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healthy habits….
Is health necessary? Is civilization dangerous to our health? History is littered with health fads, a reflection of the anxiety about health as an inevitable component of civilized life where the quest for the pure and healthful takes on all … Continue reading
the nifty fifties
Must we be nostalgic about the 1950’s? … …Thus, in the way that people looked and dressed, in the cars that they drove, in the houses that they lived in, and in a myriad of other day-to-day aspects of life, … Continue reading
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Tagged bill haley and the comets, Buffalo Bob and Howdy Doody, Ellen Willis, Elvis Presley, Liberace, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Proust, Mike Jahn, Patti Page, Perry Como, Teresa Brewer, Those Redheads from Seattle movie
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Dreyfus: big lies and big sticks
Why we cannot forget Dreyfus. It was the end of the nineteenth century and his exoneration in 1906 coincided with the birth of modernism. The double agents, perfidious generals, conniving politicians and anti-Semites posing as patriots have remained on the … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Auguste Scheurer-Kestner, Bernard Lazare anarchist, Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, Charles Peguy, Emile Zola, Henri Biva paintings, Jean Jaures French Socialist, Joseph Reinach, Justice Michael Kirby Australia, Louis Begley Dreyfus, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Major Georges Picquart, Major Marie Charles Esterhazy, Marc Chagall, Marcel Proust, Marcel Thomas Dreyfus, Maurice Weil, Piers Paul Read Dreyfus, Ruth Harris author, Siegfried Thalheimer historian, The Dreyfus Affair, Vincent Duclert historian
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dreyfus was a goner
Why we cannot forget Dreyfus… …By having Du Paty deliver his memorandum at the last minute in a semi-clendestine way, and by enjoining the court to keep its contents secret, Gen. Auguste Mercier deprived the defense of its legal right … Continue reading
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Tagged amedeo modigliani, Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, Chaim Soutine, Col. Jean Sandherr, Emile Zola, Frederick Brown, Gen. Auguste Mercier, Gen. Felix Gustave Saussier, Hannah Arendt Dreyfus, Joseph Henry Drefus Affair, louis begley, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maj. Mercier du Paty de Clam, Major Marie Charles Esterhazy, Marcel Proust, Maurice Weil, Piers Paul Read, Roman Polanski Dreyfus film, Ruth harris Dreyfus, Siegfried Thalheimer historian, The Dreyfus Affair, Theodor Herzl, Vincent Duclert historian
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captain dreyfus: court farcial
…The premier, Charles Aexandre Dupuy, the foreign minister, Gabriel Hanotux, and other cabinet colleagues whom Mercier consulted, had advised against hasty action in the case: the reactions of both the French public and the German Kaiser were dangerously unpredictable. Gen. … Continue reading
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Tagged Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, Carlos Blacker, Chris Healy Irish poet, Col. A. Panizzardi, Col. Henry Dreyfus Affair, Col. Jean Sandherr, Col. Max von Schwartzkoppen, Eddie Naughton, Emile Zola, Francisco Goya, Gen. Auguste Mercier, Gregor Dallas, Honore Daumier, Ilan Halimi, Jean-Louis Levy, Justice Michael Kirby Australia, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maj. Mercier du Paty de Clam, Marcel Proust, Oscar Wilde, Peter Lefcourt, Robert Maguire, Rowland Strong, The Dreyfus Affair, Tom Verlaine, Vincent Duclert historian, Yolande Jansen
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dreyfus: spy fever pitch
Careless pillow talk. And to see the treason from the forest… To explain the impact of Col. Sandherr’s “discovery” on his superiors, it may be useful to recall certain aspects of the military and the social history of the period. … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan M. Dershowitz, Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, Col. Jean Sandherr, Col. Max von Schwartzkoppen, Edouard Drumont, Franz Kafka, Frederick Karl, Gen. Felix Gustave Saussier, Hannah Arendt, Leslie Derfler, Marcel Proust, Maurice Weil, Max Brod, Peter Lefcourt, Piers Paul Read, Richard Dreyfuss, Sander Gilman, The Dreyfus Affair
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dreyfus: delusions on Secret Judah
Manifestations of public delirium. A delusive dread of subversion turning into mass paranoia. An invisible enemy and a demonic skill in manipulating the channels of communication. The ghosts of the Dreyfus Affair are still with us, its residue a festering … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan M. Dershowitz, Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, Charles Haas, Col. Henry Dreyfus Affair, Col. Jean Sandherr, Gen. Auguste Mercier, Gustave Schlumberger, Hannah Arendt, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Major Georges Picquart, Major Marie Charles Esterhazy, Marcel Proust, Oscar Wilde, Richard Dreyfuss, Siegfried Thalheimer historian, The Dreyfus Affair
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life was better: voluntary simplicity
Taking a glimpse of the poor man’s Belle Epoque… At the turn of the twentieth century in Minot, a French hamlet set in the bleak, wooded highlands of Burgundy, a carpenter named Hippolyte Amiot put aside his hammer and his … Continue reading
acts of despair in the face of infinity
“Debauchery,” the Goncourts wrote in 1861,”is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.” …The Goncourts wrote prolifically in every genre, but they never had the kind of success they so desperately wanted. They were less admired than … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandre Dumas, Algernon Swinburne, Edmond Goncourt, Emile Zola, ernest renan, Geoff Dyer Guardian, Goncourt Brthers, Goncourt Journal, Gustave Faubert, Guy de Maupassant, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Jules and Edmond Goncourt, Jules Goncourt, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Proust, Robert Baldick
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goncourt recollections
…As it turned out, however, it was none of these things that rescued the Goncourts from “oblivion.” It was, rather, their Journals — the scandalous, vain, vengeful, brutally honest diaries in which the two brothers, and then Edmond alone, wrote … Continue reading
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Tagged Algernon Swinburne, Andre Gide, Edmond Goncourt, Edouard Manet, Faubert, Goncourt Brothers, Goncourt Brothers journal, Gustave Courbet, Guy de Maupassant, Henri de Regnier, Jules Goncourt, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Proust, Oscar Wilde, Swinburne, Victor Hugo
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