Pascale Soleil: faithfulHereticmatters of the spiritArt for Art's Sake- August 24, 2002 Leni Riefenstahl is the living, breathing refutation of the proposition that beauty and the good go hand in hand. She was indisputably brilliant at creating gorgeous and effective images, both as a film maker and still photographer. But, as this article in the New York Times makes painfully clear, she had no more moral sense than a turnip (and quite possibly less). "I don't understand," she said, articulate if shaky here in her light-filled home south of Munich in the Bavarian Alps, her...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100595/categories/faithfulheretic/2002/08/24.html#a260 An explanatory note- August 5, 2002 I went to a small private high school. The headmaster of the school was a really interesting man (I refer to him in the Wayback Journal as Mr. M). He came from a background of great privilege and single-handedly founded and kept the school financially afloat for thirty years before moving to have it become self-supporting through fundraising. He taught only one subject, Bible class. It was not a religious class, but he felt that every educated person in Western civilization should be familiar.http://radio.weblogs.com/0100595/categories/faithfulheretic/2002/08/05.html#a213 |