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Brief Thought (not a review): Falling Leaves Perceived by Snoopy and Cyrano de Bergerac

(Images are property of United Feature Syndicate, Inc. Borrowed from Let’s Face It, Charlie Brown from First, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York City, 1960. The thumbnail image originated in L’Illustration magazine in 1898.)   Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Hagakure: Book of the Samurai For many years I’ve returned to some …

AMERICAN ZEITGEIST by Charles Rammelkamp

The mention of William Jennings Bryan is more likely to arouse groans than applause these days, thanks to the innovative historical-fiction play and film versions of Inherit the Wind, which caricature Bryan as an obtuse, reactionary dullard and present his opponent, Clarence Darrow, as an amiable genius. Also, elements of the actual Scopes Trial were …