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antiques and fashion roadshow
She is called the “middle-class” princess. Whatever elasticity we apply to it, her recent trip to Canada has only served to reinforce the notion that she is a marketing icon to the rich, wealthy and affluent respectable that is flip … Continue reading
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Tagged cheryl tiegs, Christopher Hitchens, christopher wahl, David Cameron British PM, erdem dresses, erdem moralioglu, heidi klum, holt renfrew, jenny packham dresses, john moore national post, Kate Middleton, Lady Gaga, LK Bennet shoes, princess diana, royal visit canada, sarah burton, sarah burton of alexander mcqueen, smythe blazers, Thomas Paine, Thorstein Veblen
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closing the sacredness gap
There is a conjunction, a point of inflection between morality and emotion that translates itself into the political sphere in an almost predictable yet unsettling fashion. Its a zone where we can explain conservative electoral success while at the same … Continue reading
the golden bough: keeping the show on the road
Its the Antiques Roadshow up on Cripple Creek.The Golden Bough, the first king, sexless in suburbia and watch out for those in-laws.The comparison of today’s Royal family with Elizabeth I and James I are not that far-fetched as the current … Continue reading
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Tagged Christopher Hitchens, Henry Lord Darnley, James Frazer, james frazer the golden bough, Kate Middleton, Livinus de Vogelaare, Lord Darnley, Mary Queen of Scots, Prince Charles, Prince William, Queen Elizabeth I, Thomas Paine
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INSTANT GRATIFICATION:Mysterious Strangers of the New Dispensation
“Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.” ( J.M. Keynes ) An aristocratic disdain permeated the Bloomsbury group. A contempt for the masses as well as the bourgeois. They were … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Marshall, Alfred Stieglitz, Bertrand Russell, Bloomsbury Group, D.H. Lawrence, Daniel S. Lieber, David Garnett, David Ricardo, Desmond MacCarthy, Duncan Grant, E.M. Forster, Elvis Presley, F.R. Leavis, Friedrich A. Hayek, Friedrich Nietzsche, G.E. Moore, Georges Seurat, Getrude Himmelfarb, Jack Goncalo, Jenny Tucker, John Maynard Keynes, Leon Edel, Leonard Wolf, Lionel Trilling, Lytton Strachey, Mark Twain, Noel Annon, Paul Krugman, Paul Samuelson, Richard P. Smith, Richard Smith Dollar ReDe$ign project, Robert Skildesky, Roger Fry, Shannon Proudfoot, Sir Roy Harrod, Thomas Arnold, Thomas Paine, Virginia Woolf, Zach Ammerman
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DREAM WEAVER
A poet and painter. William Blake. After an attempt to live in the country at Sussex, at the urging of the well intentioned, but mediocre poet, William Hayley; Blake feeling himself patronized and intruded upon, returned to London. On returning … Continue reading
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Tagged Crabb Robinson, Ezra Pound, G.K. Chesterton, George Richmond, James Joyce, Joseph Priestly, Morris Eaves, S. Foster Damon, S. Foster Damon Blake Dictionary, Samuel Foster Damon, Samuel Palmer, Stlukesguild's Ramblings, Thomas Paine, William Blake, William Blake Jersusalem
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IN THE VAPOUR OF THE HEAVENLY HOST
T.S. Eliot said that William Blake’s work had the “unpleasantness” of great poetry because it was the product of a kind of terrifying honesty. Blake ( 1757-1827 ) had never been spoilt by a formal, academic education, Eliot argued, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Crabb Robinson, David Erdman, Emanuel Swedenborg, Ernest Cassirer, Ezra Pound, French Revolution, Fuseli, G.K. Chesterton, George Richmond, Isaac Newton, James Joyce, Karl Marx, Peter Stiles, S. Foster Damon, Samuel Foster Damon, Swedenborg, T.S. Eliot, Thomas Butts, Thomas Paine, William Blake, William Hayley, William Wordsworth
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