Posted on 09/05/2017 12:42:04 PM PDT by detective
OTOH, my grandparents and parents switched papers too, as each changed policies. And so did we! LOL
Loved the JOURNAL AMERICAN; they had THE best Sunday funnies section, bar none, when I was little!
Yes, the Voice was VERY good for finding plays to see and what museum was doing what "special" exhibit. It was much better, than the N.Y. Times Sunday section for such things. But I'm talking about the mid '60s through the early '70s.
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I always think of Andrew Sarris, Molly Haskell, James Wolcott, Stanley Crouch at the VV. What writers!
I loved the JA funny papers. Remember when the funnies were always wrapped around the outside on the Sunday papers? What happened to that?!
Harriet Van Horne was a very liberal columnist who went back and forth depending on whether the News/Post was lib.
Good. NEXT!
On All in the Family Archie was shown reading it.”New York’s Picture Paper”
Thanks so much for the reply! Interesting.
That's .....”New York’s Picture NEWSPaper” And it was to the upper class liberals, considered a joke. Paul Simon lyric "though it never made the New York Times....in the 'Daily News' the caption read' meaning they use photos rather than eloquent text.
The Village Voice was a left wing rag.
It was left-wing but not a rag. It’s art section was brilliant from the 60s through the early 90s. Nat Hentoff, not exactly a left wing freak, wrote for it. Great American!
It was a well known left wing rag.
What can I say? You’re either interested in what a Nat Hentoff or a Stanley Crouch has to say or you’re not. Me? I was interested. Sad to see it go.
Stanley Crouch?
Crouch is left winger Ken Burns’ laughable “expert” on jazz AND boxing.
SEE
Ken Burns: Student of History—or Left-Wing Gasbag?
http://www.aim.org/special-report/ken-burns-student-of-history-or-left-wing-gasbag/
In “How Ken Burns Murdered Jazz,” critic Jeffrey St. Clair writes, “Burns doesn’t really like music. In the 19 hours of film, he never lets one song play to completion, anywhere near completion. Yet there is a constant chatter riding on top of the music…In a film supposedly about music, the music itself has been relegated to the background.”
Burns’ “Jazz,” contains a host of shortcomings, including further demonstration of Burns’ apparent lack of affinity for Hispanics with his complete omission of Latin Jazz from the 19-hour film, over-reliance on Louis Armstrong, dismissal of jazz after 1960 and the slighting of Bill Evans, Miles Davis’ influential pianist, possibly due to Burns’ narrator Stanley Crouch’s long history of animosity toward Davis. Alex W. Rodriguez writes, “Ken Burns’ Jazz ultimately does a disservice to the jazz community because it presents such an inaccurate, flawed, rigid, politically biased framework.”
AND
Other Burns “experts” are the clownish Bert Sugar, making grotesque faces and stabbing at the camera with his cigar, and actor James Earl Jones, whose qualifications were that he played Johnson in a stage play. Stanley Crouch, Burns’ heavily criticized expert from his Jazz documentary, appears here as a boxing expert and sums up, explaining that the way Johnson wore his hat “was perfect” and that “Johnson is there with people like Lincoln, Thomas Edison, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong. These whole main guys. These guys whom you couldn’t figure out.”
One down.
Yes, Crouch is a jazz expert. His column in the VV was on jazz. He is the author of the brilliant “Notes from a Hanging Judge” which are a series of brilliant essays on American culture. He’s hardly a left-winger on the black underclass. He also serves on the board of the Met - or did for many years.
Crouch is a biased, phony “expert,” filled with bias.
What the hell does “serving on the board of the Met” have to do with anything?
Your bringing up of this half wit “expert” and defense of him
grow more and more incoherent.
You’re seriously are out of your depth here. Crouch has been a jazz critic for what? 60 years? He serves on the Met board because they have a jazz festival every year. Duh.
Check out his wikipedia page which will tell you every thing you need to know about his more conservative approach to black issues. Or don’t. I’d hate for you to be shaken free of dumb assumptions.
Stanley Crouch is a big media affirmative action ‘success.’
The fact that you present him as anything other than the obvious idiot he is says a lot about you.
Buzz off.
Buzz off. And take your phony Stanley Crouch and Village Voice with you.
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