“Sex and the Single Girl”. The title said it all, and when Helen Gurley Brown’s book was published in 1962, the title itself was the sensation. Single girls weren’t supposed to have sex! Affirming such a liberty amounted, surely, to licence, not to mention licentiousness! It was a smart career move for Ms Gurley Brown, … Continue reading
YOU KNOW MORE GERMAN THAN YOU THINK YOU DO
It is a universally acknowledged fact that what we should all resolve, in 2012, to learn more German. After all, 97 per cent of the Germans speak some English, but less than 3 per cent of the Irish (or British) speak some German. Yet, take heart. You probably know more German than you think you … Continue reading
Reason and Faith: Athiests, the Pope and Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi
Now I turn to a spiritual leader I greatly admire: Lord Sacks, the Commonwealth Chief Rabbi, whose most recent publication is one of the most stimulating books I read in 2011. “The Great Partnership – God, Science and the Search for Meaning” is an erudite, but brilliantly readable, answer to the campaigning atheists of our … Continue reading
LIKE SEX, MONEY USED TO BE A HIDDEN SUBJECT….
Many of our values have changed during my lifetime – sex, smoking, suicide, to name but three. But few have changed more dramatically than attitudes to money. When I was growing up, it wasn’t quite respectable to mention money. Only vulgar people spoke about the price of things. A woman in our neighbourhood was regarded … Continue reading
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