{"id":1816,"date":"2009-09-15T00:04:15","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T04:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=1816"},"modified":"2009-09-15T00:04:15","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T04:04:15","slug":"today-in-the-frye-diaries-15-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2009\/09\/15\/today-in-the-frye-diaries-15-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in the Frye Diaries, 15 September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1817\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/09\/Magnificent_ambersons_movieposter.jpg\" alt=\"Magnificent_ambersons_movieposter\" width=\"266\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/09\/Magnificent_ambersons_movieposter.jpg 266w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/09\/Magnificent_ambersons_movieposter-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">1942<\/span><\/em><\/strong><em>:One of Frye&#8217;s favorite extra-curricular pre-occupations of the time: movies.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[115] Called for Helen and took her to see \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Magnificent_Ambersons_(film)\" target=\"_blank\">The Magnificent Ambersons<\/a>,\u201d highly recommended by some people including Eleanor [Godfrey], but I found it a blowsy and turgid piece of Byrony. I\u2019ve been writing out a paper on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_byrd\" target=\"_blank\">William Bryd<\/a>, which is taking too much time but seems to be inspired. If I\u2019m going to do movie articles I should get <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leo_Rosten\" target=\"_blank\">Leo Rosten\u2019s<\/a> book on Hollywood: he\u2019s the Leonard Q. Ross of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hyman_Kaplan\" target=\"_blank\">Hyman Kaplan<\/a>. Peter Fisher was in this morning with a hint he might be going overseas. Discussed German-Russian war as based on Rajas-Tamas clash of Albion &amp; millennial ideals: both proximate and apocalyptics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[<strong><em>Bob Denham\u2019s note (107):<\/em><\/strong> \u201cIn <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vedanta\" target=\"_blank\">Vedantic philosophy<\/a>, two of the three qualities of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prakriti\" target=\"_blank\">prakriti<\/a><\/em> (nature of primordial matter): <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rajas\" target=\"_blank\">rajas<\/a><\/em> refers to activity, striving, or the force that can overcome indolence; <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tamas_(philosophy)\" target=\"_blank\">tamas<\/a><\/em>, to the dull, passive forces of nature manifest in darkness and ignorance.\u201d]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1942:One of Frye&#8217;s favorite extra-curricular pre-occupations of the time: movies. [115] Called for Helen and took her to see \u201cThe Magnificent Ambersons,\u201d highly recommended by some people including Eleanor [Godfrey], but I found it a blowsy and turgid piece of Byrony. 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