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Virginia Woolf and her work “A Room of One's Own”
Perhaps the history of men's struggle against women's emancipation is more interesting than the story of emancipation itself. Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
Alexandr Radayev
Faith · Observations · Society · Nature
Pope Francis I, addressing TED, urges us to heed what scientists say about climate change and the need to act now to mitigate it
Pope Francis I, addressing TED, urges us to heed what scientists say about climate change and the need to act now to mitigate it. And, as is his custom, he appeals to our hearts, which fail to notice the suffering of the poorest and least protected amid growing inequality and
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If loyalty, then canine
If loyalty, then canine. So vivid a characterisation that the subject of a dog lying at its master's grave needs no explanation. A little-known painting by the animalier Alfred de Dreux, 1850, acquired by the Louvre in 2001.
Observations · Mores
Pythagoras advised the athlete Eurymenes of Samos to eat meat instead of figs
It is worth noting that the wisdom with which Pythagoras helped the unpromising athlete Eurymenes would have provoked no small controversy, in his day and in ours alike. Eurymenes of Samos was short of stature, yet at the Olympic Games he overcame many a tall and mighty rival. Pythagoras had
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Probably the first painted image of Joyce's "Ulysses", then banned in the United States: Paul Cadmus's "Jerry"
Paul Cadmus's painting "Jerry" is probably the first painted image of Joyce's "Ulysses", which was at that time banned in the United States. The portrait of the artist Jared French (1905-1988), by his lover Paul Cadmus (1904-1999), was painted during
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Teenage boys by a chain-link fence on a city playground, painting
Art · Cinema · Mores · People
Hypertrophied sexuality, a homoeroticism that pervades every sphere of life, drunken revels, debauchery, primitive amusements, a satirical view of the vices of society, the new America in all its colours: all this found expression in the work of…
Hypertrophied sexuality, a homoeroticism that pervades every sphere of life, drunken revels, debauchery, primitive amusements, a satirical view of the vices of society, the new America in all its colours: all this found expression in the work of Paul Cadmus, who painted in egg tempera, inspired by the Italian Renaissance.
Art · New York · Society · People
In the 1930s a scandal broke out in the USA over the depiction of sailors in Paul Cadmus's painting The Fleet's In, which became the subject of official proceedings after Rear Admiral Hugh Rodman found the canvas, with its drunken and carousing sailors…
In the 1930s a scandal broke out in the USA over the depiction of sailors in Paul Cadmus's painting The Fleet's In. It became the subject of official proceedings after the retired Admiral Hugh Rodman found the canvas, with its drunken and carousing sailors, insulting to
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Men's fashion of autumn 1828 and wide trousers adopted from sailors' dress
Men's styles for autumn 1828 are rather varied, and the solicitous editor of the fashion journal explains that before us are sporting dress, a water costume and a festive suit. The sporting one is for riding, the festive one for an evening outing. And the "water"
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since we have come to speak of Solzhenitsyn, here are some lines about him, taken down from the words of Vsevolod Ivanov by his friend Anna Saed-Shakh and set out in a short tale of the history of Peredelkino
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Time cover on Russia's dissident intellectuals, September 1968
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Solzhenitsyn's 1970 Nobel Prize and two Time covers before he received it
On 8 October 1970 Alexandr Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature". Alexandr Isayevich would receive the prize itself only in December 1974, after his expulsion from the Soviet Union. It is