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Hotchkiss
This engaging chronicle asks and answers the question, 'How has Connecticut's Hotchkiss School managed to accomodate a hundred years of unprecedented change?'
Courage
"Courage" presents two novellas depicting how two young people confront adversity. Daphne Carter is a vivacious, witty, wealthy twenty-year-old with a social conscience and a glamorous job in the Kennedy White House. She has everything going for her -- until she doesn't. Alfred Albright is an imaginative, wealthy, debonair thirty-year-old with unlimited horizons. He has the world for his playground -- until he doesn't. Daphne and Alfred share a single-minded determination to regain a sense of normalcy, but the outcomes of their respective efforts are stunningly different. "These two subtly interconnected novellas offer a compelling insider's glimpse of the privileged world of East Coast Society in the 1960s -- a world that is gone with the wind." --Stephen Birmingham, Author "Our Crowd"
The Laguna Beach Theory of History
The subtitle, "Why Civilizations Fail" is descriptive of the content of this work, which offers in fewer than 5,000 words, a comprehensive view of history -- and of our own era as well.FIRST PARAGRAPH:"An unexpected flash of clarity more than thirty-five years ago in Laguna Beach illuminated for me in an unforgettable way what has made us function individually and collectively from earliest civilizations to our day. Consisting of three words – Survival Overcompensation Trauma and their telling acronym, SOT – this momentary enlightenment may also help explain why previous civilizations had failed and our own is not immune to this fate."ON FATE OF CIVILIZATIONS: "Are we doomed always to li...
Eating of the Forbidden Fruit
Ranging over a century of intimate foibles and world events, "Eating of the Forbidden Fruit" is a lighthearted, firsthand account by an unwitting victim of the seductive perils of our time. The action revolves around Albrecht, a tradition-bound Austrian nobleman, and those who cause him woe: his mother Istenne, whose idealized antics scandalized Europe decades ago; his daughter, Princess Stephanie, whose worldly mischief is creating no less of a contemporary stir; and his cousin, the narrator, whose Americanized ways offend every tenet of Albrecht's existence. Underlying the action is Albrecht's conviction that humanity's unbridled ways can still have the same incalculable consequences in ou...
Familie Kolowrat
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The Reckoning
"The Reckoning: An Inconvenient Discovery about Pleasure" is a lighthearted first-hand account about the seductive perils of our time. The action revolves around Albrecht, a tradition-bound Austrian nobleman and those who cause him woe: his mother, Istenne, whose idealistic antics scandalized Europe years ago; his daughter, Princess Stephanie, whose worldly mischief is creating no less of a contemporary stir; and his cousin, the narrator, whose Americanized ways offend every tenet of Albrecht's existence. There is also God in the guise of both the stern but just Yahweh of Abraham and the ever-forgiving Jesus Christ. Underlying the action is Albrecht's conviction that humanity's unbridled way...
Hotchkiss
How has the Hotchkiss School managed to accommodate a hundred years of unprecedented change—a century during which horse-and-buggy trails have become less familiar than the fiery trails of space-bound vehicles, and Victorian propriety has yielded to unabashed self-expression? The short answer—carefully; certainly not without considerable tension and the constant need to mediate between the forces of tradition and innovation. Oh yes, also by following the golden rule: do not disturb the cherished memories of alumni—and, more recently, of alumnae as well.
Confessions of a Hapless Hedonist
CONFESSIONS OF A HAPLESS HEDONISTAn Inconvenient Discovery about the Meaning of PleasureConfessions of a Hapless Hedonist is a lighthearted first-hand account about the seductive perils of our time. Ranging over a century of intimate foibles and world events, it is the true story of an outlandish family forced to abandon a life of wealth and privilege in Europe after World War II, and start anew in the United States. Within the framework of this transition played out on both sides of the Atlantic is the drama of the narrator's devotion to the unbridled pursuit of pleasure - and his wrenching discovery of a more subtle but no less compelling imperative. Endowed with a sensual predisposition f...
A Short Take on Human History
Addressing an enduring challenge that looms more immediate and socially destabilizing than global warming, "A Short Take on Human History" offers a new paradigm that should make the Judeo-Christian designation more palatable to secular members of both the Judaic and Christian part of this uneasy coupling. Ranging over millennia of history and focusing on such disparate cautionary tales as Mao's China, Trump's Washington and Adam and Eve's fabled Garden of Eden, this booklet introduces an original shorthand for understanding history and raises inescapable questions question for our time: Are we doomed always to live in a world where we suffered and died because there wasn't enough - or in a world where we suffer and die because we have failed to learn how to handle plenitude? Are we forever caught between the twin scourges of scarcity and the excesses caused by our unbounded desires - forever doomed to share the fate of Sisyphus working his rocky burden to the mountain's peak, only to have it come crashing back?
Roland Hayes
A “gripping, sensitive” biography of the trailblazing singer who carved a path for African American artists including Marian Anderson and Paul Robeson (The Atlanta Voice). Performing in a country rife with racism and segregation, the tenor Roland Hayes was the first African American man to reach international fame as a concert performer. He became one of the few artists in the world who could sell out Town Hall, Carnegie Hall, Symphony Hall, and Covent Garden. Performing the African American spirituals he was raised on, his voice was marked with a unique sonority which easily navigated French, German, and Italian art songs. A multiculturalist both on and off the stage, he counted among h...
