On this day:
70
Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem.
1967
Six-Day War begins: The Israeli air force launches simultaneous pre-emptive attacks on the air forces of Egypt and Syria.
1968
U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California, by Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy dies the next day.
1981
The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that five people in Los Angeles, California have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems, in what turns out to be the first recognized cases of AIDS.
1989
The Unknown Rebel halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
1995
The Bose-Einstein condensate is first created.
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“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most adaptable to change.”--darwin
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The Maine Democrat Senate primary continues to fascinate. Is anybody vulnerable to the accusation of fascist except those who say they are and have Nazi tattoos? Does 'waiting for more information' mean 'OK so far'?
Has politics ever been this insincere and shameless? And can democracies survive without some element of high-mindedness?
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The main economic questions preoccupying Europe: How can the Continent navigate a demographic transition that will strain its social-welfare systems to the breaking point while also meeting the defense-spending demands of a more dangerous world? Any credible solutions hinge on Europe’s ability to purchase raw materials and technology on the open global market and to borrow from abroad.
The Truth and Beauty Itch
Glamour, the word was originally a Scottish word meaning a literal magic spell. You 'cast a glamour' on someone and they saw things that were not there. Particularly, it transformed things that were bad into looking good. And so when the word came into English, first through writers like Sir Walter Scott, it was used in that way, and it gradually transformed. But it always preserved that sense of magic and illusion and fantasy, if you will. And so my analysis of glamour starts with the idea that it arouses a sense of projection and longing, which is based on your unarticulated longings, the things you don’t necessarily express to yourself, but then when you perceive a glamourous idea, it crystallizes it.
But I also analyze the elements that all these different forms of glamour have in common. One is a promise of escape and transformation. Another is an illusion. Glamour hides flaws, it hides difficulties, it hides boring things. And the third is mystery, and mystery encourages projection, and it also helps to hide flaws.
So whether you’re talking about old movie glamour or you’re talking about the glamour of aviation… aviators in the early twentieth century were described as glamour boys. That was one of the first uses of the word and the way we use it today. Glamour is not female-coded despite what people think. It is a human phenomenon whether you use the word or not.--wrenched from an interview with Virginia Postrel
There seems to be another element to glamor: ritual. Unspoken between the subject and the audience is the agreed-upon arbitrariness of it all. An assigned token of meaning, more religious embodiment than entertainment. A superficial representative of something hoped to be deeper and more permanent. Remember, the word originally meant a transformation. Kim and the girls.
A password to a spiritual testing ground.
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The Truth and Beauty Itch
Glamour, the word was originally a Scottish word meaning a literal magic spell. You 'cast a glamour' on someone and they saw things that were not there. Particularly, it transformed things that were bad into looking good. And so when the word came into English, first through writers like Sir Walter Scott, it was used in that way, and it gradually transformed. But it always preserved that sense of magic and illusion and fantasy, if you will. And so my analysis of glamour starts with the idea that it arouses a sense of projection and longing, which is based on your unarticulated longings, the things you don’t necessarily express to yourself, but then when you perceive a glamourous idea, it crystallizes it.
But I also analyze the elements that all these different forms of glamour have in common. One is a promise of escape and transformation. Another is an illusion. Glamour hides flaws, it hides difficulties, it hides boring things. And the third is mystery, and mystery encourages projection, and it also helps to hide flaws.
So whether you’re talking about old movie glamour or you’re talking about the glamour of aviation… aviators in the early twentieth century were described as glamour boys. That was one of the first uses of the word and the way we use it today. Glamour is not female-coded despite what people think. It is a human phenomenon whether you use the word or not.--wrenched from an interview with Virginia Postrel
There seems to be another element to glamor: ritual. Unspoken between the subject and the audience is the agreed-upon arbitrariness of it all. An assigned token of meaning, more religious embodiment than entertainment. A superficial representative of something hoped to be deeper and more permanent. Remember, the word originally meant a transformation. Kim and the girls.
A password to a spiritual testing ground.
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