In Search of Forever by Rodney Matthews
My America: Langston Hughes on Democracy by Randal Maurice JelksThis book is written as a commentary on select Langston essays, poems, and speeches. These were published in diverse forums, and publications. It is my desire to have readers take in his views for themselves and not simply my interpretation of them.
Phyllis Coates: Not Just Lois Lane by Bill CassaraIn April of 1948 while Phyllis was under contract to Warners, she was assigned with another starlet, Patricia Northrup, for a photo shoot at Toluca Lake. The occasion was for a demonstration of a surfboard powered by batteries, called "The Motorboard." The inventor was Mr. Joe C. Gilpin who invited a publicity crew to document the maiden voyage. What better way than to have two beautiful women showing how it's done? A film crew showed up and Life magazine came to record the occasion. Phyllis was prominently displayed standing and in prone position to navigate the rudderless surf board across the natural lake.
The event drew none other than Harpo Marx...
Phyllis said that the place was packed with service men on leave. They hooted and yelled when Ken Murray would banter with his star performer, Marie Wilson. There were "boob" jokes galore.
Also on the bill was an old-time vaudeville musical artist by the name of Fred Sanborn. He was famous for his eccentric xylophone playing and his mute character. He had originally been one of Ted Healy's Stooges on Broadway along with Larry Fine, Shemp and Moe Howard in the film, Soup to Nuts. "
In later years on TV, The Mary Tyler Moore show, also in a newsroom office setting, Ed Asner (boss to Mary) told Mary that she had a lot of "spunk." Mary took it as a compliment until Asner said, "I hate spunk." If he had worked with Phyllis Coates' "Lois Lane," he would have seen spunk in spades.
In the first year of Adventures of Superman, the Lois Lane character was no "damsel in distress." She got herself in jams, but considered herself self-reliant. Lois often shook off Clark Kent's journalism partnership and even mocked him. She would often ridicule Clark for scurrying away before Superman arrived to save the day.
When Lois Lane enacted her primal screams, it was reaching a decibel level designed to repel dangerous men. That may have been her first line of defense, but Phyllis' Lois Lane was not afraid...
Scream queen Phyllis has been recognized with her distinct shrieks by all discerning viewers of Superman. She has often been compared to Fay Wray (King Kong's reluctant girlfriend). Randy Sadewater compiled a list of Phyllis' screams....
Death Valley Days (1964)
The Left Hand is Damned was the title of this episode. It had a double meaning harking back to some cultures that the left hand was perceived to be sinister or evil (defined, of course, by right-handed people).
The main antagonist in this is a right-handed cowboy that gets his hand shot up. Phyllis is a saloon girl that witnesses the out-of-town gambler who is shot by the proprietor of the establishment. She scolds him for being insensitive to the badly wounded boy, then helps him recover. The incident did little to quell his anger at the proprietor and instead swells more hate, announcing revenge on him. His right hand incapacitated, he starts practicing shooting with his left hand. The cowboy seeks retribution and thinks he sees his adversary's silhouette through the window. Instead of hitting his intended victim, he shoots Phyllis' character, Dora, in the back. She gives a surprise expression, and then drops down for one of her infrequent death scenes.
I actually viewed this one with Phyllis when it was first released on videotape. She told me, "A whore with a heart, those are the best kind of roles."
It was time for Phyllis' daughter, Christopher, to go to college and she chose the University of Oregon. She came back with a new sense of self-awareness and embraced the woman's liberation movement. Not impressed, Phyllis told her: "I've been liberated my whole life."
Red Star Rogue by Kenneth Sewell
The Conspirators Hierarchy: The Committee of Three Hundred by John Coleman...Committee mandate to "soften up" the United States. After 47 years of waging war on the people of this nation, who will doubt that it has indeed accomplished its task? Look around and see how we have been demoralized. Drugs, pornography, rock and roll "music," free sex, the family unit all but totally undermined, lesbianism, homosexuality and finally, the ghastly murder of millions of innocent babies by their own mothers. Has there ever been a crime so vile as mass abortion?
The United States will be flooded by peoples of an alien culture, who will eventually overwhelm white America; people with no concept of what the United States Constitution stands for, and who will, in consequence, do nothing to defend it, and in whose minds the concept of liberty and justice is so weak as to matter little. Food and shelter shall be their main concern.
Lenin and Marx acknowledged was needed, we now have the In addition to religion, "the opiate of the masses," which opiates of mass spectator sport, unbridled sexual lusts, rock music and a whole new generation of drug addicts. Mindless people from what is happening all around them. In "The sex and an epidemic of drug usage was created to distract Technotronic Era," Brzezinski talks about "the masses" as if people are inanimate objects, which is possibly how we are viewed by the Committee. He continually refers to the necessity of controlling us "masses."
At one point, he lets the cat out of the bag:
"At the same time, the capacity to assert social and political control over the individual will vastly increase. It will soon be possible to assert almost continuous control over every citizen and to maintain up-to-date files, containing even the most personal details about health and personal behavior of every citizen, in addition to the more customary data.
"These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities. Power will gravitate into the hands of those who control information. Our existing institutions will be supplanted by pre-crisis management institutions, the task of which will be to identify in advance, likely social crises and to develop programs to cope with them. (This describes the structure of FEMA, which came much later).
... build up the cult of Christian fundamentalism begun by the British East India Company's servant Darby, which will be misused to strengthen the Zionist state of Israel by identifying with the Jews through the myth of "God's Chosen People," and by donating very substantial amounts of money to what they mistakenly believe is a religious cause in the furtherance of Christianity.
...settlers who came here and founded a country based on the Christian Bible and Christian morality. Of the 55 men who framed the Constitution, 52 were Christians. So-called "multiculturism" is tearing the United States apart-as was intended by our secret government.
What was their report all about? It did not differ fundamentally from what Malthus and Von Hayek preached, namely the old question of not enough natural resources to go around. The Forrestor-Meadows Report was a complete fraud. What it did not say was that man's proven inventive genius would in all likelihood work its way around "shortages." Fusion energy, the DEADLY enemy of the Committee of 300, could be applied to CREATING natural resources. A fusion torch could produce from one square mile of ordinary rock enough aluminum, for example, to fill our needs for 4 years.
How is it that the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry could brainwash John Hinckley into shooting President Reagan? Why do we have such secret orders as the Knights of Malta and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, the Round Table, the Milner Group, the Process Church, and so on down line of layer upon layer of secret societies? They form part of world-wide chain of command and control running through the Club of Rome, NATO, the RIIA and finally right up to the Committee of 300. Men need these secret societies because their deeds are evil and must be hidden. Evil cannot stand in the light of truth.
Today, in 1993, the National Teachers Association (NTA,) has become a formidable Socialist tool, in the struggle for possession of the minds of our children. Outcome Based Education (OBE), is the method whereby the wholesale socializing of American school children is being carried out. Another aspect of OBE is its heavy attention to "sex education," and its insidious pumping of lesbianism and homosexuality into the minds of grade and secondary school children.
Following the Beatles, who incidentally were put together by the Tavistock Institute, came other "Made in England" rock groups, who, like the Beatles, had Theo Adorno write their cult lyrics and compose all their "music." I hate to use these beautiful words in the context of "Beatlemania;" it reminds me of how wrongly the word "lover" is used when referring to the filthy interaction between two homosexuals writhing in pigswill. To call "rock," music, is an insult and likewise the language used in "rock lyrics."
It is worthy of note that Tibor Rosenbaum's bank was used by the shadowy North American chief of British Intelligence. Sir William Stephenson, whose right hand man, Major Louis
Mortimer Bloomfield, a Canadian citizen, ran Division Five of the FBI throughout the Second World War. Stephenson was an early member of the 20th century Committee of 300, although Bloomfield never made it that far. As I revealed in my series of monographs on the Kennedy assassination, it was Stephenson who master-minded the operation which was run as a hands-on project by Bloomfield. ... assassination was done through another drug-related organization, Permanent Industrial Expositions (PERMINDEX), building in downtown New Orleans. created in 1957, and centered in the World Trade Mart
Bloomfield just happened to be the attorney for the Bronfman family. The World Trade Mart was created by Colonel Clay Shaw and the FBI Division Five station chief in New Orleans, Guy Bannister. Shaw and Bannister were close associates of Lee Harvey Oswald, accused of shooting Kennedy, who was murdered by CIA contract agent Jack Ruby, before he could prove that he was not the assassin who shot President Kennedy. In spite of the Warren Commission and numerous official reports, it has never been established that Oswald owned the Mannlicher rifle, said to be the murder weapon, (it was not), nor that he had ever fired it. The connection between the drug trade, Shaw, Bannister and Bloomfield has been established several times, and need not concern us here...
Pornography shall be promoted and be compulsory showing in every school classroom, theater and cinema, including homosexual and lesbian pornography. The use of "recreational" drugs shall be compulsory, with each person allotted drug quotas which can be purchased at One World Government stores throughout the world. Mind-control drugs will be expanded and usage become compulsory. Such mind control drugs shall be given in food and/or water supplies without the knowledge or consent of the people. Drug bars shall be set up, run by One World Government employees, where the slave-class shall be able to spend their free time. In this manner, the non-elite masses will be reduced to the level and behavior of controlled beasts, with no will of their own, and easily regimented and controlled.
Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs and Cheap Labor in the Black Market by Eric Schlosser
The Lost Gospel: The Book of Q and Christian Origins by Burton L. MackAs for Christian origins, it suddenly became clear that the conventional scenario was deeply indebted to the apocalyptic hypothesis. If Jesus had not been an eschatological prophet, the presence of apocalyptic language in the early traditions of the Jesus movements would have to be explained some other way. The conventional view of Christian origins assumed an apocalyptic imagination at the beginning and a gradual shift to the language of wisdom when the world did not end as expected. Now the sequence worked the other way around. The shift was not from apocalyptic announcement to instruction in wisdom, but from wisdom to apocalyptic. This switch forced a total reconsideration of Christian origins and of the way in which apocalyptic language had been understood to function. The assumption had been that preaching an apocalyptic message of judgment could attract people to a movement that promised salvation from that judgment. It now appeared that an apocalyptic imagination worked only in sup-port of social values and commitments that were generated by other attractions and persuasions already at work within the group.
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As interest grew in knowing more about the community of Q, however, studies began to appear that bumped up against features of the text that did not seem to fit the standard scenario etched in the Christian imagination. Not only was there no reference to the death and resurrection of Jesus, no mention of Jesus as the Christ, and no instruction to Peter and the other disciples about continuing Jesus' mission and baptizing converts into the church, the instructions in Q were couched in curious aphoristic discourse, addressed to individuals, and recommended strange public behavior. So the first attempts at describing the community of Q aimed at understanding how these odd features of the text could be made to fit the traditional picture of Christian origins.
Villa Incognito by Tom Robbins
Bloodlust: Conversations with Real Vampires by Carol PagePaul and Lincoln Barrett then joined me. Paul urged me to include a chapter on rock and roll and vampires in this book, and was delighted to learn I planned to do so. He told me about the song "Dinner with Drac," by John Zachalee, which was in the American Top 20 in 1958 and was then released in London, only to be banned in England by the BBC because of the lyrics, which seems ridiculous now. He sent me a tape of the song, along with some of his other favorite oldies. A passage from the song runs, "A dinner was served for three / at Dracula's house by the sea. /The hors d'oeuvres were fine, but I choked on my wine / when I learned that the main course was me."
They can be found in certain Boston clubs, such as the Rathskeller or the Channel, when certain bands are playing. The music is punk, new wave, or hard core, not heavy metal. Shannon doesn't like the devil-worship subject matter of some of the heavy metal bands. Curtain Society and Sleep Chamber are two Boston-area bands that draw the vampires out to dance. Some of their fans are rumored to practice self-mutilation. In the band Requiem in White, the lead singer dresses like Dracula. Requiem in White has as many as one hundred vampires in their crowd; other bands have perhaps forty mixed in their audiences.
These people call themselves vampires, but they are just sick puppies who think that they're going to get power. See, most people start this nonsense because they're unhappy with what they are, and they think that by getting into Satan worshipping, they're going to be enhanced some-how, that they're going to be popular, they're going to get powers. I mean, you have vampires in the movies, they always have total control over their lovers. They manage to do whatever they like with impunity it seems, until the end of the movie. That seems attractive to some people, and they want it.
Ulysses by James JoyceThe complete and unabridged text, as corrected and entirely reset in 1961.
Like the first American edition, published by Random House in 1934, this new edition contains the original foreword by the author, the historic decision by Judge John M. Woolsey whereby the Federal ban on Ulysses was finally removed, and the foreword by Morris Ernst on the importance of Judge Woolsey's decision.
Ulysses is now available for the first time in paperback
Joyce has attempted-it seems to me, with astonishing success
-to show how the screen of consciousness with its ever-shifting kaleidoscopic impressions carries, as it were on a plastic palimpsest, not only what is in the focus of each man's observation of the actual things about him, but also in a penumbral zone residua of past impressions, some recent and some drawn up by association from the domain of the subconscious. He shows how each of these impressions affects the life and behavior of the character which he is describing.
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I hold that "Ulysses" is a sincere and honest book and I think that the criticisms of it are entirely disposed of by its rationale.
V. Furthermore, "Ulysses" is an amazing tour de force when one considers the success which has been in the main achieved with such a difficult objective as Joyce set for himself. As I have stated, "Ulysses" is not an easy book to read. It is brilliant and dull, intelligible and obscure by turns. In many places it seems to me to be disgusting, but although it contains, as I have mentioned above, many words usually considered dirty, I have not found anything that I consider to be dirt for dirt's sake. Each word of the book contributes like a bit of mosaic to the detail of the picture which Joyce is seeking to construct for his readers.
If one does not wish to associate with such folk as Joyce describes, that is one's own choice. In order to avoid indirect contact with them one may not wish to read "Ulysses"; that is quite understandable. But when such a real artist in words, as Joyce undoubtedly is, seeks to draw a true picture of the lower middle class in a European city, ought it to be impossible for the American public legally to see that picture?
To answer this question it is not sufficient merely to find, as I have found above, that Joyce did not write "Ulysses" with what is commonly called pornographic intent, I must endeavor to apply a more objective standard to his book in order to determine its effect in the result, irrespective of the intent with which it was written
Judge John Woolsey of the Southern District of New York issued what would become one of the most widely published (and perhaps even read) legal decisions in US history. The case, United States v. One Book Called “Ulysses,” began in 1932 when lawyer Morris Ernst and Random House co-founder Bennett Cerf arranged to have a copy of the novel written by James Joyce imported and seized by US Customs.
Woolsey’s decision, which found Ulysses to not be obscene, was appealed to the US Circuit Court and upheld, allowing Random House to begin publishing the novel in the US. The first American edition included Woolsey’s decision and an introduction by Ernst, who went on to become a leader of the ACLU (while acting behind the scenes as advocate and information source for the FBI and J. Edgar Hoover.)
Many of the parties involved in the lengthy journey of Ulysses—into print, and to the States—went on to become major figures in modernism, publishing, jurisprudence, and/or LGBTQ+ history (with Sylvia Beach covering multiple categories.) JSTOR offers substantial research on these topics, as well as on Joyce’s works, legacy, and heirs.
James Joyce's Ulysses: a Study by Stuart Gilbert Vintage V-13 by Stuart GilbertObviously the value of such a work as this depends on its authenticity, and "authenticity" in the present case im-plies that the ideas, interpretations and explanations put forward in these pages are not capricious or speculative, but were endorsed by Joyce himself. Thus it may be of some interest if I describe briefly the circumstances leading up to the writing of this book and those under which it was writ-ten. It was when I was assisting MM. Auguste Morel and Valéry Larbaud in the translation of Ulysses into French that the project suggested itself to me. In making a translation the first essential is thoroughly to understand what one is translating; any vagueness or uncertainty in this respect must lead to failure. This applies especially when the texture of the work to be translated is intricate, or the meaning elusive. One begins with a close analysis, and only when the implications of the original are fully unravelled does one start looking for approximations in the other language. Thus I made a point of consulting Joyce on every doubtful point, of ascertaining from him the exact associations he had in mind when using proper names...
Around him Joyce was gathering a new circle. Stanislaus distrusted them as sycophants, and perhaps they were. They were also hard-working sycophants, deeply committed to helping him with the preparation and publication of his difficult new book. Chief among them were Maria Jolas and her husband Eugene, an energetic American couple who were publishing extracts from Work in Progress in their cosmopolitan literary journal, transition. Another important recruit was Stuart Gilbert. Gilbert (whose name Joyce pronounced with three syllables: Gi-la-bert) was an Oxford-trained lawyer who had served as a judge in Burma and who was devoting himself to explicating and translating Ulysses. Gilbert's French wife, Moune, a small lively woman, was active in publishing. She soon became one of Nora's best friends.
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In the afternoon Stuart Gilbert came over from his boarding house, and the two men worked on Gilbert's study of Ulysses, which was to become for many readers an indispensable, if humorless, guide to the difficult book.
In the course of his long study of Homeric origins M. Bérard demonstrates that the poet of the Odyssey must have had access to, and carefully studied, some Phoenician record of voyages in the eastern and western Mediterranean, a pre-Achaean "Mirror of the Sea". A very large number of the Odyssean place-names are of Semitic origin; these were the names under which the places came to be known to the earliest Greek navigators. The latter translated the names into their own tongue, and so each place had a pair of names-the Phoenician and the Greek. For instance (Odyssey X, 135) Circe's island is named Aiaie. The "island of Circe" is an exact translation of the Semitic compound Ai-aie...
Basic Concepts in Quantum Mechanics by A.S. Kompaneyets... that tests (educational, not physical) show that 90 percent of the difficulty in understanding the concepts of quantum mechanics arise from an insufficient grasp of elementary laws of mechanics, and only 10 percent is connected with the new ideas.
Quantum mechanics is a continuation of classical mechanics. This does not mean of course that it could be logically deduced from Newton's laws of motion. An element of conjecture must always exist in the creation of new theories. Thus, 3 years before the diffraction of electrons was demonstrated experimentally, Louis de Broglie proposed that the motion of electrons should exhibit wave properties. Developing de Broglie's idea, Schrödinger obtained an equation for the wave function and thus created the mathematical apparatus of quantum mechanics. Working completely independently, Heisenberg found another, equally valuable form of quantum mechanics. Only later was direct experimental confirmation obtained. This does not mean that de Broglie, Schrödinger and Heisenberg had no experimental basis for their work. On the contrary, an enormous quantity of experimental material had already been accumulated that could not be explained by classical theory.
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