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Tag Archives: Bloomsbury Group
the odd couple: birds of a leather
Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh Carlyle…. …Jane whose character included a certain touch of masochism, held a certain profound relish for the domestic drama. She had thought of writing a novel, she admitted, about the “mysteries” of Number 6, her … Continue reading
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Tagged Bloomsbury Group, Charles Dickens, Charles Dickens John Forster, giuseppi mazzini, Godefroy Cavaignac, Jane Welsh Carlyle, Jeremy Bentham, John Forster biographer, John Stuart Mill, Leigh Hunt, Lord Byron, madame pckwick art blog, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marianne Hunt, Thomas Carlyle, Walter Greaves
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by another name
Attacking the enfranchised “unfit.” Purging society of those who do not measure up to the required standards of national efficiency, ( Henry Kissinger’s “useless eaters” ) or whatever euphemisms we may have to couch the theory of euthanasia, and the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bloomsbury Group, colin odell, D.H. Lawrence, G.K. Chesterton, George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, Henry Ford, Henry Kissinger, j.m. coetzee, Julian Huxley, robert w. chambers, Theodor Adorno, Tod Browning, Tod Browning Freaks 1932, virginia wolf
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cuddling in knole house
by Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) …The house on the cover of Iris Murdoch’s last novel is Knole House in Sevenoaks, Kent. Knole House was the home of Vita Sackville-West, a writer and gardener, … Continue reading
INSTANT GRATIFICATION:Mysterious Strangers of the New Dispensation
“Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.” ( J.M. Keynes ) An aristocratic disdain permeated the Bloomsbury group. A contempt for the masses as well as the bourgeois. They were … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Marshall, Alfred Stieglitz, Bertrand Russell, Bloomsbury Group, D.H. Lawrence, Daniel S. Lieber, David Garnett, David Ricardo, Desmond MacCarthy, Duncan Grant, E.M. Forster, Elvis Presley, F.R. Leavis, Friedrich A. Hayek, Friedrich Nietzsche, G.E. Moore, Georges Seurat, Getrude Himmelfarb, Jack Goncalo, Jenny Tucker, John Maynard Keynes, Leon Edel, Leonard Wolf, Lionel Trilling, Lytton Strachey, Mark Twain, Noel Annon, Paul Krugman, Paul Samuelson, Richard P. Smith, Richard Smith Dollar ReDe$ign project, Robert Skildesky, Roger Fry, Shannon Proudfoot, Sir Roy Harrod, Thomas Arnold, Thomas Paine, Virginia Woolf, Zach Ammerman
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CHOKING ON CAKE: BROTHER CAN YOU SPARE A DIME?
“Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.” ( Keynes, 1935) And thus it began with adherence to Keynes’s central theme: the modern capitalist economy does not … Continue reading
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Tagged Allan Greenspan, Andy Warhol, Bloomsbury Group, Cindy Sherman, Claude Monet, Damian Da Costa, Damien Hirst, Daniella Luxembourg, Debbie Reynolds, Don Thompson, Eddie Fisher, Edgar Hardcastle, Elizabeth Taylor, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Frederic Fekkai, G.E. Moore, Jared Bland, Jeff Koons, John Maynard Keynes, John Muth, Julian Schnabel, Leonard Woolf, Lytton Strachey, Marc Quinn, Maurizio Cattelan, Miryam Lindberg, Nate Freeman, Pablo Picasso, Peter Brant, Philippe Segalot, Richard Nixon, Richard Prince, Simon De Pury, Stanley Kubrick, Stephanie Seymour, Virginia Woolf
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DANCE NOW PAY LATER: LIQUIDITY TRAP BALLET
The consequences of John Maynard Keynes.He conceived the economic machinery that runs our lives. His brilliant engine, despite overhauls and tune-ups continues to run erratically. Is it the driver or the roads?… Keynes identified the economic importance of animal spirits. … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Smith, Adam Smith Wealth of Nations, Bernie Madoff, Bertrand Russell, Bloomsbury Group, David Ricardo, David Sarna, Duncan Grant, Friedrich A. Hayek, George Melloan, Ike Brannon, Jean Cocteau, Joan Bakewell, John Kenneth Galbraith, John Muth, Leonard Woolf, Lydia Lopokova, Lytton Strachey, Madoff, Michael Arditti, Mozart, Picasso, Robert B. Reich, Robert J. Samuelson, Roger Fry, Satie, Sir Roy Harrod, Virginia Woolf, William Roberts
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GEOMETRY OF LOVE: The Square Root of Living in Fractions
“Virginia and Vanessa, despite their occasional differences, had an unbreakable bond of love and support. Hermione Lee expounds at length about their dysfunctional childhood which undoubtedly acted as an indissolvable glue in their relationship. But as for the rest of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice K. Miller, Alice Miller, Amy King, Bertrand Russell, Beth Hale, Bloomsbury Group, Clive Bell, Diana Russell, Dora Carrington, Duncan Grant, John Maynard Keynes, Judith Herman, Katie Mitchell, Leonard Woolf, Leslie Stephen, Lisa Borges-Giramonti, Lydia Lopokova, Lytton Strachey, Maurice de Vlaminck, Nicole Kidman, Pablo Picasso, Stephen Daldry, Thoby Stephen, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West
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GAZING AT THE COLD SLOW TERRORS OF THE WORLD
Yet who reads to bring about an end however desirable? Are there not some pursuits that we practice because they are good in themselves, and some pleasures that are final? And is not this among them? I have sometimes dreamt, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Miller, Arthur Symons, Bloomsbury Group, Brian A. Oard, Clive Bell, Diego Velasquez, Dora Carrington, E.M. Forster, Edouard Manet, Elisa Kay Spark, George Duckworth, George Frederick Watts, Harold Bloom, Kate Hext, Leonard Woolf, Leslie Stephen, Lorraine Sim, Meryl Streep, Miriam Roth, Nicole Kidman, Noel Carrington, Oscar Wilde, Quentin Bell, Ralph Partridge, Rembrandt, Roger Fry, Sir Leslie Stephen, Stephen Daldry, Susannah Carson, Thoby Stephen, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, Walter Pater
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PENETRATING THE ILLUSIONS OF SELF: SHIVERING WITH SHAME
“In a 1937 broadcast entitled,” Craftsmanship,” Virginia Woolf seems to predict the ways that contemporary political movements and subsequent social changes have impacted on readers’ ability to discern meanings in her fiction inaccessible to previous generations. She writes that “words that are unintelligible … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Miller, Arnold Bennett, Arthur Rimbaud, Bertrand Russell, Bloomsbury Group, Charles Darwin, Clive Bell, D.H. Lawrence, David Garnett, E.M. Forster, Elizabeth Taylor, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoevsky, G.E. Moore, Henry Tonks, Herbert Spencer, Herimone Lee, Hermione Lee, John Maynard Keynes, Leonard Woolf, Lyndall Gordon, Lytton Strachey, Marcel Proust, Mitchel Leaska, Patricia Kramer, Roger Fry, Rupert Brooke, Sir Leslie Stephen, Stephen Khamsi, Thackeray, Thomas Huxley, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, Walter Pater, Wynham Lewis
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