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Who's Online : 2Depicting It There are two things that cannot be depicted – a rose and sexual organs. A rose because it is too beautiful, and sexual organs because they are too ugly. It is the miasma of desire that makes them[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
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Up the Creek – A Rehash of Past Events For Prof. Reiner Lendl, “whose merits include the rediscovery of Austrian exile literature.” Herbert Kuhner, the writer, is in a sense a historian. His life story runs parallel to history and[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
It’s a Topsy-Turvy World “There are alternate facts.” – Kellyanne Conway, not Eric Blair alias George Orwell Truth isn’t always truth. It is somebody’s version of it.!” – Rudy Giuliani (What a lovely way to describe lies!) You’re entitled to[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Austrian Socialist Party Paragons Rudolf Gelbard Rudolf Gelbard is a walking encyclopedia of recent Austrian political history. He did not have a chance to study in his youth, due to internment in Theresienstadt Concentration[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
David B. Axelrod at Lhotzky’s Literaturbuffet The place to visit for the bookworm in Vienna is Lhotzky’s Literaturbuffet, Rotenstrengasse 2 at the corner of Taborstrasse in the 2nd district. Kurt Lhotzky offers a selection of German books, concentrating on political[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Naturkost Brunnader I live in Gentzgasse in the Eighteenth District in Vienna. The next intersection is the pedestrian zone of Kutschkergasse, where there are two restaurants, a café and an ice cream parlor. Great to sit there in sunny weather![…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Snitching on a Predator From Alan Dershowitz: Is Paterno Getting a Bum Rap?: (Joe) Paterno and I come from roughly the same generation. We grew up during the period of McCarthyism, and my parents taught me, as his parents may[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
A Princess There was a beautiful princess who went to Hollywood and became the most elegant and attractive actress in the history of cinema. She acted well in every film she was in and each one was a box office[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Brecht and Lenya In the famous photo of Brecht, you can almost smell the tattered stogie. He’s is a dead ringer for Groucho, but without the pasted-on brows and mustache – and the sly humor. Besides having an aversion to[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Marilyn and a Guy Called Joe When Laurence Olivier directed Marilyn in The Prince and the Showgirl, she and Paula Strasberg her “dramatic coach” made him wish he had never been born. And after completion of the film, Larry went[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
The Meaning of Life to Our Chieftains Richard Nixon during the 1968 presidential campaign undermined Lyndon Johnson’s attempts to initiate peace negotiations with the North Vietnamese in order to improve his chances of winning the election.[1] Just to be fair,[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Influx Why is there an influx of migrants at the Mexican border? Because mostly Republican administrations supported the Dirty Warriors in the Dirty Wars of Central and South America. Thank you Dick Nixon, Henry Kissinger and Ronald Reagan. We can’t[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Exiled “Founded in 1993 by Dr. Rudolf Scholten, the Austrian Archive for Exile Studies is part of the Documentation Centre for modern Austrian literature. The Archive documents the life and work of Austrian writers and other cultural figures who have[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
The Golden Anniversary of the Annexation (Ditto for the 80th Anniversary) At the unveiling of the monument commemorating the victims of the Holocaust, speeches of regret were read by political luminaries, Church dignitaries, public figures and high-ranking military men. Poets[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
The Myth Just as East Europe was freed from Nazism but not freed, Russia (or the Soviet Union, if you will) was freed from Communism but not freed. There’s a myth circulating that President Reagan and Pope John Paul II[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
The Mouth as Launcher Helen went off to Troy with Paris, leaving King Menelaus behind in Sparta. Helen had the face “that launched a thousand ships,” which carried Greek warriers to fight a war that lasted a decade. Monica’s mouth[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Bill Maher, Vietnam in Retrospect Bill is thumbs down on Iraq and thumbs up on Vietnam. Guess Dick and Henry are his men. “I’ve been hearing nothing but Vietnam was a wasted war – we should never have gone. I[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
One and the Same Dan was an American Nazi way back in the Lincoln Rockwell days. He was a true fan of the Führer, and he was convinced that quondam leader Germany had hit the jackpot with the racial laws.[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Doing the Assassin in My mother and I were in my grandmother’s apartment, which was adjacent to ours in our house in Rueppgasse. I witnessed the ransacking of my ransacking my grandmother’s apartment in Rueppgasse by SA-marauders. I was three[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Religion Religion is a combination of positive and negative aspects. The negative aspects outweigh the positive aspects. Religion is a combination of wisdom and idiocy. Idiocy invariable has the edge. Religion is a combination of good and evil. Evil prevails.[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
