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americans abroad: in search of “classical” education
The Henry James archetype of the American abroad: Generally painters, novelists or historians of the arts. Almost all of them idlers who live on unearned income and found in Switzerland an ideal tax haven; pensioners an elderly couples stretching their … Continue reading
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Tagged Caresse Crosby, Cybil Shepherd, Ernest Hemingway, Henry James, Henry James Daisy Miller, James McNeill Whistler, Leo Stein, Man Ray, mary cassatt, Peter Bogdanovich, Sinclair Lewis, Van Wyck Brooks, William Merritt Chase
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humdinger jimmy: reckless pedestrian years
The beauty of being born again is that you get to wipe the slate clean. Its ingenious, very much in the spirit that de Toqueville described America on his visit early in the nineteenth-centiry as the land of constant personal … Continue reading
father of the beats
There was decidedly an air of wildness about him….At first Lindsay attracted little attention. Then, in 1913,as his poetic scope widened, he began intoning his verse in ragtime rhythm, in what he called “Higher Vaudeville” presentations. He was convinced that … Continue reading
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Tagged Agnes Scott College, American Poetry, Billy Sunday, Elizabeth Ruggles, Helen Sewell Johnson, Louis Untermeyer, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Sinclair Lewis, T.R. Hummer, Vachel Lindsay, W.B. Yeats, William Dean Howells
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thigh-bone beating on a tin-pan gong…
1922…People were dubious about spending twenty-five cents a ticket just to see a poet, but then they tended to be somewhat softened, mollified, by the fact that Lindsay also delivered temperance lectures which appeased the many dry-fanatics at the time. … Continue reading
child’s utopia
It was founded in the mid 1930’s and really reflected the John Dewy “progressive education” ethos of a liberal education; the progressive critique of the conventional assumptions about learning, pedagogical principles and economic thinking as well as religion. The Burgess … Continue reading
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Tagged bill ayers, Boyd Bode, Burgess Hill School, Caroline Pratt, Deborah Meier, Elliott Wigginton, George Conts, George Dennison, James East Burgess Hill, john dewey, Margaret Naumberg, Paul Goodman, Sinclair Lewis, The Dukes of Stratosphear, Theodore Dreiser
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the myth is not invulnerable
Aesthetics and economics. As with the farmer, so it generally went with the small businessperson: dealer, salesman, contractor,and small merchant. Their income may be considered handsome when compared to past standards, but they are, collectively, a group that has to … Continue reading
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Tagged Arnold Hauser, David Geffen art collection, Donald Kuspit, Francis Bacon artist, H.L. Mencken, Henry Clay Frick art collection, Jan van Goyen, Jeff Koons, jeffrey deitch, Marcel Duchamp, Sinclair Lewis, Sir Joseph Duveen, Steven A. Cohen, willem de Kooning
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on ole’ boot hill
Where the difference between the good guys and the less good guys was sort of blurry. Boot Hill, Tombstone AZ and the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. The times were a changin’ and America was pushing westward. Like in Peckinpah’s … Continue reading
peter pumpkinhead
…”Let him jump so that he will fill the sacks along his back bone with air and then he can not go deep to die”….”I want to see him and to touch him and to tell him he is my … Continue reading
take off your hat when the hearse passes
God always seems to be bumping into an atheist’s head in the most unexpected places. There was always Voltaire fessin’ up on his deathbed.His almost comic anti-semitism attributed to a repressed piety and faith. But, then he was always angling … Continue reading
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