Tag Archives: Shakespeare in Management

Shakespeare, the Environment, Utah, a Hero and the Justice System

Posted on May 28, 2013 by jimmie

Conscience is but a word that cowards use, Devised at first to keep the strong in awe. Our strong arms be our conscience, swords and law!” (King Richard III, act 5, sc. 3) Comment.  Richard III was right. Conscience is but a word – actually a dirty word, at least in the current judicial system, Read More

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Shakespeare, Macbeth, Power, Greed, War on Drugs or War on the Poor

Posted on April 15, 2013 by jimmie

 “… Stars, hide your fires! Let not light see my black and deep desires.” (Macbeth, act 1, sc. 4) Comment.  Deciphering the motives of the attitudes of men is as interesting as to determine the characteristics of a mineral or a plant. To instill an attitude into the crowd, the “monster with uncounted heads”, assault Read More

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Shakespeare and the Undermining of the Social Compact

Posted on April 11, 2013 by jimmie

“Undoing all, as all had never been!” (King Henry VI, part 2, act 1, sc. 1)   Comment. And so it has come to this, after the ‘war on drugs’ and the ‘war on terror’ we have the ‘war on Social Security’ and the ‘war on Medicare’. For the many (thank you) international friends of Read More

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Shakespeare, Thatcher and British Society

Posted on April 8, 2013 by jimmie

“Thou know’st ‘tis common – all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.” (Hamlet, act 1, sc. 2) Comment. That Margaret Thatcher would make as much noise with her death as with her life was expected and inevitable –  inevitable as the cycle of life in Queen Gertrude’s words to Hamlet. Thatcher imposed Read More

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Shakespeare and more on Physiognomy

Posted on March 17, 2013 by jimmie

“…The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes” (Coriolanus, act 5, sc. 4) Comment. The preceding blog (Mar 16, 2013, title, “Shakespeare, Physiognomy, the Pope and Lavater”) triggered a few direct e-mails and a comment, more or less condemning the practice to judge a person from his appearance, notably his/her face. Who could disagree?  But Read More

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Shakespeare, Physiognomy, the Pope and Lavater

Posted on March 16, 2013 by jimmie

“Your face, my thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters…” (Macbeth, act 1, sc. 5 Comment. As usual, there is a barrage of opposing statements regarding the new Pope’s relation with the Argentinian Junta, responsible for the so-called “Dirty War” and the repression of the 1970s – 1980s. Repression is actually Read More

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Shakespeare and the Physics and Mathematics of NIST (National Institute of Science and Technology)

Posted on March 11, 2013 by jimmie

BIRON. By Jove, I always took three threes for nine. COSTARD. O Lord, sir, it were pity you should get your living by reckoning, sir. (Love’s Labours Lost, act 5, sc. 2) Comment. As it often happens, when an earth shattering episode becomes a myth, no rational discourse is any longer possible. This is the Read More

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Shakespeare, Chavez and the Associated Press

Posted on March 9, 2013 by jimmie

“Fellow kings, I tell you that that Lord Say hath gelded the commonwealth, and made it an eunuch” (KHVI p2.4.2) Comment. Among the large volume of nonsense uttered in the US corporate media regarding the death of Hugo Chavez, one of the most extraordinary prizes for stupidity (and that is being kind) must be assigned Read More

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Shakespeare, Obama and the Right to Assassinate US citizens within the US

Posted on March 7, 2013 by jimmie

“That he should die is worthy policy; But yet we want a colour for his death: ‘Tis meet he be condemn’d by course of law.” (King Henry VI, part 2, act 3, sc. 1) … so says Cardinal Beaufort who wants to assassinate the Duke of Gloucester. But, as you see, the Cardinal and his Read More

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Shakespeare and Useless Expectations on Education and Everything Else

Posted on February 21, 2013 by jimmie

“…the raven doth not hatch a lark” (Titus Andronicus, act 2, sc.3) Comment. Comes a point when whatever is said (on the current national-international conditions) terribly sounds as deja-vu, or to be more accurate, deja-dit, not only by the  redactor of this site but by just about everyone else. Take the case of the so-called Read More

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