalí. January 27 1957.

Eleanor Roosevelt. October 18 1953.
She comes to life at the end.

William Schuman, composer and first president of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. September 30 1962.

Schuman, unlike Copland, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidderrick.wordpress.com&blog=279863&post=13649&subd=davidderrick&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Occupied cities</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dull as Kuwait is – I spend part of my working time here, and have good Kuwaiti friends here – the centre of the town is not occupied by abusive, shrieking and drunk women and men every weekend, as most English city centres are.
Posted in Arabia, Britain       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidderrick.wordpress.com&blog=279863&post=13753&subd=davidderrick&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The magistrate’s hand</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After Glanvill, Sprat and Hobbes, Locke, in the printed version of the same set of lectures. From A Letter concerning Toleration, composed in 1685-6, published in 1689, early draft 1667, second and third letters 1690 and 1692.
“An inconsiderable and weak number of Christians, destitute of everything, arrive in a Pagan country; these foreigners beseech the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidderrick.wordpress.com&blog=279863&post=13714&subd=davidderrick&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Geometry and ambition</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hobbes says cynically what Sprat would say constructively. From Leviathan, The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth, Ecclesiasticall and Civil, published in 1651, under the Commonwealth.
“The doctrine of right and wrong is perpetually disputed, both by the pen and the sword, whereas the doctrine of lines and figures is not so, because men [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidderrick.wordpress.com&blog=279863&post=13709&subd=davidderrick&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gods not wolves</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After Glanvill, here are the quotations from Sprat, all from The History of the Royal Society for the Improving of Natural Knowledge (editions from 1667). (The passages do not appear there in this order.) For Toynbee, the Enlightenment lies between two fanaticisms, the earlier religious, the later national. Sprat, while advocating natural philosophy, is conscious [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidderrick.wordpress.com&blog=279863&post=13661&subd=davidderrick&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An America of secrets</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Restoration England there was a conscious moving of spiritual treasure, as Toynbee puts it, from a religion discredited by “enthusiasm” into science. There were complex strands of thought (Toynbee does not present them with many nuances in any of his work) where religious and scientific minds met, intersected and differed, but it was a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidderrick.wordpress.com&blog=279863&post=13616&subd=davidderrick&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Oxford Elegy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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A setting for narrator, chorus and small orchestra by Ralph Vaughan Williams, made in 1947-9, of parts of two poems by Matthew Arnold, The Scholar-Gipsy (1853) and the elegy Thyrsis (1865). The composite text is given on the YouTube clips (posted by Epodogus) and here. Arnold’s source for The Scholar-Gipsy was a story told in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidderrick.wordpress.com&blog=279863&post=13576&subd=davidderrick&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Confessor’s confessor</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frank Barlow (1911-2009). His Edward the Confessor (1970, second edition 1997) was part of a series on English monarchs published by Eyre and Spottiswoode that we were asked to read in sixth form. It began with David Douglas’s William the Conqueror (1964), which turned out to be readable, though its text looked more like German [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidderrick.wordpress.com&blog=279863&post=12673&subd=davidderrick&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Staffordshire hoard</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This doesn’t need blogging. The largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever found is martial in character, but, unlike Sutton Hoo, not associated with a human burial. C 675-725, Kingdom of Mercia. Discovered on July 5 in a farm near Lichfield. Announced September 24 and declared treasure. On display at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery until [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidderrick.wordpress.com&blog=279863&post=13064&subd=davidderrick&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Specialisation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is true that in the past, both in China and in the West, a “humane” education did involve an undesirable degree of specialization, because it concentrated on the study of a set of works of literature that had been canonized as being “classical”. I myself had as thorough a grounding in the Greek and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidderrick.wordpress.com&blog=279863&post=11074&subd=davidderrick&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Churchill on Islam</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is from his second book, The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan, first edition, Longmans, Green &#38; Co., 1899, as quoted by Wikipedia.
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidderrick.wordpress.com&blog=279863&post=12082&subd=davidderrick&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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