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the fifties: east side stories
We have been through trying times these past several years. The urge to look back on what is perceived as a ahppier, simpler time is naturally very strong. We tend to canonize the fifties as stable and reassuring, a Golden … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Lomax, Alger Hiss, Arthur Miller, Danny kaye, Dorothy Parker, Humphrey Bogart, lena horne, Leonard Bernstein, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, McCarthy with hunts, Olin Downes, Orson Welles, Pete Seeger, Red Channels pamphlet HUAC, Roy Acuff, Roy Cohn, Senator Joseph A. McCarthy
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Ustinov in the army: not combat ready.
…At nineteen Ustinov got a job at The Player’s Theatre, doing a comic skit called The Bishop of Limpopoland, which dealt with an Anglican bishop who had been to Africa so long that he couldn’t imagine anyone not being able … Continue reading
M is for messianic: when the saints come floating in
Messianism is the second great heretical tendency, following quickly on the heels, nipping at the ankles of puritanism. The first disciples of Christ held several extravagant notions popular among the persecuted jews of his time. In particular, they believed, Christ … Continue reading
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Tagged benny hill, Christian Messianism, Chrsitian puritanism, Council of Ephesus, Council of Laodicea, Danny kaye, Destruction of the Second Temple, Jewish Revolt 70 A.D., Johannine tradition, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marty Feldman, Messianism, The Book of Apocalypse, The Last Judgement, Vespasian destruction of the Second Temple
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willingly the ghetto: knowledge acquired in childhood
Eastside and Westside story. Two different worlds. Zionism in the form of Herzl was really the creation of white liberal social democratic thinking. A conjunction of the Enlightenment connected to a Jewish identity that could be refashioned in the age … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Arkin, Balachovitz, Bielski Jewish partisans, Danny kaye, efraim halevy, eichmann trial, Frank Dimant, Freida Pinto, Gideon Hausner, Hannah Arendt, Harvey Weinstein, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Joseph Trumpeldor, Julian Schnabel, Julian Schnabel Miral, Liev Schreiber, Louis Rukeyser, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Moshe Ronen, Rula Jebreal, Shlomo Carlebach, Theodor Herzl, Zeev Jabotinsky
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letting them go: the i’s and thou’s of separation
There is a story of the police commissioner under mayor David Dinkins in the early 1990’s , Lee Brown who visited the famous Chabad Rabbi in Crown Heights. In meeting the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Commissioner Lee Brown asked for a blessing; … Continue reading
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Tagged Ariel Zilber, Danny kaye, harpo marx, Kach Party, Kahansim, Lee Brown Police commissioner, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mayor David Dinkins, meir kahane, Natan Sharansky, Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo, Rabbi Sholom Dov Wolpo, Shlomo Carlebach, SOS Israel
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thai the knot with the king of siam
It was a story about implanting in Siam ideas of freedom and of new technology without tearing up the living roots of an ancient culture. In America, these facts were buried by a remarkable literary landslide, an acute misfortune. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna and the King of Siam, Anna Leonowens, Christian Colonists Siam, Dan Bradley Siam, Danny kaye, Deborah Kerr, Emilie Royce Siam, King Mongkut Siam, King of Siam, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Rex Harrison, Sir John Bowring, The King and I, Yul Brynner
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open wide: by the skin of our wisdom teeth
The dentist. I remember hearing a recounting of how someone’s mother who lived in the boondocks of Northern Quebec had a tooth issue removed by attaching a thin cord to the tooth in question and attaching said cord to a … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged American Dental Association, Canadian Dental Association, Danny kaye, dysthymia, Jan Miense Molenaer, jerry seinfeld, joos van craesbeck, journal of dental education, Seinfeld episode dentist, theodor rombouts, Thomas Rowlandson
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Leo and the stick man
Its about storytelling.Its about old wild men. But not the kind of tales told by the old beaks over a coffee at the mall, dangling worry beads like imaginary large fish they never caught. Old men and the sea who … Continue reading
ragpicker : prodigal sons and daughters
Last night on the radio was a Roubini Global Economics staff member, Megan Green commenting on her Greek trip. Initially, the temptation when one hears the word “Roubini” is to change stations, but she tackled the subject surpisingly well, especially … Continue reading
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Tagged atget, Charles Baudelaire, Charlie Chaplin, Danny kaye, eugene atget, Hieronymous Bosch, katherine hepburn, mark blyth brown university, megan green roubini, Roubini global economics, the madwoman of chaillot, Walter Benjamin
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