The news of Sharon Tate killing forty years ago made a great impact on me especially at a time I was just getting into grips with life and death. I asked myself: Does God let innocents suffer? Merely because she happened to be the wife of Roman Polanski against whom Manson had some grudge? The [...]
Archive for July 15th, 2008
Hell With It!
Posted in life, tagged Heaven and Hell, morality, responsibility on July 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“ Sleep offers some breathtaking views of dreams that I can take it all in a night’s rest.”
benny
Goodbye Mr.Chips-1939
Posted in entertainment, tagged 100 Best Films, British School system, Greer Garson, James Hilton, melodrama, pedagogy, Robert Donat on July 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) is a classic film looking at British school system with a rose tinted glass. It might well be for the author of the book on which the film was based was a teacher himself. Mr. Chips was modeled on W.H. Balgarnie, James Hilton’s old classics master who taught for over 50 [...]