In a Nov. 27 article titled “Alum dispels popular myth,” the Lariat talked to Jim Hillin, who has worked on a number of films including Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast.” The article dispelled the myth that the ballroom in that movie was based primarily on the Armstrong-Browning Library. This is a response by Jim Hillin to some of the sentiments expressed in the article. Read the article at www.baylorlariat.edu for more information.

Bing Crosby would be appalled.

With singer Carol Richards, the great crooner once popularized a song, “Silver Bells,” about the joy of Christmas shopping. “Strings of street lights,” it went, “even stop lights, blink a bright and red and green as the shoppers rush home with their treasures.”

Of course, that was in 1950, a more genteel era when men still wore hats and women still wore gloves. These days, one would be well-advised to wear Kevlar.

We see them everywhere.

Calling to us from coffee shops and convenient stores, the platform of beverages, powders and pills entice us to “go faster,” “be stronger” and “last longer.”

To students — all, for the most part legally adults and able to make their own decisions — buckling under the weight of full-time classes and jobs they seem like a godsend. And as our country gets busier and busier, we are constantly surprised when the long-term affects of these “godsends” finally surface.

A false dilemma is when one is given a set of options and incorrectly told that those are all the options.

Example: You ‘must’ choose A or B, even though there is also C.

You may ask what famous quotations have to do with anything. Well, that’s just elementary, my dear Watson.

There’s a lot to be said about the use of quotations in our everyday lives.

Growing up, we would be lying if we said we never thought about dribbling down the court, counting down from 10 and shooting as we made a buzzer sound.

After the ball would go through the net, the “and the crowd goes wild” was inevitable.

If basketball wasn’t it, then it was scoring the game-winning touchdown or hitting a walk-off grand slam or something else.