Category Archives: Military

Protected: “The Hitler Gang”

Posted on June 25, 2019 by Uncomely and Broken

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Moorman twins & Normandy

Posted on June 6, 2019 by Uncomely and Broken

If you have been over to the University Counsel’s office in Walsh-Ellett Hall in Sewanee, you have seen probably the portrait of the Moorman twins from the early 1930s. (I’ll load an image of it when I get back over … Continue reading →

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“The American Cincinnatus”

Posted on February 10, 2019 by Uncomely and Broken

Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, “The American Cincinnatus” (1919) When I was a kid, I picked up a copy of the 1932 Georgetown yearbook for a dime at a second-hand store my mother and I used to go to. Being a … Continue reading →

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Lauro de Bosis’ Gesture

Posted on December 30, 2018 by Uncomely and Broken

From George Garrett’s “A Wreath for Garibaldi,” Kenyon Review 23 (1961) 487-88: It is hard for me to know how I feel about Lauro di Bosis. I suffer from mixed feelings. He was a well-to-do, handsome, and sensitive young poet. … Continue reading →

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Protected: Good and faithful servant

Posted on December 7, 2018 by Uncomely and Broken

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“Gassed”: My Thoughts and Another’s, Unknown

Posted on November 11, 2018 by Uncomely and Broken

John Singer Sargent’s Gassed (1919)– I’ve seen it twice, last fall at the Frist’s WWI & American Art exhibit and, more memorably, in 2012 at the Imperial War Museum in London. The Olympics were on, and service men and women … Continue reading →

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Protected: NO AND SHUT UP: Intellectualism and Its Discontents in Nancy

Posted on October 27, 2018 by Uncomely and Broken

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Flavinus, Easter, and Power

Posted on July 10, 2018 by Uncomely and Broken

A note to my Sewanee-in-England students in Hexham, where we are all exhausted after climbing around Housesteads fort. Alas, Hexham Abbey opens at 9:30 AM but we must be on the road by 9. What I had wanted to show … Continue reading →

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Protected: Telly Savalas’ cuirass

Posted on April 20, 2018 by Uncomely and Broken

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Protected: You have heard of Gettysburg, but does it haunt you?

Posted on October 31, 2017 by Uncomely and Broken

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