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The secret agent: romantic incarnations
In fact and in fiction, the spy is the indispensable person of our time. Yet their activity poses a deadly threat to the open society… …The OSS and the early CIA inherited some of MI6′s snob appeal. Though tarnished by … Continue reading
secret agent: great game ethos
The cult of the secret agent. Despit the bling and action, the secret agent poses a menace to the open society… …The Great Game ethos of the professionals was reflected in the spy novels and a little later in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Colonel Alfred Redl, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Erskine Childers, Hannah Adams Summary History of New England, James Fenimore Cooper, John Buchan, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Rudyard Kipling, The Dreyfus Affair, William Le Queux
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secret agent cult: lawless in the struggle
…In fact as in fiction, the spy is the indispensable person of our time. Yet their activity poses a deadly threat to the open society… …In all secret service literature, fiction and nonfiction alike, there is an ambiguous and extremely … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Charles Bennett screenwriter, Compton Mackenzie, E. Howard Hunt, Graham Greene, John Buchan, John Gielgud, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Madeleine Carroll, Peter Lorre, Somerset Maugham
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US AND THEM: THE MADCAP LAUGHS
Henry Fuseli’s painting “The Mandrake” , now lost, struck the aging Horace Walpole as “shockingly mad, madder than ever, quite mad!” But Fuseli would hardly have regarded that as an insult. Much of the time he was trading on madness … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Price, Donizetti, Dr. Georget De La Folie, Dr. Georget psychiatrist, Ernst Gombrich, Eugene Delacroix, Franz Liszt, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, George Crabbe, Gericault, Goethe, Henry Fuseli, Holman Hunt, Horace Walpole, John Buchan, John Everett Millais, John Milton, John Milton Paradise Lost, Joseph Anton Koch, Lord Byron, Milton, Milton Paradise Lost, Philip V. Allingham, Shakespeare, Simon Schama, Sir Walter Scott, Stanley Kubrick, Tasso, Theodore Gericault, Thomas De Quincey, Torquato Tasso, Wilhelm Heinse, William Blake, William Holman Hunt
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