September 9, 2012 My current reading includes Richard J. Evans’ The Third Reich in Power (2005), an account of peacetime Nazi rule 1933-39 emphasizing economic and cultural events. This work is the second volume in Evan’s magisterial The Third Reich Trilogy (2003 -2008), a work as one reviewer asserts, “a masterpiece of historical scholarship”. The Prologue sets the stage forContinue reading “Art and Culture in Nazi Germany and New Deal America : Contrasting Values/1933-34”
Category Archives: Observations
THE ART OF AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITING
June 19, 2012 A new computer made the transfer of files from the old computer to the new necessary. In that process I came across a file dated 2/17/07. Curiosity was aroused by the title: Phebe Hanson Document about myself. It reads: “Written January 2004 at Gloria Dei Lutheran church. Phebe Hanson, a prominent Minnesota poetContinue reading “THE ART OF AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITING”
CURE FOR ACADEMIC EXAMINATION PARALYSIS/ANXIETY
April 30, 2012 An Octogenarian Plus Four recalls himself as a grade school lad wonderfully coordinated athletically but little interested in the life of the mind or academic pursuit. His anxious mother would say in asides: “Er kann nicht lesen (German – ‘He can’t read’. His teachers, it is recalled, almost yearly, it seemed suggested that,Continue reading “CURE FOR ACADEMIC EXAMINATION PARALYSIS/ANXIETY”
TEPPANYAKI GRILL AND SUPREME BUFFET – Twin Cities Growing Ethnic Diversity
Recently we came upon the Teppanyaki Grill & Supreme Buffet (2216 E Lake St Minneapolis) , purportedly Minnesota’s largest buffet. Located in the Midtown/Phillips area of Minneapolis, one of the city’s most ethnically diverse sections, features Asian-Japanese cuisane. Introduced after WWII tappanyaki restaurants and buffets specialize in Western influenced food.
TRAVEL IN PANAMA – IMRESSIONS REPLACE STEREOTYPE
April 2, 2012 My imagination was stimulated by standing where Balboa, hearing that Panama had another coast, crossed the narrow isthmus of Panama and became the first European to gaze upon the Pacific Ocean. This is the place where several centuries later the engineering masterpiece of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries a canal was cut throughContinue reading “TRAVEL IN PANAMA – IMRESSIONS REPLACE STEREOTYPE”
BECKETWOOD COOPERATIVE – WELLINGTON GALLERY AND ART MUSEUM
February 22, 2012 Becketwood Cooperative’s resident art curator announced the fortieth consecutive monthly art exhibition for March. Submitted art is to be accompanied with a descriptive statement of 75 words or less. SENTIMENTAL TREASURES PICTURES OBJECTS
Grandma Schmidt’s Apple Kuchen Recipe
February 6, 2013 (See blog January 26, 2012 of which the following is a response by Grandma Schmidt’s relative. “‘Grandma Schmidt’s Apple Kuchen’ Disappears”. Hi Folks! After Prof. Bartling’s blog was published about the missing Apple Kuchen, people began requesting the recipe. We believe the secret to be the mixing with the hands and the specifics about theContinue reading “Grandma Schmidt’s Apple Kuchen Recipe”
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY – “We Shall Overcome” – HAVE WE?
January 13, 2012 The Civil Rights Decade is bracketed by the Supreme Court Oliver Brown et. al . decision of 1954 ordering that schools were to be desegregated with “all due and deliberate speed”. The decade’s bookend is marked by the Civil Rights Act signed July 2, 1964 by President Johnson in the presence of Martin Luther King Jr. The decadeContinue reading “MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY – “We Shall Overcome” – HAVE WE?”
BUCKLEY – INDIVIDUALISM/CHRISTIANITY
A recent op ed written by Carl Bogus (Startribune, 11/30/11) arrested my attention. Bogas’ article is titled: “Why all black and white, no gray? For GOP it all starts with Buckley.” The writer suggests the modern conservative movement began 60 years ago when Buckley published “God and Man at Yale” Yale was criticized for two things,
LOCKEAN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY AND PARTISAN GRIDLOCK
The bipartisan committee of twelve lawmakers appointed by party leaders to trim $1.2 trillion of the national runaway debt over the next decade on the day their report is due have crumbled. Failing to reach a compromise just how to lower the federal deficit is resulting in the gridlock blame trading game. political parties accuse one another forContinue reading “LOCKEAN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY AND PARTISAN GRIDLOCK”
The Bartling Scholarship 