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The Death of a Friend
The Death of a Friend This week word came that my friend Shirley Kennedy had died. On the one hand, I was relieved for her. It was like hearing that a friend, unfairly imprisoned, had been set free. On the … Continue reading →
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Tagged a different woman, antebellum home, Back Bay Road, barrel racing, bodily failure, country friend, death as release, finding the true owners, G.I. Bride, home birth, horsemanship, humble gratitude, humble virtues, Jewish concerns, local historical society, local history, midwife, Milbridge Maine, Old Mainers, political extremism, post-war Germany, rodeo ribbons, selling the house you don’t own, Shirley Kennedy, sisterly feeling, the right of way, the shore strip, true friendship, understanding horses, Washington County, womanly arts, women friends
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Nudnikerie: My Album of Antisemites
Nudnikerie: My Album of Antisemites Nudnik: “A nudnik is not just a nuisance; to merit the status of nudnik, a nuisance must be the most persistent, talkative, obnoxious, indomitable, and indefatigable nag.” The Joys of Yiddish, by Leo Rosten. As … Continue reading →
Posted in absurdism, action, alienation, American politics, art of living, atheism, autonomy, Biblical God, chivalry, Christianity, cities, conformism, contemplation, contradictions, cool, courage, cults, cultural politics, culture, desire, dialectic, erotic life, eternity, ethics, evil, existentialism, exploitation, faith, fashion, femininity, feminism, freedom, friendship, gender balance, guilt and innocence, health, hegemony, heroes, hidden God, history, history of ideas, idealism, ideality, identity, ideology, idolatry, immorality, institutional power, Jews, law, legal responsibility, life and death struggle, love, martyrdom, master/slave relation, memoir, memory, Messianic Age, mind control, modernism, moral action, moral evaluation, moral psychology, non-violence, oppression, pacifism, past and future, peace, philosophy, political, political movements, politics, politics of ideas, postmodernism, power, propaganda, psychology, public facade, public intellectual, race, radicalism, reductionism, relationships, religion, roles, secular, seduction, self-deception, social climbing, social construction, social conventions, social ranking, spiritual journey, spiritual not religious, spirituality, status, status of women, suffering, terror, the examined life, the problematic of men, the problematic of woman, the profane, the sacred, theism, theology, time, twentieth century, twenty-first century, Utopia, victimhood, victims, violence, war, work, writing, Zeitgeist
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", ad hominem attack, bigotry, Christian friends, collegiality violated, dangerous pessimism, dark corners, dark memory, double standard, European Femininity, European women, evasion, G.I. Bride, German complicity, good guys, groupthink, Hitler’s reading list, Hitler’s sport events, in the wrong job, insulting speech, Jerry L. Martin's "God: an Autobiography as Told to a Philosopher", Jewish neighbors, Jewish opinion, loaded questions, memory, naturalistic worldview, outdoor cafes, outdoor prayer, peaceniks, personal stories, picking a quarrel, prayer as last resort, religious experience, religious turn, requirements of priesthood, self-deception, self-righteousness, Shoah, talking to God, the Holocaust, the human soul, the Other, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, war-time trauma, womanly arts, wrong life path, wrong vocation
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Before Feminism – and After!
Before Feminism – and After! Lately, I’ve been reading When Men Were the Only Models We Had, by Carolyn Heilbrun. It’s a memoir on coming of age as an intellectual woman before feminism. As a graduate student in Columbia University’s … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal's "Confessions of a Young Philosopher", anti-women jokes, bloodless social revolution, brilliant women, careerist, Carolyn Heilbrun’s When Men were the Only Models We Had, castrating females, Clifton Fadiman, Columbia class of 1925, Columbia University, Columbia University English Department, coming of age memoir, Confessions of a Young Philosopher, control of women, coquetry, delightful women, divorced women, doctoral candidacy, documentary histories of feminism, economic dependence on men, electro-shock therapy, end of communism, exclusivist maleness, father-daughter relation, feminism and women’s health, feminism as humanism, filial piety, flight into convent, flight into religiosity, Frenchwomen, friends and lovers, good writing, graduate student, hemophilia of the future Tsar, Henry and Rachelle Rosenthal, Henry M. Rosenthal, intellectual friendships, intellectual originality, intellectually alive, intelligence not enough, involuntary confinement, Jacques Barzun, jargon-free writing, killing motivation, Leo Bronstein, life of the mind, Lionel Trilling, Lionel Trilling correspondence, literary criticism, literary friendships, lobotomies, male academic dominance, male career models, male friendships, male intellectual models, male professional dominance, marital trouble, memoir, men in academe, mister right, negative vs. positive liberation, No Girls Allowed, over-sensitive, Phyllis Chesler’s The Politically Incorrect Feminist, pretentious writing, professional sovietologists, psychiatric abuse of dissenters, psychiatric abuse of women, punishment of dissenters, Reading Dostoevsky, reading Proust, reading Thomas Mann, Russian-accented English, sex discrimination, sexism, Sigmund Freud, the feminine mind, the feminist revolution, the masculine mind, the Pope in Warsaw, the Woman-principle, theoretical disparagement of women, understanding people, unpretentious writing, woman’s social power, womanly arts, womanly authority, womanly models, women as colleagues, women as friends, women graduate students, women’s dependence on men, women’s health, women’s need for men, women’s social dependence on men
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