Cultural Contributor

Peter Lubin

1 article 1998

Peter Lubin contributed to The Weekly Standard in 1998. He wrote on cultural topics for the magazine, including a piece on romantic relationships and shifting social mores.

LOVE'S LAST SHIFT

August 24, 1998 · Magazine

THERE IS BOTH PROFIT AND PLEASURE to be derived from what may be called the poetry of mistake. Colley Cibber, perhaps the least talented of England's poet laureates, saw his play Love's Last Shift translated into French as La derniere chemise de l'amour. Scotland's Firth of Forth was translated by…