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Sfidarea Idiocratiei (I) – Memorii din Romania si Anglia

December 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · Books, Diaspora, Reviews, quotations

CRITERII DE DISCRIMINARE (fragmente):
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Prima tentativa de a obtine un pasaport a fost la varsta de 14 ani, la eliberarea primului meu buletin de identitate, cand am crezut ca in mod automat sunt indreptatit sa obtin si pasaport. Pentru ca aveam niste strabuni cehi,  eram nerabdator sa descopar familia indepartata din Cehoslovacia.
M-am dus la sediul [...]

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Cambridge Memoir (I) – Peterhouse

December 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Books, Diaspora, Uncategorized, quotations

Peterhouse has the oldest Hall in Cambridge, going back to its foundation, in 1284. The Hall was restored in the 19c century when it was decorated by William Morris. It could take up to over one hundred undergraduates, but as their number grew, two sittings were introduced and eventually a self-service system. Formal dinners got fewer and attendance was no longer compulsory. However, as meals were heavily subsidized from college funds and benefactions,

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Orwell Diaries (ed. Peter Davison, Harvil Secker, London 2009)

November 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Books, Diary, PEOPLE, Reviews, quotations

Orwell Diaries 1931- 1949
Edited by Peter Davison, Publ: Harvil Secker
ISBN 9781846553295
(sourced from ten original diary notebooks)
I bought Orwell’s Diaries thinking that I could glean more information about his philosophical conversion from Spanish Republicanism to what had become later a lucid critic of left-wing dictatorship. It appears, sadly, that two notebooks of diaries [...]

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Alternative Romania: Women Celebrities an Anthology of Unsung Voices

May 5th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Books, Diaspora, PEOPLE

‘Blouse Roumaine – the Unsung Voices of Romanian Women’
An Anthology of 19th and 20th century Romanian Women
1,100 pages, Social and political Overview, 160 biographies, 600 Quotations, 4,000 references,
E-Book available to download,
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Examples of biographies:
ARISTOCRATS: Pss Catherine Caradja, Pss Marina Stirbey,
BALLERINAS: Alina Cojocaru, Magdalena Popa, Ruxandra Racovitza
COURTESANS: Pss Georges Ghika (Liane de Pougy), Elena Lupescu
DESIGNERS: [...]

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Romantic Travels on the Lower Danube (1800-1940)

April 28th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Books, Reviews, quotations

EXAMPLES OF SAMPLE PAGES

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“Defying the Idiocracy” – Cambridge and Romanian Memoirs

May 24th, 2006 · Comments Off · Books, Diaspora, PEOPLE, Reviews, Translations

“Defying the Idiocracy”
Constantin ROMAN
SYNOPSIS
The world from which Constantin ROMAN emerges, is blurring gently through the lens of time. Once landed on the British Isles, the faraway country which he left behind is thoroughly destroyed by the bulldozers of Ceausescu’s cultural revolution and its ruins remain behind hostile frontiers.
Being shipwrecked on a foreign shore should not [...]

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MEDICAL CARE DURING DICTATORSHIP (”My Second University” Two Reviews by Ionel Taranu & Constantin ROMAN

October 19th, 2005 · Comments Off · Books, PEOPLE, Reviews

MEDICAL CARE UNDER DICTATORSHIP

(“My Second University” Two Reviews: Ionel TARANU and Constantin ROMAN)
“My Second University – memories from Romanian Communist prisons”
by Dr. Stanciu Stroia and Dr. Dan Dusleag,
(iUniverse Inc., New York, 2005, 271 pages,
Index, illustrations, £10.53 ISBN: 0-595-34639-1)
THREE GENERATIONS OF MEDICAL DOCTORS UNDER DICTATORSHIP:
Dr. Stanciu Stroia was born in rural Transylvania. He [...]

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A Russian Childhood (Yalta, St. Petersburg, Moscow, London) Memoirs of Tatiana Nancy GAUBERT

June 21st, 2005 · Comments Off · Books, Diaspora, PEOPLE, Reviews

Synopsis
An Imperial Foundling
A Russian Childhood (Yalta, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Yalta, and early Womanhood (London, Paris, Dublin)
by
Tatiana Nancy (”Romanovna”) GAUBERT
What would a crocodile on a silver chain, taken for a walk on the streets of St. Petersburg, have in common with a kneeling British ambassador, vowing eternal love [...]

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Voices and Shadows of the Carpathians

April 7th, 2005 · Comments Off · Books, Diaspora, PEOPLE, Reviews, Translations, quotations

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Site Index
Index:
Table of Contents.
Postface:
A Conspiracy of Silence.
“Voices & Shadows of the Carpathians”
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An Anthology of Romanian Thought -
selected and introduced by Constantin Roman
Postface: A Conspiracy of Silence.
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“Now, I am a person who likes simple words. It is true, I had realised before this journey that there was much evil and injustice in the world that I [...]

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Theft of a Nation, Romania since Communism. (Furtul unei Natiunai)

November 11th, 2004 · Comments Off · Books

http:www.hurstpub.co.uk/
THEFT OF A NATION, ROMANIA SINCE COMMUNISM
TOM GALLAGHER
Paperback 320 pages (November 1, 2003) £16-50
Publisher: C. Hurst & Co
ISBN: 1850657165
Hardback: xxii, 424pp. (Jan. 2005),£45.00
Romanian Publication (in Translation )
Humanitas Publishing House, Bucharest November 2004
‘This is a unique work on an important, but neglected, subject. It deals with the transition from totalitarian to democratic rule in [...]

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