“In those days, they didn’t allow black drivers to work downtown; you had to work uptown. They said, ‘Say, buddy, you know you’re not supposed to be on this line.” […go…]
Author: cultured
2020/01/19 #SundaySentence
Using a thesaurus requires you to think beyond basic words.
Not before and not since (1925 in Texas)
I’ll concede that this is only technically the first all female Supreme Court in the US, in the sense that the three women sitting on the court were there only for this case …
2020/01/12 #SundaySentence
The camera pans back and forth a lot, and it’s not all one shot, but the light movement and unromantic undressing for bed show how physically close they are with each other, how really married they are.
The tops
photograph by J.L. Munn
Katie Mulcahey and the whim of an insecure man
It is important in our search for our female heroes lost to history that we do not ignore the “working class” heroes; those beautiful souls, having little to no resources (comparatively speaking), who encounter oppression and refuse to bend to its momentum. Katie Mulcahey is one such hero. Although we do not know much of…
The Cultured Corner #1
Borrowed Resolutions: Woody Guthrie’s 1942 New Year’s resolutions are the true start of this article. Zona Gale, the basics: Want to know more about the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize in Drama (1921)? You know you do. A shadowy test for the new year: One should never forget to get their strange on….
2020/01/05 #SundaySentence
Our first endeavors are purely instinctive, promptings of an imagination vivid and undisciplined. As we grow older reason asserts itself and we become more and more systematic and designing. But those early impulses, although not immediately productive, are of the greatest moment and may shape our very destinies. from My Inventions (1919) by Nikola Tesla…
A shadowy test for the new year – Shadow Box #1
Zona Gale, the basics
Zona Gale was the American writer who won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1921 for her play “Miss Lulu Bett”. Apart from being the first woman to …