KUBRICK’S BOXES I watched with fascination the ABC2 program on 17 May 2009 at 8:30 p.m. “Stanley Kubrick’s Boxes.” Kubrick died in the last month of my 30 year full-time teaching career, in March 1999, and he left behind 1000 boxes in his mansion in England. This one hour program gives viewers a close-up of Kubrick’s creative … more
SHAKESPEARE UNCOVERED Shakespeare Uncovered is a documentary series that was transferred from BBC Four in the UK to PBS in America. Though the series focuses on individual plays, cycles, and genres in varying degrees of detail, it would be more helpful to think of these episodes as Shakespeare Introduced. This series, which has just come to Australian television in 2013, would … more
A WAY OF TRAVELLING: 2 JOB APPLICATIONS A WEEK FOR 50 YEARS: The information and details in my resume, a resume I no longer use in the job-hunting world, should help anyone wanting to know something about my professional background, my writing and my life. This resume might be useful for the few who want to assess my suitability for some advertised/unadvertised employment … more
Note: I tried to delete the underlining in the following post, but was unable to do so.-Ron Price, Tasmania The Diaries of Richard Burton: FOLLOWING MY LIFE THROUGH RICHARD BURTON’S DIARIES Part 1: Readers here will find below my 4000+ word, 9 page-font 14, overview of some of Elizabeth Taylor’s and … more
TWO POETS MEET IN THE SUMMER OF ‘62: MY TRAVELLING AND POETIZING HAD JUST BEGUN Great Russian poets are, in some ways, like martyrs of the church in that vast land. They have thrived on persecution, on attacks, on being silenced. Such treatment has given a type of holy status to their work. Anna Akhmatova(1889-1966), certainly one of the most famous … more
Clive James, man of many talents, roles and names to fame, admits that on some occasions when he spoke he did not know what he was talking about. Goodness, you can’t know the detail about all those things you’ve talking about over your seven decades of living, Clive! Clive has tried to absorb anything and everything that's new or rather, almost everything. He says that … more
I posted an introduction to the paradigmatic shift in the Baha’i community, the new culture of learning and growth that is at the heart of this paradigm, six years ago. I did this posting at several internet sites and have revised that post many times in the last six years as developments in the paradigm have come about, as new messages from Bahá'í institutions have been published … more