Posted June 30, 2020 in Monthly News
By Joel Bowman, on 30 June 2020
We seem to be living the “ancient Chinese curse” that was rumored to have been made up by Robert Kennedy in the 1970s. The phrase has been investigated many times because it has the “ring” of truth. Peace and plenty are not as interesting as war and famine. We can find a lot of times […]
Posted May 31, 2015 in Uncategorized
By Joel Bowman, on 31 May 2015
Charles Dickens opens A Tale of Two Cities with one of the best-known lines in all of English literature:
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of […]