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Tag Archives: 1950’s
1959: Capital and Labor
Sister Concilla sets the record straight on labor unions. Note the union bug indicating the comic was printed in a union shop.
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1954: Zombies, Unite!
For Labor Day: a grave-digger’s strike leads to disasterous consequences in this 1954 story from Voodoo comics:
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Tagged 1950's, 20th Century, Art, Comics, Death, Strikes, Unions, Zombies
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1956: The Hound of Heaven
In 1893, English poet Francis Thompson published a poem called “The Hound of Heaven.” The work is an extended metaphor: as a hound pursues a hare in a hunt, so does God pursue the human soul to restore it to … Continue reading
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Tagged 1890's, 1930's, 1950's, 19th Century, 20th Century, Art, Christianity, Francis Thompson, Great Britain, Painting, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, Robert Hale Ives Gammell, USA
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1955: 憶西環
Fan Ho: Surreal Sai Wan (c 1950-1960)
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1952: The Grim Thoughts which Harass Me
Baffling Mysteries No. 7 (March 1952); art by Lou Cameron, found here.
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1950: Seascape
A seascape by mid-20th-century French artist Edouard Mandon; title and date unknown. I haven’t been able to find out much about him.
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1953: Description
As for his feet, sometimes he wore on each a sock, or on the one a sock and on the other a stocking, or a boot, or a shoe, or a slipper, or a sock and a boot, or a … Continue reading
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Tagged 1950's, 20th Century, France, Ireland, Novels, Samuel Beckett, Shoes, Writing
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