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NY Daily News - Now - Fedora's for All
Eh, well, we won't be accused of trying to look like B. Pitt if we are wearing a full suit and (for example) spectators. -
Monocles.
I have a pince-nez. It's antique. It is not really my style. I got it on ebay for a pittance. It does not stay on my nose and ... it's a bit too non-sturdy for me. It doesn't look good on me, either. I wonder if there are more sources for pinces-nez which feature styles and prices.- Dr Doran
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- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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How not to look like Indiana Jones?
You are THE MAN.- Dr Doran
- Post #78
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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What are you wearing today??
Very nice suit, Paddy. Just a little surgery ... glad you got another SB peak lapel. I know you were specifically looking for them last November when you found that one at Sharks on Telegraph Ave in Berkeley with myself and Fedoragent (somehow talking the shop-girls down to 70 bucks! geez)...- Dr Doran
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- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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Show us your TIES
Hi Torpedo, Glad you found the explanation helpful. As for this tie: Very nice, and I also have some ties with the unraveled "fuzzy" bottom edge. Perhaps someone can comment on those kinds of unraveled bottom edges. Is this a 1930s tie? Is the edge supposed to be unraveled like that? Is...- Dr Doran
- Post #1,357
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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Opera Fans In The FL?
Amateur listener here, too. The last time I went was to see John Adams' Dr. Atomic. That was several years ago. A few notable ones I've seen before that: Alban Berg's Wozzeck (terrifying), Puccini's La Fanciula del West, and several versions of Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera. I also watch... -
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Show us your TIES
Hi Torpedo, Others know far more than I, and you may already know what I am about to say, but I find it easiest to think in terms of oppositions. These are GENERAL oppositions, and plenty of exceptions exist. I have about 30 1930s ties, about 50 1940s/early 1950s ties, and about 30 late...- Dr Doran
- Post #1,352
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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Show us your TIES
Quigley, I love the fourth in the top set. As for the third in the bottom set, that's a photo-tie, right? I have something similar. Not falling leaves, but a fall scene that I have posted here long ago. Thunder, that one that everyone is talking about is just ... amazing. Wow. I wish so...- Dr Doran
- Post #1,351
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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"What the Great Depression Did to Culture"
Academics have big egos, don't they. It's such a competitive environment. They are all being judged by their students, their colleagues, their editors, their department heads, their tenure review boards, and their spouses and children. No wonder things can get ugly! Luckily, I have the...- Dr Doran
- Post #52
- Forum: The Golden Era
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"What the Great Depression Did to Culture"
That's hilarious -- I just met Grudin a year ago. He lives near me. He retired from the University of Oregon at Eugene (great campus!). I had no idea that he wrote a book like that. I'll have to dig up his business card! It says simply "Robert Grudin. Knowledge." and then a phone number.- Dr Doran
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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"What the Great Depression Did to Culture"
Tempests in teapots.- Dr Doran
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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"What the Great Depression Did to Culture"
The Social Text Affair, also known as the Alan Sokal Hoax, is one of the most hilarious things I have ever seen. I'd love to teach a class on it. Sokal pretended to be a postmodern scientist and submitted to a postmodern journal called Social Text a barely-comprehensible article in which he...- Dr Doran
- Post #45
- Forum: The Golden Era
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"What the Great Depression Did to Culture"
A lot of this comes from a sense of urgency that these people had or have. This sense of urgency pushed them to consider the current state of affairs between the sexes, between the races, between the workers and the bosses, between the animals and the meat-eaters, between the gays and the...- Dr Doran
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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"What the Great Depression Did to Culture"
More on postmodernism Berkeley philosopher-giant John Searle performs a superb hit against postmodernism here, and on the way, explains its ... ummm ... problematic axioms: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23077- Dr Doran
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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"What the Great Depression Did to Culture"
HOWEVER -- if you publish, people will critique you but others will come to your aid. I was describing the grad seminar situation at Berkeley, and to be perfectly fair, Berkeley is an unusually orthodox environment in respect to two things: 1.) postmodernism and 2.) P.C. (the latter...- Dr Doran
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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"What the Great Depression Did to Culture"
lol :p You're murdering me. Or maybe "What Academia Did To The Great Depression"? Hee hee. I have a reputation as a fireball in the graduate seminars. Once there was an Aeschylus grad seminar, on the Oresteia. We had read a 1978 radical feminist article by Froma Zeitlin which essentially...- Dr Doran
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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"What the Great Depression Did to Culture"
:eusa_clap :p lol- Dr Doran
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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"What the Great Depression Did to Culture"
That is very funny. I do meet young kids of 20 or so who are so excited about the movies, music, cars, and radio of the 1970s. I tell them I lived through all of it (albeit as a child; but still.). They get so happy. But 1970s style gives ME the dry heaves (hence a long, cruel thread somewhere...- Dr Doran
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- Forum: The Golden Era
