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cold war: down honkin & tonkin way
What exactly was the Cold War? How did it start, who was responsible and could it have been avoided?… …South of the Chinese border, in an ancient province of the French empire, Tonkin, not yet generally known by its new … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged French Vietnam War, Gar Alperovitz, Graham Greene, Graham Greene The Quiet American, Henry Roberts Russian Institute Columbia, Ho Chi Minh, Leon Blum French premier, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Robert Capa, Sam Huntington, The Cold War
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democracy in fraction
Israel has an electoral system based on nation-wide proportional representation. What that means is lots of fringe parties and never a majority government. Every government is a coalition. The number of seats which every list receives in the Knesset is … Continue reading
the shadow side of the page
Hemingway: the image and the shadow. What lay behind the dazzling public persona he created for himself? … It must be remembered that the image is an essential part of the truth about Hemingway. Not only did he project an … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Carl Jung, Carlos Baker writer, Clive Owen actor, Edmund Wilson, Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway big game hunter, Ernest Hemingway fisherman, Ernest Hemingway public image, Gellhorn wife of Hemingway, Hemingway and Gellhorn movie, John Dos Passos, John Steinbeck, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martha Gellhorn, Nicole Kidman, Robert Capa, Sigmund Freud
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Naples down under
How they live and die in Naples. It was quite a collaboration. A great Italian film director interviewed his fellow citizens, while a leading German photographer recorded them. The result was a poignant document of humanity and heartbreak that very … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andreas Feininger, Bicycle Thief De Sica, Hans Bellmer, Herbert List, Herbert List photography, Lyonel Feinninger, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Ernst, Napoli Vittorio De Sica, Robert Capa, Stephen Spender, Studs Terkel, vittorio de sica
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china’s enduring imperial traditions
Reports of its death, though it has taken a few on the chin, are always exaggerated. As Mao once said, there is a several thousand year tradition of emperor worship, to deeply embedded to be disregarded, as distasteful as some … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Andrew J. Nathan, Bernardo Bertolucci, Bertolucci The Last Emperor, Chiang Kai-shek, China Imperial tradition, dowager empress china, dowager empress Tzu Hsi, Edgar Snow, eleanor roosevelt, Hubert Vos painter, Jeremy Thomson, Joseph Stilwell, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mao Zedong, Robert Capa, Thirteen Emperors Scroll, Yan Liben
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let them make soap
Homeland insecurity… Israel is the world’s greatest propaganda machine, or at least right up there. The spin is a democratic nation that will taken in any jew and give citizenship ; the sheer weight and swagger, read indoctrinated egotism of … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Batsheva Sobelman, Benzion Netanyahu, Dani Rosenberg, Franz Kafka, George Grosz, Julius Streicher, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Orly Vilnai-Federbush, Pedro Berruguete, Pope Gregory Talmud burning, Robert Capa, robert capa israel, Walter Benjamin, Zoltan Kluger
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old doctor: same sick disease
Days of their lives…The United States Congress established the Days of Remembrance as our nation’s annual commemoration of the Holocaust and created the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as a permanent living memorial to the victims. Holocaust Remembrance Day is … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged aryeh eldad, Band of Brothers movie, Effi Eitam, Holocaust Memorial Day, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Januscz Korczak, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nissan Slomianski, Norman Finkelstein, Rabbi Wolpo, Raul Hilberg, Robert Capa, Zoltan Kluger
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ragged glory
There is something ironic about seeing that video of Danish protesters, unarmed and non-violent getting absolutely smashed silly by riot police and then juxtaposing that footage with the same ugly use of force against illegal Jewish settlers, – breaking secular … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Amona expulsion, Branch Rickey, Chutzpa Productions, Colonel Bird Bergen Belsen, cornell capa, eichmann trial, gilad shalit, gush katif, gush katif expulsion, Hatikva lyrics, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Igal Hecht, Naphtali Herz Imber, Noam Shalit, Robert Capa, St. George and the Dragon, Yom Ha'Shoah
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