Wilfred Beckerman and Joanna Pasek
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780199245086
- eISBN:
- 9780191598784
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199245088.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, Environmental Politics
Discusses one principle that has been suggested as a guide to the way we ought to take account of the interests of future generations, namely the principle of intergenerational ‘equity’ and its ...
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Discusses one principle that has been suggested as a guide to the way we ought to take account of the interests of future generations, namely the principle of intergenerational ‘equity’ and its related claim of intergenerational equality, particularly in spheres such as the way we should share out ‘finite’ resources among generations. This chapter examines the possible arguments in favour of intergenerational egalitarianism and concludes that they are difficult to defend. It is proposed that egalitarianism should be replaced by the principle of ‘threshold prioritarianism’, so that our moral obligation to future generations should be based on a humanitarian concern to avoid policies that may impoverish them.Less
Discusses one principle that has been suggested as a guide to the way we ought to take account of the interests of future generations, namely the principle of intergenerational ‘equity’ and its related claim of intergenerational equality, particularly in spheres such as the way we should share out ‘finite’ resources among generations. This chapter examines the possible arguments in favour of intergenerational egalitarianism and concludes that they are difficult to defend. It is proposed that egalitarianism should be replaced by the principle of ‘threshold prioritarianism’, so that our moral obligation to future generations should be based on a humanitarian concern to avoid policies that may impoverish them.
Philip Lambert
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195390070
- eISBN:
- 9780199863570
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195390070.003.0002
- Subject:
- Music, Theory, Analysis, Composition, Popular
This chapter surveys the early professional careers of Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock in New York during the 1950s. Harnick wrote music for television and for cabaret singers. His earliest songs for ...
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This chapter surveys the early professional careers of Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock in New York during the 1950s. Harnick wrote music for television and for cabaret singers. His earliest songs for Broadway appeared in the revues New Faces of 1952 (1952), Two’s Company (1952), and John Murray Anderson’s Almanac (1953). He wrote lyrics for his first book show, Horatio (1954), with composer David Baker and librettist Ira Wallach. He was also on the creative staff of Green Mansions, an arts-oriented resort in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. Bock and his lyricist-partner Larry Holofcener wrote music for television in the early 1950s, notably Sid Caesar’s Admiral Broadway Revue and Your Show of Shows. During summers they were on the songwriting staff of Camp Tamiment in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. Bock made his Broadway debut with three songs in the revue Catch a Star! (1955), then wrote his first Broadway show, Mr. Wonderful (1956), with Larry Holofcener and George David Weiss.Less
This chapter surveys the early professional careers of Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock in New York during the 1950s. Harnick wrote music for television and for cabaret singers. His earliest songs for Broadway appeared in the revues New Faces of 1952 (1952), Two’s Company (1952), and John Murray Anderson’s Almanac (1953). He wrote lyrics for his first book show, Horatio (1954), with composer David Baker and librettist Ira Wallach. He was also on the creative staff of Green Mansions, an arts-oriented resort in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. Bock and his lyricist-partner Larry Holofcener wrote music for television in the early 1950s, notably Sid Caesar’s Admiral Broadway Revue and Your Show of Shows. During summers they were on the songwriting staff of Camp Tamiment in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. Bock made his Broadway debut with three songs in the revue Catch a Star! (1955), then wrote his first Broadway show, Mr. Wonderful (1956), with Larry Holofcener and George David Weiss.
Bernard Gendron
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195336641
- eISBN:
- 9780199868551
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195336641.003.0011
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western, Popular
This chapter analyses the resurgence of the jazz avant‐garde in New York in the mid‐1960s, focusing in particular upon musicians' negotiation of competing aesthetic, social, and economic imperatives. ...
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This chapter analyses the resurgence of the jazz avant‐garde in New York in the mid‐1960s, focusing in particular upon musicians' negotiation of competing aesthetic, social, and economic imperatives. Through a detailed investigation of shifting patterns of reception in the jazz press, attention is drawn to a complex of factors that lifted the jazz avant‐garde from near obscurity in the early years of the decade, to a canonised status by 1965. Prominent amongst these factors was the politically radical discourse promoted by figures associated with the Black Arts Movement such as Amiri Baraka and Larry Neal, which conceived black avant‐garde musicians as shaping the spiritual foundation for revolutionary change. The articulation of a radical social purpose thus assisted the process of canonisation, although this canonisation brought no parallel economic success.Less
This chapter analyses the resurgence of the jazz avant‐garde in New York in the mid‐1960s, focusing in particular upon musicians' negotiation of competing aesthetic, social, and economic imperatives. Through a detailed investigation of shifting patterns of reception in the jazz press, attention is drawn to a complex of factors that lifted the jazz avant‐garde from near obscurity in the early years of the decade, to a canonised status by 1965. Prominent amongst these factors was the politically radical discourse promoted by figures associated with the Black Arts Movement such as Amiri Baraka and Larry Neal, which conceived black avant‐garde musicians as shaping the spiritual foundation for revolutionary change. The articulation of a radical social purpose thus assisted the process of canonisation, although this canonisation brought no parallel economic success.
C. Stephen Evans
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- January 2005
- ISBN:
- 9780199272174
- eISBN:
- 9780191602061
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199272174.003.0010
- Subject:
- Religion, Philosophy of Religion
Evolutionary naturalism is one possible ground for ethics that does not rely on divine commands. Larry Arnhart, in Darwinian Natural Right: The Biological Ethics of Human Nature, attempts to wed ...
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Evolutionary naturalism is one possible ground for ethics that does not rely on divine commands. Larry Arnhart, in Darwinian Natural Right: The Biological Ethics of Human Nature, attempts to wed Darwinism to Aristotle in the hopes of demonstrating that contemporary biology provides a solid basis for understanding what is good and right for humans. Arnhart’s hopes falter, however, because he cannot maintain a particularistic ethic built on evolution and a universal ethic of obligation. The two cases of slavery and of female circumcision show the woeful inadequacies of an ethic that grounds moral obligation in biology. By contrast, the ethic of love based on a divine command is universal in its scope; neighbour-love extends across differences in race (in the case of slavery) and gender (in the case of female circumcision).Less
Evolutionary naturalism is one possible ground for ethics that does not rely on divine commands. Larry Arnhart, in Darwinian Natural Right: The Biological Ethics of Human Nature, attempts to wed Darwinism to Aristotle in the hopes of demonstrating that contemporary biology provides a solid basis for understanding what is good and right for humans. Arnhart’s hopes falter, however, because he cannot maintain a particularistic ethic built on evolution and a universal ethic of obligation. The two cases of slavery and of female circumcision show the woeful inadequacies of an ethic that grounds moral obligation in biology. By contrast, the ethic of love based on a divine command is universal in its scope; neighbour-love extends across differences in race (in the case of slavery) and gender (in the case of female circumcision).
Jeffrey Brand-Ballard
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195342291
- eISBN:
- 9780199867011
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195342291.003.0017
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Political Philosophy
This chapter examines more restrictive theories of rule guidance, including those of legal formalists such as Larry Alexander and Frederick Schauer, and that of an exclusive positivist, Scott J. ...
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This chapter examines more restrictive theories of rule guidance, including those of legal formalists such as Larry Alexander and Frederick Schauer, and that of an exclusive positivist, Scott J. Shapiro. The chapter shows that their arguments do not impugn selective optimization. Shapiro’s constraint model of rule guidance is examined and found to be partially compatible with selective optimization. Shapiro’s practical difference thesis is also reconciled with selective optimization, albeit not in a way Shapiro is likely to favor. The chapter concludes by briefly contrasting selective optimization with Richard A. Posner’s legal pragmatism and Lawrence Solum’s theory of equity.Less
This chapter examines more restrictive theories of rule guidance, including those of legal formalists such as Larry Alexander and Frederick Schauer, and that of an exclusive positivist, Scott J. Shapiro. The chapter shows that their arguments do not impugn selective optimization. Shapiro’s constraint model of rule guidance is examined and found to be partially compatible with selective optimization. Shapiro’s practical difference thesis is also reconciled with selective optimization, albeit not in a way Shapiro is likely to favor. The chapter concludes by briefly contrasting selective optimization with Richard A. Posner’s legal pragmatism and Lawrence Solum’s theory of equity.
Bala James Baptiste
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781496822062
- eISBN:
- 9781496822116
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496822062.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Culture
Race and Radio: Pioneering Black Broadcasters in New Orleans explicates the emergence of blacks in broadcasting in New Orleans. The racial integration of changed the medium making it a channel for ...
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Race and Radio: Pioneering Black Broadcasters in New Orleans explicates the emergence of blacks in broadcasting in New Orleans. The racial integration of changed the medium making it a channel for African American discourse, the music and interviews of local black musicians, and innovative black rhetoric. O.C.W. Taylor was the city's first black radio announcer. He hosted an unprecedented talk show, the “Negro Forum,” on WNOE beginning in 1946 and continuing for 22 years. Doctors, journalists, owners of funeral homes, directors of non-profits, and other professionals spoke. Clergy from various denominations discussed topics such as practical applications of Biblical stories. The guests inspired linked fate among listeners who had never heard African American voices on radio and believed they could also achieve. In 1949, listeners heard the arrival of Vernon "Dr. Daddy-O" Winslow's smooth, articulate, and disk jockey creative voice. The Fitzgerald Advertising Agency hired him to sell Jax beer to the black market using his show “Jivin’ with Jax” broadcast on WWEZ. He interviewed African American artists and played their music. After arriving from Chicago in 1953, Larry McKinley began informing blacks over WMRY of local activities of the Civil Rights Movement in the city. In 1957, he moved to WYLD which morphed into WMRY. This thick historiography situates Race and Radio within theories of racism, ideological hegemony, and marginalization, concepts explaining of why whites locked blacks out of the production and dissemination of media content.Less
Race and Radio: Pioneering Black Broadcasters in New Orleans explicates the emergence of blacks in broadcasting in New Orleans. The racial integration of changed the medium making it a channel for African American discourse, the music and interviews of local black musicians, and innovative black rhetoric. O.C.W. Taylor was the city's first black radio announcer. He hosted an unprecedented talk show, the “Negro Forum,” on WNOE beginning in 1946 and continuing for 22 years. Doctors, journalists, owners of funeral homes, directors of non-profits, and other professionals spoke. Clergy from various denominations discussed topics such as practical applications of Biblical stories. The guests inspired linked fate among listeners who had never heard African American voices on radio and believed they could also achieve. In 1949, listeners heard the arrival of Vernon "Dr. Daddy-O" Winslow's smooth, articulate, and disk jockey creative voice. The Fitzgerald Advertising Agency hired him to sell Jax beer to the black market using his show “Jivin’ with Jax” broadcast on WWEZ. He interviewed African American artists and played their music. After arriving from Chicago in 1953, Larry McKinley began informing blacks over WMRY of local activities of the Civil Rights Movement in the city. In 1957, he moved to WYLD which morphed into WMRY. This thick historiography situates Race and Radio within theories of racism, ideological hegemony, and marginalization, concepts explaining of why whites locked blacks out of the production and dissemination of media content.
Neil J. Sullivan
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195331837
- eISBN:
- 9780199851607
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195331837.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter examines Jacob Ruppert's sale of the New York Yankees and the Yankee Stadium. On January 25, 1945, Del Webb and Dan Topping, together with Larry McPhail purchased the Yankees and the ...
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This chapter examines Jacob Ruppert's sale of the New York Yankees and the Yankee Stadium. On January 25, 1945, Del Webb and Dan Topping, together with Larry McPhail purchased the Yankees and the stadium for $2.8 million. McPhail was bought in 1947. The new owners experienced some of the same problems encountered by Ruppert. The Webb and Topping era covered a time when the World War I generation of stadiums were largely abandoned as obsolete. In 1964, they sold the franchise to Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS).Less
This chapter examines Jacob Ruppert's sale of the New York Yankees and the Yankee Stadium. On January 25, 1945, Del Webb and Dan Topping, together with Larry McPhail purchased the Yankees and the stadium for $2.8 million. McPhail was bought in 1947. The new owners experienced some of the same problems encountered by Ruppert. The Webb and Topping era covered a time when the World War I generation of stadiums were largely abandoned as obsolete. In 1964, they sold the franchise to Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS).
Thomas Goldsmith
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780252042966
- eISBN:
- 9780252051821
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252042966.003.0014
- Subject:
- Music, Popular
The Gibson musical instrument company of Kalamazoo, Illinois, made certain banjos before World War II that have become storied collectors’ items because they are just like the one played by Earl ...
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The Gibson musical instrument company of Kalamazoo, Illinois, made certain banjos before World War II that have become storied collectors’ items because they are just like the one played by Earl Scruggs from 1949 until he died. The desired banjos have flat heads, flathead tone ring, and a one-piece flange. They were made as original five-strings, a rarity among a much greater number of four-string models made then by Gibson. Two events celebrate these banjos and specific other related models: the Banjothon get-together in early winter in East Tennessee, which attracts more than 150 lovers of these Scruggs-style models, and the Mills seminars. Picker and banjo expert Jim MIlls holds occasional seminars at his home outside Raleigh, North Carolina, inviting enthusiasts to study, admire, play, and perhaps buy one of the pricey five-string jewels.Less
The Gibson musical instrument company of Kalamazoo, Illinois, made certain banjos before World War II that have become storied collectors’ items because they are just like the one played by Earl Scruggs from 1949 until he died. The desired banjos have flat heads, flathead tone ring, and a one-piece flange. They were made as original five-strings, a rarity among a much greater number of four-string models made then by Gibson. Two events celebrate these banjos and specific other related models: the Banjothon get-together in early winter in East Tennessee, which attracts more than 150 lovers of these Scruggs-style models, and the Mills seminars. Picker and banjo expert Jim MIlls holds occasional seminars at his home outside Raleigh, North Carolina, inviting enthusiasts to study, admire, play, and perhaps buy one of the pricey five-string jewels.
Robert D. Schulzinger
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195365924
- eISBN:
- 9780199851966
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195365924.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
The vast literature of the Vietnam War reflects the many conflicting and unresolved emotions of the era. Memories of the brutality of combat and the furious disagreements at home over the wisdom of ...
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The vast literature of the Vietnam War reflects the many conflicting and unresolved emotions of the era. Memories of the brutality of combat and the furious disagreements at home over the wisdom of American involvement ran deep, but so did the urge to forget and move beyond a painful and traumatic epoch. Over one thousand novels with Vietnam themes have appeared, and they continue to be published. These war novels ranged from the complex Graham Greene classic, The Quiet American (1955), to contemplative veterans' tales to simple popular literature. Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato (1978) and Larry Heinemann's Paco's Story (1986) both won National Book Awards for their meditations on memory. Realistic accounts of battles, pulp fiction, and outright pornography acquired a larger readership. Many of these more popular stories drew upon waves of regret about the way the war had turned into a national trauma for the United States. They expressed longing for victory or vengeance, sometimes over the Communist Vietnamese and sometimes over treacherous or incompetent American officials.Less
The vast literature of the Vietnam War reflects the many conflicting and unresolved emotions of the era. Memories of the brutality of combat and the furious disagreements at home over the wisdom of American involvement ran deep, but so did the urge to forget and move beyond a painful and traumatic epoch. Over one thousand novels with Vietnam themes have appeared, and they continue to be published. These war novels ranged from the complex Graham Greene classic, The Quiet American (1955), to contemplative veterans' tales to simple popular literature. Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato (1978) and Larry Heinemann's Paco's Story (1986) both won National Book Awards for their meditations on memory. Realistic accounts of battles, pulp fiction, and outright pornography acquired a larger readership. Many of these more popular stories drew upon waves of regret about the way the war had turned into a national trauma for the United States. They expressed longing for victory or vengeance, sometimes over the Communist Vietnamese and sometimes over treacherous or incompetent American officials.
Joe B. Hall, Marianne Walker, and Rick Bozich
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780813178561
- eISBN:
- 9780813178578
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813178561.003.0019
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This chapter is about Joe B. leaving Regis after six years and transferring to Central Missouri. Then he receives a job offer from Coach Rupp to come to UK as first assistant coach. Joe, thrilled, ...
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This chapter is about Joe B. leaving Regis after six years and transferring to Central Missouri. Then he receives a job offer from Coach Rupp to come to UK as first assistant coach. Joe, thrilled, accepts but soon learns that Rupp values him more as a recruiter. He starts UK’s first conditioning program―much to the dismay of the senior team members.Less
This chapter is about Joe B. leaving Regis after six years and transferring to Central Missouri. Then he receives a job offer from Coach Rupp to come to UK as first assistant coach. Joe, thrilled, accepts but soon learns that Rupp values him more as a recruiter. He starts UK’s first conditioning program―much to the dismay of the senior team members.
Joe B. Hall, Marianne Walker, and Rick Bozich
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780813178561
- eISBN:
- 9780813178578
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813178561.003.0022
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This amusing chapter tells about Joe B.’s approach to recruiting, recounting his strategy of communication with and visits to potential players. Coach Rupp, unhappy with the amount of money spent on ...
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This amusing chapter tells about Joe B.’s approach to recruiting, recounting his strategy of communication with and visits to potential players. Coach Rupp, unhappy with the amount of money spent on taking recruits and their parents out to dinner, attempts to demonstrate to Joe B. how to keep such costs down―and fails utterly.Less
This amusing chapter tells about Joe B.’s approach to recruiting, recounting his strategy of communication with and visits to potential players. Coach Rupp, unhappy with the amount of money spent on taking recruits and their parents out to dinner, attempts to demonstrate to Joe B. how to keep such costs down―and fails utterly.
Wesley C. Hogan and Paul Ortiz (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- May 2022
- ISBN:
- 9780813066912
- eISBN:
- 9780813067193
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813066912.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Social History
Featuring contributions from leading scholar-activists, People Power demonstrates how the lessons of history can inform the building of new social justice movements today. This volume is inspired by ...
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Featuring contributions from leading scholar-activists, People Power demonstrates how the lessons of history can inform the building of new social justice movements today. This volume is inspired by the pathbreaking life and work of writer, activist, and historian Lawrence “Larry” Goodwyn. As a radical Texas journalist and a political organizer, Goodwyn participated in historic changes ushered in by grassroots activism in the 1950s and ’60s. Professor and cofounder of the Oral History Program at Duke University, Goodwyn wrote about movements built by Latino farm workers, Polish trade unionists, civil rights activists, and others who challenged the status quo. The essays in this volume examine Goodwyn’s influence in political and social movements, his approaches to teaching and writing, and his insights into the long history behind contemporary activism. People Power will generate deep discussions about the potential of democracy amid the multiple crises of our time. What motivates ordinary people to move from kitchen table conversations to civic engagement? What do the chronicles of past social movements tell us about how to confront the real blocks of racism and the idea that Americans are somehow “exceptional”? Contributors provide key experiential knowledge that will help today’s scholars and community organizers address these pressing questions.Less
Featuring contributions from leading scholar-activists, People Power demonstrates how the lessons of history can inform the building of new social justice movements today. This volume is inspired by the pathbreaking life and work of writer, activist, and historian Lawrence “Larry” Goodwyn. As a radical Texas journalist and a political organizer, Goodwyn participated in historic changes ushered in by grassroots activism in the 1950s and ’60s. Professor and cofounder of the Oral History Program at Duke University, Goodwyn wrote about movements built by Latino farm workers, Polish trade unionists, civil rights activists, and others who challenged the status quo. The essays in this volume examine Goodwyn’s influence in political and social movements, his approaches to teaching and writing, and his insights into the long history behind contemporary activism. People Power will generate deep discussions about the potential of democracy amid the multiple crises of our time. What motivates ordinary people to move from kitchen table conversations to civic engagement? What do the chronicles of past social movements tell us about how to confront the real blocks of racism and the idea that Americans are somehow “exceptional”? Contributors provide key experiential knowledge that will help today’s scholars and community organizers address these pressing questions.
Jean W. Cash and Keith Perry (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781496802330
- eISBN:
- 9781496804990
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496802330.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 20th Century Literature
This book describes and discusses the work of southern writers who began their careers in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. They fall into two categories. Some, born into the ...
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This book describes and discusses the work of southern writers who began their careers in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. They fall into two categories. Some, born into the working class, strove to become writers and learned without benefit of higher education, such writers as Larry Brown and William Gay. Others came from lower- or middle-class backgrounds and became writers through practice and education: Dorothy Allison, Tom Franklin, Tim Gautreaux, Clyde Edgerton, Kaye Gibbons, Silas House, Jill McCorkle, Chris Offutt, Ron Rash, Lee Smith, Brad Watson, Daniel Woodrell, and Steve Yarbrough. Their twenty-first-century colleagues are Wiley Cash, Peter Farris, Skip Horack, Michael Farris Smith, Barb Johnson, and Jesmyn Ward. The book starts by distinguishing Rough South writers from such writers as William Faulkner and Erskine Caldwell. Younger writers who followed Harry Crews were born into and write about the Rough South. These writers undercut stereotypes, forcing readers to see the working poor differently. Other chapters begin with those on Crews and Cormac McCarthy, major influences on an entire generation. Later chapters address members of both groups—the self-educated and the college-educated. Both groups share a clear understanding of the value of working-class southerners.Less
This book describes and discusses the work of southern writers who began their careers in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. They fall into two categories. Some, born into the working class, strove to become writers and learned without benefit of higher education, such writers as Larry Brown and William Gay. Others came from lower- or middle-class backgrounds and became writers through practice and education: Dorothy Allison, Tom Franklin, Tim Gautreaux, Clyde Edgerton, Kaye Gibbons, Silas House, Jill McCorkle, Chris Offutt, Ron Rash, Lee Smith, Brad Watson, Daniel Woodrell, and Steve Yarbrough. Their twenty-first-century colleagues are Wiley Cash, Peter Farris, Skip Horack, Michael Farris Smith, Barb Johnson, and Jesmyn Ward. The book starts by distinguishing Rough South writers from such writers as William Faulkner and Erskine Caldwell. Younger writers who followed Harry Crews were born into and write about the Rough South. These writers undercut stereotypes, forcing readers to see the working poor differently. Other chapters begin with those on Crews and Cormac McCarthy, major influences on an entire generation. Later chapters address members of both groups—the self-educated and the college-educated. Both groups share a clear understanding of the value of working-class southerners.
Brian D. Laslie
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780813169989
- eISBN:
- 9780813174068
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813169989.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Military History
Only the most ardent of air power historians know the name of General Laurence S. Kuter, despite the fact he welded a B-17 group into a cohesive fighting force, was the deputy commander of allied ...
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Only the most ardent of air power historians know the name of General Laurence S. Kuter, despite the fact he welded a B-17 group into a cohesive fighting force, was the deputy commander of allied tactical air forces in North Africa, and later served as commander of the Military Air Transport Service, Air University, Far East Air Forces—later Pacific Air Forces—and finally as a Commander-in-Chief of the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD). The biography of Larry Kuter is the biography of the United States Air Corps, Army Air Forces and U.S. Air ForceLess
Only the most ardent of air power historians know the name of General Laurence S. Kuter, despite the fact he welded a B-17 group into a cohesive fighting force, was the deputy commander of allied tactical air forces in North Africa, and later served as commander of the Military Air Transport Service, Air University, Far East Air Forces—later Pacific Air Forces—and finally as a Commander-in-Chief of the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD). The biography of Larry Kuter is the biography of the United States Air Corps, Army Air Forces and U.S. Air Force
Bradley J. Birzer
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780813166186
- eISBN:
- 9780813166643
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813166186.003.0007
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
This chapter considers Kirk’s ideas on natural law, natural rights, justice, and Western and American civilization and looks at his friendship with Arizona senator and 1964 Republican president ...
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This chapter considers Kirk’s ideas on natural law, natural rights, justice, and Western and American civilization and looks at his friendship with Arizona senator and 1964 Republican president candidate Barry Goldwater. It describes how Kirk became the leading theorist behind the Goldwater movement and how he was eventually separated from that movement.Less
This chapter considers Kirk’s ideas on natural law, natural rights, justice, and Western and American civilization and looks at his friendship with Arizona senator and 1964 Republican president candidate Barry Goldwater. It describes how Kirk became the leading theorist behind the Goldwater movement and how he was eventually separated from that movement.
Daniel Stone
- Published in print:
- 1999
- Published Online:
- February 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781874774594
- eISBN:
- 9781800340695
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781874774594.003.0025
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
This chapter presents a brief analysis of Larry Wolff's Inventing Eastern Europe. The book aims to deconstruct the term ‘eastern Europe’, arguing that the modern view of this region as exotic and ...
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This chapter presents a brief analysis of Larry Wolff's Inventing Eastern Europe. The book aims to deconstruct the term ‘eastern Europe’, arguing that the modern view of this region as exotic and backward took form in the eighteenth century — a point that provides much food for thought. Wolff argues his central point, that west Europeans had an exotic image of eastern Europe in the eighteenth century, convincingly, although his evidence suggests that the image took only preliminary form then. He observes in passing, however, that this image only became a full-blown ‘phantasmagoria’ in the nineteenth century. Despite the truly impressive amount of western European literature that Wolff has uncovered to support his thesis, some of his points seem forced. The chapter thus undertakes an analysis of the book's weaker points.Less
This chapter presents a brief analysis of Larry Wolff's Inventing Eastern Europe. The book aims to deconstruct the term ‘eastern Europe’, arguing that the modern view of this region as exotic and backward took form in the eighteenth century — a point that provides much food for thought. Wolff argues his central point, that west Europeans had an exotic image of eastern Europe in the eighteenth century, convincingly, although his evidence suggests that the image took only preliminary form then. He observes in passing, however, that this image only became a full-blown ‘phantasmagoria’ in the nineteenth century. Despite the truly impressive amount of western European literature that Wolff has uncovered to support his thesis, some of his points seem forced. The chapter thus undertakes an analysis of the book's weaker points.
Joseph E. Stiglitz
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231143653
- eISBN:
- 9780231527866
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231143653.003.0010
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Public and Welfare
Shortly before the current Iraq War, Bush administration economist Larry Lindsey suggested that the costs of war might range between $100 billion and $200 billion, other officials quickly demurred. ...
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Shortly before the current Iraq War, Bush administration economist Larry Lindsey suggested that the costs of war might range between $100 billion and $200 billion, other officials quickly demurred. But it is now clear that Lindsey's numbers were a gross underestimate. Concerned that the Bush administration might be misleading everyone about the Iraq War's costs, the author teamed up with Linda Bilmes, a budget expert at Harvard, to examine the issue. This chapter presents their findings. Among them is that the estimated costs of war range from slightly less than a trillion dollars (conservative estimate) to more than $2 trillion (moderate estimate). Their calculations incorporated the future burden on the government's budget of additional military pensions and the impact of higher oil prices on the economy as well as the opportunity cost of government spending diverted from other areas to fighting the war. Needless to say, all of the types of costs considered have continued to rise since the estimates here were prepared.Less
Shortly before the current Iraq War, Bush administration economist Larry Lindsey suggested that the costs of war might range between $100 billion and $200 billion, other officials quickly demurred. But it is now clear that Lindsey's numbers were a gross underestimate. Concerned that the Bush administration might be misleading everyone about the Iraq War's costs, the author teamed up with Linda Bilmes, a budget expert at Harvard, to examine the issue. This chapter presents their findings. Among them is that the estimated costs of war range from slightly less than a trillion dollars (conservative estimate) to more than $2 trillion (moderate estimate). Their calculations incorporated the future burden on the government's budget of additional military pensions and the impact of higher oil prices on the economy as well as the opportunity cost of government spending diverted from other areas to fighting the war. Needless to say, all of the types of costs considered have continued to rise since the estimates here were prepared.
Jane Blocker
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816696970
- eISBN:
- 9781452952321
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816696970.003.0006
- Subject:
- Art, Visual Culture
This chapter considers Claire Bishop’s critique of Goat Island’s final performance called The Lastmaker (2007-9), in which she accused it of failing to be contemporary. It examines a particular scene ...
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This chapter considers Claire Bishop’s critique of Goat Island’s final performance called The Lastmaker (2007-9), in which she accused it of failing to be contemporary. It examines a particular scene in which Mark Jeffery impersonates queer British comedian Larry Grayson in the guise of St. Francis of Assisi, and thinks critically about the extent to which minoritarian subjects are able to claim some part of the now.Less
This chapter considers Claire Bishop’s critique of Goat Island’s final performance called The Lastmaker (2007-9), in which she accused it of failing to be contemporary. It examines a particular scene in which Mark Jeffery impersonates queer British comedian Larry Grayson in the guise of St. Francis of Assisi, and thinks critically about the extent to which minoritarian subjects are able to claim some part of the now.
Daniel M. Ogilvie
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- April 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195157468
- eISBN:
- 9780199894024
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195157468.003.0023
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
This chapter describes two men — Larry Walters and Marshall Herff Applewhite — who took elaborate steps in efforts to fly. Little is known about the childhoods of either of them, and that places us ...
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This chapter describes two men — Larry Walters and Marshall Herff Applewhite — who took elaborate steps in efforts to fly. Little is known about the childhoods of either of them, and that places us in the precarious position that Freud was in when he transformed his speculations about Leonardo's early experiences into facts and proceeded to use these “facts” to support his “looking for sex” theory of flying. The total absence of early childhood information about Walters and Applewhite precludes any opportunity to play a connect-the-dots game. However, by now, there is a premise about flying fantasies that can be informed and elaborated on by considering the actions of Walters and Applewhite. That premise is that the ambition to rise into the air is a product of latent desires to restore ineffable body sensations that once, a long time ago, before the dawn of consciousness, had been associated with the pleasures of intersubjective union with the mother.Less
This chapter describes two men — Larry Walters and Marshall Herff Applewhite — who took elaborate steps in efforts to fly. Little is known about the childhoods of either of them, and that places us in the precarious position that Freud was in when he transformed his speculations about Leonardo's early experiences into facts and proceeded to use these “facts” to support his “looking for sex” theory of flying. The total absence of early childhood information about Walters and Applewhite precludes any opportunity to play a connect-the-dots game. However, by now, there is a premise about flying fantasies that can be informed and elaborated on by considering the actions of Walters and Applewhite. That premise is that the ambition to rise into the air is a product of latent desires to restore ineffable body sensations that once, a long time ago, before the dawn of consciousness, had been associated with the pleasures of intersubjective union with the mother.
Larry McDermott
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- September 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781447352563
- eISBN:
- 9781447352655
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447352563.003.0019
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gerontology and Ageing
This chapter talks about Larry McDermott's work, which focuses on environmental stewardship and 'conservation' that includes engaging with Indigenous law and the commitments made in treaties between ...
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This chapter talks about Larry McDermott's work, which focuses on environmental stewardship and 'conservation' that includes engaging with Indigenous law and the commitments made in treaties between Indigenous nations and settler governments. It analyzes how Indigenous peoples factor into community wellbeing on a local level, through honouring all of life, all of creation, and the fact that everything is connected. It also highlights international success and cooperation that have an impact on the health and wellbeing of Indigenous peoples locally. The chapter elaborates the socialization and culture for seniors, as the ability to get together, have fun, and share culture in a social atmosphere is so important. It mentions Plenty Canada, which provided a venue for the school board to do land-based learning through iLead, an Indigenous land-based learning program, in May 2020.Less
This chapter talks about Larry McDermott's work, which focuses on environmental stewardship and 'conservation' that includes engaging with Indigenous law and the commitments made in treaties between Indigenous nations and settler governments. It analyzes how Indigenous peoples factor into community wellbeing on a local level, through honouring all of life, all of creation, and the fact that everything is connected. It also highlights international success and cooperation that have an impact on the health and wellbeing of Indigenous peoples locally. The chapter elaborates the socialization and culture for seniors, as the ability to get together, have fun, and share culture in a social atmosphere is so important. It mentions Plenty Canada, which provided a venue for the school board to do land-based learning through iLead, an Indigenous land-based learning program, in May 2020.
