by Patricia Lee Sharpe | May 23, 2016 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe Lu marries Tham, but Chen marries Healy. Flannagan marries Kennedy, but Roberts marries Maheshwari. So the U.S. is still a melting pot, ethnically. But wait: birds of a feather—East Asian as well as Irish—are definitely flocking together. Both,...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Sep 21, 2015 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis New York Times columnist David Brooks must have read James Billington’s Icon and the Ax: An Interpretive History of Russian Culture during summer vacation. The book was a classic in its field and remained so for years after it was first...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Jun 30, 2015 | Monitor
A Film Review By Patricia Lee Sharpe The orchard of tangerines never gets harvested. That’s the way it is with war. People die, and the beautiful things go to waste. Tangerines, a cinematic collaboration between Estonia and Georgia, with additional support from the...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Mar 9, 2015 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe Lodi Garden is not a manicured place. Its ambient vegetation is Delhi’s scrubby woodland, the scrappy growth that springs back after a dose of over-civilization. But there are lawns, too, stubbly grassy expanses to play cricket on, to picnic...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Nov 7, 2014 | Monitor
A Review Article By Patricia Lee SharpePrisms turn a beam of colorless light into a full color spectrum. Sunshine in. Red/orange/yellow/green/blue/violet out. A rain- bow! No one who learns to do this in junior high science forgets the magic of it. Well, hardly...