![]() ![]() In the end it was her courage and, above all, her faith which saved him-saved him-not only from the enemy but from himself. All through the delirious pain of his torn, wounded arm, Franklin felt the girl's presence like a cool, comforting hand. His gentle strength, his sensitive mind, the careful restrained warmth of his emotion found a calm, sure response in the simple innocence and candor of the girl. It was natural that Francoise should be so strongly drawn to Franklin, the pilot. And in Pierre it was hatred, a hatred so deep that only rarely did it flash on the surface. Having survived two wars, she remained unmoved by the swaggering vainglory of the Nazi. In her grandmother it was a kinship with the infinite. In her father it was stubbornness, that glorious pigheadedness of the French peasant who won't be pushed around. In Francoise it was faith, a simple piety so humble, so complete that all the mechanized myrmidons of the Reich could not touch her spirit. The five members of the crew were welded by the crash into a single whole, one tiny forged weapon in the vast territory of the enemy-weak and ineffectual-yet confident as only men can be whose minds are free. Finally over occupied France, it settles like a weary, wounded eagle on what seemed to Franklin a hard, smooth field. ![]() The great bomber had been giving the crew trouble since leaving Italy. Treacherous mud clutched at the wheels and the Wellington up-ended. ![]()
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![]() Weaving together multiple strands and generations of this family, from the Deep South to California, from the 1950s to the 1990s, Brit Bennett produces a story that is at once a riveting, emotional family story and a brilliant exploration of the American history of passing. What will happen to the next generation, when their own daughters' storylines intersect? Still, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. The other secretly passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. Many years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. ![]() ![]() The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical.īut after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. From the author of The Mothers, a stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But in no civilised society is division of labour accompanied by this unnatural division of labourers into watertight compartments. Civilised society undoubtedly needs division of labour. Now the first thing is to be urged against this view is that Caste System is not merely division of labour. ![]() It is defended on the ground that the Caste System is but another name for division of labour and if division of labour is a necessary feature of every civilised society, then it is argued that there is nothing wrong in the Caste System. It is a pity that Caste even today has its defenders. It was at one time recognised that without social efficiency no permanent progress in the other fields of activity was possible, that owing to mischief wrought by the evil customs, Hindu Society was not in a state of efficiency and that ceaseless efforts must be made to eradicate these evils. Social reform in India has few friends and many critics. The path of social reform in India is strewn with many difficulties. “It is a pity that Caste even today has its defenders.” The entire text of the speech can be read here. Below are excerpts from the undelivered speech. ![]() ![]() ![]() As Harold says to himself while gazing alone at a beautiful sun-dappled view, ‘Who knew?’ ![]() Now and then on Harold’s journey, there are hints of something almost mythic and mystical about the landscape. ![]() British cinema may not be able to match the widescreen vistas offered by American movies, but Macdonald and cinematographer Kate McCullough shows that the English countryside can be no less striking. Along the way, its makers also disprove the notion that you can’t make a road movie on what DH Lawrence called "an island no bigger than a back garden". The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry shows that a film about someone walking doesn’t have to be pedestrian. Harold’s dogged resilience is the dramatic engine that drives the film, but Broadbent also conveys the less attractive sides of Harold’s character and history, while Wilton introduces notes of anger, bitterness and frustration to balance the film’s overall mood of uplift, with timely flashbacks slowly revealing that the couple’s highly strung son has been the cause of their estrangement. The filmmakers stumble a little when they attempt to satirize the temporary companions Harold picks up en route, and there are also times when they threaten to veer off into sentimentality, but the story has a darker edge that stops things becoming overly twee. ![]() ![]() He has had many men, he confides, but "not once has anybody said, 'I love you.' " "Torch Song," its three acts too much in evidence, chronicles the hero's turbulent quest for sitcom happiness, a nine-year search that begins when he meets the hunky bisexual Ed (Brian Kerwin, adapting his Broadway performance).Īrnold is like a wallflower at the prom when shyly he accepts Ed's offer to buy him a beer. "A thing of beauty is a joy till sunrise" is how Arnold puts it it. Set before the AIDS epidemic, the movie seems a ghostly relic of the orgiastic '70s - though sex has less to do with it than do love and family ties. ![]() The homely playwright with the hickory-smoked voice recreates his stage role in this brazen melodrama. It's "Les Cage aux Folles" with mood swings. Hurting on the inside, but torch singing on the outside, the camp chanteuse is striving for social acceptance in this belted-out adaptation of Harvey Fierstein's play. Under all that flippancy and Max Factor, however, Arnold is actually a nice Jewish female impersonator. "I'm aging like a beach party movie," he moans. ![]() ![]() "It ain't easy being a drag queen, but I just can't walk in flats," says Arnold Beckoff - once a look-alike for Miss Joan Crawford, he now more closely resembles Miss Marjorie Main. "Torch Song Trilogy" opens with a close-up so tight you can see the hero's pores clog as he slathers on the pancake. ![]() ![]() ![]() They are both alpha males and in real life their roles sometimes contradict their D/s personalities which is utterly fascinating. ![]() The two men are intriguing and the author has cleverly created main characters that differ from the norm. Cam is extremely keen to see Hunter away from the club and throughout the book we see them in different scenarios where they are friends, lovers, workmates, D/s and more. He claims not to form any lasting relationships yet he is clearly attracted to Cam not just as a Dom but also as a man. It's an excellent mystery crime thriller that doesn't lose focus on the dynamic between Hunter and Cam. Matchstick Men is a full length book which I was really excited about having loved the first story. This is the follow up to meeting Hunter and Cam for the first time in the novella, On His Knees. On His Knees (RiverHart 5) by Adira August ![]() Up in the Air 1, Johannesburg by George Loveland Wellsĭead Camp 4 (The End Game part 1) by Sean Kerr ![]() ![]() ![]() In this unique book he takes his own experiences and widens them out to look at the social, historical and political factors that have left us where we are today. ![]() The kind of disruptive, aggressive intellect that a new generation is closely watching' Afua Hirsch, Observer 'Part biography, part polemic, this powerful, wide-ranging study picks apart the British myth of meritocracy' David Olusoga, Guardian From the first time he was stopped and searched as a child, to the day he realised his mum was white, to his first encounters with racist teachers - race and class have shaped Akala's life and outlook. It's personal, historical, political, and it speaks to where we are now' Benjamin Zephaniah 'Powerful. ![]() SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE | THE JHALAK PRIZE | THE BREAD AND ROSES AWARD & LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 'This is the book I've been waiting for - for years. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() More than 150 attendees were present in the event and had the opportunity to participate in Open Q&A followed by a Networking session by the end of the event. It highlighted the esteemed panelist from of the industry, namely, Keyur Shah Partner & Leader of the Financial Services Tax practice at EY Vivek Soni Partner & National Leader of Private Equity Services Nidhi Sony, Talent Director at EY and Parth Gandhi Founder and CIO at Bombay Capital. The event kick started with a keynote and a welcome speech by Pratham Barot, Co-founder and CEO of Zell Education, followed by a Panel discussion on “From Accounting Student to CFO: Career Progression in F&A”. It was orchestrated over multiple sessions, including keynote, panel discussion, open Q&A and networking sessions. ![]() The event brought together an exclusive opportunity to build a niche community led by industry leaders. Zell Education, India’s leading finance and accounts Ed-tech, recently hosted its first edition of Finance Frontiers Conclave 2023 at Sheila Raheja Auditorium, Mumbai. ![]() ![]() thinks he’s found a solution to his problem, only to discover that the real answer, like the playful voices inside his head, lies in himself. When two strangers come to the mountain, M.C. knew - better than his family - that strip mining had reduced the outcropping upon which their cabin was built to rubble, and soon the spoilage would come raining down, burying their home forever. How he would have liked to stay there forever! But M.C. welcomed in the morning of a brand new day. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for M. ![]() There, on Sarah’s Mountain, with his face turned toward the sun and his arms spread wide, M.C. Higgins climbed the 40-foot steel pole near his house, he could see over the spiky treetops and far across the rolling emerald hills. Over and over again, it buried his family on the side of the mountain." (from M.C. He had nightmares in which the heap came tumbling down. Higgins, the Great, thirteen, is the oldest child who watches over his siblings from the top of a 40-foot pole, hunts with his hands, and rebelliously befriends a six-fingered boy whose family is considered witchy. ![]() As the pile grew enormous, so had M.C.’s fear of it. They began uprooting trees and pushing subsoil in a huge pile to get at the coal. "Two years ago bulldozers had come to make a cut at the top of Sarah’s Mountain. ![]() ![]() ![]() I believe MacIntyre has philosophically overstated the conflict between Aristotle and liberal modernity. Finally, MacIntyre’s own epistemic arguments commit him to an ethical pluralism that poses a practical problem for his anti-liberalism. ![]() Next I trace MacIntyre’s revolutionary negation of liberalism to non-Aristotelian sources in the British New Left and its strain of Marxism. ![]() There is no necessary link between liberalism and emotivism. In the first part I argue against MacIntyre’s assumption that liberal orders are by their very nature unable to foster Aristotelian virtues because they are hopelessly tied to an “emotivist” notion of self. In this paper I argue that MacIntyre’s claim that the adoption of Aristotle’s virtue ethics requires a radical rejection of the major institutions of liberalism is overstated. Yet some scholars also identify him as a philosophical source of radically reactionary politics and anti-liberalism. Alasdair MacIntyre is one of the world’s most influential Aristotelian political theorists. ![]() |