Monthly Archives: January 2021

The Intellectuals and the Masses II (1-3-21)

00:00 Sunrise 01:00 ‘In Defense Of Elitism’ Examines Who Is Part Of The Elite, https://www.npr.org/2019/10/28/773999992/in-defense-of-elitism-examines-who-is-part-of-the-elite 12:00 Rodney Martin joins 14:00 Do we need others to validate our stories? 19:00 Geographic chauvinism 55:00 Rodney does not regard Covid as a hoax … Continue reading

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The Intellectuals and the Masses (1-2-21)

00:00 What is modernism? https://www.utoledo.edu/library/canaday/guidepages/Modernism2.html 02:00 John Carey, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carey_(critic) 13:00 The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia 1880-1939, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=136235 31:40 Literary Modernism (In Our Time), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndfxeQSCgM0

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The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia 1880-1939

John Carey writes in this 1993 book: * This book is about the response of the English literary intelligentsia to the new phenomenon of mass culture. It argues that modernist literature and art can be seen as a hostile reaction … Continue reading

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The Unexpected Professor: An Oxford Life (2014)

John Carey writes: I suppose I could be accused of reducing these great novels to picture shows, and that’s probably true. They did seem primarily visual to me. When, later, I saw the 1956 film of War and Peace I … Continue reading

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News Media Spotlight Returns To Shlomo Rechnitz

I read this lengthy front page article from the Washington Post and it was a slog. Shlomo Rechnitz has received bad press regarding his nursing home business, but whether his homes are worse than average is not clear. Nursing home … Continue reading

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