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Afghan Hope
Afghan Hope Phyllis Chesler is an Emerita Professor of Psychology and Women’s Studies at the City University of New York. She is a veteran of many feminist combats, has blazed trails where colleagues feared to venture, and authored many brave, … Continue reading
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Was It A Past Life?
Was It A Past Life? By now there are many cases on record of individuals recalling previous lifetimes. A person under hypnosis will seem to remember incidents that occurred under conditions quite different from those obtaining in that person’s present … Continue reading
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Hunting Eichmann
Hunting Eichmann This is not a book review, despite the book title above. I haven’t read the book, only watched a talk before a packed hall by Neal Bascomb, the author of Hunting Eichmann, on a C-Span history program last … Continue reading
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Tagged "Jewish", Abigail L. Rosenthal’s A Good Look at Evil, Adolf Eichmann, analyzing Eichmann, Argentine dictator, author’s normality, banality of evil, book lecture, book review, bureaucratic mindset, C-span history program, Eichmann’s son Klaus, Eichmann’s sons, German Prosecutor-General, Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, Holocaust, Holocaust executioner, international negotiation, Israeli ambassador, Israeli diplomat, Israeli intelligence, Jerusalem trial, Josef Avidar, kidnapping Eichmann, Mossad, Nazi refuge, Nazi war criminals, Neal Bascomb’s Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World’s Most Notorious Nazi, no hunting season, no news is good news, non-fiction suspense story, organization man, plot reversals, Ricardo Klement, secret agent, Shin Bet, spy story, the Eichmann trial, the Nazi escape line, the rat line, the word Jewish, time traveler, war crimes tribunals, West German government
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Lost Innocence and Tanya Tucker
Lost Innocence and Tanya Tucker Tanya Tucker hasn’t put out a country album in 17 years. While she’s been… wherever she’s been… country music has changed and now resembles rock ‘n roll. There’s a heavy, percussive roar behind virtually every … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th century German philosophers, 19th century Romanticism, a real woman, Appalachian music, Arthur Schopenhauer, CMT videos, country album, country gospel, country hits, country music, country music v rock ’n’ roll, country songwriters, cowboy heroes, feminine survival, Friedrich Nietzsche, goodness and badness, integrity and wickedness, ISIS rapist, ISIS survivor, Ken Burns’s Country Music, lasting lust, Leo Bronstein, loss of innocence, love v lust, loving one’s life, old time virtue and vice, philosopher of art, rape victims, sex and ideas, Sigmund Freud, storytelling songs, surviving lost innocence, Tanya Tucker, Tanya Tucker's While I'm Livin', the good of being bad, the singer’s gift, the youth market, trauma and art, truth-telling woman, victims condemnation, Willie Nelson, Willie Nelson’s The Last Man Standing, worldwide country music fans
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The Ephrussis of Paris and Vienna
The Ephrussis of Paris and Vienna The book I’ve just finished reading had an impact on me greater than any book I can remember. By impact, I don’t mean long-term influence on my heart or mind. I mean something like … Continue reading
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", aestheticism, anti-Dreyfusards, arriviste, bibelot, blessing of Abraham, boomerang effect, Charles Swann, collector’s item, covenantal blessing, cultural outsiders, cultural resentment, cultural roots, Degas, Dreyfus Case, Edmund de Waal's The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance, emulating the natives, Ephrussi family, European-ness, evil of Nazism, fanaticism, faux-Parisians, faux-Viennese, filial piety, French survivor, Gestapo looting, haute bourgeoisie, high society, Holocaust literature, host culture, Impressionist patron, Impressionists, influential books, inheritance, Jewish banking families, Jewish success, Marcel Proust’s In Quest of Lost Time, memoirs of survivors, mob action, moral certainty, Nazi clergy, Nazi memoirs, Nazi trial transcripts, Nazis in Vienna, netsuke, nouveaux riches, Odessa, Odessa chief rabbi, Odessa in the 19th-century, Paris, Proustian narrator, Rav Tsair, Renoir, Rothschilds, Russian schoolgirl, secularized Europe, secularlism, sepia photograph, state propaganda, sumptuous dinners, tastemakers, tchotchke, the beautiful people, the best circles, theological rationalizations, Tsarist Russia, unintended consequences, University of Lausanne, Vienna, witnessing
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Post-Traumatic Stress
Post-Traumatic Stress There’s a book I’m reading now titled In An Unspoken Voice by Peter A. Levine, a man who’s done research on the causes of trauma when it lasts well beyond the end of the stressful incident and currently … Continue reading
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Tagged anaesthetized, animal behavior, animal hunting, animal killing, animal life, anti-semitism and culture, anti-semitism and history, anxiety, biofeedback, biological life, body awareness, body psychotherapy, cat and mouse, childhood trauma, circle of life, competitive hunters, curing PTSD, cycle of life, Darwin, Darwinian, Darwinian struggle, dynamic equilibrium, eat or be eaten, ecology, effective daily life, escape modes, ethology, fight or flight, fighting for justice, Freeze response, healing trauma, Holocaust rescues, Holocaust survivors, humanity and stress, hunting animals, immobilizing trap, incurable injustice, making the kill, medical biophysics, medical psychology, mind/body connection, Nat-Geo Wild, natural life, nature’s rough mercies, no exit, Peter A. Levine’s In An Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness, post-traumatic stress, post-traumatic stress disorder, predator animals, predators, prey animals, PTSD, remedies for PTSD, rescue work, righteous combat, Somatic Experiencing, stealing your story, stress, stress response, stressful memories, stressful situations, survivors, targeted persons, trauma
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