Tag Archives: Emma Lazarus

history re-eats itself

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Dave

Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? An appealing title for a savage, grim, searing, three hour dialogue between a historian and his wife. The personal situation, dominated by a screeching Earth Mother, the historian’s wife, provides the focus of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Benedetto Croce, Edward Albee, Edward Toynbee, Elizabeth Taylor, Emma Lazarus, frederic-auguste bartholdi, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Oswald Spengler, R.G. Colingwood, Richard Burton, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf | Leave a comment

flirting with lady luck: statues of liberty

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Dave

The rock star personas. The great wealth. The love of publicity. The elitism. The somewhat shoddy intellectual foundation. The almost subservient conformity with regard to the established order, exposes both men to the charge of opportunism and insincerity. Though, to … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Arielle Dombasle, aude lancelin, david stern, david stern hartz group, Denis Diderot, Emma Lazarus, frederic pages, frederic-auguste bartholdi, guillaume duhamel, Henri Bernard-Levy, jean huber, jean huber swiss painter, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Jean Racine, Montesquieu, Norman Finkelstein, robert hudon, Voltaire Candide | Leave a comment

sweeping the sand from the golden door

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Dave

We have just passed the forty-forth anniversary of the Six Day War. In part, a war based on certain reclamation myths and Jewish revisionism that appropriates necessary ingredients form the bible into the mythological recipe of a national homeland. Somewhat … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged asher ginzberg, barthes, bruno bettelheim, Emma Lazarus, Golda Meir, Hannah Arendt, ian leslie born liars, Israel Zangwill, Lloyd Geering, Martin Buber, Michael Ezra, moshe smilansky, Norman Finkelstein, Raul Hilberg, richard cohen pundit, scott copeland, sue boland, Theodor Herzl, yakov m. rabkin | Leave a comment

WILD BILLY'S CIRCUS STORIES

Posted on July 30, 2010 by Dave

Life and Art Not while the fever of the blood is strong, The heart throbs loud, the eyes are veiled, no less With passion than with tears, the Muse shall bless The poet-sould to help and soothe with song. Not … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous | Tagged American Cinema history, Andrew Sarris, Arthur Koestler, Billy Wilder, Cameron Crowe, Damian Cannon, Dave Thomson, Ed Sikov, Edward Bernays, Emma Lazarus, Ernst Lubitsch, Herman Melville, Holliday T. Day, I.A.L. Diamond, Jack Lemmon, Laurence Maslon, Marilyn Monroe, Paul J. Karlstrom, Paul Karlstrom, Philip Kemp, Richard Armstrong, Robert Johnson, Tim Dirks, Victor Morton, William Holden | Leave a comment

ANARCHISTS WHO RUN WITH WOLVES

Posted on July 11, 2010 by Dave

… and occasionally ride camels. Nearly all exponents of anarchism, for example, have used the term to refer to a natural state of society in which people are not governed by submission to humanmade laws or to any external authority. … Continue reading →