Tag Archives: Irving Kristol

“what’s new?”

“What’s New?” we ask each other ritually, and there is generally a ready answer at hand. Journalism, with its vested interest in change, has become enormously more pervasive and influential, first from television, and then the internet, ans perhaps this … Continue reading

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1939: plus ca change…

.In the United States of 1939 a good many conditions prevailed that seem rather odd today. But some unseen hand, invisible spirit, has always been at the heart of the American experience… ..And change of all sorts is the heart … Continue reading

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1939: fourteen ton typewriter

1939.The Year of the New York World’s fair and its theme of “the world of tomorrow.” The vision was aught between the end of the Depression and WWII; the Unired States was on the threshold of a new era, but … Continue reading

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1939: no mood for modern

…In America not very long ago, a good many conditions prevailed that seem rather odd today. Income tax exemptions and rates were such that the lawyer or doctor of average income, if married and with two children, had an annual … Continue reading

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no stone unturned.

Leave it to Glenn Beck.At one time he was a boozer and skirt chaser, blustery, but fragile and vulnerable. Capable of being compelling on a personal level. Lately, he has turned to a flirtation with a Christian messianism, controllably benign, … Continue reading

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when we were fab: takin’ the a train

Don Hunstein was the staff photographer for Columbia in the early to mid 1960′s and worked with well known art directors at the label like John Berg and Bob Cato. In the LP era the album cover was a complementary … Continue reading

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reason to believe or be deceived: who’s zoomin’ who

The struggle between generations is one of the most obvious constants.The 1960′s were not unique in this sense, but were unique in terms of radical dissent and cultural innovation; an extreme form of alienation transformed from the typical peripheral experience … Continue reading

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