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  • A (Manageable) Summer Reading List for the Beach

    A (Manageable) Summer Reading List for the Beach0

    At the beginning of summer, we often are treated to a spate of “Summer Reading” lists that we are supposed to read “at the beach.” The trouble is, the lists are either so overstuffed with long books or are just so long that any attempt to read them at the beach will result in sun

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  • Restaurants Are Giving People ‘Option Paralysis’

    Restaurants Are Giving People ‘Option Paralysis’0

    The obsession with individual choice has wreaked havoc on many parts of our culture, but it has gone too far for some people, particularly those trying to order a sandwich. According to a Wall Street Journal story, restaurants and fast food establishments now provide so many options that some people are beginning to suffer from “option paralysis.”

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  • GQ Magazine Includes the Bible on its List of Books Not Worth Reading

    GQ Magazine Includes the Bible on its List of Books Not Worth Reading0

    A new article in GQ lists the“21 most overrated books ever.” Of the 21 books GQ lists that aren’t worth reading, one of them is the Bible. It’s enough to make you wonder if GQ is a magazine worth reading.   The Bible gets the boot, along with Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea and

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  • When ‘Civilization’ Became a Bad Word

    When ‘Civilization’ Became a Bad Word0

    Kenneth Clark’s “Civilisation” mini-series, produced by the BBC and aired on American public television in 1969, celebrated the Western art and culture it depicted and explained. The show was one of the most widely watched and re-aired shows of its kind at the time, and is still discussed today, almost fifty years after its television debut.

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