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ustinov: diversity in identity
At one time in the late 1950’s, early 1960’s it became virtually impossible to turn on television without finding Peter Ustinov. He might appear as a traffic policeman- first British, then French, then Austrian. He might do his own version … Continue reading
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Tagged David Garrick, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Taylor, Jack Paar, Laurence Olivier, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Morley Safer 60 minutes, Noel Coward, Orson Welles, Peter Ustinov, Peter Ustinov Hammersmith is Out, Richard Burton, Samuel Johnson, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Somerset Maughan, Theodore Tenley
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the nile: slow boat to cairo
The Nile. “The bringer of food… creator of all good. lord of majesty” is no longer worshiped as a god, but it still controls the lives of the people who live along its banks… Ancient Egyptians rejoiced in the thought … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Abbasid caliphate, Cleopatra in Egypt, Edwin Longsden Long, Egyptian History, Gerard De Lairesse, John Speke, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maimonides guide for the perplexed, Mamluks rule Egypt, Ottomans in Egypt, Richard Burton, The Nile River History, William Hogarth
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rambam: mono( theism) in surround sound
Accusations of prophecy both true and false, fly fast and furious. The jabbing and sparring, the parrying of the opponent in preparation for the great revelation from some ultimate message, messianic of sorts, which will reveal for once and for … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Cresques Catalan Atlas, Christopher Hitchens, Eldon Rutter, Georges Vajda, Girolamo da Treviso, Laurie Goodstein, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maimonides, Maimonides guide for the perplexed, Norman Stillman, Peter Howson, Richard Burton, Tariq Ramadan, The Dead Sea Scrolls, The Great Isaiah Scroll
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somewhere between 2 B.C. and 6 A.D.
There was the Year One. In the sixth century, Dionysius Exiguus presented a calculation of the “first year of our Lord”; it was slightly inaccurate, given the scant and conflicting evidence in the Gospels, and on neither of those accounts … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Newman, Anton Raphael Mengs, Augustus, Ceres pagan madonna, Dionysius Exiguus, E.M. Forster, Edward Gibbon, G.K. Chesterton, geologist jefferson williams, Henry Koster, Hieronymous Bosch, Josephus Flavius, King Herod, Konrad Witz, Leptis Magna theater, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Pliny the Younger, Richard Burton
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there’s plenty of room at the bottom
From the previous post that brought up Harry Saltzman, one of the originators of developing the social realism genre of film. Of course, Saltzman did not operate in a vacuum, but he had an intuitive sense that connected the north … Continue reading
AESTHETIC OF ILLNESS: "THIS MONSTER, THIS BODY"
Alix Strachey, a practising psychoanalyst and an old friend of the Woolfs, discussing why Leonard had not persuaded Virginia to see a psychoanalyst about her mental breakdowns, concluded ‘Virginia’s imagination, apart from her artistic creativeness, was so interwoven with her … Continue reading
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Tagged Clive Bell, Duncan Grant, Elizabeth Taylor, Hermione Lee, Hogarth Press, James Joyce, James Strachey, Jane Elizabeth Fisher, Julia Briggs, Leonard Woolf, Leonardo Da Vinci, Leslie Stephen, Lisa Kerr, Lytton Strachey, Panthea Reid, Richard Burton, Roger Fry, Sigmund Freud, T.S. Eliot, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West
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