Tag: Arts & Culture

Will Durant’s Essay ‘Freedom of Worship’: A Story About a Little Church

August 23, 2022
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“Each according to the dictates of his own conscience.” This phrase, attributed to George Washington, illuminates the top of Norman Rockwell’s painting “Freedom of Worship,” which shows eight different people praying. Each individual shows his own form of worship, whether it is pensive, thankful, patient, sad, petitioning, or filled with wonder. Some people look upwards,…

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Under Construction: Repairing Western Civilization One Reader at a Time

August 23, 2022
Alfred Thayer MahanAnthony EsolenArts & CulturebooksBrightHarriet Beecher StoweLife & TraditionThe Great Books of the Western World
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When we think of the world’s most influential books, a host of titles might come to mind: the epics of the ancient world, the Bible, the Quran, the philosophies left to us by the likes of Plato, Aristotle, and Marcus Aurelius, and so on down through the centuries. The possibilities appear inexhaustible. If we narrow…

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The Playful Polar Bears (1938)

August 23, 2022
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A joyfully contented group of polar bears encounter danger when hunters arrive. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: http://epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: http://epochoriginal.com Feature Films: https://www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it later on “My List.” Follow EpochTV on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/EpochTVus Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/EpochTV Truth Social:…

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Charlie Chaplin’s ‘The Rival Mashers,’ or Those Love Pangs (1914)

August 23, 2022
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Charlie and a rival vie for the favors of their landlady. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: http://epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: http://epochoriginal.com Feature Films: https://www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it later on “My List.” Follow EpochTV on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/EpochTVus Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/EpochTV Truth Social: https://truthsocial.com/@EpochTV…

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Booth Tarkington’s Essay ‘Freedom of Speech’: A Story of Two Men at the Brenner Pass

August 22, 2022
"The Saturday Evening Post"Arts & CulturebooksBooth TarkingtonBrightfreedom of speechLife & TraditionNormal Rockwell
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We each have personal opinions and thoughts that we like to discuss and compare with others. Whether on trivial or crucial matters, this discussion, enabled by freedom of speech, allows us to search for truth. “The Saturday Evening Post” commissioned the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Booth Tarkington in 1943 to write an essay to accompany Norman…

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Toonerville Trolley: Trolley Ahoy (1936)

August 22, 2022
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Mr. Bang bets the Skipper $10 he can’t get the trolley to arrive at the train station on time. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: http://epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: http://epochoriginal.com Feature Films: https://www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it later on “My List.” Follow EpochTV on social…

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Molly Moo-Cow and the Indians

August 22, 2022
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A Conestoga wagon leads Molly Moo-Cow and some ducks through the hills. The ducks stop for a swim by a tepee and go to explore the settlement. Molly misses her friends and goes to look for them; when she finds them, she discovers they’re behaving like Native Americans, and she joins in. Meanwhile, a native…

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Book Review: ‘Olympia: The Birth of the Games’: A Fun, Though Violent Perspective of the Start of the Olympics

August 22, 2022
‘Olympia: The Birth of the Games’Arts & CulturebooksBrightJohn A. MartinoMichael P. O’KaneOlympic Games
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What is the true story of how the Olympic games began? John A. Martino and Michael P. O’Kane, authors of “Olympia: The Birth of the Games,” have endeavored to tell that story in their new novel. This historical fiction account takes the reader back to the year 776 B.C., in the Greek city of Olympia….

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‘Nutbush’ World Record Almost Broken by Australian State

August 21, 2022
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Despite the effort of close to 8,000 festival-goers attending the Mundi Mundi Bash music festival in New South Wales (NSW) on Aug. 18-20, the world record for the largest “Nutbush City Limits” dance remains with the state of Queensland. Nearly half of the crowd, 3,720 festival-goers danced across the sprawling desert plains behind the historic mining…

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Film Review: ‘Emily the Criminal’: Creeping Communism Creates Criminals

August 21, 2022
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R | 1h 33m | Crime, Drama, Thriller | August 12, 2022 “Emily the Criminal” sounded like an enjoyable romp. The title rolls off the tongue amusingly, the way Gilda Radner’s Saturday Night Live character, Emily Litella, did. “Emily” is reminiscent of “Thelma & Louise.” Thelma (Geena Davis), a mousy woman suffocated by a lousy husband, learns how…

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