A look at Gentlemen’s Clubs
I missed a chance to dine again at Brooks’s Club, where I had not been for years. A stomach bug kept me from “the Other Place,“ then from Brooks’s. After putting [Read More]
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Incensed Professor at Sea: “ Other Place”
Oxford and Cambridge, with the serene superiority attendant on age, wealth, and tradition, refer each to the other as “the Other Place.” Given the number of [Read More]
Installment 10: Side trip from London
La Cour des grands is the French title of a fairly recent book published in English as “The Great and the Good.” I have not read it, but it does remind me of the one [Read More]
Incensed Professor No. 9: Great and Good
The Incensed Professor at Sea 9: The Great and the Good “The Great and the Good” seem less in evidence these days than heretofore. They turn out for Royal Weddings [Read More]
Incensed Professor at Sea 7: In London
The Incensed Professor at Sea 7: What to Do in London I walk. Lots. My trips to London in the past were for academic research with original documents, but their [Read More]
Incensed Professor at sea: Church going
While I don’t fully agree with Philip Larkin’s great poem “Church Going,” it reminds me a bit why I always loved the Church of England. Of course, the main reason [Read More]
Incensed Professor at Sea 5: On dry land
The Queen Mary II docked at Southampton, and I took the transfer to St. Pancras which is near where I was staying in Bloomsbury. The trip was long because London traffic is [Read More]
The Incensed Professor at Sea 4: Grog and Other Rations
Aside from the Captain’s Cocktail Party, booze for most of us punters onboard ship is not free. This is a bit vexing, to say the least; I should at least have expected a [Read More]
Incensed Professor at Sea 3: “They that Go Down to the Sea in Ships.”
Or in the case of the Queen Mary II, “they that go down to the sea in a really big ship.” Hundreds and hundreds of us! Taking a car service from Manhattan, I could [Read More]
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