![]() ![]() More often than not he sounds like a slurring wise guy from The Bronx rather than an ivy league Midwest person. The male narrator for some reason has 0 continuity with male voices and 0 female range. The female narrator in this series does a great job distinguishing between voices and personalities. ![]() Evidently the author struggles with finding unique story lines and likes making political jabs. Paris's story is a play on missy's story from an insecure male. Coneys story is different but so predictable and poorly narrorated. Dakotas story #2, is a retelling of this one from a narcissistic male point of view with a slight twist. This book and the 3rd book which is missy's story are the best in the series. ![]()
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![]() ![]() That same year Fénéon would coin the term Neo-Impressionism to identify the revolutionary innovations that Seurat and Paul Signac were pioneering – which included the pointillist technique that Fénéon would contrast with the ‘blink-of-an-eye’ effects of the Impressionists. The exhibition includes several of Georges Seurat’s paintings, and begins with a study for “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte” (1884), his famed masterpiece, which was featured in its ultimate, monumental (10-foot wide) iteration at the 1886 exhibition of the Impressionists. As Paul Signac would proclaim: “Justice in sociology, harmony in art: same thing.” Georges Seurat: “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte” (1884) Fénéon (1861-1944) saw the critic as a channel between the artist and the public – a role which had particular significance because art could further the cause of social justice and harmony. The Museum of Modern Art is currently presenting Félix Fénéon: The Anarchist and the Avant-Garde – From Signac to Matisse and Beyond, examining the immense influence of this art critic, editor, publisher, collector and anarchist. ![]() ![]() ![]() The common thread is the professional and social networks surrounding the London based Royal Society, a group of well-connected intellectuals who, sometimes for entertainment purposes, staged public displays of new and untried experiments. ![]() ![]() Interspersed are fascinating details of how secrecy, professional jealousy, international politics, natural disasters, personality, financial competition, and international trade impacted the advance of science and technology. Anyone who just knows high level details of the accomplishments of famous names like Huygens, van Leeuwenhoek, Newton, and Wren will come away from this book with an improved understanding of the times in which “natural philosophy,” engineering, mathematics, biology, and physiology began to emerge in the West. What is most fascinating about this book is how the author intertwines the social, political, and personal details of the age. Towards the end of the book the author does uncover some details of women who were involved in scientific advances but who did notreceive the credit they deserved. It is mostly the “great men” we learn about. It concentrates on the “great men” who created modern Western science. Late 17th Century London and the Royal Society provide the setting for this book. ![]() ![]() James's lectures became by far the most popular in the series. The lectures were sponsored by Adam Gifford, who was interested in promoting a series of studies of what he referred to as a natural theology. The Varieties of Religious Experience is actually a collection of lectures James delivered in Edinburgh, Scotland. His sentiments were somewhat aligned with the beliefs of the transcendentalists, with his work honoring the individual rather than the institutions of religion. However, his theories about religious experience were also heavily influenced by his philosophical interests, which drew him to conclude that an unseen reality does exist and is available to everyone for exploration. Trained in chemistry and medicine, James looked at religious experience as a scientist might, by researching many case studies. The result is what he refers to as the religious experience. With an understanding of physiology, psychology, and philosophy, James studied cases of religious inspiration and concluded there were specific aspects of human consciousness that contained energies that could come to a person's assistance in time of great need. ![]() ![]() In The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (1902), William James offers a sense of validity to the formerly abstract idea of spiritual experience. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sarah’s abhorrence of her gift fueled her abolitionist sentiments and inspired her mission in life. The Invention of Wings is a fictionalized account by Sue Monk Kidd of the lives of Sarah Grimké, her sister and godchild Angelina Grimké Weld, and the slave Sarah received as a gift for her 11th birthday, Hetty known affectionately as Handful. The Trump era has been brutal for people of color and women. Now, sirs, kindly take your feet off our necks. Do what you have to do, censure us, withdraw your support, we’ll press on anyway. ![]() ![]() How can you ask us to go back to our parlors? To turn our backs on ourselves and on our own sex? We don’t wish the movement to split, of course we don’t ~ it saddens me to think of it ~ but we can do little for the slave as long as we’re under the feet of men. Weld’s and John Whittier’s attempt to silence her feminist ideals has been infamously quoted by the Notorious RBG, the future Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Gisburg: Sarah Grimké had endured the muzzle her entire life, and she was done. ![]() |