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The attraction of Catholicism on a purely human level is encompassed by a rich tradition of philosophy, art, ethics, literature, theology, poetry, mysticism, and charitable service. How could one not be compelled by the kindness Mother Teresa or the winsome joy of St. Francis? Who could refrain from delighting in Gerard Manley Hopkins or being awed by a powerful intellect such as that of St. Thomas Aquinas or St. Augustine?
Surpassing this, however, is the Catholic Church's bearing witness to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The Catholic Church claims to be the church that Jesus Christ founded. That is a big claim with which a person of any intellectual honesty must wrestle. She proclaims redemption from one's sin and a promise of hope and everlasting beatitude.
The word "solace" does not capture the experience of knowing and loving Christ and being connected to Him with His saints through the church He founded and at the helm of which he placed St. Peter. This is something utterly apotheotic.
The Church is often criticized for the supposed rigidity of her doctrine and morals. However, truth be told, the only verisimilitude of her doctrine to walls is, as Chesterton observed, that they are the walls of a playground. Her moral and doctrinal teachings circumscribe the limits of a world in which authentic freedom is realized and enjoyed without frustration or compunction. All is grace, said St. Therese of Lisieux.
This is not to say that the Church is without her challenges or that to be a Catholic is not without its own frustrations. But these are of a different kind. A Catholic is frustrated when fellow Catholics and Catholic parishes approach the faith self-centeredly or as they would any other area of life. That is, when they do not come to recess, to keep with Chesterton's comparison. One's faith is not to be approached with the banal attitude one takes toward hygiene or the superficial collegiality characterized by Super Bowl parties.
Frustrating indeed are hierarchical malfeasance, chummy-feel-good travesties of the Holy Mass, the fact of Catholics' indistinct practice from others on matters of contraception or divorce, and the like. Admittedly, when fellow Catholics do not recognize the dignity that is theirs by virtue of their baptismal calling, when they do not embrace the high adventure of being Catholic, it is disconcerting, especially for a convert to Catholicism such as I am.
The challenge for the Church now, especially in the West, is to reinvigorate in its members a sense of joy in being called by God to new life and accepting the challenges of being Catholic. Baptized Catholics must learn the faith anew.
Secondarily, the Church must once again -- and as always -- proclaim the Gospel to non-Catholics and do this in a way that is sensitive to today�s religious pluralism. The peculiar situation of our time is that lay Catholics must be the ones to do the preaching: in the office, the home, the clinic, and the clique. And they must do it with not only their voices, but with their lives and their hearts. Evangelization, proclaiming the Good News, must be accepted as one's Christian duty and carried out with the fervency of one who is trying to save another's life.
Christian life is a gift, and gifts are meant to be shared especially with the poor, the suffering, the lonely, the reprobate, the apathetic, and above all, anyone who is searching.
The Lost World (20th Century Fox, 1960).
youtu.be/h1CLA-gJbmA?t=5s Trailer
Irwin Allen, the producer who would go on to make the disaster film a huge success in the seventies, brought us this Saturday afternoon fodder with giant lizards posing as dinosaurs. Starring Michael Rennie, David Hedison, Claude Rains and Jill St. John.
Intended as a grand sci-fi/fantasy epic remake of Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel. The first film adaptation, shot in 1925, was a milestone in many ways, but movie making and special effects had come a long way in 35 years. Irwin Allen's Lost World (LW) & 20th Century Fox version was derailed on the way to greatness, but managed to still be a respectable, (if more modest) A-film. Allen's screenplay followed the book fairly well, telling of Professor Challenger's expedition to a remote plateau in the Amazon upon which dinosaurs still lived. Aside from the paleontological presumptions in the premise, there is little "science" in The Lost World. Nonetheless, dinosaur movies have traditionally been lumped into the sci-fi genre.
Synopsis
When his plane lands in London, crusty old professor George Edward Challenger is besieged by reporters questioning him about his latest expedition to the headwaters of the Amazon River. After the irascible Challenger strikes reporter Ed Malone on the head with his umbrella, Jennifer Holmes, the daughter of Ed's employer, Stuart Holmes, offers the injured reporter a ride into town. That evening, Jenny is escorted by Lord John Roxton, an adventurer and big game hunter, to Challenger's lecture at the Zoological Institute, and Ed invites them to sit with him. When Challenger claims to have seen live dinosaurs, his colleague Professor Summerlee scoffs and asks for evidence. Explaining that his photographs of the creatures were lost when his boat overturned, Challenger invites Summerlee to accompany him on a new expedition to the "lost world," and asks for volunteers. When Roxton raises his hand, Jenny insists on going with him, but she is rejected by Challenger because she is a woman. Ed is given a spot after Holmes offers to fund the expedition if the reporter is included. The four then fly to the Amazon, where they are met by Costa, their guide and Manuel Gomez, their helicopter pilot. Arriving unexpectedly, Jenny and her younger brother David insist on joining them. Unable to arrange transportation back to the United States, Challenger reluctantly agrees to take them along. The next day, they take off for the lost world and land on an isolated plateau inhabited by dinosaurs. That evening, a dinosaur stomps out of the jungle, sending them scurrying for cover. After the beast destroys the helicopter and radio, the group ventures inland. When one of the creatures bellows threateningly, they flee, and in their haste, Challenger and Ed slip and tumble down a hillside, where they encounter a native girl. The girl runs into the jungle, but Ed follows and captures her. They then all take refuge in a cave, where Roxton, who has been making disparaging remarks about Jenny's desire to marry him solely for his title, angers Ed. Ed lunges at Roxton, pushing him to the ground, where he finds a diary written by Burton White, an adventurer who hired Roxton three years earlier to lead him to the lost diamonds of Eldorado. Roxton then admits that he never met White and his party because he was delayed by a dalliance with a woman, thus abandoning them to certain death. Gomez angrily snaps that his good friend Santiago perished in the expedition. That night, Costa tries to molest the native girl, and David comes to her rescue and begins to communicate with her through sign language. After Gomez goes to investigate some movement he spotted in the vegetation, he calls for help, and when Roxton runs out of the cave, a gunshot from an unseen assailant is fired, nearly wounding Roxton and sending the girl scurrying into the jungle. Soon after, Ed and Jenny stray from camp and are pursued by a dinosaur, and after taking refuge on some cliffs, watch in horror as their stalker becomes locked in combat with another prehistoric creature and tumbles over the cliffs into the waters below. Upon returning to camp, they discover it deserted, their belongings in disarray. As David stumbles out from some rocks to report they were attacked by a tribe of natives, the cannibals return and imprison them in a cave with the others. As the drums beat relentlessly, signaling their deaths, the native girl reappears and motions for them to follow her through a secret passageway that leads to the cave in which Burton White lives, completely sightless. After confirming that all in his expedition perished, White tells them of a volcanic passageway that will lead them off the plateau, but warns that they must first pass through the cave of fire. Cautioning them that the natives plan to sacrifice them, White declares that their only chance of survival is to slip through the cave and then seal it with a boulder. After giving them directions to the cave, White asks them to take the girl along. As the earth, on the verge of a volcanic eruption, quakes, they set off through the Graveyard of the Damned, a vast cavern littered with dinosaur skeletons, the victims of the deadly sulfurous gases below. Pursued by the ferocious natives, Roxton takes the lead as they inch their way across a narrow ledge above the molten lava. After escaping the natives, they jam the cave shut with a boulder and, passing a dam of molten lava, finally reach the escape passage. At its mouth is a pile of giant diamonds and a dinosaur egg. As Costa heaps the diamonds into his hat, Challenger fondles the egg and Gomez pulls a gun and announces that Roxton must die in exchange for the death of Santiago, Gomez' brother. Acting quickly, Ed hurls the diamonds at Gomez, throwing him off balance and discharging his gun. The gunshot awakens a creature slumbering in the roiling waters below. After the beast snatches Costa and eats him alive, Ed tries to dislodge the dam, sending a few scorching rocks tumbling down onto the monster. Feeling responsible for the peril of the group, Gomez sacrifices his life by using his body as a lever to dislodge the dam, covering the creature with oozing lava. As the cave begins to crumble from the impending eruption, the group hurries to safety. Just then, the volcano explodes, destroying the lost world. After Roxton hands Ed a handful of diamonds he has saved as a wedding gift for him and Jenny, Challenger proudly displays his egg, which then hatches, revealing a baby dinosaur. The End.
The 50s had seen several examples of the dinosaur sub-genre. LW is one of the more lavish ones, owing to color by DeLuxe and CinemaScope. The A-level actors help too. Claude Rains plays the flamboyant Challenger. Michael Rennie plays Roxton, perhaps a bit too cooly. Jill St. John and Vitina Marcus do well as the customary eye candy. David Hedison as Malone and Fernando Lamas as Gomez round out the bill.
The first film version of LW was a silent movie shot in 1925: screenplay by Marion Fairfax. The film featured stop-motion animated dinosaurs by a young Willis O'Brien. Fairfax followed Doyle's text, but Fairfax added a young woman to the team, Paula White. Ostensibly trying to find her father from the first failed expedition, she provided the love triangle interest between Malone and Roxton.
Allen's screenplay tried to stick to Doyle's text as much as Hollywood would allow. It carried on Fairfax's invention of the young woman member of the group as triangle fodder. Fairfax had Doyle's ape men (ape man) but omitted the native humans. Allen had the natives, but no ape men. Allen revived the Gomez/revenge subplot, which Fairfax skipped. Doyle's story had Challenger bringing back a pterodactyl. Fairfax made it a brontosaur who rampaged through London streets (spawning a popular trope). Allen suggested the baby dinosaur traveling to London.
Willis O'Brien pitched 20th Century Fox in the late 50s, to do a quality remake of LW. He had gained much experience in the intervening 35 years, so his stop-motion dinosaurs were to be the real stars. Fox bass liked the idea, but by the time the ball started rolling, there was trouble in studioland. Fox's grand epic Cleopatra was underway, but was already 5 million dollars over budget. Cleo would nearly sink 20th Century Fox when it was finally released in 1963. To stay afloat, all other Fox films' budgets were slashed. Allen could no longer afford the grand O'Brien stop-motion.
Allen's production is often criticized for its "cheap" dinosaurs, which were live monitor lizards and alligators with fins and plates and horns glue onto them. (more on that below) These were already a bit cheesy when used in the 1940 film One Million B.C.. O'Brien is still listed on the credits as "Effects Technician," but all Allen could afford was lizards with glued on extras. Somewhat amusingly, the script still refers to them as brontosaurs and T-Rexes.
The character of Jennifer Holmes starts out promising. She's a self-assured to the edges of pushy, and is said to be able to out shoot and out ride any man. Yet, when she gets to the Amazon jungle, she's little more than Jungle Barbie, dressed in girlie clothes and screaming frequently. She even does the typical Hollywood trip-and-fall when chased by the dinosaur, so that a man must save her.
Bottom line? FW is a finer example of the not-quite-sci-fi dinosaur sub-genre. The actors are top drawer, even if some of their acting is a bit flat. Nonetheless, FW is a fair adaptation of Doyle's
classic adventure novel, given the constraints of Hollywood culture.
The Movie Club Annals … Review
The Lost World 1960
Introduction
There was absolutely nothing wrong with Irwin Allen's 1960 production of The Lost World. Nothing. It was perfect in every way. I therefore find myself in the unique and unfamiliar position of having to write a rave review about a Movie Club movie that was entirely devoid of flaws.
Faced with such a confounding task, I half-heartedly considered faking a bad review, then praying my obvious deceptions would go unnoticed. But the patent transparency of my scheme convinced me to abandon it posthaste. After all, leveling concocted criticisms at such an unassailable masterpiece would be a futile and tiresome exercise, the pretense of which would escape nary a semi-cognizant soul.
Thus, having retreated from my would-be descent into literary intrigue, I start this review in earnest by borrowing a quote from the legendary Shelly Winters, spoken during the 1972 filming of Irwin Allen's The Poseidon Adventure:
"I'm ready for my close up now, Mr. Allen.” Shelly Winters, 1972
Review
A bit of research into the casting choices of Irwin Allen, who wrote, produced, and directed The Lost World, begins to reveal the genius behind the virtuosity.
The first accolades go to Irwin for his casting of Vitina Marcus, the immaculately groomed Saks 5th Avenue cave girl with exquisite taste in makeup, jewelry, and cave-wear. No finer cave girl ever graced a feature film.
Vitina Marcus, as The Cave Girl
She was the picture of prehistoric glamour, gliding across the silver screen in her designer bearskin mini-pelt, her flawless coiffure showing no signs of muss from the traditional courting rituals of the day, her perfect teeth the envy of even the most prototypical Osmond. Even her nouveau-opposable thumbs retained their manicure, in spite of the oft-disagreeable duties that frequently befell her as an effete member of the tribal gentry.
By no means just another Neanderthal harlot, Vitina had a wealth of talent to augment her exterior virtues. Her virtuoso interpretation of a comely cave girl in The Lost World certainly didn't escape the attention Irwin Allen. In fact, he was so taken with her performance that he later engaged her services again, casting her as the Native Girl in episode 2.26 of his Voyage to The Bottom of The Sea TV series.
Leery of potential typecasting, Vitina went on to obtain roles with greater depth and more sophisticated dialogue. This is evidenced by the great departure she took from her previous roles when she next portrayed the part of Sarit, a female barbarian, in episode 1.24 of Irwin Allen's The Time Tunnel TV series.
Vitina, as Sarit
Vitina's efforts to avoid typecasting paid off in spades, as she was soon rewarded with the distinctive role of Girl, a female Tarzanesque she-beast character, in episode 3.14 of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. TV series.
Lured back from the U.N.C.L.E. set by Irwin Allen, Vitina was next cast in the role of Athena (a.k.a. Lorelei), the green space girl with the inverted lucite salad bowl hat, in episodes 2.2 and 2.16 of the revered Lost in Space TV series.
And with this, Vitina reached the pinnacle of her career. For her many unparalleled displays of thespian pageantry, she leaves us forever in her debt as she exits the stage.
For those who would still question the genius of Irwin Allen, I defy you to find a better casting choice for the character of Lord John Roxton than that of Michael Rennie. Mr. Rennie, who earlier starred as Klaatu in The Day the Earth Stood Still, went on to even greater heights, starring as The Keeper in episodes 1.16 and 1.17 of the revered Lost in Space TV series. Throughout his distinguished career, Mr. Rennie often played highly cerebral characters with
unique names, such as Garth A7, Tribolet, Hasani, Rama Kahn, Hertz, and Dirk. How befitting that his most prolific roles came to him through a man named Irwin, a highly cerebral character with a unique name.
The selection of David Hedison to play Ed Malone was yet another example of Irwin's uncanny foresight. Soon after casting him in The Lost World, Irwin paved Mr. Hedison's path to immortality by casting him as a lead character in his Voyage to The Bottom of The Sea TV series. Although Voyage ended in 1968, Mr. Hedison departed the show with a solid resume and a bright future.
In the decades following Voyage, Mr. Hedison has been a veritable fixture on the small screen, appearing in such socially influential programs as The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Knight Rider, The Fall Guy and The A Team. Mr. Hedison's early collaborations with Irwin Allen have left him never wanting for a day's work in Hollywood, a boon to the legions of discerning fans who continue to savor his inspiring prime time depictions.
Irwin selected Fernando Lamas to play Manuel Gomez, the honorable and tortured soul of The Lost World who needlessly sacrificed himself at the end of the movie to save all the others. To get a feel for how important a casting decision he was to Irwin, just look at the pertinent experience Mr. Lamas brought to the table:
Irwin knew that such credentials could cause him to lose the services of Mr. Lamas to another project, and he took great pains to woo him onto the set of The Lost World. And even though Mr. Lamas never appeared in the revered Lost in Space TV series, his talent is not lost on us.
Jay Novello was selected by Irwin Allen to play Costa, the consummate Cuban coward who perpetually betrays everyone around him in the name of greed. In pursuing his craven calling, Mr. Novello went on to play Xandros, the Greek Slave in Atlantis, The Lost Continent, as well as countless other roles as a coward.
Although Mr. Novella never appeared in the revered Lost in Space TV series, his already long and distinguished career as a coward made him the obvious choice for Irwin when the need for an experienced malingerer arose.
Jill St. John was Irwin's pick to play Jennifer Holmes, the "other" glamour girl in The Lost World. Not to be upstaged by glamour-cave-girl Vitina Marcus, Jill played the trump card and broke out the pink go-go boots and skin-tight Capri pants, the perfect Amazonian summertime jungle wear.
Complete with a perfect hairdo, a killer wardrobe, a little yip-yip dog named Frosty, and all the other trappings of a wealthy and pampered prehistoric society, Jill's sensational allure rivaled even that of a certain cave girl appearing in the same film.
With the atmosphere rife for an on-set rivalry between Jill and Vitina, Irwin still managed to keep the peace, proving that he was as skilled a diplomat as he was a director.
Claude Rains, as Professor George Edward Challenger
And our cup runneth over, as Irwin cast Claude Rains to portray Professor George Edward Challenger. His eminence, Mr. Rains is an entity of such immeasurable virtue that he is not in need of monotonous praise from the likes of me.
I respectfully acknowledge the appearance of Mr. Rains because failure to do so would be an unforgivable travesty. But I say nothing more on the subject, lest I state something so obvious and uninspiring as to insult the intelligence of enlightened reader.
Irwin's casting of the cavemen mustn't be overlooked, for their infallibly realistic portrayals are unmatched within the Pleistocene Epoch genre of film. Such meticulous attention to detail is what separates Irwin Allen from lesser filmmakers, whose pale imitations of his work only further to underscore the point.
To be sure, it is possible to come away with the unfounded suspicion that the cavemen are really just a bunch of old white guys from the bar at the local Elks lodge. But Irwin was an absolute stickler for authenticity, and would never have allowed the use of such tawdry measures to taint his prehistoric magnum opus.
In truth, Irwin's on-screen cavemen were borne of many grueling years of anthropological research, so the explanation for their somewhat modern, pseudo-caucasian appearance lies obviously elsewhere. And in keeping with true Irwin Allen tradition, that explanation will not be offered here.
1964 - Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Season One, Episode 7 - "Turn Back the Clock", featuring Vitina Marcus as The Native Girl. Produced by Irwin Allen.
And then there was Irwin Allen's masterful handling of the reptilian facets of The Lost World, most notably his inimitable casting of the dinosaurs. His dinosaurs were so realistic, so eerily lifelike, that they almost looked like living, breathing garden variety lizards with dinosaur fins and horns glued to their backs and heads.
The less enlightened viewer might even suppose this to be true, that Irwin's dinosaurs were indeed merely live specimens of lizards, donned in Jurassic-era finery, vastly magnified, and retro-fitted into The Lost World via some penny-wise means of cinematic trickery.
But those of us in the know certainly know better than that, as we are privy to some otherwise unpublished information about The Lost World. The lifelike appearance of the Irwin's dinosaurs can be attributed to a wholly overlooked and fiendishly cunning approach to the art of delusion, which is that the dinosaurs didn't just look real, they were real.
While the world abounds with middling minds who cannot fathom such a reality, we must follow Irwin's benevolent leanings and temper our natural feelings of contempt for this unfortunate assemblage of pedestrian lowbrows. In spite of Irwin's superior intellect, he never felt disdain toward the masses that constituted his audiences. He simply capitalized on their unaffectedness, and in the process recounted the benefits of exploiting the intellectually bereft for personal gain.
The purpose of all this analysis, of course, is to place an exclamation point on the genius of Irwin Allen, the formation of his dinosaur exposé being a premier example. Note how he mindfully manipulates the expectations of his unsuspecting audience, compelling them to probe the dinosaurs for any signs of man-made chicanery. Then, at the palatial moment when the dinosaurs make their entry, he guilefully supplants the anticipated display of faux reptilia with that of the bona fide article.
Upon first witnessing the de facto dinosaurs, some in the audience think they've been had, and indeed they have. Irwin, in engineering his masterful ruse, had used reality as his medium to convey the illusion of artifice. His audience, in essence, was blinded by the truth. It was the immaculate deception, and none but Irwin Allen could have conceived it.
Indeed, the matter of where the live dinosaurs came from has been conspicuously absent from this discussion, as the Irwinian technique of fine film making strongly discourages the practice of squandering time on extraneous justifications and other such trite means of redundant apologia. For the benefit of the incessantly curious, however, just keep in mind that Irwin Allen wrote and produced The Time Tunnel TV Series, a fact that should provide some fair insight into his modis operandi.
Carl R.
how often does your heart (feelings, emotions) over rule the logic of your rational head (mind, intellect)?
Hush
Real name: Thomas Elliot
First Appearance: 2003
Abilities: Thomas Elliot is a neurologist possessing a genius level intellect.
Born a child of wealth and privilege, young Tommy Elliot became close friends with Bruce Wayne. A short time later, Bruce’s parents met an untimely demise at the whim of a mugger’s bullet. Tommy discovered that Bruce had inherited the entire Wayne family fortune. Jealous of his affluent friend, Tommy crafted a scheme to earn his own fortune. He severed the brake lines to his parents’ car, sending the vehicle caroming off the side of the road. Tommy’s father was instantly killed, but his mother managed to survive. Tommy eventually came into possession of the fortune that he so desperately wanted, but he had to wait years, watching his mother suffer and ultimately succumb to cancer. Twisted by his own avarice, he inwardly blamed Bruce Wayne for his perceived “good fortune” – a mentality that would one day fuel an elaborate plot to destroy Bruce Wayne altogether.
Description: Typed transcript of letter from Florence Nightingale to Julia Ward Howe. Page 4 of 4. Written from Sapton near Sheffield, United Kingdom.
Full Text: ... affection when one sees old age -still it is good for us to be here, meaning on this little round-about, for we do love, and for that one can well suffer something. I suppose too the fire of declining intellect and strength is to burn away the wood and hay and stubble, purify the gold and silver, and leave the precious stones, which will not burn, alone. Oh, that old boyd [boy], it is like being chained to a galley-slave, which laughs at one, while one must work and struggle and despair and work again, and he says, I am master after all.
I do not know how to thank Dr. Howe for his most interesting and welcome letter and illustrations of Mesmerism, thanks and thanks a thousand that in the midst of his many occupations, and of the delights of his successes over that same dead and unpromising body in his pupils, a little time should have remained to him to think of me. I shall never forget so kind a thought. Could the excess of human charity and philanthropy induce him to write to me again, it would be giving me intense pleasure, when he has a little time, but you see I have nothing interesting to send him in return. You do not know how pleased I should be to see anything that you have written, dearest friend, nor how gratefully I should receive those poems of yours you promised me, when your friends come to England. Any friends of yours will be welcome at our house ever, but as a prognoctis and fore-shower of the happy time which shall see your faces there again -coming events cast their shadows before them, I shall think whenever we may receive friends of yours. Ah would that I could accept your invitation to come to America, but that is too good to be true- if I had gone too, I could not have come here, so everything is for the best, and so we shall be able to say some day, I suppose, to every thing, even to our own false steps. But I am afraid to look at the clock, for I do think it must be half past nine (we drink tea before 6 ) and the dog must have been chained to the foot of the stairs and every other soul and Christian dog asleep this hour - and you, my dear friend, I am sure must be asleep too, so only two words more to say, what I could not say in many ways, many more, how truly and earnestly I am ever your gratefully overflowing and affectionate
Florence Nightingale.
... The picture you draw of my coming to you is too tempting - would that it could ever take place, but I comfort myself with thinking that a spirit we have once known can never be lost to us; once make a true tie with it, and it can never be broken, and it does not much signify then where you meet it again, if in this little class of our great School-room or in the next . Forgive my stupidity and let me know that you do not forget me . My affectionate remembrances to Dr. Howe and the baby, tell her she could have talked at Lea Hurst, if she would, I know.
Date: 1845
Creator: Florence Nightingale
Format: letter
Digital Identifier: AG28-1-6
Biographical note: Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) was an author, lecturer, poet, activist, abolitionist and leader in the Women's suffrage movement. Born in New York City to affluent parents, Ward Howe was well educated but expected to be a wife. In 1843 Ward Howe married Samuel Gridley Howe the founding director of Perkins after meeting him at a tour of the school. Despite conventional expectations that she not live a public life she initially published work anonymously before becoming a social activist that wrote, spoke, and worked for many social causes. She is commonly known for writing the words to “Battle Hymn of the Republic” and in 1908, she became the first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts. In 1988 she was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.
Source: Hale, Jen. (2022) ”Julia Ward Howe”. Hale, Jen. “Julia Ward Howe” Perkins Archives Blog, Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown MA, October 26, 2022
Rights: Samuel P. Hayes Research Library, Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown, MA
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Release date: 1980
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Painter: Spooktalker
Date painted: 2009
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Symbolism of KIMONO patterns
“Crane” 鶴(TSURU) symbolizes longevity, good fortune, fidelity, a symbol for peace, hope and healing in challenging times.
"Phoenix" 鳳凰(HOUOU) was adopted as a symbol of the imperial household, particularily the empress. This mythical bird represents fire, the sun, justice, obedience, fidelity, and the southern star constellations. The maeaning of Phoenix in Japan is very similar to China. It is the symbol of peace.
"Peacock" 孔雀(KUJAKU) is associated with an emblem of love, compassionate watchfulness, good will, nurturing, and kind-heartedness.
“Mandarin duck” オシドリ(OSHIDORI)means that to strengthen the togetherness of the husband and wife and also help them achieve marital bliss. “Mandarin duck” can also be used by people who are finding difficult to search a life partner. It also helps to bring a good luck in ones love life. They are also the best enhancers for married couples and help to solve problems in married life.
“Pheasant” キジ(KIJI) is a divine messenger for Amaterasu(shining in heaven), the great sun goddess, abundance and promise.
"Swallow" ツバメ(TSUBAME) is a symbol of good luck, fidelity in marriage, and fertility.
“Turtle” 亀(KAME) is a symbol for longevity and cosmic order.
“Butterflies” 蝶(CHOU) represent joy and longevity, fine beauty and delicate.
“Cherry blossom” 桜(SAKURA) is a symbol of love, joy and spiritual awareness.
"Pine Trees" 松(MATSU) represent longevity, good fortune, steadfastness and immortality.
“Imperial chrysanthemum” 菊(KIKU) is a symbol of healing properties for drunkenness, nervous disability and general debilitating illnesses as well as endurance and integrity.
"Peony" 牡丹(BOTAN) is a symbol of nobility and value, as well as the ideals of fortune and wealth.
“Plum blossom” 梅(UME) is a symbol of endurance, hope, virtue and longevity.
"Cedar tree” 杉(SUGI) is a symbol for healing, cleansing and rituals of protection.
“Wisteria tree” フジ(FUJI) is a symbol of romance and the mysteries of a great and enduring love.
"Maple" カエデ(KAEDE) is a symbol of great blessings, elegance, beauty, and grace.
“Iris” カキツバタ(KAKITSUBATA) signify protection from evil spirits.
“Bellflower” キキョウ(KIKYO) is a symbol of unchanging love, honesty and obedience.”
“Cloud” 雲(KUMO) is a symbol of air, water, and heaven which represent the balance between emotion and intellect.
“Mountains” 山(YAMA) depict sacred places between heaven and earth, and birds flying over mountains signify overcoming life’s challenges.
“River” 川(KAWA) represents continuity and the future.
“SENSU” (扇子) is a symbol of friendship, respect, good wishes and social status.
“TAIKO" 太鼓 (Japanese traditional drum)”is a symbol of purification to dispel evil spirits. Taiko existed and was used in the ancient Japan over symbolic significance in Buddhism.
A nootropic that actually works? For me, absolutely, which wasn’t something I was expecting from a botanical. 40-50 intellect tree seeds consumed over several hours produced an on-focus clarity and a mental acuity which were unmistakable. I have no idea why the psychoactive properties of these seeds are not more widely known.
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Fear not the hook-rays of the light of life,
The basic structure of matter,
The basic form of wave communication.
Watch quietly and receive the message.
You will now experience directly the revelation of primal forms.
Check out this year's Intellect reunion poster. The photo was taken last year and the very talented Brian Asher created the poster. Cool beans huh?
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[GRAY SKINNED PHOTO - A MONOTONOUS FEELING]
@One Elizabeth Place, Talamban, Cebu City
Gray is the color of intellect, knowledge, and wisdom. It is perceived as long-lasting, classic, and often as sleek or refined. It is a color that is dignified, conservative, and carries authority. Gray is controlled and inconspicuous and is considered a color of compromise, perhaps because it sits between the extremes of black and white. Gray is a perfect neutral, which is why I use it as a background color.
Squared in bars of meta protruding from the cemented ground, l was in the ditch of temporary lost thinking. I figured the essence of the significant color. On my head says: When I photographed myself in color, I photographed my clothes. But when I photographed myself in Black and white, I found the photograph of my soul!
#photography #pictureperfect #memyselfandi #selfie #gray #monochrome #barsgalore #emo #sideview #deepthoughts #underthehotsun #thismoment #carvingmemories #emo
For nearly 50 years, biophysicist and inventor Mária Telkes applied her prodigious intellect to
harnessing the sun’s power. She designed and built the first successfully solar-powered house
in 1949 but was perplexed by the knotty scientific challenge of developing a reliable and
economical way to store captured solar energy. She was also beset by rampant sexism and
fought pitched battles with her boss and colleagues — all men — at MIT’s Solar Energy Fund.
Despite these obstacles, Telkes persevered, helping to build another experimental solar-
powered house in 1971. Upon her death in 1995, she held more than 20 patents.
All photos in this set should be credited to Rahoul Ghose/PBS
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of the Sutzkever Family
Abraham (Avram) Sutzkever was born on July 15, 1913 in
Smorgon, Belarus to Hertz and Rayne (nee Feinberg)
Sutzkever. During WWI, the family was deported with other
Jews from the war zone by the Russian authorities, and
settled in Omsk, Siberia. After his father’s death there,
his mother moved the family to Vilnius, Lithuania in 1921.
Vilnius was a Jewish cultural and intellection center and
the site of both the Mefitze Haskole Library and the
Yiddish Scientific Institute (YIVO). Abraham flourished
in this atmosphere. He attended a Polish Jewish high
school, and in 1933 joined a writers and artists group,
Yung-Vilne (Young Vilna), where he met fellow writers and
poets. He then moved to Warsaw, where his first volume of
Yiddish poems, 'Lider,' was published in 1937. In 1939,
he married Freydke, and the couple moved back to Vilnius
where his second volume, 'Valdiks,' was published in
1940.
In 1941, German forces entered Vilnius, followed by
Einsatzgruppen mobile killing squads. In the first months
of the occupation, tens of thousands of Jews were killed.
Abraham and Freyde initially tried to flee east to areas
still under Soviet rule, but were blocked and forced into
the newly-formed ghetto. There, in the ghetto hospital,
Freydke gave birth to their first child, a son. Nazi
policy did not allow Jewish women to give birth, and the
baby was killed. Abraham’s mother was killed not long
after in one of the many aktions that took place until the
end of the year. In January 1942, the aktions stopped, and
Vilnius entered a more stable period. Throughout, Abraham
continued to write and to actively participate in the
cultural life of the ghetto, including a ghetto theater and
a youth club literary study group
In 1942, Nazi officials began plans to loot Jewish
cultural property in Lithuania, and established a sorting
office to review material from YIVO and other sources to
either be sent to the 'Institute for Study of the Jewish
Question' in Frankfurt or to be destroyed. Jewish ghetto
inmates, including Abraham, were tasked with sorting these
works, which included such items as the diaries of Theodore
Herzl and and letters by Sholem Aleichem. Rather than
comply, a group which came to be known as the Paper Brigade
was formed, headed by Zelig Kalmanowitz, Dr. Hermann Kruk,
and Chaikel Lunski. worked to smuggle the material out and
hide it in various locations throughout the ghetto. After
the war, these works were retrieved, and the bulk of it
sent to the United States, where YIVO established a new
headquarters.
In the summer of 1943, just before the final liquidation
of the ghetto, Abraham and Freydke managed to escape and
join the partisan units under Soviet command in the Naroch
Forest. In time, all-Jewish units were formed, and Abraham
joined one which was under the command of Moshe Judka
Rudnitski, whith whom he participated in several missions.
While he fought with the partisans, his poem 'Kol Nidrei,'
which described the killings in Ponary reached Russia. It
was read aloud at the Central House of Writers in Moscow,
and so moved the audience that a public appeal grew to
save him. Soviet authorities authorized his resuce, but
the first plane to try to reach him in the forest crashed.
From the metal fragments of the plane, they made a
suitcase, which Sutzkever filled with his poems and the
other works he had brought from the ghetto. A second plane
arrived in March 1944, this time successfully transporting
him and Freydke to Moscow. There, he continued to write,
including a chronicle of his experiences in the Vilna
ghetto, and a poem detailing the experiences of a group of
Jews trying to survive in the sewers of Vilna. The couple
spent the remainder of the war in Russia.
In July 1944, Vilnius was captured from the Germans by the
Soviet and Polish armies, allowing Avraham and Freydke to
return. They initially hoped to recover the hidden
cultural material and participate in the rebuilding of
Vilna, but the political climate under the Soviets was not
conducive to this, and they focused instead on helping to
smuggle the material out. In 1946, Avraham was asked to
testify about Nazi atrocities that he had witnessed in
Lithuania at the Nurmeberg war crimes trIals. After brief
stays in Poland and Paris, they immigrated to Palestine in
1947. There, he began a literary career and continued his
advocacy for the Yiddish language. He founded the literary
quarterly 'Di Goldene Keyt,' and encouraged Jewish
communities to foster the Yiddish language and traditions.
In the 1970s, he published what many consider to be his
greatest work, the series 'Lider Fun Toghukh.' In 1985, he
was awarded the Israel Prize. He died January 20, 2010,
preceded in death by Freydke in 2002. They are survived by
two daughters.
Date: 1943
Temple of Ganesha, the elephant-headed deity, patron of arts and sciences and the deva of intellect and wisdom.
i won the bidding. Canada Post delivered it within a couple weeks. Home sweet home.
Symbolism of KIMONO patterns
“Crane” 鶴(TSURU) symbolizes longevity, good fortune, fidelity, a symbol for peace, hope and healing in challenging times.
"Phoenix" 鳳凰(HOUOU) was adopted as a symbol of the imperial household, particularily the empress. This mythical bird represents fire, the sun, justice, obedience, fidelity, and the southern star constellations. The maeaning of Phoenix in Japan is very similar to China. It is the symbol of peace.
"Peacock" 孔雀(KUJAKU) is associated with an emblem of love, compassionate watchfulness, good will, nurturing, and kind-heartedness.
“Mandarin duck” オシドリ(OSHIDORI)means that to strengthen the togetherness of the husband and wife and also help them achieve marital bliss. “Mandarin duck” can also be used by people who are finding difficult to search a life partner. It also helps to bring a good luck in ones love life. They are also the best enhancers for married couples and help to solve problems in married life.
“Pheasant” キジ(KIJI) is a divine messenger for Amaterasu(shining in heaven), the great sun goddess, abundance and promise.
"Swallow" ツバメ(TSUBAME) is a symbol of good luck, fidelity in marriage, and fertility.
“Turtle” 亀(KAME) is a symbol for longevity and cosmic order.
“Butterflies” 蝶(CHOU) represent joy and longevity, fine beauty and delicate.
“Cherry blossom” 桜(SAKURA) is a symbol of love, joy and spiritual awareness.
"Pine Trees" 松(MATSU) represent longevity, good fortune, steadfastness and immortality.
“Imperial chrysanthemum” 菊(KIKU) is a symbol of healing properties for drunkenness, nervous disability and general debilitating illnesses as well as endurance and integrity.
"Peony" 牡丹(BOTAN) is a symbol of nobility and value, as well as the ideals of fortune and wealth.
“Plum blossom” 梅(UME) is a symbol of endurance, hope, virtue and longevity.
"Cedar tree” 杉(SUGI) is a symbol for healing, cleansing and rituals of protection.
“Wisteria tree” フジ(FUJI) is a symbol of romance and the mysteries of a great and enduring love.
"Maple" カエデ(KAEDE) is a symbol of great blessings, elegance, beauty, and grace.
“Iris” カキツバタ(KAKITSUBATA) signify protection from evil spirits.
“Bellflower” キキョウ(KIKYO) is a symbol of unchanging love, honesty and obedience.”
“Cloud” 雲(KUMO) is a symbol of air, water, and heaven which represent the balance between emotion and intellect.
“Mountains” 山(YAMA) depict sacred places between heaven and earth, and birds flying over mountains signify overcoming life’s challenges.
“River” 川(KAWA) represents continuity and the future.
“SENSU” (扇子) is a symbol of friendship, respect, good wishes and social status.
“TAIKO" 太鼓 (Japanese traditional drum)”is a symbol of purification to dispel evil spirits. Taiko existed and was used in the ancient Japan over symbolic significance in Buddhism.
I've always had a thing for glasses - even though my sight is actually fine - so I thought I would try out a cute librarian meets flamenco dancer look, matching the glasses and hair with my baby blue Dotti party dress that swayed around my hips and barely covered my bum as I had a dance in the living room!
Presidium Gurgaon’s masters of debate and reasoned expression have won the Inter School
BEHES Debate championship. They have qualified for national level Finals. Their
intellect, reasoning and quick-witted replies gave them a well deserved win.
More than 200 students from schools all over Delhi, participated in the championship
and Presidians outshined them and won a total of 14 medals-6 Gold, 5 Silver and 3
Bronze. They proudly claimed the Championship Gold trophy and the Overall Best Speaker
trophy.
The winners are:
1. Prarthita Nath of Grade XII, won a Gold medal, the Overall Best speaker trophy and
her team won the Championship trophy.
2. Nuti Yadav, from Grade XII, won Gold medal and her team won the Championship trophy.
3. Kshirin Rao, from Grade XII, won a Silver medal and her team won the Championship
trophy;
4. Naisha Kamboj, from Grade VIII, won Gold medal.
5. Arahant Vishnu Saini, from Grade VII, won a Gold medal.
6. Ayush Rahul Savdekar, from Grade VI, won a Gold medal.
7. Raghav Sharma, from Grade IV, won a Gold medal.
8. Laiba Rahman, from Grade XI, won a Silver medal.
9. Joeell Singh, from Grade IX, won a Silver medal.
10. Bhavika Gupta, from Grade VIII, won a Silver medal.
11. Ria Bhargava, from Grade VII, won a Silver medal.
12. Pari Shukla, from Grade VII, won a Bronze medal.
13. Megha Chauhan, from Grade XII, won a Bronze medal.
14. Aakriti Sidhu, from Grade IX, won a Bronze medal.
15. Prisha Sinha, from Grade VII, won a Bronze medal.
16. Nischal Parwani, from Grade VII, won a Bronze medal.
Congratulations to our young debaters and their mentors.
#BeWhatYouWantToBe
#Presidium
Embassy of Brazil in London on January 20th, 2012
This event was hosted by UKTI and Intellect and focused on the trading opportunities existing between the UK and Brazil in the hi-tech sector. The slides I used during my own presentation can be found here:
I do not feel obligated to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reasons, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo Galilei
I loved both quotes. Galileo has a very keen intellect and excellent observational powers and we tend to forget these days that he was both a Scientist and a deeply religious man at the same time - I doubt that many people could tell you what hes actually famous for if you asked let alone tell you about his complex relationship with the church.
And yet the man is a wonderfull example of what it is to server 2 masters, Galileo loved the bible and god and yet could not deny what he saw around him - and he took up arms against the church and its tradition and it cost him dearly and yet his faith in God was constant.
Perhaps that why hes a favorite of mine - he refused to deny what he knew was true; that the earth and the planets revolved around the sun; even after being forced to recant by the inquisition - what more can you say about a man who when finally forced to submit states his recantation and yet under his breath still refuses, muttering Eppur si muove (and yet it moves) despite the recantation he had been forced to make by the church he still could not bring himself to hate.
Oh and I liked this photo as well, for me the cross and the candle have always been 2 of the most powerfull images of Christianity - theyre almost a perfect representation of 2 parts of the trinity when you think about it - the father and the son (god is light of the world and the cross.. well you get it) And it worked well.
Monoprint....collagraph....I actually prepared the childs t-shirt and was able to print 4 prints, all different colours.
The Postcard
A Comique Series postcard that was published by the Inter-Art Co. of Florence House, Barnes, London SW. The artwork was by Donald McGill.
The card was posted on Friday the 22nd. August 1924 to:
Mr. A. Smale,
c/o Mrs. Land,
3, Marine Terrace,
Margate.
The pencilled message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"Dear Bert,
So glad you are
enjoying yourself,
but I wish you had
better weather.
Had a card from
Dolly and Addy on
Monday.
Love from Mother."
Clarence Darrow
So what else happened on the day that Bert's mother posted the card?
Well, on the 22nd. August 1924, Clarence Darrow presented his closing argument in the Leopold and Loeb case.
Leopold and Loeb, were two wealthy students at the University of Chicago who kidnapped and murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks in Chicago, Illinois in May 1924.
They committed the murder – characterized at the time as "the crime of the century" – hoping to demonstrate superior intellect, which they believed enabled and entitled them to carry out a "perfect crime" without consequences.
After the two men were arrested, Loeb's family retained Clarence Darrow as lead counsel for their defense. Darrow's twelve-hour summation at their sentencing hearing is noted for its influential criticism of capital punishment as retributive rather than transformative justice.
Both young men were sentenced to life imprisonment plus 99 years. Loeb was murdered by a fellow prisoner in 1936. Leopold was released on parole in 1958. The case has since served as the inspiration for several dramatic works.
Leopold and Loeb's Murder of Bobby Franks
Leopold and Loeb, who were 19 and 18 respectively at the time, settled on kidnapping and murdering a younger adolescent as their perfect crime.
They spent seven months planning everything, from the method of abduction to disposal of the body. To obfuscate the actual nature of their crime and motive, they decided to make a ransom demand, and devised an intricate plan for collecting it involving a long series of complex instructions to be communicated, one set at a time, by phone.
They typed the final set of instructions involving the actual money drop in the form of a ransom note, using the typewriter stolen from the fraternity house. A chisel was selected as the murder weapon and purchased.
After a lengthy search for a suitable victim, mostly on the grounds of the Harvard School for Boys in the Kenwood area, where Leopold had been educated, the pair decided upon Robert "Bobby" Franks, the 14-year-old son of wealthy Chicago watch manufacturer Jacob Franks.
Bobby Franks was Loeb's second cousin and an across-the-street neighbor who had played tennis at the Loeb residence several times.
Leopold and Loeb put their plan in motion on the afternoon of the 21st. May 1924. Using an automobile that Leopold rented under the name Morton D. Ballard, they offered Franks a ride as he walked home from school.
The boy initially refused, because his destination was less than two blocks away, but Loeb persuaded him to enter the car to discuss a tennis racket that he had been using.
The precise sequence of events that followed remains in dispute, but a preponderance of opinion placed Leopold behind the wheel of the car while Loeb sat in the back seat with the chisel.
Loeb struck Franks, who was sitting in front of him in the passenger seat, several times in the head with the chisel, then dragged him into the back seat and gagged him, where he died.
With the body on the floor of the back seat, the men drove to their predetermined dumping spot near Wolf Lake in Hammond, Indiana, 25 miles (40 km) south of Chicago.
After nightfall, they removed and discarded Franks' clothes, then concealed the body in a culvert along the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks north of the lake.
In order to obscure the body's identity, they poured hydrochloric acid on Franks' face and genitals to disguise the fact that he had been circumcised, as circumcision was unusual among non-Jews in the United States at the time.
The Ransom Note
By the time the two men returned to Chicago, word had already spread that Franks was missing. Leopold called Franks' mother, identifying himself as "George Johnson", and told her that Franks had been kidnapped; instructions for delivering the ransom would follow.
After mailing the typed ransom note and burning their blood-stained clothing, then cleaning the blood stains from the rented vehicle's upholstery, they spent the remainder of the evening playing cards.
Once the Franks family received the ransom note on the following morning, Leopold called a second time and dictated the first set of instructions for the ransom payment.
The intricate plan stalled almost immediately when a nervous family member forgot the address of the store where he was supposed to receive the next set of directions, and it was abandoned entirely when word came that Franks' body had been found.
Leopold and Loeb destroyed the typewriter and burned a car blanket that they had used to move the body. They then went about their lives as usual.
Chicago police launched an intensive investigation and rewards were offered for information. Both Leopold and Loeb enjoyed chatting with friends and family members about the murder. Leopold discussed the case with his professor and a girl friend, joking that he would confess and give her the reward money.
Loeb helped a couple of reporter friends of his find the drug store he and Leopold had tried to send Jacob Franks to, and when asked to describe Bobby he replied:
"If I were to murder anybody, it would
be just such a cocky little son of a bitch
as Bobby Franks."
Police found a pair of eyeglasses near Franks' body. Although common in prescription and frame, they were fitted with an unusual hinge purchased by only three customers in Chicago, one of whom was Leopold.
When questioned, Leopold offered the possibility that his glasses might have dropped out of his pocket during a bird-watching trip the previous weekend.
Leopold and Loeb were summoned for formal questioning on the 29th. May. They asserted that on the night of the murder, they had picked up two women in Chicago using Leopold's car, then dropped them off some time later near a golf course without learning their last names.
However their alibi was exposed as a fabrication when Leopold's chauffeur told police that he was repairing Leopold's car while the men claimed to be using it.
Also the chauffeur's wife confirmed that the car was parked in the Leopold garage on the night of the murder. The destroyed typewriter was recovered from the Jackson Park Lagoon on the 7th. June.
Confessions
Loeb was the first to confess. He asserted that Leopold had planned everything and had killed Franks in the back seat of the car while he (Loeb) drove. Leopold's confession followed swiftly thereafter. He insisted that he was the driver and Loeb the murderer.
Their confessions otherwise corroborated most of the evidence in the case. Both confessions were announced by the state's attorney on the 31st. May.
Leopold later claimed, long after Loeb was dead, that he pleaded in vain with Loeb to admit to killing Franks. He quoted Loeb as saying:
"Mompsie feels less terrible than
she might, thinking you did it, and
I'm not going to take that shred of
comfort away from her."
Most observers believed that Loeb did strike the fatal blows. Some circumstantial evidence – including testimony from eyewitness Carl Ulvigh, who claimed that he saw Loeb driving and Leopold in the back seat minutes before the kidnapping – suggested that Leopold could have been the killer.
Both Leopold and Loeb admitted that they were driven by their thrill-seeking, Übermenschen (supermen) delusions, and their aspiration to commit a "perfect crime".
Neither claimed to have looked forward to the killing, but Leopold admitted interest in learning what it would feel like to be a murderer. He was disappointed to note that he felt the same as ever.
The Trial of Leopold and Loeb
The trial of Leopold and Loeb at Chicago's Cook County Criminal Court became a media spectacle. The Leopold and Loeb families hired the renowned criminal defense attorney Clarence Darrow to lead the defense team.
It was rumored that Darrow was paid $1 million for his services, but he was actually paid $70,000 (equivalent to $1,200,000 in 2022). Darrow took the case because he was a staunch opponent of capital punishment.
While it was generally assumed that the men's defense would be based on a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, Darrow concluded that a jury trial would almost certainly end in conviction and the death penalty.
Thus he elected to enter a plea of guilty, hoping to convince Cook County Circuit Court Judge John R. Caverly to impose sentences of life imprisonment.
The trial, technically an extended sentencing hearing, as their guilty pleas had already been accepted, ran for thirty-two days.
The state's attorney, Robert E. Crowe, presented over 100 witnesses, documenting details of the crime.
The defense presented extensive psychiatric testimony in an effort to establish mitigating circumstances, including childhood neglect in the form of absent parenting, and in Leopold's case, sexual abuse by a governess.
One piece of evidence was a letter written by Leopold claiming that he and Loeb were having a homosexual affair. Both the prosecution and the defense interpreted this information as supportive of their own position.
Darrow called a series of expert witnesses, who offered a catalog of Leopold's and Loeb's abnormalities. One witness testified to their dysfunctional endocrine glands, another to the delusions that had led to their crime.
Darrow's Speech
Darrow's impassioned, eight-hour-long "masterful plea" at the conclusion of the hearing has been called the finest speech of his career. Its principal arguments were that the methods and punishments of the American justice system were inhumane, and the youth and immaturity of the accused:
"This terrible crime was inherent in his organism, and it came from some ancestor. Is any blame attached because somebody took Nietzsche's philosophy seriously and fashioned his life upon it? It is hardly fair to hang a 19-year-old boy for the philosophy that was taught him at the university.
We read of killing one hundred thousand men in a day [during World War I]. We read about it and we rejoiced in it – if it was the other fellows who were killed. We were fed on flesh and drank blood.
Even down to the prattling babe. I need not tell you how many upright, honorable young boys have come into this court charged with murder, some saved and some sent to their death, boys who fought in this war and learned to place a cheap value on human life. You know it and I know it. These boys were brought up in it.
It will take fifty years to wipe it out of the human heart, if ever. I know this, that after the Civil War in 1865, crimes of this sort increased, marvelously. No one needs to tell me that crime has no cause. It has as definite a cause as any other disease, and I know that out of the hatred and bitterness of the Civil War crime increased as America had never seen before.
I know that Europe is going through the same experience today; I know it has followed every war; and I know it has influenced these boys so that life was not the same to them as it would have been if the world had not made red with blood.
Your Honor knows that in this very court crimes of violence have increased growing out of the war. Not necessarily by those who fought but by those that learned that blood was cheap, and human life was cheap, and if the State could take it lightly why not the boy?
Has the court any right to consider anything but these two boys? The State says that your Honor has a right to consider the welfare of the community, as you have. If the welfare of the community would be benefited by taking these lives, well and good. I think it would work evil that no one could measure.
Has your Honor a right to consider the families of these defendants? I have been sorry, and I am sorry for the bereavement of Mr. and Mrs. Franks, for those broken ties that cannot be healed. All I can hope and wish is that some good may come from it all. But as compared with the families of Leopold and Loeb, the Franks are to be envied – and everyone knows it.
Here is Leopold's father – and this boy was the pride of his life. He watched him and he cared for him, he worked for him; the boy was brilliant and accomplished. He educated him, and he thought that fame and position awaited him, as it should have awaited. It is a hard thing for a father to see his life's hopes crumble into dust.
And Loeb's the same. Here are the faithful uncle and brother, who have watched here day by day, while Dickie's father and his mother are too ill to stand this terrific strain, and shall be waiting for a message which means more to them than it can mean to you or me. Shall these be taken into account in this general bereavement?
The easy thing and the popular thing to do is to hang my clients. I know it. Men and women who do not think will applaud. The cruel and thoughtless will approve. It will be easy today; but in Chicago, and reaching out over the length and breadth of the land, more and more fathers and mothers, the humane, the kind and the hopeful, who are gaining an understanding and asking questions not only about these poor boys, but about their own – these will join in no acclaim at the death of my clients.
These would ask that the shedding of blood be stopped, and that the normal feelings of man resume their sway. Your Honor stands between the past and the future. You may hang these boys; you may hang them by the neck until they are dead. But in doing it you will turn your face toward the past. In doing it you are making it harder for every other boy who in ignorance and darkness must grope his way through the mazes which only childhood knows.
In doing it you will make it harder for unborn children. You may save them and make it easier for every child that sometime may stand where these boys stand. You will make it easier for every human being with an aspiration and a vision and a hope and a fate.
I am pleading for the future; I am pleading for a time when hatred and cruelty will not control the hearts of men. When we can learn by reason and judgment and understanding and faith that all life is worth saving, and that mercy is the highest attribute of man."
The judge was persuaded, but he explained in his ruling that his decision was based primarily on precedent and the youth of the accused. On the 10th. September 1924, he sentenced both Leopold and Loeb to life imprisonment for the murder, and an additional 99 years for the kidnapping. A little over a month later, Loeb's father died of heart failure.
Darrow's handling of the law as defense counsel has been criticized for hiding psychiatric expert testimony that conflicted with his polemical goals and for relying on an absolute denial of free will, one of the principles legitimizing all criminal punishment.
Prison and Loeb's Murder
Leopold and Loeb initially were held at Joliet Prison. Although they were kept apart as much as possible, the two managed to maintain their friendship.
Leopold was transferred to Stateville Penitentiary in 1925, and Loeb was later transferred there as well. Once reunited, the two expanded the prison school system, adding a high school and junior college curriculum.
On the 28th. January 1936, Loeb was attacked by fellow inmate James Day with a straight razor in a shower room; he died soon after in the prison hospital.
Day claimed that Loeb had attempted to sexually assault him, but he was unharmed, while Loeb sustained more than fifty wounds, including defensive wounds on his arms and hands. His throat had been slashed from behind.
News accounts suggested Loeb had propositioned Day, and though several prison officials including the Warden believed Loeb had been murdered, Day was found not guilty by a jury after a short trial in June, 1936.
The Ku Klux Klan
Also on that day, U.S. presidential candidate John W. Davis condemned the Ku Klux Klan by name in a speech in Sea Girt, New Jersey, reviving an issue that had badly split the Democratic Party at the National Convention.
Davis called on President Coolidge to do the same.
Agatha Christie
Also on the 22nd. August 1924, the Agatha Christie novel 'The Man in the Brown Suit' was published.
A Disturbance in the Reichstag
Also on that day, Communists in the Reichstag filibustered Chancellor Wilhelm Marx. They caused a loud disturbance of hoots and jeers when he tried to speak on the London conference ahead of a vote on the matter.
The session was suspended and police were called in, but no clause could be found by which to arrest those who were causing the disturbance, and the Reichstag adjourned for the day.
An ode to the psychological push-and-pull between warm and cool tones, where emotion and intellect visually collide.
"Yellow is the color of sunshine. It's associated with joy, happiness, intellect, and energy.
Yellow produces a warming effect, arouses cheerfulness, stimulates mental activity, and generates muscle energy. Yellow is often associated with food. Bright, pure yellow is an attention getter, which is the reason taxicabs are painted this color. When overused, yellow may have a disturbing effect; it is known that babies cry more in yellow rooms. Yellow is seen before other colors when placed against black; this combination is often used to issue a warning. In heraldry, yellow indicates honor and loyalty. Later the meaning of yellow was connected with cowardice.
Use yellow to evoke pleasant, cheerful feelings. You can choose yellow to promote children's products and items related to leisure. Yellow is very effective for attracting attention, so use it to highlight the most important elements of your design. Men usually perceive yellow as a very lighthearted, 'childish' color, so it is not recommended to use yellow when selling prestigious, expensive products to men – nobody will buy a yellow business suit or a yellow Mercedes. Yellow is an unstable and spontaneous color, so avoid using yellow if you want to suggest stability and safety. Light yellow tends to disappear into white, so it usually needs a dark color to highlight it. Shades of yellow are visually unappealing because they loose cheerfulness and become dingy.
Dull (dingy) yellow represents caution, decay, sickness, and jealousy.
Light yellow is associated with intellect, freshness, and joy."
Info quoted from www.color-wheel-pro.com/color-meaning.html
Oh and the shot was Not edited ^_^ only added the frame and the signature.
To Trivials' Hero... for being such a wonderful person... I Think that you somehow represent this color ^_____^
Have a nice day flickrers =D
You know when you have a great idea, but then you choose to ignore it and end up doing something like this instead? The original 'Me' is here. The more I look at this the more it freaks me out.
I have some proper photos coming soon. One is a flower.
Looks 'better' on black. Hmm.
Mourning over and due respect shown for the death of Betty Windsor and ahead of the coronation of her hereditary successor is as good a time as any to reflect on the Crown.
Putting aside the status of the Monarch of the (cough, cough) United Kingdom and the Realms, King Charles III has styled himself as: His Majesty Charles the Third, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of his other Realms and Territories, King, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith. Indeed, all of this is so archaic that The Firm still feels the need to Style old mate as Carolus in the long dead Latin — Chas or Chuck to we peasants!
Conflict of interest! Cast your mind back to Charles I of England. He lost his head over the appointment by God business. Have we learned SFA? George Santayana famously noted (sic) Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect and it is well to examine with your intellect whether to claim appointment by God then go to war in defence of the same deity isn't a bit of a problem. Logically if God falls, like the loss of ravens from the White Tower, then poof, so goes the monarchy.
I simply refuse to get into the silly arguments about the Koh-i-Noor and Cullinan baubles. As the property of others and theirs to give away to Victoria and her eldest son, title would seem to have been surrendered long ago. Of course, anyone might return a gift. It seems that history has not treated these stones well and they are diminished in their stature by the hands of man in their cutting. Sending back a used trinket ought to be seen as an insult!
Adopting Charles III as King of Australia is doubly problematic. Sure, the 17th and 18th century Acts relating to succession were patched up with a bit of race tape in 2013 to give the girls a go, but Australia is still constrained to have a Head of State descended from what is essentially a white family of former Germans who aren't Roman Catholics but must be members of the Anglican Church! Our own people, our first human population cannot, under our own laws, become the Head of State of their own country. Shame!!
So, here in the Treasury in the North Tower of the Uppsala Cathedral are reminders to maintain the chastity of our intellect. The crowns of King Johan III and his wife Queen Catherine for all their gold, garnets, sapphires, pearls and emeralds didn't save them from the human condition. We waste our talent and diminish our culture by slavish adherence to the superstition of regal superiority. Reflect on the Crown; give it a break!
Photo taken at non-profit organisation WOMEN in Hyderabad. www.womenhyd.org. The organisation works with poor girls and women in the low income neighbourhoods (slums) Aasif Nagar.
These headless beings bred by the Kaldane have no will or intellect of their own, but serve as useful puppet mounts.
I love his academic look - he looks like he belongs in the halls of Oxford.
image from motlc.wiesenthal.com/site/pp.asp?c=jmKYJeNVJrF&b=478527
Watching the snow beginning to fall in Moscow on a cold November day. The old houses have high ceilings and big windows so the light is beautiful.
I see her
Standing near the window
Looking at the snow.
The grey, cold light
Soft as suede
Falling on her face
Her gentle eyes
Her ethereal beauty
And I know that all is here
In the transitory moment
On that cold November day
In Moscow.
The snow falls.
Light, soft
Promising dreams and a future
Of romance and mystic awe.
Such promise, such beginnings
As I have never known.
For my love,
That day in Moscow.
Winter afternoon.
Promise to the spirit
Of beauty and love
And hours of wonder and knowledge
Infinite.
Challenge to the intellect,
What knowledge comes
When all is grey and white
And quiet and mysterious
That afternoon
That November
That day
In Moscow.
28 November 2007
Poem copyright vdebeer 2007
This poem was sent to me by Val de Beer who was inspired to write it by the the comment I made under the picture.
Checkout her pictures: www.flickr.com/photos/lissadell/
A million thanks Val
the picture is also taken by my daughter...
and from the book "The Animal Mind" by James Gould and Carol Grant Could
"The concept of animal intelligence continues to hold our imagination today, as evidenced by the children's stories from Beatrix Potter to television's Lassie, but an increasing tendency in Western thought toward empirical evaluation has encouraged a more scientific consideration of the animal mind. Darwin wrote in the Descent of Man (1871) that the difference in mind between humans and the higher animals "certainly is one of degree and not one of a kind. We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention, curiosity, imitation, reason, and so on, of which man boasts, may be found in an incipient, or even sometimes in a well-developed condition in lower animals.....until very recently it has been anathema in the scientific world to suggest in print that intelligence of some sort, perhaps even self-awareness, might guide the routine and stereotyped behavior of many animals. As field research into the mechanisms of animal behavior has revealed many intricate but innate behavioral programs that, despite their sophistication, have no apparent intellectual component."
NOVEMBER "Niah Diamond Choker"
FABRIXQUARE "Justice Braids"
VERSOV "HABLOV_EYEWEAR"
GRAILED "Abzorb Trainers"
MAJESTY "Slouchy Socks"
FLAUNT "Ani Rings"
MEMOIRE "Var Bag Frais"
VEX "Ava Baggy Shirt yellow"
VEX "Lia Baggy Joggers"