Dear Jan Connell, I have two questions. 1) Might we be on the verge of global economic collapse? Markets have tumbled globally in recent weeks. The Nasdaq composite index fell below 1900 and the Dow Jones industrial average dipped below 10,000. The blue chip index saw its worst week in more than eleven years. What
Nevertheless, he’s so well-armed with ambition, sweep, visual flair and superb acting that he manages to obliterate all resistance, despite the lack of careful concentration. Perhaps it takes a sprawling, unwieldy movie to tell the story of the sprawling, unwieldy, epic, incomparably deadly (some two million corpses) Battle of Stalingrad in World War II. The
This year’s Best Picture nominees clearly expose Hollywood’s artistic problem – political correctness is stifling creativity. The finest movies are no longer made in America because of the oppressive, leftist groupthink dominating our film industry. Significantly, two of this year’s five Best Picture nominees weren’t made in Hollywood. To view the problem, let’s start with
The Irish in UsIreland, of course, has never posed a military threat to the United States, and although immigration was a concern during the nineteenth century, it had dissipated by the time film became an important medium. Thus American films have been largely sympathetic in their depiction of Irish immigration and Irish Americans. Films such
• Ten of the largest theater chains in the United States have filed for bankruptcy protection. • The number of tickets sold to all movie releases dropped in 1999, then fell sharply again in 2000. This marks the first time in a decade that movie admissions declined two years in a row. Only the inexorable
Founded in 1976 by Rev. Joseph Fessio, S.J., a rare conservative Jesuit, at the high point of progressive ascendancy in Catholic education, the institute had quietly established itself as a blue-chip example of what happens when a Catholic college takes the Catholic intellectual and humanistic tradition seriously. Imagine a general education curriculum including courses on
You Must Hear It to Believe itAt the top of the list stands a recent recording of The King and I with Julie Andrews and Ben Kingsley. Nothing here disappoints. Julie Andrews’s singing is breathtaking: Her rendition of “Hello Young Lovers” is a master class in diction and characterization. Ben Kingsley actually succeeds in effacing
I could relate. But I could not, merely on the strength of that, convert. Why? For the reasons given above: as attractive, practical to church order, or comforting as the Eucharist might appear to be, I could not — must not — tell a lie. Beauty was not enough. As St. Paul said, “Even Satan
Dear Jan Connell, I am deeply concerned. My husband and I contribute to our 401(k) plans at our places of employment. During the past year, we each lost more than one third of the value of our mutual funds in our 401(k) plans. What exactly are stocks, bonds, money market funds and mutual funds that
Consider what we know music can do. On the positive side, the profession of music therapy is growing rapidly, and hospitals find that music actually enhances the healing process. The Roper organization found in a 1999 study that listening to music is the most popular way to relieve stress in the entire world. A little
“We were never a bad school or out of the ordinary until April 20th shocked us all,” said Plank. The two students were brought to Raleigh by the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, a youth program for Christian students in public and private schools. Plank was in math class and Houy in the school library when
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