Rahul Gandhi (1970) Indian politician
Wall Street Journal, WSJ http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2013/04/04/rahul-gandhi-speech-hits-some-dud-notes/
[Tunisia: Shudder at the Knees, TIME, Friday, Aug. 26, 1966, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,842668,00.html, September 6, 2011]
Rahul Gandhi (1970) Indian politician
Wall Street Journal, WSJ http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2013/04/04/rahul-gandhi-speech-hits-some-dud-notes/
“I danced on the Sabbath
And I cured the lame;
The holy people
Said it was a shame.”
Sydney Carter (1915–2004) British musician and poet
Lord of the Dance (1963)
Context: I danced on the Sabbath
And I cured the lame;
The holy people
Said it was a shame.
They whipped and they stripped
And they hung me on high,
And they left me there
On a Cross to die.
“I think a lot of my work is about un-shaming things or de-shaming things.”
Alethea Arnaquq-Baril (1978) director
Artist Talk with Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, Cinema Politica - 13 Jul 2016, at 3 Min 06 Sec https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8l9GI9coH4
H.P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) American author
Letter to Robert E. Howard, (October 4, 1930), https://books.google.com/books?id=rVERL_j9UfcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:0809515679&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-beOVeGqHsi_ggT1vqKgCw&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=insanity&f=true <br class="br">Non-Fiction, Letters, to Robert E. Howard <br class="br">Context: It is the night-black Massachusetts legendry which packs the really macabre 'kick', Here is the material for a really profound study in group neuroticism; for certainly, no one can deny the existence of a profoundly morbid streak in the Puritan imagination.... The very pre-ponderance of passionately pious men in the colony was virtually an assurance of unnatural crime; insomuch as psychology now proves the religious instinct to be a form of transmuted eroticism precisely parallel to the transmutations in other directions which respectively produce such things as sadism, hallucination, melancholia, and other mental morbidities. Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity. This was aggravated, of course, by the Puritan policy of rigorously suppressing all the natural outlets of excuberant feeling--music, laughter, colour, pageantry, and so on. To observe Christmas Day was once a prison offence....
John Brunner book The Jagged Orbit
Source: The Jagged Orbit (1969), Chapter 3, “Spoolpigeon” (p. 10)
“Anyone who is disturbed by the idea of newts in a nightclub is potentially dangerous.”
Frank Zappa (1940–1993) American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer
Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist
Prime Design (May 1960), later published in The Buckminster Fuller Reader (1970) edited by James Meller
1960s
“I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance.”
George Balanchine (1904–1983) Georgian choreographer, dancer and ballet master (1904-1983)
Thomas Sowell (1930) American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author
Random Thoughts http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell101705.asp, Oct. 17, 2005 <br class="br">2000s
Arnold Hauser (1892–1978) Hungarian art historian
' Chapter 1. Naturalism and Impressionism
The Social History of Art, Volume IV. Naturalism, impressionism, the film age, 1999