As we have this year, been celebrating the Centenary of the birth of Sir Peter Ustinov, so we can now reflect on that and what it now means for the Ustinov Prejudice Awareness Forum, moving ahead. This is about continuing with the efforts here, of helping more to understand the work of this Forum. Sir Peter …
It was an old song that said, “You’ve either got or you haven’t got style!” It featured in a very enjoyable routine from the Hollywood film, “Robin And The Seven Hoods,” in which the great combination of Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr, satirised the Robin Hood legend, money, power, corruption, …
Picture: “God Bless Our Gracious Queen!” A Tribute By Lorenzo Cherin In the Summer I celebrated the reign of Queen Elizabeth II with an article entitled ” Elizabethan Age,” on this site. It was for her Platinum Jubilee. I featured a cartoon of mine, called ” Long Live Our Noble Queen!” the second line of …
Featured, photograph- Princess Diana at a health centre, shaking hands with a patient with HIV/Aids, 1987, London. It is not easy to touch on the meaning and significance of the life of a person, twenty five years after the death of that person. But given such an awareness might apply at any time, if …
Picture : “The Healing” – A Painting By Lanechka Fevola It has been several months since the war in Ukraine started. Little did I think when I wrote this article on this site, that it would continue as long. https://www.ustinovforum.com/articles/not-acting My partner Lanechka Fevola and I contributed this to our related project site, The Arts And …
Picture, Enoch Powell and Kemi Badenoch It is an irony, whether in politics, or wider culture, that not everyone who ought to, really fully appreciates that both literally and metaphorically, not everything is in black and white. Sir Peter Ustinov, in common with many who identify themselves, or should I say, ourselves, for I am …
The man whose work inspires this forum, Sir Peter Ustinov, was a recipient of a medal from the Royal Society Of The Arts. It was called The Benjamin Franklin Medal, given for cultural activity fostering good relationships between the UK and the US. Of course he promoted relations between all peoples and of goodwill between …
Picture: ” Long Live Our Noble Queen,” A Cartoon By Lorenzo Cherin Elizabeth R, the symbol of the Monarch and of the Crown, is one that is instantly recognisable. The R, Latin for Regina, meaning, Queen! Thus would the first Queen Elizabeth make an immediate visual impact as who she was, on paper, or …
Any murder is horrible. Mass murder is horrifying. The intent is hateful. The doing of it is putting into action the hating. Few things more readily exemplify the extreme nature of this. The United States has, historically and continuously, had a disproportionate number of hate crimes. These range from racially motivated individual violence by hateful …
