Tag Archives: Korean War

the fifties: happy days?

Posted on December 21, 2012 by Dave

The 1950′s as Golden Age? The manufacturing of instant public myth, replete with rosy recollections and the retrospective pleant time where there is an option to subscribe to nostalgia as public virtue… …The paranoiac fear of the Russians in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Barry Manilow, Barry Manilow 1950's, Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Korean War, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Ring Lardner, Robert Altman Director, Suez Crisis 1956, Suez Crisis United States | Leave a comment

lessons of munich

Posted on September 26, 2012 by Dave

Is there a “lesson of Munich?” Whatever it is, it was certainly misapplied by the Americans to Vietnam in the same way that the so-called appeasement of the Arab world is likely also a misapplication of Munich applied to a … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Ahmad Shah Massoud, Apghanistan War, appeasement of the Arab World, Barack Obama 2012, Barack Obama appeasement, Daladier France, Francisco Franco Spain, Gerda Taro, Hitler and Mussolini, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, iraq war, Joseph Stalin, Korean War, Lessons of Munich, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Reza Deghati, Robert Capa, Spanish Civil War, Vietnam War | Leave a comment

reaction of the little angry men

Posted on June 10, 2012 by Dave

This piece is quite good; from Wilhelm Reich, it also seems to capture the contradictions in his own character and the manner in which his own life was a tormented combination of forces he did not necessarily understand. After all, … Continue reading →