Author Archives: Ron Pavellas

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About Ron Pavellas

reader, writer, a sometimes poet

Political Correctness and the “Cult of Personality”

The phrase “politically correct,” or “PC,” was first publicly used by a British Ministry of Information official during the First World War. It later appeared in Mao Zedung’s “Little Red Book” in the early 1960s and was adopted, originally tongue-in-cheek, … Continue reading

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”A Friend in Power is a Friend Lost”

Here is The Education of Henry Adams, an autobiography or, perhaps more accurately, a memoir in that there are around 20 years missing, those with his wife Clover. (See the link at the end for access to her life, and … Continue reading

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