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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Harold Schechter
As Chicago's first African-American mayor, Harold Lee Washington led the city to "a new age when the government truly served all of its citizens, not just a select few." This is the first book to look at the major formative influence of his life: his family. From Isam Washington, a former slave who mustered in the 8th U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery; to Isam McDaniel (Mack) who moved the family to Illinois; to Harold's father Roy, an attorney; to, finally, Harold himself, his military service in the Pacific, his studies at Northwestern University Law School, and the start of his political career culminating in his election to mayor. The book is also a guide to others interested in researching Black family history; the second half is devoted to an explanation of the author's research and methodology. Appendices include: A Brief History of Ballard County; Civilian Conservation Corps Records of Harold Washington; Military Service Records of Harold Washington; and, Harold Washington's Ancestry, Place Sorted List. Numerous photographs and genealogical documents, tables, a pedigree chart of Harold Lee Washington, and a full-name index add to the value of this work.
This power-packed paperback abridged edition of the acclaimed Collected Works of Harold Clurman, originally published by Applause in a 1200-page hardcover edition, fully covers all the major landmarks and issues of 20th Century theatre. It includes Clurman on theatre's major players: O'Neill, Ibsen, Williams, Odets, Mamet, et al. He was also a master critic of and voice on the world's major theatre companies: the Moscow Art Theatre, Comedie Francaise, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and, of course, on his own Group Theatre, legendary breeding ground of method acting. The volume also offers readers Clurman's landmark discussions on acting, directing, and the art of performance. Unlike most of the great figures of 20th Century theatre, Clurman, luckily for us, regularly put his thoughts down in writing.
The Book of Harold is as profound and deeply respectful a novel as it is irreverent in its wild, often hilarious take on a modern messianic movement in suburbia. The titular and sometimes exasperating hero of this masterful satire is Harold Peeks, a middle-aged suburbanite living a lonely if typical modern life in the outskirts of Houston, Texas. His world feels bland and pointless until one evening at a mundane office party he announces to his stunned co-workers that he is the Second Coming of Christ. Oddly enough, people start to believe him. Blake Waterson, Harold's closest friend and narrator of the novel, is as skeptical as anyone of this disheveled and disconcertingly bawdy Savior and yet this would-be Judas is compelled to follow Harold on his two-hundred mile walking journey to Austin with a mismatched group of equally puzzled disciples. On the road, this motley crew of witnesses to the holy get to experience misguided converts, violent possums, and the ungrateful recipients of off-kilter healings.They also discover the inherent paradoxes, absurdities, and dangers of spirituality, as they learn that saviors may not have all the answers, and humanity is just as bizarre and beautiful as the beliefs we hold.
The Thirteen Truly Great Things in Life - Harold Bell Wright
Bell Wright Harold Bell Wright; Harold Bell Wright
Book Jungle
2007
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The Experimental Plays of Harold Pinter offers a fresh approach to the plays of Nobel Prize laureate Harold Pinter. He is highlighted as an experimental playwright who attempted to free the theatre from the legacy of realism, causality, and motivation. His plays are read in relation to the avant-garde movements in the visual arts and music that flourished in the twentieth century. Scolnicov's new interdisciplinary perspective sets Pinter’s dramatic works against a background of the other arts and yields new insights into the themes and structure of the plays, underlining their evolving innovativeness. Such an approach has not been attempted to date, and Pinter’s plays are usually discussed in the context of their contemporary drama and theatre. This shift of interpretive focus requires a radical change in the acting technique called for by Pinter’s plays. The intermedial reading offered in the book also carries wider implications for the development of theatre studies. Twentieth-century dramatic criticism has lagged behind art criticism and has not been quick enough to develop adequate tools for the analysis of Pinter’s experiments with theatrical form. Scolnicov borrows from the ideas of different contemporary art movements, such as hyperrealism, surrealism, abstract expressionism, minimalism, conceptual art, and abstract art to better understand his work. Pinter also adapted techniques from music, film, and literature, constantly re-defining the limits of dramatic art and theatre in his plays.
Churchill's Secret Commander: Harold Wilkinson Goulding Dso
Laurence de Mello; Jill Goulding
Trine Day
2025
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The Contemplation of Harold: For the New World Emergent
Avo Trevino
Dorrance Publishing Co.
2022
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COME TOGETHERA money back guaranteeThe only place for you and meCome black, come white, come all to seeThe comfort found in unityCome Together: The belief in and application of the inalienable rights of all men is the codified stalwart benchmark against which all nations should measure their standards and progress. And although admittedly imperfect, it should be with pride and a sense of communal purpose that we stand shoulder to shoulder as a multi-cultural assembly, bearing daily witness to the Providential power of the unified diverse. May our collective efforts in this regard be Heavenly blessed. 1.) Is it by accident, or Divine fate that the United States of America is the world's melting pot; the sought after hallowed ground, perennially drawing to it the myriad of masses?2.) Do we have a unique obligation to actively exemplify the enviable qualities of mutual respect and appreciation for our varied ethnicities, conventions and customs?3.) By what means do men evolve from a mere tolerance of different philosophies and practices to a deferential regard?
The Contemplation of Harold: For The New World Emergent
Avo Trevino
Dorrance Publishing Co.
2022
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Memoirs of Lancaster Gunner Harold Sydney Hayward
Jacqui Hayward
Independently Published
2019
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This book is based upon the memoirs of my dad, Harold Sydney Hayward, which tell of his exploits as a Lancaster Bomber Gunner in the Royal Air Force between 25 February 1939 and 31 July 1945. My dad had always been reluctant to talk about what happened during this period for reasons which will become evident as you read this book. It is thanks to my mum, Emily Hayward, who over the years, was able to prise out from my dad what happened to him during those years, and she kept notes of what he said. Mum's notes were kept among our family memorabilia which included, photos and papers, which I uncovered when mum died on 10 March 2003 which was almost three years later to the day when dad died, on 12 March 2000.Having read my mum's notes, I believe my dad's story is a story that must be told and preserved for posterity, not only for him but for the thousands of young men, aged between 19 and 25, who died taking the fight to the enemy until ground forces could be mobilized for D-Day, June 1944. My dad's story gives a first-hand account of what Bomber Command aircrews actually went through and although a memorial in Green Park in London was unveiled by Queen Elizabeth II on 28 June 2012 to highlight the heavy casualties suffered by the aircrews during the war, this is a poor substitute for the words of someone who was there in the thick of it and who lived to tell his story. This was my dad.
Born in 1924 in Oklahoma, Harold Bradley would live through the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl and become part of America s Greatest Generation. ---------- As a young man Mr. Bradley would join the fight in WW 2 as part of the 740th Tank Battailon. He would travel to Britain, then arrive on the Normandy shore only days after D- Day. From there his unit would travel across France and fight in the Battle of the Bulge and break through the Siegfried Line. ---------- He would become Sergeant Bradley as a Tank commander with the 740th Daredevils and be awarded a Silver Star and a Purple Heart for his action.
The Urantia Diaries of Harold and Martha Sherman: Volume Two: 1942
Matthew Block; Saskia Praamsma
Square Circles Publishing
2018
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The years from approximately 1924 to 1955, in which the evolving manuscript of the Urantia revelation was shared with a small group in Chicago called the Forum, is an intriguing period in the history of the Urantia Book and its readership. Only one source of extensive and detailed information about this period has come to light: the diaries and letters of bestselling author Harold M. Sherman and his wife Martha. During their stay in Chicago, from 1942 to 1947, the Shermans recorded what was said and done at every Forum meeting they attended. They also recorded their conversations with their Forum friends outside Forum meetings. Their diligent documenting resulted in close to two thousand pages of eyewitness accounts which portray Forum life with unmatched vividness and immediacy.What makes their story especially piquant is that Harold was a controversial figure. Outspokenly critical of some of the plans of the Forum leaders, he was accused by the main leader, Dr. William S. Sadler, of disrupting the superhumanly authorized running of the Forum. Sadler allowed the Shermans to continue to attend Forum meetings, but they became estranged from most of their fellow Forumites. Feeling unjustly blamed, the Shermans wrote sharp, critical reports of the ensuing Forum activities, which contrast with the vague, rosy accounts given decades later by non-Forumites.Volume One presents the correspondence Sherman had with Sadler and two other notable Forumites in 1941 and early 1942, before the Shermans came to Chicago in May 1942 and began attending the Forum.Volume Two, covering May to December 1942, records the Shermans' first flush of enthusiasm for the Urantia revelation as well as the events that culminated in the first major conflict among Urantia believers.The volume opens as the Shermans arrive in Chicago, begin reading the Urantia papers and attend the Sunday Forum meetings. Together with the renowned Arctic explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins, the three become favored Forumites. But, as Harold reads the manuscript and learns of Sadler's plans to set up a foundation for publishing the Urantia Book and to form an official membership organization for Urantia believers, he is besieged by questions and concerns. Not satisfied with Sadler's responses to these concerns, Harold helps write a petition, signed by almost fifty Forumites, asking Sadler to allow a free and open discussion of the planned organizations. Upon receiving the petition, Sadler orchestrates a reaction which, in the course of a few days, succeeds in quashing virtually all sympathy for Harold and his proposals. In the space of less than a month, the Shermans go from being favored Forum members to being largely shunned. The few Forumites who approach the Shermans confide in them their confoundment at Sadler's actions, which have revealed to them an unexpected, dark side to their long-respected leader's character.
The Urantia Diaries of Harold and Martha Sherman: Volume Four: 1944-1945
Matthew Block; Saskia Praamsma
Square Circles Publishing
2018
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In this volume Harold and Martha Sherman report their Urantia-related experiences for the years 1944 and 1945. During this period the Forum hears the papers that became Part III of the Urantia Book, and the Shermans record their impressions of each paper as well as their discussions with Forum friends on these and other subjects. No longer in the forefront of controversy, the Shermans quietly maintain their criticisms of Dr. Sadler's handling of the papers. In late 1945 a frank meeting with Harry Loose's close friend, Reverend Williams, causes the Shermans to reflect anew on their involvement with the Urantia project, resulting in a turning point of sorts.
The Urantia Diaries of Harold and Martha Sherman: Volume Five: 1946-1955
Matthew Block; Saskia Praamsma
Square Circles Publishing
2018
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This volume documents the years 1946 to 1955, spanning Harold and Martha Sherman's last year and a half as Forumites and the period leading up to the long-awaited publication of the Urantia Book. In the summer of 1947, their younger daughter having graduated high school, the Shermans decided to move to their cottage in the Arkansas Ozarks. Finding little inspiration in the Jesus papers and frustrated by the stalemate in their relationship with the Forum leaders, the Shermans made their last appearance at 533 Diversey Parkway in December of 1947.With Arkansas as his home base, Harold continued a busy career as a writer and traveling lecturer. After gaining entree into the New Thought movement as a speaker and teacher in the early 1950s, he became nationally known, but he continually sought to reach the wider public through film, television and radio. During his respites in Arkansas, he was active in community development projects, campaigning for paved roads, electrification and tourist attractions. But, as the Cold War developed and the threat of atomic war loomed, and as UFO sightings were gaining international attention, Harold was most concerned with trying to help people realize their "higher powers of mind" so as to forestall disaster and steer the world in a better direction.During these years the Shermans kept in regular contact with a few Forumites, including Elsie Baumgartner, Rachel Gusler, and Sir Hubert Wilkins. Their letters-touching on matters personal, political, philosophical, and spiritual-provide a glimpse into the concerns and perspectives of members of the first generation of serious students of the Urantia papers. In their travels Harold and/or Martha met or renewed their acquaintance with a number of other Forumites and former Forumites, recording their experiences in letters and diary entries. Further, Harold was instrumental in sparking San Diego businessman Webster Stafford's enthusiasm for the Urantia papers and other purported revelations. Stafford's documents, reproduced in this volume, represent the first known attempt to appreciate the Urantia papers in the broader context of comparative analysis.
Illuminating and timely, this book offers an in depth exploration of a 20th century intellectual landmark, Harold Lasswell’s proposal for the policy sciences. This proposal, though always controversial, stands out as a unique and comprehensive effort at advancing a policy focus in the social sciences by means of enhancing orientation to context.Douglas Torgerson argues that Lasswell stands apart in the policy landscape, his extraordinary focus on context constituting a distinct critical dimension. Torgerson presents the historical emergence of Lasswell’s proposal as a four-phase process, ranging from the 1920s to the 1970s. Chapters explore the ramifications of Lasswell’s contextual focus in that, whatever his intention, he anticipated a radical democratic goal. In today’s world, as authoritarian populism threatens democracy, policy research can no longer take for granted a liberal democratic context. Researchers must protect free inquiry, safeguarding their own work while expanding and securing democratic freedoms.Offering key insights into one of the 20th century’s most forward-looking political scientists, this book is essential reading for the full range of established scholars, policy professionals, graduate students, and everyone who is interested in the relationship between policy and political theory.
The View from Malakand: Harold Deane’s ‘Note on Udyana and Gandhara’
Llewelyn Morgan; Luca Maria Oliveri
Archaeopress
2022
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The View from Malakand: Harold Deane’s ‘Note on Udyana and Gandhara’ presents an edition with introductions and extensive commentary of a manuscript, discovered by Luca M. Olivieri in the fort at Malakand, Swat, Pakistan, of a seminal and pioneering account of the antiquities of Swat and Peshawar by Harold Deane. The article of which this manuscript is an earlier draft, the first significant contribution to the archaeology of Swat, was published in the Journal of the Asiatic Society (1896), and the manuscript contains interesting additional information that did not make the final text. The book presents and transcribes the manuscript, also including introductory material on its discovery and the life and significance of Deane, and (most importantly) extended notes identifying and describing the places that Deane discusses in his article. The book thus doubles as a gazetteer of this immensely rich archaeological space, and a history of its archaeological discovery. The book includes images of the original article, the manuscript, some of the artefacts referred to by Deane in his article, and an appendix publishing a manuscript by J. W. McCrindle, ‘Alexander’s Campaign in Afghanistan’, found among a small number of Deane’s papers in the possession of his great-grandson in England, which is directly relevant to the composition of his article.
The Anthem Companion to Harold Garfinkel
ANTHEM PRESS
2023
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The Anthem Companion to Harold Garfinkel brings together leading scholars and upcoming researchers in contemporary ethnomethodology to bring out the experimental character of Garfinkel’s legacy in the social sciences and beyond. Therefore, the Companion takes its cue from Garfinkel’s noted “breaching experiments,” enabling the reflexive investigation of “trust conditions” in situ, and asks how this research interest has been productively pursued and distinctively rearticulated, both within and beyond Garfinkel’s oeuvre. Whilst Garfinkel’s experimental legacy is often acknowledged, no systematic introduction to its distinctive outlook, tension-riddled diversification, and heuristic interest(s) is available to date. The Anthem Companion to Harold Garfinkel both fills and reflects upon that “gap in the literature,” thereby articulating ethnomethodology’s experimental outlook, if not recasting its current research directions.
The classic story of the relationship between Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, and a unique portrait of the Bloomsbury Group. 'Vita and Harold have become part of our literature' OBSERVER