Network by Lee Hall (review) McCaslin-Doyle, John
Theatre Journal,
12/2019, Letnik:
71, Številka:
4
Journal Article, Book Review
Recenzirano
...Hall created a script lacking furor and satirical lift. Jan Versqeyveld's unit set and lighting design was shiny and impressive; however, much of it was designed not to be viewed directly by the ...audience in the house, but rather via television screens placed on the stage and over aisle ways, simulating a live television broadcast rather than a play. Audience members willing and able to pay $400 a ticket could sit on the stage left wings drinking, dining, and watching the show in what appeared to be a modern, crystal-clean Manhattan bar/coffee café hybrid.
Post-World War I Federal Reserve System policy focused on reducing price levels. Faith in liquidationist ideas led Federal Reserve officials to maintain tight-money policies during the depression of ...1920–1921. Farmers suffering through this economic crisis objected to contemporary monetary policy. Organized labor and leading Progressive reformer Robert M. La Follette Sr. seconded their criticism. Postwar challenges to the nation’s financial leadership and its priorities bore tangible results by producing a number of notable reforms, including modifications of Federal Reserve policy and the Agricultural Credits Act of 1923. In the absence of similar political pressure during the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve System adhered to liquidationist ideas and did not pursue monetary expansion.
A series of recent reviews of the depression of 1920–1921 by Austrian School and libertarian economists have argued that the downturn demonstrates the poverty of Keynesian policy recommendations. ...However, these writers misrepresent important characteristics of the 1920–1921 downturn, understating the actions of the Federal Reserve and overestimating the relevance of the Harding administration’s fiscal policy. They also engage a caricatured version of Keynesian theory and policy, which ignores Keynes’s views on the efficacy of nominal wage reductions and the preconditions for monetary and fiscal intervention. This paper argues that the government’s response to the 1920–1921 depression was consistent with Keynesian recommendations. It offers suggestions for when Austrian School and Keynesian economics share common ground and argues that the two schools come into conflict primarily in downturns where nominal interest rates are low and demand is depressed. Neither of these conditions held true in the 1920–1921 depression.
This long-neglected slice of American history is a saga of the conflicting political, economic, and cultural forces that shaped the power structure of twentieth-century America.
six Dykeman, Wilma
Family of Earth,
09/2016
Book Chapter
It was july the year I was six years old that the man came into our yard and gave us a foretaste of the years which were to come. My father was working in the ground beside the rows of pines he had ...planted, when the stranger came up the driveway. He had parked his bright new-model car in front of our gate and was walking gingerly over our bridge. He came even more gingerly along the gravel, then stepped off onto the clipped grass. His shoes were shiny like the car, sporty brown and white they were. I remember
According to his obituary published in the New York Times on May 9, 1952, William Fox (1879-1952) had built, before the October 1929 stock market crash, a producing, distributing, and exhibiting ...motion picture empire valued at $300 million (L23). The author writes that in the spring of 1928, "All the major studios chose to adopt Fox's Movietone sound-on-film system instead of Warner Bros.' Of the "twelve inaugural Academy Awards, Fox Film Corporation won five": Directing (Borzage for 7th Heaven); Actress (Gaynor for 7th Heaven, Street Angel, and Sunrise); Writing, (Adaptation) (Benjamin Glazer for 7th Heaven); Cinematography (Charles Rosher and Karl Struss for Sunrise); and Unique and Artistic Picture (Fox Film Corporation for Sunrise) (456). After the stock market crash on October 29, 1929, Fox was unable to pay back his loans.
Before the Civil War, the primary form of theater organization was the stock company, which produced multiple plays in repertory and hired a central group of performers, as well as "traveling stars ...for limited engagements," and performed at different theaters (p. 10). Performance, Gender and Identity in a Golden Age ofAmerican Theater aims to show that pre-Civil War actresses in the South both reflected and challenged the social expectations of their audiences. Chapters 6 and 7 examine the varied roles antebellum actresses played in light of their challenges to "polar ideas of sexuality" and their conceptions of race, which Warren asserts "blurred racial boundaries and exposed the social construction of race" (pp. 121, 154).
