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the 1950′s: many monuments to tedium

Posted on December 25, 2012 by Dave

Rosy myths and unrosy realities. Why must we feel nostalgic for the 1950′s even if we never lived them? … …let it be unequivocally stated that television of the 1950′s with a few exceptions was absolutely awful, as most of … Continue reading →

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paradise found lost and imagined

Posted on April 3, 2012 by Dave

In search of paradise. In our shrinking globe there are not too many paradise’s that still endure. At the Red Fort in Delhi, one can still see decorative Persian script of the seventeenth-century over the arches illuminating the words, ” … Continue reading →