When Greta Garbo claimed

When Greta Garbo claimed “I vant to be alone” her audience failed to recognize she was identifying with her persona .

That her “Camille” like Charlie Chaplin on the Venice,California roller rink,(1939) found his persona “The Tramp”…the derby, the mustache, the baggy pants, the oversized  shoes.. Charlie twirling his cane.

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If Greta and Charlie’s  Dna’s were contesting their personas in the Hawkeye State of Iowa, the first caucus projected in four days. Monday, February 1,. The stage being set for the battle tested persona (politicians) candidates into their vocals, for  thehighest office in the land. The Presidency of our United States of America.

So when Donald Trump, once of the Trump Towers of Coney Island and the Big Apple, elected to use his persona, to promote a rival scene down the block, to the relative conventional debate,among the other Republicans , pressing their fleshy and flashypersonas for the Hawkeye electorate come Monday, February 1.

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Whether it’s the Des Moines ambiance   or not, Charlie and Greta “”I vant to be alone” their enduring personas milked the crowd…the hog farmers, Senior Citizens,…….the religiousright, the college students from Drake……the conservatives……. “I appreciate your political frame of mind. The dynamic metamorphosed as the Donald , offended by Fox News wise cracking his persona, having a showdown with the Kremlin’s Putin and Iran’s Ayatollah.

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The bottom line was “the use of weapons of mass destruction”was a fiction  by golly, the  propaganda  “unbelievable” toDemocrats likes Senator Bernie Sanders of Brooklyn and Vermont, or Hillary Clinton, their ages 74 and 69, their personas resonating with the undecided Hawkeyes, but  the pervading  Rock star personas, their charisma into  96  more hours  and the voting booth.

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Second and third generation personas wrestling their lines at the Trump Veterans charity. “I  feel good  taking the 6 million dollars”, confessed the persona … the Angelicas and the politically incorrect out of sorts.

“I VANT TO BE ALONE’,” said Greta, fading into the starry Hawkeye night.  

January 28, 2015.The City that never sleeps.

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Didja ever see a blind man who didn’t smile?

“Didja ever see a blind man who didn’t smile?” asked Joe the Pro, after relegating the Art Garfunkel of Simon&Garfunkel, New Hampshire primary for the Democratic choices for the Presidency of our United States of America.

                                                                                         II

While a brutal blizzard was attacking those North Eastern States several days before the primary, the CNN tee v journalists and commentators were  pitching their open minded arguments for Hillary Clinton …”the latest polls show….” a 9th inning stance by Vermont’s Senator Bernie Standers….Art Garfunkel of Simon & Garfunkel)  giving ”America” to Bernie’s campaign in New Hamposhire.

                                                                                           III

The once gravel turned snow that highlights the window of the race in this granite state of the Old Man of the White Mountains is that the alleged Bernie Sanders is a graduate of Brooklyn’s Madison High School, off Kings Highway, in elevator apartment  Flatbush..

The high school bears the once “rich and fame” basketball junkies: the Rader twins, Stan Waxman, Ozzie Shectman under the aegis of  mentor “coach Jammy” Moskowitz, his enduring reputation into retirement at 92ish in Boca Raton, Florida.

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How does one account for Blossom Silverman The opera diva Beverly Sills  courting Burt Lancaster to join her at Lincoln Center in the role of director, Supreme Court Associate JusticeGinsberg “cutting the cords”, the “21” club Harvard LawSchool Lee Kreindler , Paul Edelman  his partner…. his brother Harold into the architectural firm Edelman and Edelman, his wife and partner Judy passing at 92…Harold nicknaming his Cornell roommate A. Quincy Jones, the architect for UCLA’sresearch library,(our stepdaughter’s father in law).……

All children of immigrants. So Bernie Sanders is in good company as they say.      And then that blondish Janice Shaker booking Charlton Heston  exhorting “King Harry V” in the Fly over that dampish afternoon, outside Cambridge….the joint USAF-RAF Base .Yours truly and his frau, to the Queen’s Opening Duxford Museum, outside Lakenheath RAF base, and Ely British Rail, to Edinborough, Scotland.,

the site of the Queen’s summer castle.

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Thanks to Janice Shaker booking our journey, Queen Elizabeth dedicating the museum at Duxford.  Madison High Schoolacross the pond, off Kings Highway, Flatbush, Brooklyn.

“Didja ever see a blind man who didn’t smile?” asked Joe the Pro.

January 23, 2016  The City that never sleeps.

                                                                                                                                                         

London’s Buckingham Palace being the mainstream of the Monarchy

London’s Buckingham Palace being the mainstream of the Monarchy, since the Aristocracy’s vanquished time, took a Mary Queen of Scots U turn, to the Monarchy’s summer castle in Scotland. Edinborough to be exact, the idyllic summer home of Queen Elizabeth, Mary’s cousin, Mary capitulating her Crown to her blood , during those feudal yesterdays of time being vanquished..

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Bette Davis, an actress hailing from Littleton, New HampshireWhite Mountains, was screen tested by Warner Brothers, inidentifying with the  temperamental needs in  her feminine  ruling  “Essex” court.. The dynasty’s inner circle not only had to grace the lady’s whims  to control the liberties the once serflike chains the Magna Carte  vanquished into eternity.

A brave new world not to mimic Aldous Huxley’s “title”. Or Ray Stark’s author. Those Hollywood LSD capers  smacking of Archie Leach (Cary Grant) Brian Ahern, Shangrila’s Ronald Coleman, David Niven Herbert Marshall, Basil Rathbone’s“Sherlock Holmes”, while improvising o his violin..

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In this swarming midst, a denizen from the Big Apple’s Brooklyn, scribbled a response to Buckingham Palace’sinvitation to share a commemorative Queen Elizabeth event, opening a World War 2 museum Duxford Air Museum, outside Lake en heath RAF-USAF and Mendenhall RAF Base.

The 11 day journey captured  in The Flying Philosopher’s “God’s Way”, the WW2 RAF Winston Churchill, his mother born in Brooklyn Heights and our fateful British Rail excursion to Edinborough, Scotland.

The birth place of James Bond 007 and “The Strange Case ofDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’s creator Robert Louis Stevenson.

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So the narrative may begin its transcript here in Scotland as the Robert Louis Stevenson “Strange case….” dissects and explores the masked  three decades of the cream cheese bandit and his paranoia quest for more and more “cream cheese Philadelphia” packets from the supermarket  refrigerated  shelves.

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An encounter in a meat doctor’s office some decades after the Queen opened the Duxford RAF World War 2 Museum outside Lake en heath RAF-UAF base, the Edinborough cradle of Stevenson’s “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” was baptized….

Charlie Masterson, the coach of Columbia University’s tennis team wanted the bandit to come home. “Remember those grueling indoor matches we played in the Armory. Com’ back to the Big Apple..”

The bandit’s paranoia as a bully and tormentor erupted when  our own consciousness recognized his need to get his ownrevenge and  act together in the process of growing up. The  family  clan “pic”, standing next to Uncle Joe, instead of his father,  ”the name detective”.

Tormenting the weaker younger kids on those Brooklyn streets,plaguing his own parents but the cream cheese bandit rejectedany support or psychoanalysis to clarify his soul, brain neurons and ego trip across the Continent to Treasure Island...

His need to bully and dominate, to be translated into the game of tennis where “if in doubt, cal it out” was the password to victory on the symbolic tennis court. “What’s playing out?”

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Here then was the transition from  the tough competitive streets of Brooklyn: Murder, Inc of Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Segal, Al  “Bummy” Davis to the tennis courts of the armories, public parks and Colleges to those refrigerated supermarket shelves of Philadelphia cream cheese packets in Los Angeles, California.

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Disarming ladies of the day, one wearing a wig as her own idiom to disguise her image, soon evolved into pushing uppers and downers in his  Dr. Jekyll Mr. Hyde paranoia The competitive tennis match angst had become a cover up for Dr. Jekyll Mr. Hyde transformative other self, as the day becomesnight.

Being his own victim, the cream cheese bandit couldn’t see through his myopia. His ego trip of a double identity, faking his rogue duality , undermining his 30 year retirement package with his tennis playing Recreation and Parks.

Not having to come to grips with Robert Louis Stevenson’sinterior dialogue “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”, his misbegotten metamorphosis  of his own withered bullying, he perishing before his pension impacted.. 

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Those East 4th Streets between Avenue P and Kings Highway,indelibly scoring in those blizzard like I.D’s “Dr. Jekyll becoming Mr. Hyde”.

January 25, 2015 The City that never sleeps.

Didja ever see a blind man who didn’t smile

“Didja ever see a blind man who didn’t smile?” asked Joe the Pro, after relegating the Aart Garfunkel of Simon&Garfunkel, New Hampshire primary for the Democratic choices for the Presidency of our United States of America.

                                                                                         II

While a brutal blizzard was attacking those North Eastern States several days before the primary, the CNN tee v journalists and commentators were  pitching their open minded arguments for Hillary Clinton …”the latest polls show….” a 9th inning stance by Vermont’s Senator Bernie Standers….Art Garfunkel of Simon & Garfunkel)  giving ”America” to Bernie’s campaign in New Hamposhire.

                                                                                           III

The once gravel turned snow that highlights the window of the race in this granite state of the Old Man of the White Mountains is that the alleged Bernie Sanders is a graduate of Brooklyn’s Madison High School, off Kings Highway, in elevator apartment  Flatbush..

The high school bears the once “rich and fame” basketball junkies: the Rader twins, Stan Waxman, Ozzie Shectman under the aegis of  mentor “coach Jammy” Moskowitz, his enduring reputation into retirement at 92ish in Boca Raton, Florida.

                                                                                          IV

How does one account for Blossom Silverman The opera diva Beverly Sills  courting Burt Lancaster to join her at Lincoln Center in the role of director, Supreme Court Associate JusticeGinsberg “cutting the cords”, the “21” club Harvard LawSchool Kreindler …

All children of immigrants. So Bernie Sanders is in good company as they say.      And then that blondish Janice Shaker booking Charlton Heston  exhorting “King Harry V” in the Fly over that dampish afternoon, outside Cambridge….the joint USAF-RAF Base .Yours truly and his frau, to the Queen’s Opening Duxford Museum, outside Lakenheath RAF base, and Ely British Rail, to Edinborough, Scotland.,

the site of the Queen’s summer castle.

                                                                       V

Thanks to Janice Shaker booking our journey, Queen Elizabeth dedicating the museum at Duxford.  Madison High Schoolacross the pond, off Kings Highway, Flatbush, Brooklyn.

“Didja ever see a blind man who didn’t smile?” asked Joe the Pro.

January 23, 2016  The City that never sleeps.

                                                                                                                                                         

Shore up those totem poles, boy

“Shore up those totem poles, boys,” said J. Paul, living up to hisboom town multimillionaire Oklahoma ouija board gambles, the cradle to the grave pros, quoting 30 dollars a barrel….. at the pump, under two bills , the nickel and dime bandits into their “don’t sweat the small stuff” .

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J. Paul had come a long way, his derricks spouting out his legacy, through Teheran, Iran and into those  gushes of Saudi Arabian turf….

Sure the diplomats into their interpretive sweats and configurations could no longer double talk  the second guessers and Cro Magnon La Brea tar pit dwellers, giving confirmation to the reality scene playing out at the gas stations on our planet.  Esso, Texaco, Standard Oil, Shell “running on empty”.

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In this mix, a UCFLA Bruin Political Scientist, Ralph Bunche,out of Detroit, Michigan, his father a barber serving an all Caucasian clientele, the in “futuro” Nobel Peace Laureate,  theUnited Nations Undersecretary  evolved into his over the  topmetamorphosis.

Howard University, Harvard, Oberlin College trustee, New York higher institutions, NCAAP leadership  roles, the United Nations streaming  ritual, this Jefferson High School graduate,. UCLAfour star athlete, ascending the heights of political and intellectual elite.

President Truman offering him “the Assistant Secretary of State” office, which this complete ”Paul Robeson  Jackie Robinson”, rejected the offer..”The buzz saw” of skin pigment, the League of Nations foretaste to the United Nations and the Declaration of human rights.

Instead he stayed within the Big Apple offices of Trygve Lie, and Dag Hammarskjold, embarking on Palestine Arab partitions..Cypress, Yemen, African statesman like partitions.

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Here the priceless ingredient, a grandson of a slave, his father a Detroit barber, a four star athlete at L.A.’s Jefferson High , had ascended the  heights of the U.N. architecture . A spectacular height of  humanity and genius in his time.

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On the assassination of Count Bernadette, Professor Bunche assumed his role.  In his “American Dilemma”, Gunnar Myndal,the Swedish Sociologist, digested inevitability post World War 2.The vibes  optimistic, our minor planet  in its galaxy, transcended its self serving moon shots and Mars landing.

January 20, 2016  The City that never sleeps.