Synopsis: A review of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (read copy, Penguin Books 1950, 2008 edition). The book was published in 1926, from notes of 1922 and as set in New York's Long Island and Manhattan Island in 1922. The landscape of the narrative, is...
This is the worse parliamentary process undertaken, globally, in my living memory, and although I am not the expert historian, I do not recall in history anything I have read – if so, please tell me. The former U.S. parliamentary speaker, Kevin...
I have been meaning to get to few places in Los Angeles: a visit to The Getty and a walk through the UCLA campus. I did get to walk through the campus late afternoon. It is the same as every other university campus on a late Saturday afternoon. Very quiet with almost...
Day 4 was difficult, and when things get complicated it is better to step back and change the pace, and so the day become a day of necessary work and rest. Image 1: Denny's Westwood, Los Angeles (USA) The previous night my visa card was decline...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-Qb4bSOc_I The balance of work and pleasure continued to pan out on this third day. After a Benny’s breakfast at Denny’s, I took the morning for work on the laptop. Then I headed out to the nearby Hammer Museum. Currently...
Image 1: 2023-01-31 Pasadena City Hall The second day has been a rolling success. Preparing for meeting, in the hotel lounge, for the afternoon with the Dean of School of Theology and Mission at Fuller, Dr. Amos Yong, and Dr. Kirsten Kim, the Paul E....
Image 1: 2023-01-30 Westfield Century City, Los Angeles Well, this first full day of my American Tour has reached a sufficient balance of work and pleasure. After eating at Denny’s for the last lunch, I walked around in the wet Westwood for shops I...
Night 25 of the 2023 American Tour I am pleased for lives transformed in such a way that a person is taken out of a spiral downwards and into a stable and sustainable lifestyle, BUT does it have to be at the cost of understanding a bigger world? Take the film “Jesus...
Featured Image: Dr Neville Buch in the Sinclair Lewis Collection, Port Washington, Long Island, New York State (USA). Dear Dr. Buch, It was a pleasure to meet you this afternoon and show you the PWPL’s materials on Sinclair Lewis. Here is a link to a Google Arts and...