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the thin white line
He was known for the quote, “luck is the residue of opportunity and design,” even though it was most likely a misattribution, but even then, John Milton and Paradise Lost could have served as pretext for much of Branch Rickey’s … Continue reading
eden postponed
Maybe Shiva knows? Its a struggle with modernity and some of its paradoxes hint at some great truths. Beginning in the 1960’s the hippies began traveling to India, on the quest of a sort of Thomas More utopia: a search … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged anna hazare, bill laswell, chandra bhan prasad, Damon Runyan, dr. m.n. srinivas, gurmukh singh, india caste system, jawaharlal nehru, Jimmy Breslin, lokpal bill, mahatma gandhi, ms. mayawati, ramayana hindu epic, Sir Thomas More, smita narula, thomas more utopia, tihar jail, uttar pradesh
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mailer: writer with a loud hailer
Norman Mailer’s The White Negro from 1957.The search for rebels of his generation led to the hipster. A prophetic inquiry into violence and rebellion? Or a basic re-packaging of his Harvard education into its logical extension which was a … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Al Jolson, Allen Ginsberg, Constance Rourke, Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Jimmy Breslin, Lou Reed, mezz messrow, Norman Mailer, patti smith, Peter Max, rachael carson, Thomas Frank, thomas frank the baffler, Vance Packard
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The inferno on a cold January night: air conditioned pure essence
“The Divine Comedy” is one of the great imaginative creations that have been put onto paper. It is sometimes considered the greatest Catholic poem as “Paradise Lost” by Milton is the great Protestant poem. It forms the basis of Italian … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous
Tagged Andrew O'Hehir, Christopher Hitchens, Dante, Dante Alighieri, Deepak Chopra, Eugene Delacroix, Harold Kushner, Henry Holiday, Jimmy Breslin, Jimmy Breslin The Church That Forgot Christ, John Lovitz, John Milton, Maimonides, Milton Paradise Lost, Penn Jillette, Richard Dawkins, Tony Blair, William Blake
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PLEDGING FAITH AS COLLATERAL: Sloth & the Imp
“This new millennium already marked by killings is merely a sign of what Conrad called our miserable ingenuity. How we love to create Devils and Gods and bloody rivers of ways to get their almighty attention. What we turn away … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous
Tagged Brendan Gill, Cardinal Egan, Christopher Hitchens, Conrad Black, Father Gabriele Amorth, Frans Huys, Goethe, Hieronymous Bosch, Jacques Derrida, Jimmy Breslin, Jimmy Breslin The Church That Forgot Christ, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Joseph Conrad, Kelly Cogswell, Neil Reynolds, Pope Benedict XVI, Randy Newman, Rossano Gospels, Stanley Milgram, Syriac Bible of Paris, Watering of the Girls Hungary
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