Tag Archives: Lionel Trilling

playing chicken

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Dave

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) Perspectives, issue #3 Intercultural Publications (New York)/Hamish Hamilton Ltd. (London), 1953 Design: Paul Rand Art Director: Alvin Lustig A lit quarterly, Perspectives was the British/international version of Perspectives USA, … Continue reading →

Posted in Shake Your Hips | Tagged alvin lustig, Art Direction magazine, cleve gray, Eric Bentley, intercultural publications New York, Jacques Barzun, jacques villon, jesse marinoff reyes, Lionel Trilling, Paul Rand, perspectives magazine, perspectives USA, robert lowell, W.H. Auden | Leave a comment

the too real to be true deal

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Dave

We seem to be on the verge of a new era of populism, a search for someone to rise up on behalf of the little guy and gal like- Obama was rhetorically pining to do before getting knock-kneed- and defying … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Andrew Potter, bob hepburn, Gov. Rick Perry, harry truman turnip day, herman cain, joe klein, john huntsman, john mcain straight talk express, joseph heath, Joseph Schumpeter, Lionel Trilling, Marcel Duchamp, Oprah Winfrey, sarah palin moose hunting, Stephen Harper, Vladimir Putin | Leave a comment

occupy the authentic

Posted on October 30, 2011 by Dave

Its a complete distortion and perversion of some very profound thinking by the likes of Viktor Frankl and his will to meaning. The experiences of a holocaust death camp survivor filtered through the maze of pop culture into a reified … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged 10cc, Andrew Potter, Chris Hedges, cornel west, Guy Debord, Henry Adams, John Sloan, laura ingalls wilder, Lionel Trilling, Michael Moore, Michael Pollan, mike moffatt, miles orvell, Naomi Klein, Naomi Wolf, stephen crane, susan pinker, Thorstein Veblen, Viktor Frankl, Walt Whitman | Leave a comment

circumstantial angels

Posted on July 4, 2011 by Dave

It was the art of circumstantial speech. Mixed with the art of underestimation, with some irritating asides thrown in for good measure. Well, Peter Falk did act funny. This uncanny ability to start talking in one direction and going off … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged columbo, Francisco Goya, isaac babel, Lionel Trilling, Michel Foucault, paul reiser, Peter Falk, Wim Wenders | 2 Comments

The N WORD and HUCK fiNN: When the Revolution Comes

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Dave

Politically correct. Civilized. Lynchings and catfish and the more “dangerous” notions of interracial sex.”How could a black revolutionary ever be sure that white radicals would not return to the fold of white racism.” …IS the road to racism, a separate … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous | Tagged Agatha Christie, Amin Sharif, Eldridge Cleaver, Ernest Hemingway, Gil Scott-Heron, Huckleberry Finn, James Baldwin, Lionel Trilling, Mark Twain, Norman Mailer, Richard Wright, Roger Ebert, Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot, The Last Poets, William Faulkner, William Klein | Leave a comment

INSTANT GRATIFICATION:Mysterious Strangers of the New Dispensation

Posted on November 18, 2010 by Dave

“Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.” ( J.M. Keynes ) An aristocratic disdain permeated the Bloomsbury group. A contempt for the masses as well as the bourgeois. They were … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Alfred Marshall, Alfred Stieglitz, Bertrand Russell, Bloomsbury Group, D.H. Lawrence, Daniel S. Lieber, David Garnett, David Ricardo, Desmond MacCarthy, Duncan Grant, E.M. Forster, Elvis Presley, F.R. Leavis, Friedrich A. Hayek, Friedrich Nietzsche, G.E. Moore, Georges Seurat, Getrude Himmelfarb, Jack Goncalo, Jenny Tucker, John Maynard Keynes, Leon Edel, Leonard Wolf, Lionel Trilling, Lytton Strachey, Mark Twain, Noel Annon, Paul Krugman, Paul Samuelson, Richard P. Smith, Richard Smith Dollar ReDe$ign project, Robert Skildesky, Roger Fry, Shannon Proudfoot, Sir Roy Harrod, Thomas Arnold, Thomas Paine, Virginia Woolf, Zach Ammerman | Leave a comment

JANE AUSTEN: SMALL WORLDS & STRONG PASSIONS

Posted on October 26, 2010 by Dave

The desires of Jane Austen were large and complicated. At the social level, she wanted liberty to state views, no matter whom she offended as well as exposing the orthodoxies of her time.She chose her enemies with care and analyzed … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous | Tagged Alistair M. Duckworth, Anne Hathaway, Billie Piper, Claudia Johnson, D.C. Measham, D.W. Harding, D.W. Hardy, D.W. Winnicott, David Lodge, Deborah Moggach, E.M. Forster, Elizabeth Jenkins, F.R. Leavis, Fay Weldon, George Eliot, Jane Austen, Jessica Benjamin, John Wiltshire, Jon Spence, Kate Gordon, Keith Oatley, Leo Tolstoy, Lionel Trilling, Margaret Drabble, Marilyn Butler, Marivaux, Mark Twain, Martin Amis, Michael Kellner, Monica Lawlor, Pamela Mooman, Richard W. Noland, Robert B. Cialdini, Robert P. Irvine, Robert William Buss, Sam Leith, Sandie Byrne, Susannah Carson, Trilling, Virginia Woolf, Voltaire, William James Dawson | 2 Comments

JANE AUSTEN: ESSENTIAL AMBIGUITIES OF THE HEART

Posted on October 25, 2010 by Dave

…and iron butterflies in the soul. Which “Belle du Jour” to rattle the ghosts in the cage of moral sentiments. Maybe men should get off the couch and take the trouble to find out instead of making virtue out of … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Billie Piper, Catherine Deneuve, Claudia Johnson, D.W. Harding, David Lodge, Edouard Manet, Elizabeth Jenkins, F.R. Leavis, George Lewes, Horace Walpole, Howard Jacobson, Ian Watt, Inger Signun Brodey, Irene Collins, J.S. Clarke, Jan Fergus, Jane Austen, Jon Spence, Judy Dench, Lionel Trilling, Luis Bunuel, Margaret Drabble, Marilyn Butler, Michael Kellner, Monica Lawlor, Monteiro Belisa, Nancy Butler Jane Austen, Pamela Mooman, Paula Byrne, R.W. Chapman, Robert Morrison, Sir Walter Scott, Sonny Liew, Vladimir Nabokov | Leave a comment

TRUTH AS COMEDY: FIDDLER ON JANE AUSTEN’S ROOF

Posted on October 24, 2010 by Dave

Some critics describe Jane Austen’s works as novels of social comedy. When she wrote Pride and Prejudice she was just twenty-one years old. Her literary life was comprised between 1786 and 1817. A characteristic for the eighteenth century was the … Continue reading →