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Saturday’s News, June 30, 2012

30 Saturday Jun 2012

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Gazette, Globe & Mail, La Presse (Canadian newspaper), Mitt Romney, National Post, New York Times, United States, WordPress

 Dufferin Terrace Quebec by Jean Paul Lemieux, 1967

Breakfast by Jean Paul Lemieux, 1965

I put together my blogs on the United States and posted them.  But I am afraid.  What if Mitt Romney has not lied?  What if he has changed his mind and, if elected, will do away with Health-Care Reforms he  previously endorsed and which have been deemed “constitutional” by the Supreme Court.  In the past, insurance companies have considered a disease such as cancer a pre-existing condition and denied people who had paid their premiums the financial help they

desperately needed.

President Obama needs money to run his campaign.  He needs donations.  But he has the better credentials and an impressive record, particularly in view of sabotage attempts on the part of hardline Republicans: the Tea Party.

 
 
Artwork: courtesy La Galerie Walter Klinkhoff, Montreal
Music by Antonio Vivaldi: Follia
 
English
The Montreal Gazette: http://www.montrealgazette.com/index.html
The National Post: http://www.nationalpost.com/index.html
The Globe and Mail: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/
The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/
Le Monde diplomatique: http://mondediplo.com/
 
CBC News: http://www.cbc.ca/news/
CTV News: http://montreal.ctv.ca/
 
French 
Le Devoir: http://www.ledevoir.com/
La Presse: http://www.lapresse.ca/
 
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A Glimpse at the Obama Years: Statesmanship

30 Saturday Jun 2012

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Barack Obama, Democrat, Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, George W Bush, Henry Paulson, Republicans, United States, United States Secretary of the Treasury

The School of Athens, by Raphael

“Sprezzatura,” I can’t believe it!   This is Wikipedia on Raphael’s paintings:

“They give a highly idealised depiction of the forms represented, and the compositions, though very carefully conceived in drawings, achieve “sprezzatura”, a term invented by his friend Castiglione, who defined it as “a certain nonchalance which conceals all artistry and makes whatever one says or does seem uncontrived and effortless …”  (Wikipedia)

“The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”  Plato

A few weeks before the 2008 Presidential election, President George W Bush was told that the economy was about to collapse and that Americans and their financial partners in what has become a global economy were sinking faster and deeper than the Titanic.

Much to his credit, Henry Paulson (R), the 74th United States Secretary of the Treasury, went to President Bush and explained that a crisis was imminent and that unless something were done immediately, we would be entering a recession that might well dwarf the Great Depression (1929-1939).  At this point, Henry Paulson (R) talked to Senator Christopher “Chris” Dobb (D) who drafted the necessary legislation.

The Democrats listened and unlike Herbert Hoover (R), who did not veto the proposed Smooth-Hawley Tariff Act, but signed it into law on June 17, 1930; in the fall of 2008, both Republicans and Democrats decided to act immediately and in the interest of the people.  On October 3, 2008, TARP (the Troubled Asset Relief Program) was signed into law by President Bush, bless him, as the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008.

It was a huge expense: “The TARP program originally authorized expenditures of $700 billion. The Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act reduced the amount authorized to $475 billion.” (Wikipedia)  But had it not been for TARP, Americans and yours truly here in Canada would be going to soup kitchens and the family pooch would suffer.

I would suppose that approving TARP did not help Mr Paulson’s career.  But had Democrats and Republicans not acted jointly and responsibly, people like you and me would have suffered and it may have been for a very long time

In short, TARP saved the United States and its trading partners.  Yet when President Obama was elected into office, he did not say a word against his predecessor.  The previous administration’s wars had nearly ruined the US economy and, by extension, our global economy.

And now, thanks to the Supreme Court, the Health-Care reform program Mitt Romney brought to Massachusetts and which President Obama more or less adopted has been deemed “constitutional.”  Mr Romney, please tell the truth.  If you say you will do away with health-care reforms, it will seriously endanger your credibility.  As a matter of fact, it has already.  In today’s Beast (June 29-2012), I read that Mitt Romney, “[t]he presumptive Republican nominee was quick to promise a repeal of the health-care act if elected president, but he proposed no alternative—throwing out only the usual Medi-scare, deficit-bomb, and ‘government takeover’ bromides.” (John Avlon)

At this stage in life, I know that, in the pursuit of power, candidates will attack one another.  But, I have heard Mr Romney discredit President Obama’s health-care reforms when these are the reforms he brought to the people of Massachusetts.

—ooo—

The US made a very smart decision on November 4, 2008, when it elected into office a man of integrity, a superior mind, an educated intellect, a person eminently qualified for the position, a Nobel-prize laureate and the President-elect who asked Senator Hillary Clinton to be his Secretary of State.  He trusts her and she has been magnificent.    

So back to the economy and other matters of state, allow me to say that given the obstructionism and scapegoating he has had to face for the last three years, Barack Obama’s record as the duly-elected President of the United States of America is very impressive.

The music is by Vangelis (film: 1492 Conquest of Paradise).

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President George W. Bush and President-elect Barack Obama meet in the Oval Office of the White House Monday, November 10, 2008. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Watching the US: the Collection, so far

29 Friday Jun 2012

Posted by michelinewalker in Art, United States

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Andrew Wyeth, First Snow, Spring Fed, The Master Bedroom, United States

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 The Master Bedroom, by Andrew Wyeth
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First Snow, Andrew Wyeth
(12 July 1917 –  16 January 2009)
(Photo credit:  Wikipaintings)
 
The US Economy (July 19, 2011) 
On Raising the Debt Limit (July 26, 2011)
First things first: President Obama’s address (July 26, 2011)
A Great Favor (July 28, 2011)
The Damage so Far (July 29, 2011)
The Compromise (August 5, 2011)
Leaders and Education (August 8, 2011)
More on Education (August 9, 2011)
President Obama as Scapegoat (August 10, 2011)
“It is the fate of princes to be ill-spoken of for well-doing” (Sept. 15, 2011) 
Fraternité: Individual Needs and Collective Needs (Sept. 17. 2011)
A Sense of Urgency (September 19, 2011) 
The Short Term and the Long Term (September 19, 2011)
Obstructionism: the Consequences (October 26, 2011)
Respect for life: on Anti-Abortion Extremism (October 28, 2011)
Austerity the Republican Way (Dec. 10, 2011) 
An Obama-Clinton Ticket (Dec. 13, 2011)
Mutiny in Congress: Ship them to Guantanamo (Dec. 21, 2011)
 
 
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A Glimpse at the Obama Years: Statesmanship

29 Friday Jun 2012

Posted by michelinewalker in Uncategorized

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Barack Obama, George W Bush, Henry Paulson, Mitt Romney, Obama, Troubled Asset Relief Program, United States, United States Secretary of the Treasury

The School of Athens, by Raphael

“Sprezzatura,” I can’t believe it!   This is Wikipedia on Raphael’s paintings:

“They give a highly idealised depiction of the forms represented, and the compositions, though very carefully conceived in drawings, achieve “sprezzatura”, a term invented by his friend Castiglione, who defined it as “a certain nonchalance which conceals all artistry and makes whatever one says or does seem uncontrived and effortless …”  (Wikipedia)

“The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”  Plato

A few weeks before the 2008 Presidential election, President George W Bush was told that the economy was about to collapse and that Americans and their financial partners in what has become a global economy were sinking faster and deeper than the Titanic.

Much to his credit, Henry Paulson (R), the 74th United States Secretary of the Treasury, went to President Bush and explained that a crisis was imminent and that unless something were done immediately, we would be entering a recession that might well dwarf the Great Depression (1929-1939).  At this point, Henry Paulson (R) talked to Senator Christopher “Chris” Dobb (D) who drafted the necessary legislation.

The Democrats listened and unlike Herbert Hoover (R), who did not veto the proposed Smooth-Hawley Tariff Act, but signed it into law on June 17, 1930; in the fall of 2008, both Republicans and Democrats decided to act immediately and in the interest of the people.  On October 3, 2008, TARP (the Troubled Asset Relief Program) was signed into law by President Bush, bless him, as the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008.

It was a huge expense: “The TARP program originally authorized expenditures of $700 billion. The Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act reduced the amount authorized to $475 billion.” (Wikipedia)  But had it not been for TARP, Americans and yours truly here in Canada would be going to soup kitchens and the family pooch would suffer.

I would suppose that approving TARP did not help Mr Paulson’s career.  But had Democrats and Republicans not acted jointly and responsibly, people like you and me would have suffered and it may have been for a very long time

In short, TARP saved the United States and its trading partners.  Yet when President Obama was elected into office, he did not say a word against his predecessor.  The previous administration’s wars had nearly ruined the US economy and, by extension, our global economy.

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President George W. Bush and President-elect Barack Obama meet in the Oval Office of the White House Monday, November 10, 2008. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

And now, thanks to the Supreme Court, the Health-Care reform program Mitt Romney brought to Massachusetts and which President Obama more or less adopted has been deemed “constitutional.”  Mr Romney, please tell the truth.  If you say you will do away with health-care reforms, it will seriously endanger your credibility.  As a matter of fact, it has already.  In today’s Beast (June 29-2012), I read that Mitt Romney, “[t]he presumptive Republican nominee was quick to promise a repeal of the health-care act if elected president, but he proposed no alternative—throwing out only the usual Medi-scare, deficit-bomb, and ‘government takeover’ bromides.” (John Avlon)

At this stage in life, I know that, in the pursuit of power, candidates will attack one another.  But, I have heard Mr Romney discredit President Obama’s health-care reforms when these are the reforms he brought to the people of Massachusetts.

* * *

The US made a very smart decision on November 4, 2008, when it elected into office a man of integrity, a superior mind, an educated intellect, a person eminently qualified for the position, a Nobel-prize laureate and the President-elect who asked Senator Hillary Clinton to be his Secretary of State.  He trusts her and she has been magnificent.     

So back to the economy and other matters of state, allow me to say that given the obstructionism and scapegoating he has had to face for the last three years, Barack Obama’s record as the duly-elected President of the United States of America is very impressive.

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29 June 2012
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Lieder & the News: June 28, 2012

28 Thursday Jun 2012

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CBC News, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Franz Schubert, Gazette, Globe & Mail, Le Devoir, National Post, New York Times, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Sviatoslav Richter

Portrait of a Young Girl, by Jacques-André Portail

Portrait of a Young Girl by Jacques-André Portail

Today, I am sending not only the news and art, but music: more Schubert Lieder interpreted by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, with Sviatoslav Richter at the piano.
 
English
The Montreal Gazette: http://www.montrealgazette.com/index.html
The National Post: http://www.nationalpost.com/index.html
The Globe and Mail: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/
The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/
Le Monde diplomatique: http://mondediplo.com/ 
CBC News: http://www.cbc.ca/news/(national)
CTV News: http://www.ctvnews.ca/ 
 
French
Le Monde: http://www.lemonde.fr/ 
Le Devoir: http://www.ledevoir.com/
La Presse: http://www.lapresse.ca/
 
German
Die Welt: http://www.welt.de/
 
 
 

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau sings Im Fruhling
  

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Franz Schubert: Die Forelle & Ständchen, “Serenade”

28 Thursday Jun 2012

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An die ferne Geliebte, Die Forelle, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Franz Schubert, Ludwig van Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Song cycles

—View near Camonteign, Devon (detail), by John White Abbott (1764-1851), 1803

View near Camonteign, Devon (detail), by John White Abbott (1764 – 1851), 1803 (Photo credit: Google images)

 
 
 

Die Lieder

In the nineteenth century, instrumental music came of age.  It was, at long last, morally acceptable.  Yet, in nineteenth-century Europe, the humble song reached its apex.  In music, the song is the only permanent genre.  It found its finest composers in Beethoven’s (An Die Ferne Geliebte, To the distant beloved), but, to a greater extent, in Schubert, the Master: Die Forelle (The Trout) and Ständchen, a “Serenade,” and in Schumann: “Die wunderschönen Monat Mai” (“The Wonderful Month of May”) and “Hör’ ich das liedchen klingen”  (“I hear a little sound sounding,” in Dichterliebe).

Song Cycles

Composers wrote song cycles, such as Schubert’s Winterreise and Die schöne Müllerin, and Schumann’s Dichterliebe.

Let’s listen to Die Forelle (The Trout) and Ständchen, interpreted by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, in 1951, as well as an instrumental version of the “Serenade.”

Die Forelle

Ständchen “Serenade” (from: Schwanengesang)

Franz Schubert (1797 – 1828)

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The Regionalist Novel in Quebec: Survival

27 Wednesday Jun 2012

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Claude-Henri Grignon, Félix-Antoine Savard, French-Canadian literature, Germaine Guèvremont, Louis Hémon, Maria Chapdelaine, Philippe Panneton, Regionalism

Mild Spring by Claude A. Simard, R.C.A. (2010)

(Claude A. Simard is featured with permission from La Galerie Walter Klinkhoff, Montreal)

Today, I will start and perhaps finish writing about our last Regionalist Novel in Quebec: Ringuet‘s Trente Arpents. If you are interested in French-Canadian literature and use my posts as further information on both Canadian literature and history, you may wish to keep the list below. There are other romans de la terre or romans du terroir, or novels of the land (regionalism), but the works listed below are fine representatives of this school, and some are classics. The theme underlying these novels is survival, as in Margaret Atwood‘s Survival.

Classification: The Canadien runs out of Land

I do not want to put these novels into little boxes, but a moderate degree of classification is necessary. Maria Chapdelaine, by Louis-Hémon, a Frenchman, tells the entire story. However, it does not convey the despair of those French-Canadians who had to leave Canada because they the thirty acres allotted their ancestors in the seventeenth century had shrunk. The exodus was a tragic and quasi-genocidal episode. Quebec could not afford to lose close to a million inhabitants.

The finest depiction of the Exodus is Ringuet’s (Dr Philippe Panneton)  Trente Arpents or Thirty Acres.

Ideological Texts

1. In La Terre paternelle, French-Canadians are told that it is better to stay on the land. The same advice is given in Charles Guérin, were it not that Charles Guérin, Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau‘s novel, also brings up the thorny matter of the lack of professions available to French-Canadians living in Quebec.

2. Un Homme et son péché (Les Belles histoires des pays d’en haut), by Claude-Henri Grignon, is about a séraphin, a miser. But it features real-life who advocate colonisation: faire de la terre (making land). “Notre culture sera paysanne… ” supports that ideology.

Poetical

1.  In Menaud, maître-draveur, Félix-Antoine Savard‘s novel, no explicit ideology is expressed, but Englishmen will be renting the mountain so they can harvest its riches. Menaud feels dépossédé (disowned). A French-Canadian no longer “tied” (lié) to the land, le Délié, will be pocketing the rental money. Savard’s novel is a masterpiece. It is a poetical, evocative, and “green” novel. Do not abuse nature.

2.  Le Survenant (and its sequel: Marie-Didace), Germaine Guèvremont‘s novel is also very poetical. It has a bucolic and, at times, spell-binding quality. The land is rich and it still feeds French-Canadians. In The Outlander (Le Survenant), the central character, is both liked and feared.

Patrie Littéraire (after Lord Durham’s Report)

La Terre paternelle and Charles Guérin are Patrie littéraire novels. They were written in the wake of Lord Durham’s report, who described French-Canadians as having no history or literature.

Radio and Television serials

Un Homme et son péché* (Radio and TV) and Le Survenant* (TV) were serialized and extremely popular.

The “Bad” Englishman and the “Vendu” (sold)

The “bad” Englishman is Wagnaër in Charles Guérin and the “vendu,” le Délié in Menaud, maître-draveur.    

  • La Terre paternelle, Patrice Lacombe (1846) ←
  • Charles Guérin, Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau (1846)
  • Maria Chapdelaine, Louis-Hémon (1914)
  • Un Homme et son péché, Claude Henri Grignon (1933)*
  • Notre culture sera paysanne ou elle ne sera pas (We will be peasants or we will not be), Public letter to André Laurendeau, an article published in L’Action nationale, n° 6, juin 1941, pp. 538-543. 
  • Menaud, maître-draveur, Félix Antoine Savard (1937)
  • Trente Arpents, Ringuet (Dr Philippe Panneton) (1938)
  • Le Survenant, Germaine Guèvremont (1945)*
  • The Canadian & his “Terroir”

I will be writing about Laurendeau, l’Action nationale, Refus global, etc.

 —ooo—

Gilles Vigneault sings Gilles Vigneault: Mon Pays

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A. J. Casson & Timeless Memories

26 Tuesday Jun 2012

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A.J. Casson, LL.D, R.C.A. (1898-1992)
Still Life, 1937
 
I had never seen this particular Casson: an indoors Casson resembling an indoors Micheline.  I enjoy life indoors, but would love to have conservatory: a green house.
 
Occasionally, I do go out carrying my camera in the hope of finding beautiful landscapes.  I then return home and paint.  There is a degree of resemblance between what I am painting and what is on the photograph, but my eyes seem to process and recreate what I am seeing.   
 
When I lived in Nova Scotia, once a week, I would join a group of artists, my friends.  First, we shared a glass of wine and then we started to draw the model we had hired for the evening.  To begin with, we drew very quickly: no more than a few minutes, but we graduated to longer sessions.  We were of course drawing the model from different angles, but we would compare our drawings and each artist had his or her style, whatever the angle.   
 
These artists were kind to me.  I was a self-taught artist except for a few lessons on how to do watercolours and etchings.  My preparation was otherwise academic.  What I knew was the history of art.  However, my artist friends, some of whom were professional artists, provided little suggestions that went a long way.  It was a form of apprenticeship.
 
The little tips helped, but in the end artists show their vision of the world and of the multitude of little objects that surround them and may have surrounded them a life time.
 
By the way, have you read Colltales on Elvis Presley:  http://colltales.com/?  What an article.
 
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Tuesday’s News: June 26, 2012

26 Tuesday Jun 2012

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Summer Bouquet,  Molly Lamb Bobak, OC R.C.A., 1997

Molly Lamb Bobak‘s painting is featured with permission from La Galerie Walter Klinkhoff, Montreal

Sorry, I did not deliver yesterday’s paper.

I was busy writing on Germaine Guèvremont.  I liked Guèvremont’s Survenant more reading it this time than I did when I taught it.  I now see new dimensions: bucolic.  No telephone posts.  No wires.  It was another world.

After the great ice storm, the 1990s, the worst in recorded history, Hydro-Québec chose the expensive option.  Given climatic changes, they prepared for the worst.  However, we now have a lot of very thick wires.

The News

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The Montreal Gazette: http://www.montrealgazette.com/index.html
The National Post: http://www.nationalpost.com/index.html
The Globe and Mail: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/
The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/
 
CBC News: http://www.cbc.ca/tvnewsmontreal/ QC
CBC News: http://www.cbc.ca/news/ (national)
CTV News: http://www.ctvnews.ca/
 
French
Le Monde: http://www.lemonde.fr/
Le Devoir: http://www.ledevoir.com/
La Presse: http://www.lapresse.ca/(national)
La Presse: http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/regional/montreal/
 
German
Die Welt: http://www.welt.de/
 
 
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Peter Paul Rubens (28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640)

26 Tuesday Jun 2012

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Flemish Baroque painting, Peter Paul Rubens, Publishers, Rembrandt, Templates, Tools, WordPress, YouTube

Peter Paul Rubens, Portrait of a Young Girl, 1615-16
 

One can no longer embed the video featuring Rubens pictures.  However, one can click on the link I have put at the bottom of this page.  Just click on Peter Paul Rubens.

It is such a beautiful presentation.  A gift from God to us mortals.

The music is Vivaldi’s music, his Concerto for Two Flutes, Op. 47, No. 2, Largo.  Vivaldi was a priest who had red hair: he was the Red Priest.  The largo.  Usually the second movement of a concerto is a slow tempo.  Here we have a largo, which is a slow tempo.  The third or last movement has a faster tempo.  The musicians who are performing Vivaldi’s music are the Arcangelos Chamber Ensemble and the video was assembled to help people concentrate.

Concentrate.  For some, maybe.  But not quite if you go into a spell of ecstasy because the music is heavenly.  Music is very powerful and can therefore be therapeutic, etc.  I concentrate, but on the music and the pictures.

The fusion of art and music in the privacy of one’s home is one of the internet’s finest features.

As a former university teacher, I enjoy preparing informative blogs.  It takes time and effort, especially when you have problems operating machines.  I used to leave the doors to my house unlocked for fear I would not be able to get back in.  Keys do not always work very well.  So think of me using a computer.

The effort.  Do not worry.  What about those persons who cannot afford to attend a university or those persons, sometimes older persons, who want to remember.

Enjoy.


The Straw Hat, 1625

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