Archives for August 11, 2021

Buddy Rich and his big band perform Cole Porter’s “Love for Sale” on British TV in 1979:

(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)

“Political history is far too criminal and pathological to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villains from fiction.”

W.H. Auden, A Certain World