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Verbing Weirds Language only if you're expecting it to work in a simple way. This is a special case of the more general truth that Language Weirds.
Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is in the wrong. There is no other time.
The church says Earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence in a shadow than the church.
If we can't find Heaven, there are always bluejays.
Born today in 1906, the great director Carol Reed, who gave us (and was knighted for doing so) such classics as The Third Man, The Stars Look Down (which I always remember from the Lord Peter Wimsey story where his mother is reading the book under the misapprehension that it's a sweet Christmas tale), Odd Man Out, The Fallen Idol, the very funny Our Man in Havana, and The Agony and the Ecstasy.Labels: birthdays, entertainment
I used to teach Russian and Ukrainian, and some basic English, to civil servants. Now I teach Russian at a local continued-learning institute. I dabble in Gaelic and Welsh. I'm am amateur photographer and I love birding (in a small way). I'm a Progressive, and a Freethinker, and I know Evolution is a fact - that's FCD, Friend of Charles Darwin (look down the sidebar). I read a lot, and follow women's college basketball. Also I love astronomy, though I'm a rank amateur at it. Most of all, I like living in the reality-based community...
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At 6:34 AM, January 03, 2012
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At 7:30 AM, January 03, 2012
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At 7:32 AM, January 03, 2012
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At 6:08 AM, January 04, 2012
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<-- Older Post ^ Home Newer Post -->I feel bad about correcting you twice (I'm the one who did the Lenya correction), but The Stars Look Down (which, like you, I know only from Dorothy L. Sayers) is by A.J. Cronin.
I hope this correction isn't too public. Miss Hillyard would have sent a polite note to your publisher to be corrected in the next edition, but I don't know who your publisher is!
No, absolutely not. If I objected to public correction, I'd have closed comments and make people email me.
However, this time I'm right. Cronin may have written The Stars Look Down (he did write it), but Carol Reed isn't an author: he's a director. So when I say he "gave us" The Stars Look Down I mean he directed the film. After all, Irving Stone wrote The Agony and the Ecstasy, F.L. Green wrote Odd Man Out, and Our Man in Havana was written by Graham Greene, who also wrote the short story on which The Fallen Idol was based as well as the screenplay for The Third Man. But it's Carol Reed who gave us those brilliant films.
ps - I actually know The Stars Look Down as a movie; it's the novel I know "only from from Dorothy L. Sayers".
Oh, I'm so embarrassed! I somehow decided that you were writing about Graham Greene, not Carol Reed! Put it down to my first few minutes back at the computer after a long holiday! (I hope it's that, rather than a symptom of incipient dementia, which is also, alas, possible.)
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