“The notion of devoting a 13-hour TV series to the glories of Western art would now be thought comical–or contemptible–by those well-placed eggheads who regard the West as the source of all evil in the postmodern world. Among such enlightened folk, Civilisation is regarded as an embarrassing relic, painfully slow-moving and politically retrogressive…”
Archives for November 1, 2009
SATCHMO AND THE JEWS
“To visit the Armstrong house, which is now a museum, is to see how its proud owner achieved ‘everything he has struggled for in life.’ It was the outward symbol of the lessons in life that he learned from Mayann, his devoted mother–and from the Jews of New Orleans, who helped teach him to return love for hatred and seek salvation in work…”