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Tag Archives: H.G. Wells
getting cozy with Ole’ Man Time
“If you knew Time as well as I do,” said the Hatter, “you wouldn’t talk about wasting it. It’s him.” “I don’t know what you mean,” said Alice. “Of course you don’t!’ the Hatter said, tossing his head contemptuously. ÔI … Continue reading
no escape
The impossibility of dropping out? …. Our protest culture, whatever the historical precedents, be it baby boomers of Woodstock or back to the desert hermits and mystics of yore; whatever the worthiness of its aims, noble and earnest the approach … Continue reading
edwardian divide
Some disquieting similarities between the Edwardian Age, the flowering of capitalism in the era of Thorstein Veblen, running into the tide of modernism and consumer culture ; and today’s dawn of post modernism on the cusp of the service economy … Continue reading
camp david: spurning divine gifts…
Camp David Peace Accords. Almost all concessions were unnecessary. Begin could have walked away with a treaty without making any substantial concessions. Is this mere conjecture? Not at all, because on one of the most sensitive points of the negotiations, … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Anwar Sadat, Camp David Peace Accords, Caroline Glick Jerusalem Post, Daniel Gordis Jerusalem Post, H.G. Wells, Jerusalem final status negotiations, Jimmy Carter, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, mahmoud abbas, Mahmoud al-Zahar, Menachem Begin
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welles: frozen in the role of prodigy
Every discussion of Citizen Kane, or of any other Welles movie, is sure to bring up his camera sense. In Kane there is the brilliant pseudo newsreel of the great man’s death, the senate investigation scene that is modeled on … Continue reading
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Tagged Daniel Hopsicker, David Bordwell, Edward Bernays, H.G. Wells, Ivy Lee, James Naremore, John Houseman, John Huston, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marc Blitzstein, Orson Welles The Cradle Will Rock, Osron Welles, Peter Bogdanovich, Peter Bogdanovitch, William Wyler
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illusions of fiction
Orson Welles. The prodigy. It is only rarely that the child prodigy converts into an adult prodigy, in fact statistically not very promising, but Welles pierced the prodigal ordeal of circumstances into an association with real achievement. The crowning of … Continue reading
as though paradise had never been lost
Christian theology projected beyond earth and man, a theology of the universe at the dawn of the space age was what C.S. Lewis was tapping into. ” as though Paradise had never been lost and earliest dreams were true, the … Continue reading
utopia: machines triumphant
Utopians were prophets in the sense of predicting the future and also prophets in the sense of castigating the present; a vision of things as they should be was also a reproach to things as they are. One of the … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged H.G. Wells, H.G. Wells A Modern Utopia, H.G. Wells When the Sleeper Wakes, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Karel Capek, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Samuel Butler, Samuel Butler Erewhon, William Morris, William Morris News From Nowhere
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