Tag: Saint Louis
The Medium is the Message Marshall McLuhan From the Wikipedia article on Marshall McLuhan– From yesterday— (Click images for some background.) Related material: Feast of St. Louis, 2003,…
For the Feast of St. Louis The concluding paragraph of Erich Heller's 1953 essay, "The Hazard of Modern Poetry"– "'The poetry does not matter.' These words from Mr….
An Invariant Feast In memory of philosopher Robert D. Cumming, who took part in the liberation of Paris on the Feast of St. Louis, 1944, and who died…
Communion Ian Lee on the communion of saints and the association of ideas (in The Third Word War, 1978) "The association is the idea" Herman Melville on the…
Spirit of East St. Louis On Miles Davis and Philly Joe Jones: Miles said to Jones, "I think this is it." Jones agreed having said of the group,…
Spirit In memory of Walter J. Ong, S. J., professor emeritus at St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri "The Garden of Eden is behind us and there is…
Words Are Events August 12 was the date of death of Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Jr., and the date I entered some theological remarks in a new Harvard weblog. …