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cosmetic nouns: baked in the cake
Where economic misfortune is concerned, a word on nomenclature is necessary… In the course of his disastrous odyssey, Pal Joey, the most inspired of John O’Hara’s creations, finds himself singing in a cheap nightclub strictly for cakes and coffee. He … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alfred Kahn economist, John O'Hara, John Steinbeck, Phil Alvin, Yip Harburg
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1939: the two americas
…The social and political attitudes that had arisen out of the depression were stil firmly in control of the national mind. There were, as John Dos Passos had written, two Americas: the capitalistic one that saw the solution to its … Continue reading
1939: rays and wrath
What was America really like in 1939? Well the experts behind the New York World’s Fair of 1939 with its theme of “the world of tomorrow” thought they knew, and could also predict the future. America was on the threshold … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Carl Bridenbaugh, Daniel Bell historian, Dorros Bowden, Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, george washington hill, Henry Fonda, James reston, Jane Darwell, John Steinbeck, Louis b. mayer, Lydia Gibson, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Major Edward Bowes, Roosevelt WPA, Thomas J. Watson IBM
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1939: better Ma Perkins
In 1939 the United States was on the threshold of a new era, but all the experts were prisoners to the Great Depression just behind and blind to the coming implications of World War II… Among books the great political … Continue reading
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Tagged Bruce Bliven, Charlie McCarthy puppet, Chase and Sanborn Coffee Hour, Edgar Bergen, Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, George Cukor, James reston, John Steinbeck, Ma Perkins soap opera, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Norma Shearer, The Grapes of Wrath movie
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1939: ole times sake
America in 1939, stuck between the rear-view mirror of the Great Depression and the impending war. Idyllic times? The good ole’ days? The New York World’s Fair of 1939 had as its theme “the world of tomorrow,” one based on … Continue reading
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Tagged 1939 America, 1939 New York World's Fair, Edward D. Stone, Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, H.M. Lynd, International Style Building architecture, James reston, John Dos Passos, John Steinbeck, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Murray Kempton, Philip L. Goodwin
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the 1950’s : early stirrings of disaffection
…and a list of some of the leading Hollywood movie stars of the fifties is enough to strike a chill into the heart of cineastes everywhere-Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Kim Novak, Tony Curtis, Rory Calhoun, Rock Hudson, Debra Paget, Robert … Continue reading
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Tagged 1950's American cinema, Debbie Reynolds, Doris Day, Elia Kazan, George Stevens Director, James Dean, James Dean East of Eden, James Dean Giant 1956, John Steinbeck, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Rock Hudson, Shelby Legnon, The 1950's American culture, The 1950's decade
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sky high
The tall boy. Robert Wadlow didn’t mind the jokes about the weather up there, but there were worse drawbacks to being the tallest man in the United States… Alton, Illinois, a small manufacturing city on the Mississippi River twenty miles … Continue reading
the shadow side of the page
Hemingway: the image and the shadow. What lay behind the dazzling public persona he created for himself? … It must be remembered that the image is an essential part of the truth about Hemingway. Not only did he project an … Continue reading
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Tagged Carl Jung, Carlos Baker writer, Clive Owen actor, Edmund Wilson, Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway big game hunter, Ernest Hemingway fisherman, Ernest Hemingway public image, Gellhorn wife of Hemingway, Hemingway and Gellhorn movie, John Dos Passos, John Steinbeck, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martha Gellhorn, Nicole Kidman, Robert Capa, Sigmund Freud
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