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Dianne Feinstein: National Security State Diva

Dissident Voice 02 Oct 2023
The tributes for the late Democratic Senator from California, Dianne Feinstein, heaped up as word got out ... As a member of the George W ... It all made sense ... But as we are not dealing with the law here so much as vengeful politics against everything from concrete revelations to what Umberto Eco called the “empty secret,” the matter is almost academic ... .
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My generation longs for community. Would I find it in an old hotel in Italy?

The Observer 28 Sep 2023
Now “community” is something my generation, the millennials, are increasingly seeking out ... Except this was vastly more picturesque, with sweeping views towards San Leo (which Umberto Eco once called the most beautiful village in Italy), a forest large enough to feel alone in and a hillside firepit, around which we ate lunches and dinners ... .
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I Was Wrong About the Death of the Book

The Atlantic 24 Sep 2023
Umberto Eco was right when he said, “The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel ... What we call culture is in fact a lengthy process of selection and filtering,” Jean-Philippe de Tonnac said in an enchanting conversation he had with Jean-Claude Carrière and Umberto Eco in the latter pair’s book, This Is Not the End of the Book .
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Europe talks to itself in many languages. That’s why English is vital to its democracy

The Observer 20 Sep 2023
As it prepares for European elections next year, the European Union faces an even bigger challenge ... This matters ... “The language of Europe is translation,” the Italian writer Umberto Eco famously observed ... multiple individual languages (whether or not they are the official language of one or more states), Eco’s “translation” and English-language ... .
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Political symbols and language

Montana Standard 19 Sep 2023
"We are symbols and inhabit symbols." — Ralph Waldo Emerson. Politics are a symbolically charged activity. Political symbols are powerful and significant. That doesn't mean, of course, that politics are not substantial. Political decisions affect our lives, our property, our freedom and the lives of others ... — semiotician Umberto Eco ... Dr. John W ... .
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John W. Ray: Political symbols and language

Montana Standard 19 Sep 2023
“We are symbols and inhabit symbols.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson. Politics are a symbolically charged activity. Political symbols are powerful and significant ... “A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection — not an invitation for hypnosis.” ― semiotician Umberto Eco ... JOHN RAY ... .
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Troy residents recall 'Mayor of State Street' after Umberto the cat's statue stolen

Times Union 13 Sep 2023
Now the neighbors who knew Umberto the cat are wondering what happened to a statue given in honor of the late feline ... For weeks after Umberto's death this summer, a statue of a cat took his place at her side ... Ryan-Kenney, now 82, got Umberto from a pet store about 12 years ago and named him after Italian author Umberto Eco.
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The Fight for the Bouquinistes: Killing a Medieval Profession

The American Spectator 05 Sep 2023
A beggar’s book outworths a noble’s blood. —Henry VIII, Act I, Scene I. Above the piano in our living room hangs a painting by the French neo-impressionist Jan Bonal ... Great is the number of ten-sous pieces spent in the four-sous stalls!” Even today, a bouquiniste’s box remains, as Umberto Eco put it, a “place for trouvailles,” for lucky finds ... .
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Rereading: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco — one of modern literature’s greatest historical detective stories

The Times/The Sunday Times 04 Sep 2023
‘I felt like poisoning a monk,” Umberto Eco said, explaining the origins of his debut novel, The Name of the Rose, published in 1980 ... Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco — a novel perfect for our age of fake news.
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Happening — what’s coming up in Northeast Ohio starting Sept. 1

Waurika News Journal 30 Aug 2023
Here is a brief rundown of some coming entertainment options in Northeast Ohio. Make submissions for consideration via email to entertainment@morningjournal.com or entertainment@news-herald.com ... Art. Beck Center for the Arts ... Details ... 8 ... 2; “Umberto Eco. A Library of the World” (Umberto Eco — La Biblioteca del Mondo,” Italy, 2022, Davide Ferrario), 3 p.m.
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Happenings — what’s coming up in Northeast Ohio starting Aug. 25

Cascade Business News 23 Aug 2023
THere is a brief rundown of some coming entertainment options in Northeast Ohio. Make submissions for consideration via email to entertainment@morningjournal.com or entertainment@news-herald.com ... Art. Beck Center for the Arts ... 25 ... 8 ... 8 ... 7 ... 2; “Umberto Eco. A Library of the World” (Umberto Eco — La Biblioteca del Mondo,” Italy, 2022, Davide Ferrario), 3 p.m.
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Poetic Intelligence: Arts Calendar August 10-16

LA Weekly 09 Aug 2023
Umberto Eco ... Part of the Culture Vulture film series, experience a documentary immersion into all things Eco, as Davide Ferrario’s film takes us on a tour of the iconic writer’s private library, guided by the author himself. Combining new footage with material shot with Eco in 2015 ...
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Jerusalem Cinematheque celebrates the movies of Sean Connery

The Jerusalem Post 08 Aug 2023
If it hadn’t been for the roguish way he introduced himself in Dr ... Jean-Jacques Annaud directed the showy 1986 adaptation of The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco’s unlikely intellectual bestseller about a murder investigation in a medieval abbey, and Connery plays William of Baskerville, the friar leading the inquiry ... .
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Trans woman goes undercover in Spokane hate church. What she uncovered should scare all of us

The Real News Network 03 Aug 2023
So this idea of exerting might and, of course, people out there who know Umberto Eco and the tenets of fascism will recognize a lot of the stylings that they use because there is a lot of emphasis on whoever is the strongest in this church, but to speak to what would bring the ...
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5 MUST-read books by Russian writer Eugene Vodolazkin

Russia Beyond 02 Aug 2023
One of the most popular and critically acclaimed present-day Russian authors has already been translated into dozens of languages and his novels and short stories are all worth your attention! ... Solovyov & Larionov (2009) ... His book is full of Old Russian dialogue and details, for which he was dubbed the ‘Russian Umberto Eco’.3 ... .

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