Tag Archives: John F. Kennedy

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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involuntary hero

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes: The Kennedy Wit Bantam Books, 1964 (1965 edition) Design and Photography uncredited Happy Birthday JFK (1917-1963)! Little Boy: “Mr. President, how did you become a war hero?” President Kennedy: “It was absolutely involuntary. They sank my … Continue reading

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tunnel to the future

..Limbaugh read from a Washington Post blog post that reported Fluke had been interested in contraceptive coverage even before she enrolled at Georgetown. Because of this, Limbaugh declared, “She’s a plant — an anti-Catholic plant from the get-go on this.” … Continue reading

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JFK: perfect metaphor

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) …crackpot america’s finest moment….makes for a great instructional comic, eh?… a few years ago i bought a roll of kennedy half dollars, drilled a small hole through the entire stack and then exclusively used them … Continue reading

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dallas and american extreme: grassy knoll design

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) the first time i visited dallas, texas, was a miserable trip. i’d been invited down there to give one of my little ‘talks’ (show slides of my work, cuss a lot). i’d not bargained on … Continue reading

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run like hell and don’t look back

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) : early in his presidency (i think around the time of the cuban missile crisis), president john f. kennedy mailed a little booklet to every household in america. it’s title was “fallout protection: what to … Continue reading

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The Engineering of Human Desire

human desire and separating the needs from wants. … Tai Carmen (http://taicarmen.wordpress.com/): In an earlier post, “Invisible Architects”, we explored the birth of a fascinating marriage in American consumer culture: psychoanalysis and marketing. To recap briefly, the original, pre-commercial boom … Continue reading

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INTO THE MYSTIC WITH THE SOLITARY WANDERERS

”I laugh at the plots hatched by men,” he declared, ”and I enjoy my own being in spite of them.” He died soon after writing these lines, at Ermenonville, north of Paris, where he was staying as the guest of … Continue reading

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