"Risin' up to the challenge of our rival" — Eye of the Tiger
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Monday, March 21, 2016
Cut Short: Requiem for a Frankfurter
“Just a lying rhyme for seven!”
— Playwright Tom Stoppard on Heaven
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" 'Heaven lies about us in our infancy!' wrote William Wordsworth, one of Geoffrey Hartman’s beloved Romantics…. For Hartman, in 2010 proclaimed by his Yale colleague Paul Fry to be 'arguably the finest Wordsworth critic who has ever written,' those lines from 'Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood' must have been especially bittersweet. His own childhood had been cut short; born in Frankfurt in 1929…."
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Thursday, March 17, 2016
The Frankfurter Legacy
Detail of images from this evening's Harvard Crimson
(click for a wider view) —
Click either image below for some backstory.
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Friday, March 18, 2022
Annals of Literary Analysis
On Doctor Strange in Spider-Man: No Way Home —
"This all-powerful wizard really used 'Scooby-Doo' as a verb
meaning 'successfully pull off a series of physical challenges
against monsters who are real.' What in the dad-trying-to-
relate-to-his-distant-son hell? That's like pumping someone up
to kick a game-winning field goal by saying 'Charlie Brown this crap.'"
— Vinnie Mancuso at Collider , November 17, 2021
But seriously . . .
From posts tagged Frankfurter —
"Scooby-Doo this ."
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Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Wordsworth at the Academy
On this date four years ago . . .
Today . . .
In 2016 . . .
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Saturday, March 26, 2016
“Voice of the Shuttle”*
* For the title, see the "space" link in A Fixed Feast (a post
from Monday, March 21, the date of Ebeling's death).
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Monday, March 21, 2016
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
A Mass for Mel–
Cognitive Infiltration
"Conspiracy theorists are not likely to be persuaded by an attempt to dispel their theories; they may even characterize that very attempt as further proof of the conspiracy. Because those who hold conspiracy theories typically suffer from a crippled epistemology, in accordance with which it is rational to hold such theories, the best response consists in cognitive infiltration of extremist groups."
— Cass R. Sunstein, Harvard Law professor,
abstract of "Conspiracy Theories," Jan. 15, 2008
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Critical Mass Monday, Jan. 18, 2010, 7:06 AM–
Here you've got three high-powered academics… all engaged in highly pernicious and mutually enabling forms of professional dishonesty. Sunstein comes up [with] what Timothy Burke calls a "consensus-politics liberal-leaning version of COINTELPRO," — Erin O'Connor
Critical Mass? Campaigns Work to Get Voters to Polls
— Washington Wire:
Political Insight and Analysis from
The Wall Street Journal Capital Bureau
January 19, 2010, 11:17 AM ET
David Weigel, "Attacks on Sunstein Frustrate Conservative Fans,"
The Washington Independent, 9/9/09–
"The campaign against Sunstein has largely written itself."
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Sunday, August 13, 2006
Sunday August 13, 2006
David |
Via dell’Inferno
“Most modern men The Death of Satan: Song based on “The serpent’s eyes shine |
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Saturday, August 5, 2006
Saturday August 5, 2006
ART WARS
continued
continued
“Examples are the
stained-glass windows
of knowledge.”
— Vladimir Nabokov
Today’s New York Times:
Jason Rhoades, 41, Maker of
Transgressive Installations,
Is Dead
For some background
on Rhoades’s Manhattan
gallerist, David Zwirner,
and his
UCLA art school teacher,
UCLA art school teacher,
Paul McCarthy, see
yesterday morning’s
yesterday morning’s
The Frankfurter School.
“UCLA is frequently described
as the power art school.”
The New York Times Magazine
For more remarks related
to UCLA, art, and food,
see the Log24 entry for
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Friday, August 4, 2006
Friday August 4, 2006
ART WARS
Continued from
Nov. 25, 2005
The Frankfurter School
From today’s New York Times:
A review of a current Manhattan art exhibition—
“It begins with a juxtaposition of early body-oriented videos by Mr. Nauman and Paul McCarthy, who, quickly following Mr. Nauman’s lead, was in his studio in Los Angeles videotaping home-alone performance pieces by 1970. The contrast is pure Apollo-versus-Dionysus.”
More on Paul McCarthy from artandculture.com:
“If you walk into a room and find everything you held dear in childhood degraded, chances are it’s a Paul McCarthy installation. McCarthy is known for shocking, sexually charged pieces that feature benign cartoon and pop-culture characters — Olive Oyl and Santa Claus, among others — in a bacchanalia of blood and feces.
The 1974 video ‘Hot Dog’ shoots to the heart of the adolescent ‘gross-out’ as McCarthy tapes his penis into a hot dog bun, then packs his pie hole full of franks and wraps himself in gauze. Another piece from the 70s called ‘Sailor’s Meat’ finds the artist dressed as a blonde hooker smeared with blood and ‘knowing’ a pile of raw meat….
Critics often compare his work with that of the Viennese Actionists whose performances were also characterized by gore, raw sexuality, and abused food.”
Related material:
The Wiener Kreis in
yesterday’s 1:06 PM entry
and the five entries
ending the afternoon of
Nov. 25, 2005.
For an approach to art
more in the spirit of Apollo
than of Dionysus, see
Geometry for Jews.
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Wednesday, August 2, 2006
Wednesday August 2, 2006
The Crimson Passion
continues.
The Harvard Jesus:
Crimson/Nancy K. Dutton
Monday, Feb. 23, 2004
"If Jesus does come back, he will likely be wearing a tie-dyed shirt, smoking a joint, flashing the peace sign and rocking rose-tinted glasses….
Gibson never wants people to forget that we are ultimately responsible for his Lord's crucifixion. And by 'people' I mean 'the
— Harvard Crimson,
Monday, Feb. 23, 2004,
opinion column
by Erol N. Gulay
And now…
From the Harvard Crimson
on the 2006 feast of
St. Ignatius Loyola:
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Billionaire Harvard Donor By KATHERINE M. GRAY |
Related illustrations
from Dec. 15, 2004:
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Judeo-Christian Heritage: The meditation below was suggested by this passage: "… the belief that any sensible discourse had to be formulated within the rules of the scientific language, avoiding the non sense of the ordinary language. This belief, initially expressed by Wittgenstein as aphorisms, was later formalized by the Wiener Kreis [Vienna Circle] as a 'logical construction of the world'…." "Deeply Vulgar" — Epithet applied in 2003 to "Examples are the stained-glass
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Today's birthday:
Peter O'Toole.
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Wednesday, December 15, 2004
Wednesday December 15, 2004
Judeo-Christian Heritage:
The Wiener Kreis
The meditation below was suggested by this passage:
“… the belief that any sensible discourse had to be formulated within the rules of the scientific language, avoiding the non sense of the ordinary language. This belief, initially expressed by Wittgenstein as aphorisms, was later formalized by the Wiener Kreis [Vienna Circle] as a ‘logical construction of the world’….”
“Deeply Vulgar”
— Epithet applied in 2003 to
Harvard President Lawrence Summers.
“Examples are the stained-glass
windows of knowledge.”
— Vladimir Nabokov
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In today’s Crimson:
Only moderately vulgar, with its sniggering pop-culture reference. But it should be
Frankfurter Professor of Law.
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Those seeking relief from
Judeo-Christian vulgarity may enjoy
the Buddhist Suzanne Vega’s
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“Mercilessly tasteful”
— Andrew Mueller
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