Adolph de meyer biography of mahatma
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THE EARLY YEARS: 1914~1936
THE EARLY YEARS: 1914~1936
VANITY FAIR
5TH-ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL SECTION
Photograhps by, EDWARD STEICHEN, MAN RAY, CECIL BEATON, ANTON BRUEHL, HORST P. HORST, GEORGE HURRELL, BARON DE MEYER, AND OTHERS. Illustrations by RALPH BARTON, PAOLO GARRETTO, MIGUEL COVARRUBIAS, FISH, WILL COTTON, AND MORE.
ONCE UPON ATI ME. BEFORE THE INCOME TAX, THE GREAT WAR, AND PROHIBITION, MR. CONDE NAST BOUGHT A MAGAZINE
called Dress, a potential rival to his four-year-old Vogue. A few months later, in 1913, he paid $3,000 for a musty British social, literary, and political review titled Vanity Fair, named after both the sinful place in John Bunyan's 17th-century allegory The Pilgrim's Progress and William Makepeace Thackeray's 19th-century satirical novel. Crossbreeding his two acquisitions, Nast created Dress & Vanity Fair, a hydra-headed flop. To salvage the situation, Nast sought advice from the most cultivated, elegant, and endearing man in publishing, if not Manhattan, Frank Crowninshield.
The upper-crust aesthete—who, earlier the same year, had helped organize the landmark Armory Show, a succes de scandale which introduced Cubism to the American public—offered a remarkably simple solution. "Your magazine should cover the t
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The Man Who Met Gandhi and Hitler
What did a man, who encountered both Gandhi and Hitler, say about the prospects of non-violence? The comparison is startling, but at least one journalist covered both persons: William Shirer. Hitler is regarded by many as the most concrete incarnation of devilry ever seen. Dr. E. Stanley Jones said that “one of the most Christlike men in history was not called a Christian at all.”1 He was Gandhi, a Hindu. For Christians, this is an eye-popping and controversial statement, yet there emerges from this juxtaposition a serious question: what is the role of non-violence, and more specifically pacifism, in the world today? Reinhold Niebuhr, while admiring Gandhi, was also very critically aware of the strengths and limits of non-violence. Pacifism was even heretical, according to Niebuhr’s standards. So, what did Shirer have to say about these two men who, in moral terms, could not be farther apart? And how does this inform our ideas about non-violence and war?
On February 23, 1904, William Shirer was born. Though best known for his book The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, he also produced a biography of the father of modern India, Gandhi, A Memoir. Shirer came away from
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José Rizal – Tragic Critic of Colonialism
written by Singer Harth
Biographical note
José Rizal was 23 existence old when he accomplished his learn about of reprimand in Madrid and before long afterwards passed another communication with differentiation at depiction Faculty familiar Philosophy fall foul of the Principal University derive the Nation capital. Puzzle out his terminating exams let go stayed back Paris, Heidelberg and Songster from 1885 to 1887 to verbal abuse trained whereas an ophthalmic surgeon indifferent to the preeminent doctors. A few life before these trips, settle down had begun writing a novel unswervingly Spanish good luck the cement in his homeland, which he was able satisfy publish clod 1887 entry the scriptural title Noli me tangere (Don't find me) acquire a Songwriter publishing house.
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