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Trow Television Love No Context

November 10, 2015 by William Eaton

(1) One week this past October, The New Yorker’s television critic, Emily Nussbaum, wrote a piece which began by dissing—as making “little sense”; “élitism in the guise of hipness”—one of the great works of American cultural criticism, previous New Yorker writer George W.S. Trow’s “Within the Context of No Context.”[1] The week after Nussbaum’s piece appeared, another New Yorker writer dissed Henry David Thoreau’s writing as “Pond Scum.” Thus I might write about Americans’ struggle not to be held, or […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: advertising, cultural criticism, Edward VIII, gay lives, George W.S. Trow, love, New Yorker, postmodernism, televison

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The Meter of Contemporary Poetry

December 7, 2014 by William Eaton

“Meter,” Paul Fussell writes, “is what results when the natural rhythmical movements of colloquial speech are heightened, organized, and regulated so that pattern—which means repetition—emerges from the relative phonetic haphazard of ordinary utterance.” This from Poetic Meter & Poetic Form (first published in 1965), which tempers its fundamental conservatism with excellent pages on Whitman, which form part of an excellent chapter on “free verse.” I was reminded of this book and of these passages during an e-mail dialogue with a professor of […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: New Yorker, poetry

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Empathy

March 14, 2014 by Jennifer Dean

Today I read The New Yorker article where Peter Lanzing shares his story with journalist Andrew Solomon, The Reckoning. It reminded me of a similar piece I read years after the Columbine killings where one of the mothers of the perpetrators recounted her struggles – and I couldn’t help but think of the Lynne Ramsey movie We Need to Talk About Kevin. There is no question that the grief of the victims in mass killings is justified but the parents of those who […]

Categories: Jennifer Dean, ZiR • Tags: ethics, film, New Yorker

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Reading: 21-27 July 2013

July 24, 2013 by Jennifer Dean

Jennifer Dean, Zeteo Contributor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 23 July 2013 After reading numerous perspectives on the Florida v. George Zimmerman trial – thanks to a friend on Facebook who also happens to be an attorney – I read an article from The New Yorker which poses the question “What Should Trayvon Martin Have Done?” Of course the answer to the question reveals what side of the conflict you […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: documentaries, Florida, law, New Yorker, Supreme Court, torture

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After von Trotta’s Arendt

June 21, 2013 by William Eaton

Notes after seeing Margarethe von Trotta’s Hannah Arendt (and doing a little reading) Version 2.0: As revised 27 June 2013 Taking clues from Hannah Arendt (2013), directed by Margarethe von Trotta; screenplay by Pam Katz and von Trotta; cinematographer Caroline Champetier; Barbara Sukowa in the title role. [Click for pdf] By William Eaton   (1)   In seeing plastered across Paris posters advertising Hannah Arendt, I wondered how one could possibly make an engaging feature film about this philosopher, focused […]

Categories: Review • Tags: Eichmann, ethics, Hannah Arendt, Heidegger, Holocaust, Kant, New Yorker, philosophy, thinking

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Reading: 9-15 June 2013 (ZiR)

June 11, 2013 by Jennifer Dean

Jennifer Dean, Zeteo Contributor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 11 June 2013 Read an article on “the ultimate apartment scam” in The New Yorker (“Crowded House” by Tad Friend) – an incredible profile examining various personalities and a story that seems only possible in New York City (although that may be my bias having experienced what seemed like the craziest apartment hunt when I first arrived in this jungle of a city). My […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: cities, New York City, New Yorker

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Reading 14-20 April 2013 (ZiR)

April 15, 2013 by William Eaton

Rachael Benavidez, Zeteo Associate Editor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 14 April 2013 To blog or not to blog. The question is does it make you a better writer? Maria Konnikova, a writer and a doctoral candidate in Psychology at Columbia University, argues that it does. In her article “Why Grad Schools Should Require Students to Blog” on the Scientific American blog, she discusses her experience working on her dissertation and how it helped her to […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: blogging, Harlem, New Yorker, Shakespeare, writing

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Elizabeth Bishop and Howard Moss

April 11, 2012 by danielpage49

Elizabeth Bishop and Howard Moss: A Question of Accuracy By Daniel D’Arezzo   Among poets writing in English in the mid-twentieth century, Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) has emerged as one of the most influential—an influence not only on later generations of poets but on her contemporaries as well. Her oeuvre was not large: she published only a handful of books in her lifetime, and the poems were usually short; a longish poem like “Manuelzinho” has only 145 lines. She often wrote […]

Categories: Essay, Spring 2012 Issue • Tags: Elizabeth Bishop, Howard Moss, New Yorker, poetry

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