Review Of Performance, James Joyce Romance

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“Himself” refers to the protean and magical Irish giant of the past century, James Augustine Aloysius Joyce, whose birthday is celebrated annually with a full day of readings and performances at NYC’s Symphony Space even now.
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James Joyce

Nora, of course, is the fiery Muse he adored, lived with, and refused to legitimize as wife, even after 27 years and several children.
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Influenced by the Bard, Yeats, and Oscar Wilde, Joyce the writer polymath died much too soon in 1941, still a man with many works unwrit. But although he’s gone, ere we knew him, lovers of literature and romance can experience a chunk of transcendent elegance and eloquence. Quaff deeply of this linguistic and musical golden goblet.
Grievously, in a time of deracinated and prostituted cultural offerings, the literacy and quality of Himself & Nora are an emotional and singular pleasure we might not be accessible to in a few years of lowest-bar, rancid hanging fruit.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/05/himself_and_nora__a_review.html

May 30, 2016
Himself and Nora: A Review
By Marion DS Dreyfus

Illegal Aliens Protest Use of Term IIlegal Aliens By Vandalizing Newspaper

The headquarters of the Santa Barbara News-Press in California was vandalized, apparently by pro-illegal immigration activists.

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A California newspaper will continue to use the term "illegals" to describe people who enter the U.S. without permission, despite an attack on its building by vandals believed to object to the term.
The Santa Barbara News-Press's front entrance was sprayed with the message "The border is illegal, not the people who cross it" in red paint, sometime either Wednesday night or early Thursday, according to the newspaper's director of operations, Donald Katich. The attack came amid wider objections to a News-Press headline that used the word "illegals" alongside a story on California granting driver's licenses to people in the country illegally.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/01/09/california-newspaper-office-vandalized-over-use-illegal-immigrant-label/

California newspaper office vandalized over use of 'illegal' immigrant label
Published January 09, 2015
FoxNews.com

Celebrating Anti Semitism

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The hip poet Amiri Baraka (aka Everett LeRoi Jones) recently died. He was once poet laureate of New Jersey, held prestigious university posts and was canonized with awards -- despite being a hateful anti-Semite.
After 9/11, Baraka wrote a poem that suggested Israel knew about the plan to attack the World Trade Center. One of his poems from the '60s included this unabashedly anti-Semitic passage: "Smile, jew. Dance, jew. Tell me you love me, jew ... I got the extermination blues, jewboys. I got the hitler syndrome figured." Yet that did not preclude the New York Times and NPR from praising him after his death.
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In politics, Israel often finds itself at the wrong end of a troubling double standard.
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Nazis and racists used to spearhead Jewish hatred, based on ancient crackpot defamations that date back to the Jewish diaspora into Europe after the Roman destruction of Judaea.
But lately, anti-Semitism has become more a left-wing pathology. It is driven by the cheap multicultural trashing of the West. Jewish people here and abroad have become convenient targets for those angry with supposedly undeserved Western success and privilege.
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Kerry is not rushing into Damascus to stop the bloodletting that has claimed far more lives than all the Palestinians lost in 70 years of conflict with Israel. Syrian President Bashar Assad, Shiite terrorists and al-Qaeda would not listen politely to Kerry's pontificating sermons.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0114/hanson011614.php3#.UuTG2930Czs

Jewish World Review 

Jan. 16, 2014/ 15 Shevat, 5774
The cowardice of the new anti-Semitism
By Victor Davis Hanson

Poet Seamus Heaney Dies at 74

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2406672/Seamus-Heaney-humble-heart-throb-poetry-Nobel-Prize-winner-dies-74.html

Seamus Heaney, the humble heart-throb of poetry: Nobel Prize winner dies at 74
Irish writer had suffered ill health for some time and has died in Dublin
Won Nobel prize in 1995 'for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth'
Bill Clinton describes the late poet as 'a powerful voice for peace'
By CHRISTOPHER STEVENS
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 05:35 EST, 30 August 2013 | UPDATED: 17:59 EST, 30 August 2013