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Thomas The Apostle
THOMAS THE APOSTLE (21 DEC NT) The Apostle Thomas (Hebrew or Aramaic for “twin”) was also called “Didymus” (Greek for “twin”). He was absent when the Risen Lord appeared to the other apostles on the evening of Easter Day, and refused to believe that Christ had indeed risen until he had seen him for himself, […]
Mary Whitehouse
Obituary SATURDAY NOVEMBER 24 2001 [UK TIME] Courtesy the Times http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,60-2001543588,00.html Tireless campaigner who braved derision and abuse in her crusade against screen sex and violence Mary Whitehouse was a 53-year-old art teacher at Madeley Secondary School in Shropshire, married to an industrial coppersmith, and the mother of three sons, when she launched the Clean […]
Gore Vidal
Gore (Eugene Luther) Vidal (1925-) – Original name Eugene Luther Vidal – Detective novels under the pseudonym Edgar Box Prolific American novelist, playwright, and essayist, one of the great stylists of contemporary American prose, who has been active in politics. Vidal made his debut as novelist with WILLIWAW at the age of 19, while still […]
The Gore Vidal Index
Welcome to the introduction to The Gore Vidal Index. Follow the links in the index on the left of your screen to read some writing about and by Vidal. If you came right to this introductory essay and don’t have an index in a frame on the left, then click here . Gore Vidal published […]
Gore Vidal’s Essays And A Memoir: 1963-2001
————————————————————————– —— Just as Vidal’s work as a playwright and screenwriter came about in part through financial necessity, so did his work as an essayist. In the early 1950s, he found that he could make some extra income writing for magazines and journals, and so he did. Soon he came to enjoy this role, although […]
Gore Vidal And Timothy Mcveigh
Vidal praises Oklahoma bomber for heroic aims Writer applauds executed killer McVeigh and his Revere-like message that ‘the Feds are coming’ Special report: the Edinburgh festival 2001 Special report: Timothy McVeigh Fiachra Gibbons Arts correspondent Friday August 17, 2001 The Guardian The writer Gore Vidal yesterday compared the executed Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh to Paul […]
Interview With Gore Vidal
The New Statesman Interview Johann Hari Monday 15th October 2001 War on Terror – The exile who despairs of his “ignorant” homeland denounces the war and its hawks. Gore Vidal interviewed by Johann Hari The United States has been forced to reimagine itself this past month. So who better for the New Statesman to track […]
G. K. Chesterton
SAYINGS OF THE WISE
David Brainerd
(1718-1747) Missionary to the American Indians in New York, New Jersey, and eastern Pennsylvania. Born in Connecticut in 1718, he died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-nine in 1747. Jonathan Edwards preached the funeral sermon and published the diary which David had kept. By almost every standard known to modern missionary boards, David Brainerd […]
Lincoln And Moses (F W Boreham)
Among my favorite writers is Britain’s F. W. Boreham. Here is an edited essay about Abraham Lincoln that appears in his book The Temple of Topaz written a half century ago. Boreham compares Lincoln to Moses, saying Lincoln, too, metaphorically climbed Mt. Sinai. The massive personality of Abraham Lincoln is like a granite boulder torn […]
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