By CircleReader
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November 18, 2007
Jim Flemming over at To the Best of Our Knowledge has interviewed translator Dick Ringler, and in the process broadcast part of his audio drama of Beowulf. So we got to listen to Grendel gorging flesh and griding bone in the mini-van on the way home from church today.
Plus Michael Dirda on reading […]
By CircleReader
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November 16, 2007
It makes a sensational, controversial headline: A Harry Potter-centered curriculum boosts a failing school into the top 5 percent. Students must recite a spell (“numerus subtracticus”) when answering math questions.
But on closer inspection, this turns out not to be just a school carried off into frightening conformity to the current fad. Whatever you […]
