by Richard Subber | Sep 22, 2024 | Book reviews, Books, History, Human Nature, Power and inequality, World history
not everything is vanity
Book review:
The Bombing of Auschwitz:
Should the Allies have Attempted It?
Michael J. Neufeld and Michael Berenbaum, eds.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000
350 pages with extensive notes, bibliography, and index
The Bombing of Auschwitz: Should the Allies have Attempted It? is a retrospective, somewhat repetitive but broadly didactic selection of 15 arguments for and against the bombing of Auschwitz, with more than 40 primary source documents.
You’ll learn a lot about the terrible dilemma that the Allies faced—and some of them tried to ignore—during World War II. If the Allies had tried to bomb the crematoria, would Jewish lives have been saved? At what cost to the overall war effort?
Neufeld and Berenbaum offer 15 points of view, but, of course, the questions can’t be answered with full confidence.
Sadly, we can’t re-do the solitary track of history.
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Book review. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2024 All rights reserved.
Book review: Lord of the Flies
Never more relevant…
by William Golding
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In other words: Poems for your eyes and ears with 64 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | Sep 14, 2024 | Tidbits
It’s not a leg…
“How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg?
Four.
Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
16th American president
Truth isn’t necessarily what someone claims it is. Check it out.
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Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power (book review)
Pekka Hämäläinen tells it like it was…
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Writing Rainbows: Poems for Grown-Ups with 59 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | Sep 12, 2024 | Human Nature, My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
my final future
now then…
The unknowable future
has been around for a long time,
it is,
it will be,
the mystery is what, not if.
I realize new truths.
I’m closer to my future
than I used to be,
I’m closer to my final future.
I think more about tomorrow,
I think more about today.
Sweet futures can become sweet nows,
the nows I can know.
I can choose my next now,
I do not know tomorrow’s future,
I will live it in good time.
May 11, 2024
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“…a merely decent human being.”
May Sarton, on the lookout…(quote)
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As with another eye: Poems of exactitude with 55 free verse and haiku poems,
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Your comments are welcome—tell me what you’re thinking.
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by Richard Subber | Sep 10, 2024 | Theater and play reviews
good people and bad people…
Movie review:
Three Days of the Condor
1975
Rated R
117 minutes
Starring Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson
Three Days of the Condor is transparently a 1970s spy flick, and Robert Redford, as the bookish CIA spy code-named “Condor,” is the center of attention—sort of a two-hour cameo performance.
Condor is credibly shocked by the vicious murders of his coworkers, and then he begins a determined quest to identify the dark forces responsible for their deaths.
Kathy (an ingénue, solidly portrayed by Faye Dunaway) helps him but they don’t quite fall in love.
Condor embraces the David role against the Goliath CIA. He learns the truth, and does his best to make it public.
It’s not Mission: Impossible stuff, but there’s enough believable tension to make it worthwhile.
The final scene in Three Days of the Condor is a dramatic reminder of the enduring capabilities of good people and bad people.
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Movie review. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2024 All rights reserved.
Book review: American Colonies
So many and so much
came before the Pilgrims
by Alan Taylor
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Writing Rainbows: Poems for Grown-Ups with 59 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | Sep 8, 2024 | Human Nature, My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
the thin line of future…
another day
…the distant horizon moves closer,
it creeps, of course, or sidles,
there is no romp, nor dash,
one need not notice every day,
it is no rush to change the way
we live enough in each bright hour
to fill our time,
we may look up, forsooth,
and see the thin line of future
shuffling nearer,
seeming clearer,
waiting for the clarion of tomorrow.
June 3, 2024
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Movie review: Same Time, Next Year
all-American adultery, oh yeah…
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As with another eye: Poems of exactitude with 55 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | Sep 5, 2024 | Reflections, Tidbits
…and good deeds, too…
“Ideas are like rabbits.
You get a couple and learn how to handle them,
and pretty soon you have a dozen.”
John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. (1902-1968)
American author: Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath
Pour another half glass of wine, and enjoy that Steinbeck quip again.
Pour another half glass of wine, and you start to think that he could have said
“Good deeds are like rabbits.”
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Dirty Dancing (1987) (movie review)
Oh baby, baby, baby…
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Seeing far: Selected poems with 47 free verse and haiku poems,
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