I recently viewed a movie titled "Danton" about the French Revolution, directed by a Pole named Vitlja around 1980. He used French and Polish actors for the film, each using their native dialect. French was dubbed into the Polish parts and there were...

The above title, of course, is a play on the Doors song “Riders on the Storm” from the early 1970’s. But American (and Russian, as well as many others nationalities) have had writers who had to ride out political, cultural and social storms because of...

Jack London, author of Call of the Wild, was a man of many talents and adventures as well. In his book The Road he realates his experiences as a transient hopping freight trains around the country in the mid-1890's. While he only hoboed around for the...

These words, attributed to Soviet premier Nikita Krushchev during the 1960's appeared on numerous posters in the U.S. with his picture during that time. I remember seeing them. I also remember him being shown pounding his shoe (with a hole in the sole)...