by Robert Desnos
To the right, the sky, to the left, the sea.
And before your eyes, the grass and its flowers.
A cloud, the road, follows its vertical way
Parallel to the plumbline of the horizon,
Parallel to the rider.
Archive for January, 2009
Lying Down
Posted By Zócalo On January 22, 2009Robin D.G. Kelley
Posted By Zócalo On January 22, 2009
Robin D.G. Kelley was born in Harlem in 1962, where he spent the first nine years of his life “in the midst of a cultural and political revolution. That’s the only way to put it.” His school had a strong Black Panther Party presence, and he witnessed at a very young age the Harlem riots and later, from New York City, the assassination of Martin Luther King, the man whose legacy he discussed at Zócalo.
Writing Like A Girl
Posted By Zócalo On January 22, 2009
Much like obscenity, you know chick lit when you see it.
“Legs and shoes,” said moderator Meghan Daum to the mostly female crowd at the Skirball Cultural Center. As she skimmed through slides of over a dozen book covers, all emblazoned with well-shod or delicately barefoot gams, the crowd groaned, along with speakers Elisabeth Robinson and Laura Zigman, both novelists.
Beyond the covers, however, chick lit is hard to define….
The Subprime Solution
Posted By Zócalo On January 21, 2009
The Subprime Solution: How Today’s Global Financial Crisis Happened, and What to Do about It
by Robert J. Shiller
Bubbles and banking crises are not new phenomena. Robert J. Shiller recalls one housing boom in California, in the 1880s, as settlers rushed westward for “the wonderful climate, beautiful scenery, and California lifestyle.”
Gerhard Peters on Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address
Posted By Zócalo On January 21, 2009
Barack Obama faced singularly high expectations for his inaugural address, after a campaign full of inspired speeches. Below, Gerhard Peters, the co-founder and co-director of the American Presidency Project, discusses what makes a good inaugural speech, how Obama fared, and whether he pulled off the sort of line — like John Kennedy, Franklin Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan before him — that will be remembered for decades to come.
What were your initial thoughts about Obama’s address? What did you find unusual or particularly memorable about it?
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