Author: Staff
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Criticism
Art Fettig – Here’s how the Chicago Times in 1865 evaluated President Lincoln’s Gettsyburg Address in commenting on it the day after its delivery.
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JD Vance Dishonors Veterans Who Served This Nation – Boos at Olympics
Twenty-four years of service is nothing to sneeze at, and Vance is running alongside a known draft dodger who has repeatedly disparaged veterans and Gold Star families. If Vance wants to critique a man’s honor, he should start with his running mate.
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Teaching and Learning
Art Fettig – I have often heard instructors say that they learn a whole lot more by teaching a subject than the students learn.
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Hyperventilation
I don’t ever want to do those things I ought to doThere’s always something new out there for me I swear it’s trueThere’s something bigger or better or lovelier that I seeThere’s always something more exciting out there just for me. I find joy in acting, just for this moment, yesYou just might find me…
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The Tape Dancer
Art Fettig – It was 1978 and I was almost fifty. My daughter, Nancy, twenty- two. . I had a booking to do three early morning speeches in the grand ballroom of the Conrad Hilton Hotel in Chicago.
