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fiscal cliffs: mind over chatter
Scientific charity. In railways, steel and finance, Andrew Carnegie was a cool,rational man and his ventures into charity were meant to be scientific as well… In 1889 Andrew Carnegie, in his usual bold and provocative manner, stated his philosophy of … Continue reading
stalking the psychic jackals
Ernest Hemingway. There was the dazzling public persona to which he lived up to, but behind it there was a shadowland of deep war wounds and psychic jackals that stalked his later years… He was truly spooked by the war … Continue reading
sheiks and shebas dance no more
1926…Over that pied and milling campus the sunshine is almost tangible. The Sheiks wear Fair Isle sweaters of gaudy intricacy, checked plus fours with tassled socks, or gray flannels so bell-bottomed that they completely vover the saddle-strapped shoes. Most of … Continue reading
flappers
Original dust jacket for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Flappers And Philosophers” from 1922. Illustration by W. E. Hill.
tradition of the quest
The atmosphere conjured up by J.D. Salinger inevitably recalls the era of nineteenth-century romanticism; then, too, the promise of utopia disappeared in blood, leaving the younger generation disillusioned and ready to escape into the personal search for truth and beauty. … Continue reading
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J.D : still be-Holden
The critics always worked busily to classify J.D. Salinger. He always eluded them. There was always a feeling in many quarters that altogether too much fuss was being made about J.D. Salinger. George Steiner once castigated it as “The Salinger … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Kazin, Catcher in the Rye, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Franz Kafka, George Steiner, J.D. Salinger, Jack Kerouac, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mary McCarthy, Max Brod, Maxwell Geismer, Richard Prince, Salinger Franny and Zooey, Seymour Glass J.D. Salinger
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payback: you ain’t goin’ nowhere
There is such a big divide between the haves and have lesses and have nothing at alls that either this has always existed or that now it is in the realm of active engagement letting all manner of conspiracy theorists, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill gates, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jennifer Baichwal, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Margaret Atwood payback, Michael Ferguson, Shepard Fairey, the great gatsby, Warren Buffett, Warren Buffett Great Givers, Wuthering Heights Bronte
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new forms for old feeling
Profit as evidence of god’s approval for the sacred project of America buffeting the shock between business and piety, lucre and morality. The Emersonian chosen people, selected, picked for a special destiny. Many are called, few are frozen; a form … Continue reading
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