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souvenirs: glory days?
remember when….Is reality that the peace agreement with Egypt is an on-going fraud, “cold” peace or not. Some in Israel claim that it died before it was born and the semblance of peace is an illusion foisted on the Israeli … Continue reading
plan-o-gram: the harder they come
The path of least resistance. Start by bringing up Chamberlain and equating Iran with Munich. Its ingenious because Iran could conceivably threaten the West, but the comparison with Iran’s capabilities, although extensive does not measure to the killing capacity of … Continue reading
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illusions of fiction
Orson Welles. The prodigy. It is only rarely that the child prodigy converts into an adult prodigy, in fact statistically not very promising, but Welles pierced the prodigal ordeal of circumstances into an association with real achievement. The crowning of … Continue reading
Havel enough
There has been a lot of ink spilled for Vaclav Havel, most all of it favorable. He was deeply Western; acculturated to rock music and American culture in general, and a willing actor to boot communism into the dust-bin, greatly … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Cockburn, andy kilmistir, Ayn Rand, Christopher Hitchens, Dalai Lama, Friedrich A. Hayek, George Soros, jeri pelikan, michael parenti, Milan Kundera, Milos Forman, Neville Chamberlain, Noam Chomsky, Slavoj Zizek, vaclav havel, vaclav klaus
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dix & the creative curse: if hollywood say so its O.K.
The idea was to find an idiom that best suited him to criticize the society he found himself: essentially, a capitalist bourgeois Germany. After returning from the front, he passed through the expressionist, futurist and dada schools before settling on … Continue reading
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Tagged Albrecht Altdorfer, Albrecht Durer, Christian Schad, Christopher Hitchens, David Seidler, Donald Kuspit, Franz Radziwill, George Grosz, John Heartfield, Lucas Cranach, Mark Vallen, Neville Chamberlain, Otto Dix, Rob Candelino, Russell Smith, Seidler king's Speech, Stuart Elliott, Travis English
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what is and what it seems may be: manufacturing contentment?
Was he really the connoisseur who by accident sleepwalked into history? William James, the nineteenth-century psychologist wrote that “the greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.” In … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Roberts, Christopher Hitchens, Colin Firth, David Druck, Dreyfus Affair, Edward Bernays, Fruity Metcalfe, Howard Zinn, John Grigg, Kate Middleton, Nathan Straus, Neville Chamberlain, Noam Chomsky, Philip Ziegler, Prince William, Robert Capa, The King's Speech, Timothy Spall, Wallis Simpson, William James, William Manchester, Winston Churchill
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