{"id":9912,"date":"2012-02-24T05:42:58","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T05:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/02\/24\/the-wild-diversity-of-human-types-zelda-kaplan-and-dolores-hart\/"},"modified":"2012-02-24T05:42:58","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T05:42:58","slug":"the-wild-diversity-of-human-types-zelda-kaplan-and-dolores-hart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/02\/24\/the-wild-diversity-of-human-types-zelda-kaplan-and-dolores-hart\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wild Diversity of Human Types: Zelda Kaplan and Dolores Hart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/18\/nyregion\/zelda-kaplan-fixture-of-new-york-fashion-scene-dies-at-95.html?_r=1\" target=\"_self\">Zelda<\/a> lived and died for fashion, collapsing at age 95 in the front row of a fashion show.&#0160; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/02\/15\/oscars-2012-mother-dolores-hart-elvis_n_1279731.html\" target=\"_self\">Dolores<\/a>, though starting off in the vain precincts of glitz and glamour, gave it up for God and the soul.&#0160; This life is vain whether or not God and the soul are illusions.&#0160;Should we conclude that to live for fashion is to throw one&#39;s life away for the trinkets of phenomenality, the bagatelles of transience? That to die while worshipping idols&#0160;at the altar of fashion is a frightful way to die?&#0160; These mere suggestions will elicit vociferous objection&#0160;from some, for whom it is self-evident that to retreat to a nunnery is to throw one&#39;s life away for an escapist fantasy.&#0160; But that is but another indication of the wild diversity of human types.&#0160; The case for the vanity of human existence is well made in <em>Ecclesiastes<\/em>.&#0160; See <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2009\/11\/a-philosophers-notes-on-ecclesiastes-chapters-12.html\" target=\"_self\">A Philosopher&#39;s Notes on Ecclesiastes, Chapters 1-2<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0168e7e8898f970c-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Zelda kaplan\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c0168e7e8898f970c\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0168e7e8898f970c-320wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Zelda kaplan\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0168e7e88a79970c-pi\" style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dolores hart\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c0168e7e88a79970c\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0168e7e88a79970c-320wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"Dolores hart\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0168e7e88c67970c-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dolores hart nun\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c0168e7e88c67970c\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0168e7e88c67970c-320wi\" title=\"Dolores hart nun\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zelda lived and died for fashion, collapsing at age 95 in the front row of a fashion show.&#0160; Dolores, though starting off in the vain precincts of glitz and glamour, gave it up for God and the soul.&#0160; This life is vain whether or not God and the soul are illusions.&#0160;Should we conclude that to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/02\/24\/the-wild-diversity-of-human-types-zelda-kaplan-and-dolores-hart\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Wild Diversity of Human Types: Zelda Kaplan and Dolores Hart&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,221,203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-predicament","category-psychology-and-personality-typology","category-questers-and-other-oddballs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}