Those who know George Mikes’s How to Be an Alien will spot a paraphrase of one of the book’s chapters. If Naturalised draws on the experience of a new British citizen who was born and bred...
Continental people have sex life; the English have hot-water bottles. George Mikes, a Hungarian-born British writer. PS – A research has shown several years ago that the English could now be c...
Israel (from DeoTravel) A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies ...
I met with my former co-student and colleague this Saturday; we sat in a cafe which is a part of a chain of Italian and Japanese eateries in Moscow. We sat just below the big plasma TV, and the Russia...
What we see depends mainly on what we look for. Sir John Lubbock, a British statesman....
The story that was recently covered by Le Figaro, has started in Moscow in around 2007 when Valery Alekseev decided to break out from his comfort zones, using the “Extreme Rhetoric” method...
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t. Margaret Thatcher, a British politician....
Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’ Erich Fromm, a German-American philosopher and psychoanalyst....
El Poema de las Danzas, or The Poem about the Dance, is the title under which the famous Carmen Suite Ballet was transferred onto the screen in Russia. Here is the story of how the ballet had actually...
My father once told me that there were two types of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group: there was much less competition. Indira Ga...