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A View From The Bridge was first staged on September 29, 1955, as a one-act verse drama at the Coronet Theatre on Broadway and the two-act version premiered in the New Watergate theatre club in London’s West End.
The set is a 1950s Italian-American neighborhood near the Brooklyn Bridge in New York. The narrator is Alfieri. The protagonist Eddie, is obsessed with Catherine, his wife’s orphaned niece and does not approve of her courtship.
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry debuted on Broadway in 1959. The title comes from the poem “Harlem” (also known as “A Dream Deferred” by Langston Hughes. The story tells of a black family’s experiences in “Clybourne Park”, a fictionalized version of the Washington Park Subdivision of Chicago’s Woodlawn neighborhood, as they attempt to improve their financial circumstances with an insurance payout following the death of the father. The New York Drama Critics’ Circle named it the best play of 1959. It is a story that is also played out in real life in Canada, everyday, in a dozen different languages.
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry debuted on Broadway in 1959. The title comes from the poem “Harlem” (also known as “A Dream Deferred” by Langston Hughes. The story tells of a black family’s experiences in “Clybourne Park”, a fictionalized version of the Washington Park Subdivision of Chicago’s Woodlawn neighborhood, as they attempt to improve their financial circumstances with an insurance payout following the death of the father. The New York Drama Critics’ Circle named it the best play of 1959.
Miller wrote All My Sons as a final attempt at writing a commercially successful play; he vowed to “find some other line of work” if the play did not find an audience. It is based upon a true story. It was a success in 1947 and ran until 1949. Henrik Ibsen’s influence on Miller is evidenced from the Ibsen play The Wild Duck in the theme of two partners in business where one is forced to take moral and legal responsibility for the other. For his criticism of the American Dream Arthur Miller was summoned before the House Un-American Activities Committee during the 1950s.
Holmes is hired by the débutante Lady Eva Blackwell to retrieve compromising letters from a blackmailer named Milverton who causes Holmes more revulsion than any of the 50-odd murderers in his career. Milverton demands £7,000 (over £800,000 in 2015) for the letters. Holmes offers £2,000 but Milverton insists. Holmes resolves to recover those letters by whatever means necessary.
Jabez Wilson, a London pawnbroker has red hair with a distinct flame-like hue. Wilson tells them that some weeks before he had responded to a newspaper want-ad offering highly-paid work to only red-headed male applicants. That’s when things went pear-shaped, my son.
Holmes and Watson rise unusually early one morning to meet a young woman who fears that her life is being threatened by her step-father, Dr. Grimesby Roylott, who used to be a doctor in Calcutta. He is now the cash-strapped last survivor of a violent, amoral Anglo-Saxon aristocratic Surrey family and lives in the heavily mortgaged Stoke Moran estate with the young lady, a band of gypsies, a cheetah and a baboon.
“Freely Translated out of the Ancient French into Modern English from the Original Unpublished Manuscript in the National Archives of France.” Joan’s six trials come to a conclusion during May of 1431 in Rouen. Merely 588 years ago.
“Freely Translated out of the Ancient French into Modern English from the Original Unpublished Manuscript in the National Archives of France.”
Joan’s six trials come to a conclusion during May, 1431 in Rouen. Merely 588 years before now.
De Conte is a fictionalized version of Joan of Arc’s page Louis de Contes, and provides narrative unity to the story. He is presented as an individual who was with Joan during the three major phases of her life – as a youth in Domremy, as the commander of Charles’ army on military campaign, and as a defendant at the trial in Rouen. The book is presented as a translation by Alden of de Conte’s memoirs, written in his later years for the benefit of his descendants.
May 8, 2019
Twain said, “I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well. And besides, it furnished me seven times the pleasure afforded me by any of the others; twelve years of preparation, and two years of writing. The others needed no preparation and got none.”
De Conte is a fictionalized version of Joan of Arc’s page Louis de Contes, and provides narrative unity to the story. He is presented as an individual who was with Joan during the three major phases of her life – as a youth in Domremy, as the commander of Charles’ army on military campaign, and as a defendant at the trial in Rouen. The book is presented as a translation by Alden of de Conte’s memoirs, written in his later years for the benefit of his descendants.
Mark Twain’s work on Joan of Arc is titled in full “Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte.” De Conte is identified as Joan’s page and secretary. For those who’ve always wanted to “get behind” the Joan of Arc story and to better understand just what happened, Twain’s narrative makes the story personal and very accessible.
The work is fictionally presented as a translation from the manuscript by Jean Francois Alden, or, in the words of the published book, “Freely Translated out of the Ancient French into Modern English from the Original Unpublished Manuscript in the National Archives of France.”
De Conte is a fictionalized version of Joan of Arc’s page Louis de Contes, and provides narrative unity to the story. He is presented as an individual who was with Joan during the three major phases of her life – as a youth in Domremy, as the commander of Charles’ army on military campaign, and as a defendant at the trial in Rouen. The book is presented as a translation by Alden of de Conte’s memoirs, written in his later years for the benefit of his descendants.
Twain based his descriptions of Joan of Arc on his daughter, Susy Clemens, as he remembered her at the age of seventeen. (Summary by Wikipedia and John Greenman) Read by John Greenman; total running time: 15:18:52.
Good Evening Listeners: Tonight is a very special science oriented show. I have selected three episodes of WIRED’s First Season of a show called 5 Levels. In these shows, a scientist will attempt to explain a particular cutting-edge scientific topic to a child, a teen, an undergraduate in the field concerned, a graduate in the field and finally, to a colleague in that field. First up is a talk on Quantum Computing, hosted by Talia Gershon. Next, is a talk about the Connectome Brain Mapping Project, hosted by Dr. Bobby Kashuri. The third talk is hosted by Neville Sanjana and deals with the CRISPR Gene Editor technology. To finish the evening, we are treated to Alok Bhardwaj’s TEDx presentation about his EPIC Privacy Browser project. You will hear a musical excerpt of Eye In The Sky by The Alan Parsons Project. In this evening, it is my hope and I think that also of WIRED that you will learn that complex concepts are easily grasped by anyone once the barrier of specialized language is removed. Let’s get started, shall we?
This book provides the history of one of the most renowned emperors of all time. The Great Khan. This was a man born Temujin to a clan leader father who was later poisoned. The family was left unprotected and without power to fend for themselves on the Eurasian Steppe. Genghis later rose to power and founded the Mongol Empire, one of the largest in all of history. Despite his great achievement and ferocious reputation there is much we do not know of him, even what he looked like. Historians state that there is not a single portrait of the man that survives to the present day. All current renditions are done after his death by people who never knew him. His death is recorded and his entombment discussed…but all remains to be found. The legend lives on as to what will happen when his burial place is found. Another quality history by Jacob Abbott.
The conclusion of Jacob Abbott’s wonderful biography of the famous Cleopatra of Egypt, written in a manner equally interesting to children and to adults.
Dude: Tune in next week for the story of Genghis Khan! (This story won’t be over until they find his grave say the old men)
A literary stir-fry consisting of two petitions from 1576 London on the subject of coffee with Ladies taking the CON position and Gentlemen taking the PRO. A wonderful informative essay by Jack London about his self-education in the wider world, a timeless masterpiece by short story writer Saki entitled Filboid Studge and finally a commencement speech given by Mike Rowe. (the Dirty Job man from the TV Show.)
There are very few persons who have not heard of the fame of Peter the Great, the founder, as he is generally regarded by mankind, of Russian civilization. The celebrity, however, of the great Muscovite sovereign among young persons is due in a great measure to the circumstance of his having repaired personally to Holland, in the course of his efforts to introduce the industrial arts among his people, in order to study himself the art and mystery of shipbuilding and of his having worked with his own hands in a ship-yard there. The little shop where Peter pursued these practical studies still stands in Saardam, a ship-building town not far from Amsterdam. The building is of wood, and is now much decayed; but, to preserve it from farther injury, it has been incased in a somewhat larger building of brick, and it is visited annually by great numbers of curious travelers. -From the forward of the book.
A scholarly paper by the German author Frank Usbeck exploring the use of Native Indian imagery in Nazi propaganda. A fascinating revelation resulting from deep research that teaches much about history, human nature, politics and displays patterns that may apply to many other scenarios, heretofore unexplored. Comes with three musical selections to aid digestion.
“Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimaeras—dire stories of Celaeno and the Harpies—may reproduce themselves in the brain of superstition—but they were there before. They are transcripts, types—the archetypes are in us, and eternal. How else should the recital of that which we know in a waking sense to be false come to affect us at all? Is it that we naturally conceive terror from such objects, considered in their capacity of being able to inflict upon us bodily injury? O, least of all! These terrors are of older standing. They date beyond body—or without the body, they would have been the same… . That the kind of fear here treated is purely spiritual—that it is strong in proportion as it is objectless on earth, that it predominates in the period of our sinless infancy—are difficulties the solution of which might afford some probable insight into our ante-mundane condition, and a peep at least into the shadowland of pre-existence.” —Charles Lamb: “Witches and Other Night-Fears”
Final Part of Jacob Abbott’s book, Alexander The Great.
When Alexander was 13 he began study under a Aristotle and at age 16 Alexander’s education ended. On either 10 or 11 June 323 BC, Alexander died in the palace of Nebuchadnezzar II, in Babylon, at age 32. He left an Empire that stretched from the Adriatic to the Indus River and a world that was changed forever - the one we now inhabit.
Next up: H. P. Lovecraft’s The Dunwich Horror Starts on Aug 1, 2018
Part Five of Six in a Presentation of Jacob Abbott’s book, Alexander The Great.
When Alexander was 13 he began study under a Aristotle and at age 16 Alexander’s education ended. On either 10 or 11 June 323 BC, Alexander died in the palace of Nebuchadnezzar II, in Babylon, at age 32. He left an Empire that stretched from the Adriatic to the Indus River and a world that was changed forever - the one we now inhabit.
Part Four of Six in a Presentation of Jacob Abbott’s book, Alexander The Great.
When Alexander was 13 he began study under a Aristotle and at age 16 Alexander’s education ended. On either 10 or 11 June 323 BC, Alexander died in the palace of Nebuchadnezzar II, in Babylon, at age 32. He left an Empire that stretched from the Adriatic to the Indus River and a world that was changed forever - the one we now inhabit.
Part Three of Six in a Presentation of Jacob Abbott’s book, Alexander The Great.
When Alexander was 13 he began study under a Aristotle and at age 16 Alexander’s education ended. On either 10 or 11 June 323 BC, Alexander died in the palace of Nebuchadnezzar II, in Babylon, at age 32. He left an Empire that stretched from the Adriatic to the Indus River and a world that was changed forever - the one we now inhabit.
Part Two of Six in a Presentation of Jacob Abbott’s book, Alexander The Great.
When Alexander was 13 he began study under a Aristotle and at age 16 Alexander’s education ended. On either 10 or 11 June 323 BC, Alexander died in the palace of Nebuchadnezzar II, in Babylon, at age 32. He left an Empire that stretched from the Adriatic to the Indus River and a world that was changed forever - the one we now inhabit.
Part One of Six in a Presentation of Jacob Abbott’s book, Alexander The Great.
When Alexander was 13 he began study under a Aristotle and at age 16 Alexander’s education ended. On either 10 or 11 June 323 BC, Alexander died in the palace of Nebuchadnezzar II, in Babylon, at age 32. He left an Empire that stretched from the Adriatic to the Indus River and a world that was changed forever - the one we now inhabit.
Part Two of An Evening With Mark Twain
We begin with a piece entitled:
“1601- A Conversation As It Was By The Social Fireside In The Time Of The Tudors” -a humorous piece of epic satire that answers the literary question, “How would Shakespeare describe a fart?”
We finish with an essay entitled, “Concerning The Jew” which was first published in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine Vol. 99 in Sep. of 1899. Besides the intellect, sagacity, common sense and humanity inherent in this essay, we are treated to the mellifluous voice of Michelle Fry of Baton Rouge, La. who is our narrator. It’s a win-win for those that tune in.
Part One of An Evening With Mark Twain
Beginning with an exceptional speech that will be invaluable to any student of Asian Affairs or Philippine history. It was aptly addressed to “Those Sitting In Darkness” by which Mark Twain meant the general public who had little access to the truth via their media of the day. (ring a bell?)
We finish with a hilarious description of Mark Twain’s coping with the then newly popular telephone and how weird it was to hear “one sided conversations” for the first time in human history. Similar to when people first got Bluetooth and everyone thought they were schizophrenics for talking out loud on the bus.
Hear the second set of important lectures by John Taylor Gatto. Mr. Gatto was a teacher for nearly 30 years and the recipient of the NY State Teacher of the Year Award in 1991, in addition to receiving the NYC TOTY Awards in 1989,1990 & 1991. He attended Cornell, UC Berkley, Yeshiva U, Hunter College, Reed College & U Pittsburg. These talks will air on Apr 4 and conclude on Apr 11. Whether you are a teacher, a student or the parent of a student – you will learn much from these talks.
Hear two important lectures by John Taylor Gatto. Mr. Gatto was a teacher for nearly 30 years and the recipient of the NY State Teacher of the Year Award in 1991, in addition to receiving the NYC TOTY Awards in 1989,1990 & 1991. He attended Cornell, UC Berkley, Yeshiva U, Hunter College, Reed College & U Pittsburg. These talks will air on Apr 4 and conclude on Apr 11. Whether you are a teacher, a student or the parent of a student – you will learn much from these talks.
