Letters from readers: Words matter
Letters from readers
Words matter
Often, we’re told that we need to do more than talk. While understanding the sentiment implied in the previous statement, devalues words in particular and language in general. We are suffering from the false notion that words and language mean little. A case in point played out in front of us on Wednesday, Jan. 6.
A group of self-described “patriots” who’ve listened to hateful, abusive, and racist language for the past few years took those words to heart and produced the ugly actions witnessed, not just by our nation but on the world stage.
Bedside Table: Pair of French novellas put pandemic into perspective
Jerry Conley of Portland found the audio book of Suite Francaise to be a suitable companion on his daily runs.
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“Well, I would like to say that I have a bedside table book, but not so. The pandemic forced me out of my gym and into the street for daily runs and along with that change came my attachment to audio books. After a few novels, I decided that I wanted to listen to something that would put our current state of affairs – in which people fight about whether or not to wear a mask – into perspective. I found Irene Nemirovsky’s book, ‘Suite Francaise.’ This book, which is two novellas, was written contemporaneously with the German invasion of France in June of 1940. Ms. Nemirovsky, who immigrated from Ukraine to France in 1919 and became a member of the French literary community, was eventually arrested in 1942 as a ‘stateless person of the Jewish descent’ and transported to Auschwitz.
The Straits Times
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1. THE PENGUIN BOOK OF CHRISTMAS STORIES
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Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died in the 1940s.Anne SebbaWeidenfeld and Nicolson £20Review by Dani Garavelli By Dani Garavelli
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Sipa Press/REX/Shutterstock (996420bw)
Soldier with woman
The Liberation of Paris From the Germans - 1940s
Soldiers from a brigade of the 2nd Battalion led by Colonel Langlade is welcomed by a crowd of people at Place de la Muet TWO opposing images have come to symbolise women during the Liberation of Paris. One is of chic girls waving the French Tricolour in front of the Arc de Triomphe. The other is of the femmes tondues , shorn and sexually humiliated for the crime of collaboration