IN 1970, A TRAVEL EDITOR at theLos Angeles Timesasked me to go to Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Sinclair Lewis’s boyhood home, and write an article about the town believed to be the model for Gopher ...Prairie in the novelMain Street. Main Streetwas first published in 1920, and my piece would tie in with the fiftieth anniversary of the book’s release.
Ben Dubois was the last person alive in Sauk Centre who was born the same year as Lewis—1885—and who grew up with him. He affirmed that life in Sauk Centre was often painful for Harry
This essay examines the Proceedings of the Black State Conventions of the 1840s as political documents central to our understanding of early African American print culture and the role of print ...circulation, as metaphor and as medium, for defining participatory politics more generally in the early United States.¹ Just as the struggle against slavery and kidnapping generated the national conventions of the 1830s, activism for political rights, especially the suffrage, fueled the state conventions in the 1840s. The very acts of organizing and holding conventions to petition for voting and other rights created a public black civic presence, demonstrating that
sisällön kuvaus: Holiday Inn Helsinki City Centre -hotellia rakennetaan rautatieaseman ja Sanomatalon väliselle tontille, Elielinaukio 5, Etu-Töölö.
värillinen
Content description: Holiday Inn ...Helsinki City Centre Hotel is built on a plot between the railway station and Sanomatalo, Elielin Square 5, Etu-Töölö.
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Hong Kong’s Happy Valley, Pao Ma Di in Chinese, is an upper-middle-income section of Hong Kong Island sandwiched between the neighborhoods of Wanchai and Causeway Bay. It is the site of various roads ...and tunnels that lead to the southern part of the island, the famous horseracing track, and, for a time, the place where CPK cadres running Democratic Kampuchea’s import-export trading company made their home, at 39 Village Road.
Their leader was Van Rith, who came to resemble China’s own “red capitalist” of the 1970s and 1980s, Rong Yiren. Van Rith’s political education came early, having been imprisoned in
In 1927, the year after Henry Ford determined that Greenfield Village would be built on his land in Dearborn, he began dedicating his energies to its design. One of his intentions was to venerate ...Thomas Edison, the kind of man Ford felt was ignored in traditional histories. Ford planned to celebrate his friend and mentor by restoring and transplanting Edison’s Menlo Park laboratory—where between 1876 and 1886 Edison invented the telephone transmitter, phonograph, and incandescent lamp—from New Jersey to Dearborn. Unfortunately, with the exception of a photographic studio where the bulbs for Edison’s first incandescent lamps were blown,
In the conclusion to his 1985 bookWhen Was Wales?the historian Gwyn A. Williams declared that the Welsh were now ‘nothing but a naked people under an acid rain’ (305). Written in the aftermath of the ...antidevolution vote of 1979 and the fatal blow delivered to the economy and confidence by the defeat of the 1984 miners’ strike, Williams’s work, for all its tentative faith that some form of Wales will survive, is a litany of loss. Above all it mourns the loss of a Welshness of class and community which provided illuminating moments of inspiration, and in particular
sisällön kuvaus: Itäkeskus. Citymarketin rakentaminen, itäseinän pystytystä. Taustalla Puotinharju.
mustavalkoinen
Content description: East Centre. Construction of the City Market, erection of the ...eastern wall. In the background, Puotinharju.
black and white
Children love trains; they also love cranes. When I was a child, one of my favorite model railroad cars was one that had a crane mounted on it. The crane’s body swiveled, and the two cranks on its ...side raised and lowered the boom and the hook that hung from it. Derailments, which did not have to be simulated, were frequent, and the crane car was often brought into service to right the toppled rolling stock and lift it back onto the tracks. Cranes were also among my favorite Erector set building projects. My beginner set was limited in parts
Dans la foulée des expérimentations scéniques destinées à subvertir l’ensemble des codes représentationnels et, du coup, parallèlement à l’émergence d’un théâtre dit « postdramatique² », théoriciens ...et praticiens du théâtre se sont relayés tout au long du xxesiècle pour interroger et ébranler l’hégémonie de l’acteur dans le théâtre occidental : Appia l’a décrit en tant qu’agent du mouvement dégagé de l’emprise du texte ; Craig a désiré lui substituer un instrument, la surmarionnette, grâce auquel le metteur en scène parvient à exprimer et à incarner ses idées de manière plus précise ; Meyerhold a quant à lui développé les
L’image globale Jean-François Vallée
L'Ère électrique - The Electric Age,
09/2011
Book Chapter
Open access
Le 25 février 1966, le célèbre magazine de photojournalisme américainLifeattribue à Marshall McLuhan le statut d’« oracle de l’âge électrique¹ ». Près de trente ans plus tard, un peu moins d’une ...quinzaine d’années après le décès du penseur canadien des médias, la revueWired, symbole cette fois de la révolution électronique des années 1990, ressuscite la figure emblématique de McLuhan en choisissant d’en faire rien de moins que son « saint patron² ».
« Oracle électrique », « saint électronique » : ces expressions aux connotations franchement religieuses paraissent, à première vue, appropriées pour désigner celui qui a
