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Tag Archives: Edward Albee
hero worship: pretense to reason and purpose
Our generation is in difficulties about its heroes. The individual hero, defined as the personification of what the age intends to be, has become a wraith. Heroes will not thrive in every moral climate, but that does not stop us … Continue reading
trampling on the idea of progress
Is history without meaning, without power and without hope ? … …Even if professionals hold up their hands in horror at the idea of drawing lessons from history, others, far less capable, do not. Toynbee had no hesitation in trampling … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Anne Askew, Arnold Toynbee, Caleb Stegall, Edward Albee, F.R. Leavis, Francis Bacon, Gemalde von Albert Anker, Girolamo da Treviso, Jared Diamond, Lawrwnce H. Keeley, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Heidegger, Nicholas Wade, Oswald Spengler, War of Kappel, Zwingli Protestant alliance
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CATCHING THE MOMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
“I married, and then my brains went up in a shower of fireworks. As an experience, madness is terrific … and not to be sniffed at, and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous
Tagged Angelica Bell, Bertrand Russell, Carrie Crockett, Clive Bell, Douglass Orr, Duncan Grant, Edward Albee, Elizabeth Abel, Elizabeth P. Richardson, G.E. Moore, George M. Johnson, Gerald Brenan, Jan Goldstein, Julian Bell, Leonard Woolf, Lytton Strachey, Malcolm Ingram, Meryl Streep, Michael Holroyd, Roger Fry, S.P.R., Sigmund Freud, Society of Psychical Research, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf
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