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The Chosen People
I don’t remember what I’d been intending to write about today. Perhaps no topic had as yet occurred to me. Earlier this afternoon I’d been talking to an Israeli cousin – about life and love and family lore – and … Continue reading →
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The Gang’s All Here
In honor of the new year, I’ve been catching up by phone with some of the friendships that have lasted for the long term. One friend has been in my life since we were both students at the now-defunct High … Continue reading →
Posted in Absolute Freedom and Terror, absurdism, academe, action, afterlife, alienation, anthropology, art, art of living, atheism, autonomy, bad faith, beauty, Biblical God, bigotry, childhood, chivalry, Christianity, cities, class, conformism, contemplation, contradictions, cool, courage, courtship, cults, cultural politics, culture, desire, dialectic, erotic life, eternity, ethics, evil, existentialism, exploitation, faith, fashion, female power, femininity, feminism, films, freedom, friendship, gender balance, glitterati, Gnosticism, guilt and innocence, health, Hegel, hegemony, heroes, hidden God, hierarchy, history, history of ideas, id, idealism, ideality, identity, ideology, idolatry, immorality, immortality, institutional power, journalism, law, legal responsibility, life and death struggle, literature, love, male power, martyrdom, masculinity, master, master/slave relation, memoir, memory, Messianic Age, mind control, modern women, modernism, moral action, moral evaluation, moral psychology, morality, mortality, motherhood, mysticism, non-violence, novels, ontology, oppression, pacifism, past and future, peace, Phenomenology of the Mind, philosophy, poetry, political, political movements, politics, politics of ideas, postmodernism, power, presence, promissory notes, propaganda, psychology, public facade, public intellectual, radicalism, reading, reductionism, relationships, religion, repairing the culture, roles, romance, romantic love, romanticism, science, scientism, secular, seduction, self-deception, sex appeal, sexuality, slave, social climbing, social construction, social conventions, social ranking, sociobiology, spiritual journey, spiritual not religious, spirituality, status, status of women, suffering, terror, terrorism, the examined life, the problematic of men, the problematic of woman, the profane, the sacred, theism, theology, time, TV, twentieth century, twenty-first century, Utopia, victimhood, victims, violence, war, work, writing, Zeitgeist
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Tagged "the gang's all here", "Three Coins in the Fountain", a woman's personal force, afterlife reunion, being good at being a woman, cafe chats with women friends, class reunion, collegial friends, comparing notes in heaven, comparing notes in the afterlife, confiding in friends, designing your heaven, discussing life's big questions with friends, dream romance, envying viriginity, eternal friends, experimental youth, femininity and youth, femininity and masculinity, finding a husband, fortune's favorite, friends as life witnesses, friends from way back when, friends gone before, friends in good times and bad, friends who were kids together, friends you want to meet again, Fulbright friends, Fulbright in Paris, growing up and liking it, herstory, high school friends, High School of Music and Art, horse riding with friends, how life worked out for classmates, in search of lost time, integrity is more fun, keeping one's friends, keeping one's honor, keeping virginity, landing on one's feet, life forces that overwhelm, life review, life's plateaus, life's regrets, life's roadblocks, lifelong friends, lifelong friendships, lost friendships, marrying before graduation, outgrowing childhood friends, personal heaven, preperation for life, reflections in heaven, romance and reality, securing your story, seeing friends in heaven, senior panic to marry, sharing life chapters with friends, spinster and old maid, spiritual surrender, surviving the storms of life, taking a side-path, the biological plight of women, the gang's not all here, the meaning of life and love, the price of integrity, the pursuit of wisdom, timeless talks with friends, timeless talks with women friends, tragic flaw, unprepared for reality, vulnerability of women, what happened to classmates, wise parental friends, women's biological clock, young girls' dreams
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