Masuline ism sparks debate over gifts and chivalry
In a lively column, Mike Irvin founder of Masculinism Inc promotes equal gifts and a parody of chivalry. He recalls past Christmas gifts and a plan to balance giving with women paying half, while society and readers react with humor and skepticism.
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Fanny Mendelssohn and the Mendelssohn Family Legacy
A portrait of Fanny Mendelssohn Bartholdy and her gifted family. The article traces Moses Mendelssohn Bartholdy as the grandfather and notes Fanny and Felix as the brightest children. It describes Goethes esteem, Hensels rise, and Fanny’s celebrated musical matinees shaping Berlin’s early musical life.
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Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel and Her Musical Legacy
Notes recount Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's early published songs misattributed to kin, Felix Mendelssohn's London visit with Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, the Queen singing, and her later solo-volume success. Beethoven-like sentiment links to Wilhelm Hensel's last portrait of his wife, and Felix's survival a year after her death. The piece ends with Yeats lines on time and artistry.
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England
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New Year as a Terrible Stranger in a Dark Destiny
Tagore’s lines cast the year as a fearsome figure marching through a stormy, wind blasted season. The poem depicts deathly turbulence and an ominous banner signaling an undeciphered fate as days press toward a perilous, pathless dark.
Mendelssohn Family Home and Creative Circle
The Mendelssohn home at Leipziger Strasse No. 3 was a spacious hub of music and art where Wilhelm and Fanny Mendelssohn lived with four children. Friends Klingemann Reitz and others visited as Felix composed the overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the Faust Waldnoturns. The circle known as The Wheel fostered music readings, drawings, and celebrations in a house filled with songs and tableaux.
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Boy’s Trek to Save Father in Snowbound House
Eight year old William Robinson Jr braved waist deep drifts for three quarters of a mile to seek help after his father, 47, suffered a heart attack. The Kirbys alerted police and Dr Max Fershtman credited the boy’s courage and rapid action with saving the man. A police bulldozer then cleared a path from the highway to the home for an ambulance.
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Bridges Blasts Pauley Over Trading Allegations
Senator Bridges of New Hampshire criticized Edwin Pauley, special assistant to the War Secretary Royall, in a Manchester Evening Leader article. He called the alleged extensive commodities trading disillusioning and shackling to see a government administrator profiting from misery and high prices.
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