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1939: few twinges of guilt
What was America like in 1939? In a way caught between the bark and the tree with the Depression still a traumatic memory and a World War on the horizon. The United States was on the threshold of a new … Continue reading
china’s enduring imperial traditions
Reports of its death, though it has taken a few on the chin, are always exaggerated. As Mao once said, there is a several thousand year tradition of emperor worship, to deeply embedded to be disregarded, as distasteful as some … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew J. Nathan, Bernardo Bertolucci, Bertolucci The Last Emperor, Chiang Kai-shek, China Imperial tradition, dowager empress china, dowager empress Tzu Hsi, Edgar Snow, eleanor roosevelt, Hubert Vos painter, Jeremy Thomson, Joseph Stilwell, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mao Zedong, Robert Capa, Thirteen Emperors Scroll, Yan Liben
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brother can you spare a dime?
The Great Depression ended in every film. If it ever existed. Yes we could thank Shirley Temple for that. The great template that the American entertainment complex gave us, and keeps on giving us. To learn to love kids, and … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged charles sellon, Edward Bernays, eleanor roosevelt, fred bojangles robinson, gifford and young, Herbert Hoover, J.P. Morgan, jaime diamond, james jimmy dunn, Pecora Commission, shirley temple, shirley temple curly top, Sigmund Freud, Thorstein Veblen, Walter Lippman, William Wellman
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