Tag Archives: George Orwell

still more george

Posted on January 13, 2013 by Dave

by Art Chantry: david pearson’s design for the new penguin books edition of george orwell’s “1984″. it’s beyond brilliant!

waugh: enjoying the little box

Posted on December 26, 2012 by Dave

Phantom voices.Evelyn Waugh was a strange bird: the sort of upper class British snobbism that has been washed away; the reactionary conservative with an almost paranoid fear of the “other” with particular emphasis on Jews, who, based on his own … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Christopher Hitchens, Cyril Connolly, David Bittner, Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, Graham Greene, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mark Amory, Nancy Mitford, Osbert Lancaster, T.S. Eliot | Leave a comment

just like the first time

Posted on October 26, 2012 by Dave

Just like the first time and we may be starting over…Appeal to the base, get the first time voters off the couch and into the booth. Mother Lena Dunham will give them a basic anatomy course and stimulate the viral … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Derrais Carter, George Orwell, Helen Levitt photography, Henry Jenkins, Jeffrey Hunter The Searchers, John Ford The Searchers, John Wayne The Searchers, Joshua Keating Foreign Policy, Len a Dunham, Nicholas Yanes, Paul Klee, Pauline Kael, Rogan Kersh Wake Forest, Walter Benjamin, walter benjamin angel of history | Leave a comment

tunnel vision: rejigging the disposition matrix

Posted on October 26, 2012 by Dave

Atheist reinforcement workshops. Death and destruction in the Middle East. Its always racist, violence and excessive. But its holy. Somehow sanctified under some tawdry pretext for the greater good and the glory of the almighty, someone’s almighty of the moment. … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Barack Obama 2012, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Free Syrian Army, George Orwell, glenn greenwald, Hannah Arendt, John O Brennan, Kade Crockford ACLU, Louis Le Nain, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mohamed Morsi, monty python and the holy grail, Rabbi Shlomo Aviner, Theodore Gericault | Leave a comment

“something sweet about life”

Posted on September 12, 2012 by Dave

An argument in favor of reviving common sense…. Someone once mentioned to Dr. Samuel Johnson a certain person who claimed to see no distinction between virtue and vice. To which Johnson replied: “If he does really think that there is … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Aristotle, Dame Julie Andrews, David Bowie, Dr. Samuel Johnson, George Orwell, Homer The Odyssey, Hunter Sales, Iggy Pop, Jackie Gleason, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Tony Sales | Leave a comment

reviving common sense

Posted on September 12, 2012 by Dave

The decline of common sense. And why we might wish to revive it. …Prideful people, understandably, dislike serving on juries, for common sense is a fierce humbler of pride and egotism. It tells the person with a theory that they … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Cervantes, Common Sense, Don Quixote, Dr. Samuel Johnson, George Harrison India, George Orwell, Honore Daumier, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, The Beatles India, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

The decline of common sense

Posted on September 12, 2012 by Dave

Common sense is usually said to be sturdy, but in fact it has been faring badly ever since the scientific revolution began. It is plain, common sense declared in those days, that the sun revolves around the earth. Wrong, said … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Common Sense, Copernicus, David Bordwell, David Linfield US Embassy Cairo, Egypt Salafists, Elsa Lanchester, Galileo Galilee, George Orwell, Hekma television channel, Henrik Ibsen, John Farrow, Jonathan Latimer, Mohammed's trial film, Naked City film, Ray Milland, The Big Clock 1948, The Ultras White Knights, US Embassy Cairo, Wesam Abdel-Wareth | Leave a comment

from strength to strength

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Dave

C.S. Lewis. The Christian spaceman who put theology into outer space and planetary adventure… The third novel in C.S. Lewis’s space trilogy series , That Hideous Strength, is a buyoant satire on the overweening pretensions of technology and the social … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Aldous Huxley, C.S. Lewis, Christopher Hitchens, G.K. Chesterton, George Orwell, j.r.r. tolkein, Jan van Eyck, John Milton, John Milton Paradise Lost, Joy Davidman, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, William Blake | Leave a comment

the new seekers

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Dave

Aldous Huxley is to the negative or anti-utopia what Plato and Sir Thomas More combined are to the positive. We are apt to be less familiar with the Republic’s guardians and Utopia’s jeweled toys than we are with Brave New … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Aldous Huxley, Andrew Potter, c.m. kornbluth, Frederick Pohl, George Orwell, Herbert Marcuse, joseph heath, Karl Marx, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Horkheimer, Noam Chomsky, Paul Goodman, Ray Bradbury, Sir Thomas More, Slavoj Zizek, Theodor Adorno, William Tenn | Leave a comment

Utopia: stories of the days to come

Posted on April 28, 2012 by Dave

Utopia is not exactly the same as the Messianic Kingdom where the wolf dwells with the lamb and the leopard lies down with the kid. Its peaceable, but only through divine intervention. The other Utopia, the secular one, is a … Continue reading →