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The American crown
Read more: The American crownFrench King Louis XIV (1638-1715) placed considerable trust in himself. What emanated from this American president is not fascism, as some are wont to believe, but monarchism. This president is not conniving within the existing state to create armadas of police and militias to then announce them as instruments of…
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Last vanity
Read more: Last vanityIn pre-war Warsaw and Rome of 1940 (above and below), the author’s mother ensured she was camera-friendly. I never liked vanity, let alone its fairgrounds. Self-effacement governed my mood. Imagining an exuberantly selfish president like Donald Trump, let alone the prospect of his daily five-alarm ego, would have undone my…
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Yuletide spacemen
Read more: Yuletide spacemenThe crew of Apollo 8, Frank F. Borman II, James A. Lovell Jr. and William A. Anders, took turns reading from Genesis as they watched the Earth rise from the Moon at Christmas. The year 1968 was a glutton for show-stopping events. Even 50 years later, its 12 tumultuous months…
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The Turk
Read more: The TurkWindows to the soul? Not when they break… There is a temperature display regulated by a button with up and down arrows. Digital. Simple. Beside these basics is a tiny representation of a man who looks like weightlifter. Cute. Press him and the heating and cooling functions are redoubled, like…
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Ruth
Read more: RuthThe goings on at Studio 54, just down the street, alarmed Ruth to the point of panic. My aunt’s friend Ruth was ahead of her time: She suffered from relentless anxiety. I stayed with her from time to time while visiting New York City from Rome in the late 1970s.…
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Thus wrote Crilloffer
Read more: Thus wrote CrillofferOnce, your only mark was what your hand produced. And only the few were trained to make them. Why should they be connected? Why should “a” flow into “b” and into “c” as if the three were bosom buddies? Why the need for alignment let alone the graph paper that…
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