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joan : weigh the small advance, there is still a chance
The Monarchist movement, the romantic movement, the spiritualist movement, the liberation movement, the communist movement; Joan of Arc has passed through all of them wit the ease and aplomb that one would expect of a light stepping, free-floating saint. From … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander McQueen, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, Bernard Williams philosopher, Charles de Gaulle, Colette Beaune, David Hume, Fra Girolamo Savonarola, Jean Anouilh The Lark, Jean Le Pen Front National, Joan of Arc, Jordi Savall, Lord Acton, Louis Touchagues, Luc Besson director, Lukas Jevcak, Madame Pickwick, Marie Le Pen Front National, Mila Jovovich, Nadia Margolis, Robert Gildea, Savonarola, Solve Sundsbo, Thomas Carlyle, Vichy France, Voltaire Maid of Orleans
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the silly season: rambam in gaza
It is the crazy summer season. The season of festivals. The Missile and retaliation festival. One of the side features of the Oslo tailgate party. UNESCO at the urging of Islamic state members has just finished rebranding Jewish sage Rambam, … Continue reading
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Tagged Benny Gantz, Fra Girolamo Savonarola, gush katif, Hamas Missiles Negev, Iron Dome missile system, Joel L. Kraemer, King Django, King Django Slaughter, Maimonides guide for the perplexed, Marcus Aurelius column Rome, Nicholas Donin, Pope Gregory IX, Rambam statue Cordova, Rambam UNESCO, Sderot, Shaul Magid, Talmud burning
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futurism: hygiene for the unwashed
In the parade scene of Fellini’s Amarcord,the director seems to surgically probe at the roots of Italian fascism. The evidence seems to indicate that even strong-armed fascism cannot control the id. In fact, its swollen and pussy ideology and exaggerated … Continue reading
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Tagged Bonfire of the Vanities, Fellini, Fellini Amarcord, Filippo Marinetti, Fra Girolamo Savonarola, Frederico Fellini, Futurism, Italian Futurist art, Kerry Bolton, Luigi Russolo, Nataly Goncharova, Steven Heller, Umberto Boccioni, Walter Benjamin
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BONFIRE OF THE DIVINITIES
640 A.D. : According to legend, the caliph Omar burned all 200,000 volumes in the library at Alexandria in Egypt. In doing so, he said: “If these writings of the Greeks agree with the Book of God they are useless … Continue reading
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Tagged Brian Ward, Christopher Hitchens, David Petraeus, Elias Canetti, Fra Girolamo Savonarola, Francois Truffaut, Glenn Beck, Heinrich Heine, Hilary Clinton, Iman Feisal Abdul Rauf, John Lennon, Kat Dibbits, Konrad yakabuski, Martin Luther, Mel Gibson, Pastor Terry Jones, Protestant Reformation, Ray Bradbury, Robert Fulford, Sarah Palin, Savonarola, Steve Bandera, The Beatles, truffaut, XTC Andy Partridge, XTC Colin Moulding, Yevgeniy Dubovik
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DOCTRINE OF DUPLICITY
” For that small matter of lies”, wrote Machiavelli,”I am a doctor and hold my degrees. Life has taught me to confound false and true, till no man knows either”. In ”The Prince” his personal confession becomes a general rule; … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, Aristophanes, Cesare Borgia, Charles VIII of France, Florentine Italy, Fra Girolamo Savonarola, King Charles VIII, Machiavelli, Machiavelli The Prince, Neo-Platonism, Plato, Salman Rushdie, Savonarola, William Lee Adams, William Lee Adams Time magazine
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WHEN GOODNESS COMES TO A STICKY END
Machiavelli: the name leaves no one indifferent. Perhaps one of the most hated men in history among a gallery of rogues. He has been charged, down through the centuries with being the sole poisonous source of political monkey business, of … Continue reading
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Tagged Florence Renaissance, Fra Girolamo Savonarola, Graham Greene, Guiliano de' Medici, Howard Zinn, James Bond, John Keats, Keifus, King Charles VIII, Lorenzo Medici, Lorenzo the Magnificent, Machiavelli, Machiavelli Life of Castruccio Castracani, Machiavelli Mandragola, Machiavelli The Prince, Michelangelo, Phil Regal, Pietro de Medici, Plato, Pope Leo, Raphael, Santo di Tito, Savonarola
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SOULS WITH MALEDICTIONS
”‘Moloch’ certainly, despite the horror it holds for Ginsberg, is after all only the comfortably unreal reality of bourgeois America. It is as much ‘invisible suburbs’ as it is ‘monstrous bombs’, and even the poet admits that it ‘entered my … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron Taylor, Allen Ginsberg, Ary Scheffer, Beat Poetry, Beat Poets, Carl Solomon, Dante Alighieri, Fra Girolamo Savonarola, Ginevra de Benci, Giotto di Bordone, Howl, Jack Kerouac, Leonardo DaVinci, Lorenzo Medici, Savonarola, Warren Ginsberg, William Adolphe Bourguereau
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BE SURE TO WEAR SOME FLOWERS IN YOUR HAIR
” If you’re going to San Francisco be sure to wear some flowers in your hair”. The same could be said for Florence,which, in the fifteenth century was a permissive, liberal society. The pendulum of the permissive revolution swung the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alessandro Botticelli, Botticelli, Burning of the Vanities, Florentine Italy, Fra Girolamo Savonarola, G.K. Chesterton, Italian Renaissance, Lorenzo Medici, Medici, Michelangelo, Piero Medici, Renaissance Art, Savonarola
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