Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (Feb. 4, 2017)
WW II Coinage There are no atheists in the foxholes. …Rev. William T. Cummings A Double-entendre Palindrome Semite Times At the Grave of a Land-Shark There was no land, […]
WW II Coinage There are no atheists in the foxholes. …Rev. William T. Cummings A Double-entendre Palindrome Semite Times At the Grave of a Land-Shark There was no land, […]
Arabic Proverb When a learned man errs he makes a learned error. Advice from a Statesman In matters of principle, stand like a rock: In matters of taste, swim with the current. Consolatory […]
A Modern Aphorism Weakness of character is often mistaken for modesty. Freudian Slip A district attorney with a reputation for badgering witnesses gave everyone in court a big laugh when he said to the […]
Look and See It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. … Henry David Thoreau From the Trivia File During World War II, the Oscar statuettes were made of plaster […]
Doctor’s Adage Without pains, No gains. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1735 Double Entendre A haughty matron was looking at a proof of a photograph of her that had just been taken at a swank photography studio. […]
Egyptian Proverb No one can circumvent the skillful of heart. They who know his wisdom do not attack him, and no misfortune occurs where he is. Truth comes to him fully brewed, in accordance with […]
From Lectures on the English Poets Fame is not popularity. It is the spirit of a man surviving himself in the minds and thoughts of other men. …William Hazlitt The Virtue of Anonymity The first […]
Occult Exposure Mockery is at the heart of Satanism. …Michael Hoffman In and Out In the ranks of our Armenian organizations, there are a significant number of self-promoters who know how to talk themselves […]
Armenian Folk Music History Gomidas Vartabed created the 300-member “Kusan” Choir and gave concerts in various places in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt. Five of its members (Parsegh Ganatchian, Mihran Toumajan, Vartan Sarxian, Vagharshag Servantsdiantz, […]
Apegha In the Armenian Church the term apegha serves to designate a celibate priest who has fulfilled his final vows, but has yet to complete his doctoral dissertation to be ordained a vartabed. In the […]
Copyright © 2021 | The Armenian Weekly