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{ Monthly Archives } April 2003

A Boy of the Boston School: the illustrated edition

The invitation I jumped at was to root around in my own memory of the Museum of Fine Arts, starting in the 1950s.  My real agenda was also to examine and nail my impression that John Singer Sargent and what became the MFA aesthetic had managed to postpone the arrival of the 20th Century in […]

Smile and Dial

The phone is 800-886-9364.The time is Sunday, April 27 at 6.The question, with new facts on the ground in Iraq, is whether we can still call it “globalization”?Or: Is Americanization, for better and worse, the real name of the rapid integration of world markets, technology, culture and power?Or: Does the triumph of American arms in […]

Serbs All

We all become Serbs in wartime, and most especially the media.  Chris Hedges was right about that, among many other things.  War is a high, “perhaps the most powerful narcotic ever invented by humankind,” as he observed.   The great bulk of our American exposure to the war in Iraq fits Chris Hedges’ picture of […]

Serbs All

We all become Serbs in wartime, and most especially the media.  Chris Hedges was right about that, among many other things.  War is a high, “perhaps the most powerful narcotic ever invented by humankind,” as he observed.   The great bulk of our American exposure to the war in Iraq fits Chris Hedges’ picture of […]

Radio for Bloggers

Okay, we’re newbies in Blog World, grateful for Dave Winer’s and Doc Searls‘ introductions, and eager to please.  I am just getting used to the opinionated energy out there, all those Roman Candles.  It’s the same power of liberated expression that has driven our best work in radio, but the electronic feel of it is entirely different.  […]

Producer’s Notes

We’ve had a couple of editorial meetings about the call-in show and it’s starting to take shape. The trick is to narrow the scope of the hour somewhat and to start generating names of potential guests. We want to encompass the overall theme of the series — the push and pull of globalism — and […]

Producer’s Notes

Amy Chua might be a guest

Call-in Radio: an Invitation

   The question threading through our live call-in radio broadcast may be: has Globalization been swallowed up by Americanization?     Or perhaps: What is the new meaning of “globalization” after the war in Iraq?    Or: Are we still globalizing?     Or: What’s the score in the race between the forces that seemed to pulling the planet […]

Producer’s Notes

here’s the deal

A Boy of the Boston School: the illustrated edition

A Boy of the Boston School The invitation I jumped at was to root around in my own memory of the Museum of Fine Arts, starting in the 1950s.  My real agenda was also to examine and nail my impression that John Singer Sargent and what became the MFA aesthetic had managed to postpone the […]