University Bookman V20 N3 Spring 1980 (Full Issue)
Good, not great issue: with articles by Louis Filler, Sam Francis, and John Pafford.
University Bookman V33 N2 1993 (Full Issue)
Good issue. Articles by/about John Courtney Murray, Mark Henrie, Vigen Guroian, Gary Gregg, Edward Ericson, and Camile Paglia.
1992 Russell Kirk Quote on Agrarianism and Leviathan
Ok, a bit embarrassed about this. . . but I just found a Russell Kirk piece I had no idea existed. Missed this one in the bio!
“Like the Celts of the Twilight, it seems, the Agrarians have gone forth often to battle, but never to victory. America’s farm population now totals perhaps two percent of the national population. Centralization of power in Washington continues apace. Nationwide television broadcasters rapidly efface any remnants of regional cultures. In many other ways, society becomes dully uniform and thoroughly urbanized. While we talk windily still of free enterprise, the industrial and commercial conglomerates move toward oligopoly and on a tremendous scale. Leviathan, the monstrous society, swallows its myriads.”
–Russell Kirk, “Testimony to a Humane Social Order,” UNIVERSITY BOOKMAN 33 (1992): 3. [Full issue in previous post]
University Bookman V32 N4 1992 (Full Issue)
Another good issue with pieces by/about Russell Kirk, Wilhelm Roepke, Ralph Ancil, Albert Jay Nock, Edmund Opitz, and Ben Lockerd.
University Bookman V33 N3 1993 (Full Issue)
Good issues with pieces on or by Russell Kirk, Clyde Wilson, M.E. Bradford, Peter Stanlis, and Scott Richert.
V at XV: Neal Morse’s Prophetic Art
Retrospective on Spock’s Beard, V (Metal Blade/Radiant, 2000). Produced by Neal Morse and Spock’s Beard. Tracks: At the End of the Day; Revelation; Thoughts (Part II); All on a Sunday; Goodbye to Yesterday; and The Great Nothing.
All tracks written by Neal Morse except Thoughts (Part II), written by the Morse brothers; and Revelation, written by the Morse brothers, NDV, and Okumoto.
Even the cover is brilliant, foreshadowing Neal Morse’s forthcoming moment at Damascus.
I was haunted continually by the cruel irony of it all; I had a gift to give to the world, but no recipient to pass it on to.
–Neal Morse, TESTIMONY (the book)
Two days ago, I posted my reflections on hearing Transatlantic’s SMPTe for the first time. I treasure those memories. At the time, I’d only been married about a year and half, I already had a one-year old son, and my wife was VERY pregnant…
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Clyde Kilby on J.R.R. Tolkien
“From my point of view his most important letter to me was that of December 18, 1965 in which he invited me, at my own suggestion, to come to Oxford in the summer of 1966. In this letter Tolkien spoke of himself as [a] writer, saying, “I have never had much confidence in my own work, and even now when I am assured (still much to my grateful surprise) that it has value for other people, I feel diffident, reluctant as it were to expose my world of imagination to possibly contemptuous eyes. But for the encouragement of C.S.L., I do not think I should ever have completed and offered for publication THE LORD OF THE RINGS. THE SILMARILLION is quite different, and if good at all, good in quite another way. I don’t really know what to make of it.” [Kilby, “Woodland Prisoner,” VII, pg. 49.]
Transatlantic: SMPTe. 15 Years Later.
From my other website, Progarchy. And, yes, I love all things Morse.
Maybe it’s the professional historian in me, but I love dates, and I love anniversaries.
This year is the fifteenth anniversary of Transatlantic’s first album, the rather stunning and never aging SMPTe.
I’d not heard of the project until one of my students handed me a copy of the CD in the fall of 2000, about six months or so after its release. I knew Morse (I’d been one of the first–if not the first–persons in Bloomington, Indiana, to purchase THE LIGHT from Spock’s Beard), I knew Trewavas (having been a Marillion fan since BRAVE), and I knew Mike Portnoy, having purchased every Dream Theater release since 1992’s IMAGES AND WORDS. Roine Stolt? Didn’t have a clue at that point, though I’d heard of The Flower Kings.
My first reaction upon seeing the CD cover was one of elation. This looked like a very modernized Yes cover. And, of course…
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