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In 1975, America was in transition. The cultural revolution which exploded in the 1960s seemed to have calmed down, but its proponents were still working relentlessly to undermine the USA. (more…)
Kay Nielsen draft of a shipwreck, ca. 1940
Kay Nielsen draft of a shipwreck, ca. 1940
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It was a dark and soon-to-be stormy night on the Gulf Coast some years ago, when my other half and I sat on our porch chairs, gazing toward the sea. He held a cigarette — a bad (thankfully short-lived) habit he’d picked up during his year-long research sabbatical in Valladolid; paired with his fedora, I’m sure he knew that it lent him a (pretentious) air reminiscent of interwar Europe (more…)