by Dick Schilling, "Editor Emeritus"
... that as is my custom, on the Sunday evening of that horrendous mass shooting in Florida, I went upstairs shortly after 8 p.m, so I could listen on my bedside radio to a few of the old time radio broadcasts aired on Wisconsin Public Radio.
One of them that Sunday was “The Halls of Ivy,” which featured Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Colman. For those-not familiar with that show from the early 1950s, it’s about the president of an Ivy League school who has to deal with school board members and wealthy donors as well as students.
What could those two events possibly have in common? Well, as I listened to the Colmans with their British accents quote one bon mot after another with references to Western European, British or early American authors, philosophers or poets, I was thankful once again for my education in western civilization, which allowed me to recognize many (but not all) of them.