Tag Archives: Gore Vidal

1000 years ago: deep in the archives

Posted on November 13, 2012 by Dave

A thousand years ago our forebears lived in a “dark age.” They themselves did not think it was dark and they were only half wrong… …Our Western world was unquestionably Catholic, although the Church sanctified relics of pagan practice and … Continue reading →

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auctioned off: quickie sale

Posted on August 23, 2012 by Dave

The night they auctioned off the Roman Empire. It was not merely an empire, it was the world. … In the second century A.D. Rome stretched across a million and a half square miles, from Scotland to the Sahara, from … Continue reading →

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naipaul: at the mercy of the “bow and arrow men”

Posted on July 13, 2011 by Dave

“If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead. …Writers should provoke disagreement.” – V.S. Naipaul. Naipaul is something of a master craftsman in putting down rivals, the art of invidious comparison, and the guile of over-the-top self adulation. It … Continue reading →

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when dicky was tricky: campaign swag and swagger

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Art

Back in the old days when elections were brass-knuckled affairs. Art looks back on the advertising ”swag” of the 1968 presidential election and Richard Nixon. Art Chantry:Back in 1968, during the election fiasco that produced the presidency of Richard Nixon, … Continue reading →

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Southern Discomfort

Posted on November 10, 2009 by Dave

Throw Buster from the train.Faster than a speeding locomotive,the Superman of comedy knew the eccentric side of Southern living. Carson McCullers ”The Heart is A Lonely Hunter ” and Buster Keaton’s film , ”The General’ ( 1927 ),a newly released … Continue reading →

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