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rolls over rubies
Men and their cars. Fetish object? idolatry? The freedom machine? Below: Colonel T.E. Lawrence at the wheel of an armored Rolls-Royce in 1918. He later wrote:”A Rolls in the desert was above rubies.” (see link at end)…He would eventually command … Continue reading
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Tagged Harold Orlans, Lawrence of Arabia, Rolls-Royce history, T.E. Lawrence
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hero worship: pretense to reason and purpose
Our generation is in difficulties about its heroes. The individual hero, defined as the personification of what the age intends to be, has become a wraith. Heroes will not thrive in every moral climate, but that does not stop us … Continue reading
Yet their brows touched heaven
The blur of identity is fundamental to the Arab consciousness and the history of the Arab peoples has been a perennial struggle to resolve it: an alternation of confusion , self-awareness and doubt, mixed with something that transcends frontiers and … Continue reading
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Tagged al-Jahiliyah The Ignorance, Arafat meets Pope John Paul II, Arafat visits John Paul II, Army of Islam Salafi, Caliph Omar, Charles Doughty, Itamar Marcus, John Phillips photography, Lawrence of Arabia, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mohammed Morsi, Patriarch Sophronius, Richard Francis Burton, Steve Runciman, Temple of Solomon, The Arabia Felix
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forced shrinkage
That they tend to be narrow-minded, petty, self-righteous, sexist and parasitical is a notwithstanding issue. The point is the Haredim as they are called, the ultra-orthodox tend to be sprouting lie like proverbial tomatoes at the end of summer, falling … Continue reading
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Tagged Amir Peleg, chaim weizmann, David Ben Gurion, Felix Frankfurter, Hedjaz Delegation, Jeff Halper ICAHD, Lawrence of Arabia, Lee Kotzel, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Gilbert, meir margalit, Meir Margalit Meretz party, Patricia O'Toole, Tal law exemption, Yaron London, Yossi Sarid, Yuda Braun artist
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built in obsolescence: vintage violence
In a first statement,somewhat off-guard, Gilad Shalit expressed support for the freeing of all Palestinian prisoners, if they do not turn around and engage against terror attacks against Israel, according to Al-Jazeera. While Palestinians are holding extensive celebration in Gaza, … Continue reading
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Tagged abu mazen, Chris Hedges, David Brooks, Edmund White, Frantz Fanon, gadaffi death, Georges Sorel, Gideon Levy Haaretz, gilad shalit, Jean Genet, Jean Paul Sartre, Lawrence of Arabia, martin kramer, michelle goldberg, Norman Finkelstein, omar khadr, Paul Newman, peter o'toole, Steven Plaut, thomas friedman, william haver
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genet’s existence and essence
Complexity of atmosphere and motive. Are morality and aesthetics mutually exclusive? In the case of Jean Genet, does eroticizing the victims, often his own lovers, wipe the slate clean, peeling away the layers of Judeo-Chrisitian morality? Jean Genet always put … Continue reading