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WWI: spirit of violence and hysteria
The malaise of the First World War. Even staunch humanists like Thomas Mann were caught up in the jingoistic fever, the pomp and ritual of nihilism. In 1914 he asked, “Is not war a purification, a liberation, an enormous hope?” … Continue reading
LAUGHTER OUT OF DEAD BELLIES
Even before America had entered World War One, death had become a romantic subject for the new generation of American writers. The notion spread that it was the inevitable fate of men in the trenches, and writers then in college … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Seeger, Andre Breton, Arthur Stringer, Erich Maria Rilke, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fiona Maddocks, Franz Kafka, Franz Kafka The Penal Colony, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, John Drinkwater, Lew Ayres, Lewis Milestone, Louis Wolheim, Michael Lowy, Rainer Maria Rilke, Rupert Brooke, Walter Benjamin
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BOUND FOR GLORY?: TALKING ABOUT BAGISM, SHAGISM, DRAGISM…
” Jean Renoir’s Grand Illusion throws many people for a loop the first time they see it. Its reputation as one of the great works of cinema leads them to expect an eye-popper like Citizen Kane, or a work such … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, Aldous Huxley, Arthur Koestler, Citizen Kane, Edvard Munch, Friedrich Nietzsche, G.B. Pabst, Gordon W. Allport, Heinrich Heine, Herbert Spencer, Jack Kerouac, James J. Sheehan, James Leahy, Jean Gabin, Jean Paul Sartre, John Lennon, John Rader Platt, Joseph Goebbels, Julian Huxley, La Grande Illusion Jean Renoir, Lewis Milestone, Martin O'Shaugnessy, Max Weber, Noam Chomsky, Norman Angell, Orson Welles, Oswald Spengler, Pete Seeger, Robert Brent Toplin, Robin Bates, Sigmund Freud, The Doors, The Doors Jim Morrison, Timothy Leary, Tom Block, Tom Paxton, Viktor Frankl, Yoko Ono
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