Upsmanship Everyone has heard of ‘gamesmanship.’ So too, ‘oneupsmanship.’ Fewer people, unfortunately, know the creator of these terms, or the books that made them famous. The author […]
A Primer on Pronouns After their careers are over, many athletes move to the television or radio studio. There, they apply their often eccentric version of the English […]
Orwell Redux I read somewhere that sales of George Orwell’s 1984 have risen lately – perhaps in response to the federal government’s snooping into the cyber world of American […]
Hemingway & Woody Allen: An Odd Couple The other night I watched “Midnight in Paris,” Woody Allen’s movie about a time traveler who returns to Paris in the Twenties […]
The Good Stuff Every once in a while friends will ask me what I’m reading — or ask me what I like that they […]