Durham WASP

"Though liberals do a great deal of talking about hearing other points of view, it sometimes shocks them to learn that there are other points of view."

William F. Buckley, Jr.

TIME's person of the Year 1938, & Stalin won the following year

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"Now I can't abide rudeness, even in so called great artists. Rudeness and cruelty are the qualities I hate most. Rudeness and cruelty are always connected, I feel. One example out of many is Stalin." 

Dmitri Shostakovich, on the cover of Time magazine [1942]

“The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career. ” C.S. Lewis

Thelonious Monk

Beatlemania was at its peak in the winter of 1964, but not every music fan had the Beatles’ brand of rock and roll on their turntable. In fact, it was jazz music—vital, innovative, contemporary jazz music—that captured the imagination of a significant proportion of American music fans in 1964, and no jazz musician at that time was more vital, innovative and contemporary than Thelonious Sphere Monk. So important was jazz on the American cultural scene, and so important was Monk in the world of jazz, that his portrait graced the cover of Time magazine February 28, 1964. 

“Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.” Thelonious Monk, Time Magazine February 28, 1964

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In 1954 Life Magazine dubbed J. Press in New Haven the birthplace of the “Ivy League Look”  

“The Ivy Look Heads Across U.S.” the magazine proclaimed in an anthropological examination of the natural-shouldered suit and its sartorial brethren. They sent photographer Nina Leen to J. Press in New Haven, dubbing it the birthplace of the “Ivy League Look” when it opened back in 1902, to see the original in action outfitting Yale men. There she located the founder’s sons, Irving (Yale ’26) and Paul Press presiding soberly over the premises. 

Robert Kennedy by David Stone Martin

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