You have made yourself the Trustee for those in every country who seek to mend the evils of our condition by reasoned experiment within the framework of the existing social system. If you fail, rational change will be gravely prejudiced throughout the world, leaving orthodoxy and revolution to fight it out. But if you succeed, new and bolder methods will be tried everywhere, and we may date the first chapter of a new economic era from your accession to office. This is a sufficient reason why I should venture to lay my reflections before you, though under the disadvantages of distance and partial knowledge.
At the moment your sympathisers in England are nervous and sometimes despondent. We wonder whether the order of different urgencies is rightly understood, whether there is a confusion of aim, and whether some of the advice you get is not crack-brained and queer. If we are disconcerted when we defend you, this may be partly due to the influence of our environment in London. For almost everyone here has a wildly distorted view of what is happening in the United States. The average City man believes that you are engaged on a hare-brained expedition in face of competent advice, that the best hope lies in your ridding yourself of your present advisers to return to the old ways, and that otherwise the United States is heading for some ghastly breakdown. That is what they say they smell. There is a recrudescence of wise head-waging by those who believe that the nose is a nobler organ than the brain. London is convinced that we only have to sit back and wait, in order to see what we shall see. May I crave your attention, whilst I put my own view?
You are engaged on a double task, Recovery and Reform;--recovery from the slump and the passage of those business and social reforms which are long overdue. For the first, speed and quick results are essential. The second may be urgent too; but haste will be injurious, and wisdom of long- range purpose is more necessary than immediate achievement. It will be through raising high the prestige of your administration by success in short-range Recovery, that you will have the driving force to accomplish long-range Reform. On the other hand, even wise and necessary Reform may, in some respects, impede and complicate Recovery. For it will upset the confidence of the business world and weaken their existing motives to action, before you have had time to put other motives in their place. It may over-task your bureaucratic machine, which the traditional individualism of the United States and the old "spoils system" have left none too strong. And it will confuse the thought and aim of yourself and your administration by giving you too much to think about all at once.
Now I am not clear, looking back over the last nine months, that the order of urgency between measures of Recovery and measures of Reform has been duly observed, or that the latter has not sometimes been mistaken for the former. In particular, I cannot detect any material aid to recovery in N.I.R.A., though its social gains have been large. The driving force which has been put behind the vast administrative task set by this Act has seemed to represent a wrong choice in the order of urgencies. The Act is on the Statute Book; a considerable amount has been done towards implementing it; but it might be better for the present to allow experience to accumulate before trying to force through all its details. That is my first reflection--that N.I.R.A., which is essentially Reform and probably impedes Recovery, has been put across too hastily, in the false guise of being part of the technique of Recovery.
My second reflection relates to the technique of Recovery itself. The object of recovery is to increase the national output and put more men to work. In the economic system of the modern 2 world, output is primarily produced for sale; and the volume of output depends on the amount of purchasing power, compared with the prime cost of production, which is expected to come n the market. Broadly speaking, therefore, and increase of output depends on the amount of purchasing power, compared with the prime cost of production, which is expected to come on the market. Broadly speaking, therefore, an increase of output cannot occur unless by the operation of one or other of three factors. Individuals must be induced to spend more out o their existing incomes; or the business world must be induced, either by increased confidence in the prospects or by a lower rate of interest, to create additional current incomes in the hands of their employees, which is what happens when either the working or the fixed capital of the country is being increased; or public authority must be called in aid to create additional current incomes through the expenditure of borrowed or printed money. In bad times the first factor cannot be expected to work on a sufficient scale. The second factor will come in as the second wave of attack on the slump after the tide has been turned by the expenditures of public authority. It is, therefore, only from the third factor that we can expect the initial major impulse.
Now there are indications that two technical fallacies may have affected the policy of your administration. The first relates to the part played in recovery by rising prices. Rising prices are to be welcomed because they are usually a symptom of rising output and employment. When more purchasing power is spent, one expects rising output at rising prices. Since there cannot be rising output without rising prices, it is essential to ensure that the recovery shall not be held back by the insufficiency of the supply of money to support the increased monetary turn-over. But there is much less to be said in favour of rising prices, if they are brought about at the expense of rising output. Some debtors may be helped, but the national recovery as a whole will be retarded. Thus rising prices caused by deliberately increasing prime costs or by restricting output have a vastly inferior value to rising prices which are the natural result of an increase in the nation's purchasing power.
I do not mean to impugn the social justice and social expediency of the redistribution of incomes aimed at by N.I.R.A. and by the various schemes for agricultural restriction. The latter, in particular, I should strongly support in principle. But too much emphasis on the remedial value of a higher price-level as an object in itself may lead to serious misapprehension as to the part which prices can play in the technique of recovery. The stimulation of output by increasing aggregate purchasing power is the right way to get prices up; and not the other way round.
Thus as the prime mover in the first stage of the technique of recovery I lay overwhelming emphasis on the increase of national purchasing power resulting from governmental expenditure which is financed by Loans and not by taxing present incomes. Nothing else counts in comparison with this. In a boom inflation can be caused by allowing unlimited credit to support the excited enthusiasm of business speculators. But in a slump governmental Loan expenditure is the only sure means of securing quickly a rising output at rising prices. That is why a war has always caused intense industrial activity. In the past orthodox finance has regarded a war as the only legitimate excuse for creating employment by governmental expenditure. You, Mr President, having cast off such fetters, are free to engage in the interests of peace and prosperity the technique which hitherto has only been allowed to serve the purposes of war and destruction.
The set-back which American recovery experienced this autumn was the predictable consequence of the failure of your administration to organise any material increase in new Loan expenditure during your first six months of office. The position six months hence will entirely depend on whether you have been laying the foundations for larger expenditures in the near future.
I am not surprised that so little has been spent up-to-date. Our own experience has shown how difficult it is to improvise useful Loan-expenditures at short notice. There are many obstacle to be 3 patiently overcome, if waste, inefficiency and corruption are to be avoided. There are many factors, which I need not stop to enumerate, which render especially difficult in the United States the rapid improvisation of a vast programme of public works. I do not blame Mr Ickes for being cautious and careful. But the risks of less speed must be weighed against those of more haste. He must get across the crevasses before it is dark.
The other set of fallacies, of which I fear the influence, arises out of a crude economic doctrine commonly known as the Quantity Theory of Money. Rising output and rising incomes will suffer a set-back sooner or later if the quantity of money is rigidly fixed. Some people seem to infer from this that output and income can be raised by increasing the quantity of money. But this is like trying to get fat by buying a larger belt. In the United States to-day your belt is plenty big enough for your belly. It is a most misleading thing to stress the quantity of money, which is only a limiting factor, rather than the volume of expenditure, which is the operative factor.
It is an even more foolish application of the same ideas to believe that there is a mathematical relation between the price of gold and the prices of other things. It is true that the value of the dollar in terms of foreign currencies will affect the prices of those goods which enter into international trade. In so far as an over-valuation of the dollar was impeding the freedom of domestic price- raising policies or disturbing the balance of payments with foreign countries, it was advisable to depreciate it. But exchange depreciation should follow the success of your domestic price-raising policy as its natural consequence, and should not be allowed to disturb the whole world by preceding its justification at an entirely arbitrary pace. This is another example of trying to put on flesh by letting out the belt.
These criticisms do not mean that I have weakened in my advocacy of a managed currency or in preferring stable prices to stable exchanges. The currency and exchange policy of a country should be entirely subservient to the aim of raising output and employment to the right level. But the recent gyrations of the dollar have looked to me more like a gold standard on the booze than the ideal managed currency of my dreams.
You may be feeling by now, Mr President, that my criticism is more obvious than my sympathy. Yet truly that is not so. You remain for me the ruler whose general outlook and attitude to the tasks of government are the most sympathetic in the world. You are the only one who sees the necessity of a profound change of methods and is attempting it without intolerance, tyranny or destruction. You are feeling your way by trial and error, and are felt to be, as you should be, entirely uncommitted in your own person to the details of a particular technique. In my country, as in your own, your position remains singularly untouched by criticism of this or the other detail. Our hope and our faith are based on broader considerations.
If you were to ask me what I would suggest in concrete terms for the immediate future, I would reply thus.
In the field of gold-devaluation and exchange policy the time has come when uncertainty should be ended. This game of blind man's buff with exchange speculators serves no useful purpose and is extremely undignified. It upsets confidence, hinders business decisions, occupies the public attention in a measure far exceeding its real importance, and is responsible both for the irritation and for a certain lack of respect which exists abroad. You have three alternatives. You can devalue the dollar in terms of gold, returning to the gold standard at a new fixed ratio. This would be inconsistent with your declarations in favour of a long-range policy of stable prices, and I hope you will reject it. You can seek some common policy of exchange stabilisation with Great Britain aimed at stable price-levels. This would be the best ultimate solution; but it is not practical politics at the 4 moment unless you are prepared to talk in terms of an initial value of sterling well below $5 pending the realisation of a marked rise in your domestic price-level. Lastly you can announce that you will definitely control the dollar exchange by buying and selling gold and foreign currencies so as to avoid wide or meaningless fluctuations, with a right to shift the parities at any time but with a declared intention only so to do either to correct a serious want of balance in America's international receipts and payments or to meet a shift in your domestic price level relatively to price-levels abroad. This appears to me to be your best policy during the transitional period. In other respects you would regain your liberty to make your exchange policy subservient to the needs of your domestic policy--free to let out your belt in proportion as you put on flesh.
In the field of domestic policy, I put in the forefront, for the reasons given above, a large volume of Loan-expenditures under Government auspices. It is beyond my province to choose particular objects of expenditure. But preference should be given to those which can be made to mature quickly on a large scale, as for example the rehabilitation of the physical condition of the railroads. The object is to start the ball rolling. The United States is ready to roll towards prosperity, if a good hard shove can be given in the next six months. Could not the energy and enthusiasm, which launched the N.I.R.A. in its early days, be put behind a campaign for accelerating capital expenditures, as wisely chosen as the pressure of circumstances permits? You can at least feel sure that the country will be better enriched by such projects than by the involuntary idleness of millions.
I put in the second place the maintenance of cheap and abundant credit and in particular the reduction of the long-term rates of interest. The turn of the tide in great Britain is largely attributable to the reduction in the long-term rate of interest which ensued on the success of the conversion of the War Loan. This was deliberately engineered by means of the open-market policy of the Bank of England. I see no reason why you should not reduce the rate of interest on your long- term Government Bonds to 2½ per cent or less with favourable repercussions on the whole bond market, if only the Federal Reserve System would replace its present holdings of short-dated Treasury issues by purchasing long-dated issues in exchange. Such a policy might become effective in the course of a few months, and I attach great importance to it.
With these adaptations or enlargements of your existing policies, I should expect a successful outcome with great confidence. How much that would mean, not only to the material prosperity of the United States and the whole World, but in comfort to men's minds through a restsration of their faith in the wisdom and the power of Government.
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Looking for a young Asian-American female (Chinese, Korean, Cambodian, etc)
Please e-mail me with a photo and some information about yourself. Ill email you the script. If you love it, lets talk over coffee.
If interested, please email: PeterKimberlyFilms@ gmail.com
Please note: This is a student film, so we have a student budget. Although we do offer all the pizza you can eat on set.
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Roberta Fiore, founder of the Long Beach Historical Society and city historian for Long Beach, is the force behind the exhibit. “The Long Beach Museum is a Craftsman house,” Fiore said. “There was an era of design in the beginning of the 20th century that was a response to the industrial revolution and machine-made products.”
She said that furniture designer and architect Gustav Stickley (1858-1942) believed that hand-crafted items were superior to machine-made. He was upset that many things that had the look of handmade were of lesser quality and machine made. Some of his philosophies included a belief that a house was to be constructed in harmony with its landscape, with careful attention to the selection of building materials. His open floor plan invited family interaction and eliminated barriers wherever practical. He encouraged built-in benches, bookcases and sideboards to create a practical house, independent of total reliance upon furniture to make it useful and appealing. Groupings of windows allowed ample light inside and appealing views of the outside. These architectural elements were expanded on by Frank Lloyd Wright in the following decades.
“As part of the exhibit, you’ll sed Gustav Stickley desk, two chairs, American craftman furnishings and pottery,” Fiore said. “It is a small exhibit, but very attuned to educating people about what this movement is and what it means. Some of the earliest homes in Long Beach have American Craftman interiors. By walking around the museum, you’ll see samples of the Craftman era up close. Many of the houses on the block are Craftman houses. Long Bach was a planned Craftman community ifluenced by the 1904 Worlds Fair.
She added that as far as Nassau County’s foray into the Craftman cultue, Long Beach is the best example.
Visit the Long Beach Historical Museum, 226 W. Penn St., exhibit is free, but donations of $5 are appreciated, longbeachhistory.org, 516-432-1192.
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Looking for a young Asian-American female (Chinese, Korean, Cambodian, etc)
Please e-mail me with a photo and some information about yourself. Ill email you the script. If you love it, lets talk over coffee.
If interested, please email: PeterKimberlyFilms@ gmail.com
Please note: This is a student film, so we have a student budget. Although we do offer all the pizza you can eat on set.
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The show ran at the 13th Street Repertory Company this time 5 years ago and received rave reviews. I personally received some of the best notices of my life from this production. We didn't exactly to play to sold out houses, but the show was a personal triumph for me.
I mention this production because aside from a handful of other productions, CAT was the most joyous experience I have ever had as an actor. Everything was perfect. The part. The script. The director. I got very lucky that time around and that only happens once in a while in this business.
The cast included Nixon Cesar, a great actor that I had worked with in Israel Horovitz's LINE; Michael Andrews and George Carroll, who was fantastic as the character called The Bandit. These guys were wonderful to work with and I miss the good times we had putting this show together.
I musn't leave out guys like Jason Godbey, who did a great lighting design, set and costume designer Tom Harlan and Lorena Egan's spirited choreography. All were wonderful.
Of course, a huge reason why I did this production was to work with Stanley again. I learned a great deal from him during this production. I learned that acting wasn't rocket science and that first and foremost, an actor should have fun. At the time I started work on CAT, I forgot that as actors, we're supposed to play, to have fun and not treat acting as if it were a 9-5 job. Because of his guidance and care, Stanley helped me fall in love with acting all over again and as a result, the character of the Saint was very much pattered after Stanley; his mannerisms and way of speaking. The character wouldn't have come alive without Stanley and I will never forget him for his passion, knowledge and his friendship.
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Thank you Calvin Klein,...who'd 'a thunk it?
'But back to our little story.
So there I was packing my junk into my locker, and about to go home. Home to all the wonderful mayhem that awaits any Queer teenager with religious parents, and hateful siblings. Did I mention my tortured lonely boyhood? Where was this media alleged drooling army of sex maniacs when I needed them?
I swear, when I make that movie I've been threatening to do all these years I'm putting in a particular 'Dream' sequence. A prolonged Hitchcockian scene where me as a 14 year old, and my lust mates, real, and imagined does the hot'n "greasy hokey pokey" in the living room in front of my folks.
Yeah we'd be butt fucking, and sucking cock for all we was worth in front of my horrible siblings, various aunts, uncles, neighbors, and our parish priest. We'd be at it till the cows came stumbling home.
Back in the day I was a really cute little lad. Still had my girlish figure. Heck I ought to post some of them sissy snaps of me prance'n about grandma's yard wearing her flower bonnet, and high heels.
Well for this slippery film I'd be dressed in a ballerina's tutu. My fuckmates would be done up as raving drunken cowboys, and Jesus,..yeah the "Prince of Peace" makes a surprise cameo stuffed into a Bozo the Clown outfit that's four sizes too small for him, and mouth full of shark teeth,...that don't quite fit.
"Sundance" bait for sure.
However about the "Kiss" that hot'n nasty thing ya all waiting to hear about,...okay! Here's what 'Didn't happen.
"X",..my heart throb?
"X", as far as I recall didn't strip to his sweat socks in the faculty lounge, grab me by my innocent buns, and thrust himself madly upon me in hot grunting gasps till he came in great geyser's of boyish glee!!
Also as far as I recall there was no top hatted high step'n chorus line of naked catholic high school girls singing the then popular hit,..."You can't always get what you Want.
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I had a dream
I had a dream, Joe
I had a dream, Joe
You were standing in the middle of an open road
I had a dream, Joe
Your hands were raised up to the sky
And your mouth was covered in foam
I had a dream, Joe
A shadowy Jesus flitted from tree to tree
I had a dream, Joe
And a society of whores stuck needles in an image of me
I had a dream, Joe
It was Autumn time and thickly fell the leaves
And in that dream, Joe
A pimp in seersucker suit sucked a toothpick
And pointed his finger at me
I had a dream,
I had a dream,
I had a dream, Joe
I opened my eyes, Joe
The night had been a giant, dribbling and pacing the boards
I opened my eyes, Joe
All your letters and cards stacked up against the door
I opened my eyes, Joe
The morning light came slowly tumbling through the crack
In the window, Joe
And I thought of you and I felt like I was lugging
A body on my back
I had a dream,
I had a dream,
I had a dream, Joe
Where did you go, Joe?
On that endless, senseless, demented drift
Where did you go, Joe?
Into the woods, into the trees, where you move and shift
Where did you go, Joe?
All dressed up in your ridiculous seersucker suit
Where did you go, Joe.
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this joint made me laugh. i came across this joint over at one smart black man and figured i needed to share it with you all. enjoy.
Whats up, people? Hows everything going? OK, enough of the small talk; more about me. Im sore, tired and a little hungry. I just spent the afternoon being poked, prodded and seemingly molested by my friendly physician. I know that sounds grand and all - but it really wasnt. Why is it that whenever you go to the doctor, you have to fill out 50 million different forms about your illnesses? Its kind of invasive, dont you think? Why must they know all that?
I almost flipped out when I saw the depression section.
It had questions like:
Are you depressed? No, but if you diagnose me with something I cant pronounce, I might be.
Do you have suicidal thoughts? See above answer.
Do you have crying sessions? Men dont cry - we arent allowed to.
Im not much of a crier myself - never have been. However, when the nurse from hell tried to skewer me with demon needles to bleed me to death, Ill admit, some saline did inadvertently roll down my face (but I aint no punk or nothin - thats against the Man Laws).
The Man Laws - the secret set of rules and regulations that men are governed by. You have heard by its other name - THE CODE. It is distinctly against THE CODE for men to showcase any type of emotion - or they will be deemed soft or some other random reference to being less than masculine. Its not really fair but thats the way society has made things.
We are allowed to exhibit 3 types of emotions:
Laughter/Excitement. This is exhibited in our love of sports, cartoons, video games, action movies and random viewings of violence.
Lust/Hunger. It is our duty to enjoy the booty - as well as a good hearty sandwich. No spooning or eating things like Tostitos with a hint of lime.
Anger. Sadness takes a back seat to our good friend, Rage. Why talk things out when you can beat the hell out of someone?
If any other emotions are shown, you are immediately red-flagged and placed on the questionable list. Sensitivity is only good when following rule number 2 - other than that, men have no use for it.
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this joint made me laugh. i came across this joint over at one smart black man and figured i needed to share it with you all. enjoy.
Whats up, people? Hows everything going? OK, enough of the small talk; more about me. Im sore, tired and a little hungry. I just spent the afternoon being poked, prodded and seemingly molested by my friendly physician. I know that sounds grand and all - but it really wasnt. Why is it that whenever you go to the doctor, you have to fill out 50 million different forms about your illnesses? Its kind of invasive, dont you think? Why must they know all that?
I almost flipped out when I saw the depression section.
It had questions like:
Are you depressed? No, but if you diagnose me with something I cant pronounce, I might be.
Do you have suicidal thoughts? See above answer.
Do you have crying sessions? Men dont cry - we arent allowed to.
Im not much of a crier myself - never have been. However, when the nurse from hell tried to skewer me with demon needles to bleed me to death, Ill admit, some saline did inadvertently roll down my face (but I aint no punk or nothin - thats against the Man Laws).
The Man Laws - the secret set of rules and regulations that men are governed by. You have heard by its other name - THE CODE. It is distinctly against THE CODE for men to showcase any type of emotion - or they will be deemed soft or some other random reference to being less than masculine. Its not really fair but thats the way society has made things.
We are allowed to exhibit 3 types of emotions:
Laughter/Excitement. This is exhibited in our love of sports, cartoons, video games, action movies and random viewings of violence.
Lust/Hunger. It is our duty to enjoy the booty - as well as a good hearty sandwich. No spooning or eating things like Tostitos with a hint of lime.
Anger. Sadness takes a back seat to our good friend, Rage. Why talk things out when you can beat the hell out of someone?
If any other emotions are shown, you are immediately red-flagged and placed on the questionable list. Sensitivity is only good when following rule number 2 - other than that, men have no use for it.
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First and foremost, be sure you are doing this because your child really wants to do this and/or seems to be right for it and NOT because YOU want this for your child. If this is something you always wanted for yourself or if you are doing this because you want your child to become rich and famous, you should re-examine your goals.
If you coax or push your children into acting or modeling when they are really not interested, they will probably not be happy about it and so it is less likely that they will be successful. If by chance they are still successful, they may become resentful and more unhappy.
Successful child actors and models typically have one thing in common: they love it. It is important to discuss your childs feelings regularly because your child might find it fun at first but may lose interest or quit enjoying it at some point down the line. It can be hard work going to auditions (acting interviews) and go-sees (modeling interviews), especially since it often means a lot of time traveling and waiting. It also can mean a child will have to miss birthday parties or other fun activities with friends, and the whole process can be very tiring.
While it would be nice if your child could make a lot of money and become a famous actor or model, the chances of this happening are slim. Many actors make very little money, and only a select few become rich. Some children are able to put away enough money to pay for college, but many others make no money or make some money but it is not even enough to cover their expenses.
If you have a baby or toddler, it is hard to know whether he/she wants to become an actor or model. Ive heard parents of babies saying that they are doing this because their baby really wants to, and that always makes me chuckle. If your baby has many of the characteristics I mentioned in my previous post Is Your Child Right for Showbiz?, and this is something youve thought seriously about and want to give it a try, then go for it. Of course, it is important to examine how your baby responds at auditions and go-sees and even more at jobs to make sure that it is a fun experience and not stressful for your baby.
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- 'Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be long before $2,000.00 will only buy a used one.'
- 'If cigarettes keep going up in price, I'm going to quit. A quarter a pack is ridiculous.'
- 'Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging a dime just to mail a letter?'
- 'If they raise the minimum wage to $1.00, nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store.'
- 'When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would someday cost 29 cents a gallon. Guess we'd be better off leaving the car in the garage.'
- 'Kids today are impossible. Those duck tail hair cuts make it impossible to stay groomed. Next thing you know, boys will be wearing their hair as long as the girls.'
- 'I'm afraid to send my kids to the movies any more. Ever since they let Clark Gable get by with saying DAMN in GONE WITH THE WIND, it seems every new movie has either HELL of DAMN in it.'
- 'I read the other day where some scientist thinks it's possible to put a man on the moon by the end of the century. They even have some fellows they call astronauts preparing for it down in Texas ..'
- 'Did you see where some baseball player just signed a contract for $75,000 a year just to play ball? It wouldn't surprise me if someday they'll be making more than the President.'
- 'I never thought I'd see the day all our kitchen appliances would be electric. They are even making electric typewriters now.'
- It's too bad things are so tough nowadays. I see where a few married women are having to work to make ends meet.'
- 'It won't be long before young couples are going to have to hire someone to watch their kids so they can both work.'
- 'Marriage doesn't mean a thing any more, those Hollywood stars seem to be getting divorced at the drop of a hat.'
- 'I'm afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the door to a whole lot of foreign business.'
- 'Thank goodness I won't live to see the day when the Government takes half our income in taxes. I sometimes wonder if we are electing the best people to congress.'
- 'The drive-in restaurant is convenient in nice weather, but I seriously doubt they will ever catch on.'
- 'There is no sense going to Lincoln or Omaha anymore for a weekend, it costs nearly $15.00 a night to stay in a hotel.'
- 'No one can afford to be sick anymore, at $35.00 a day in the hospital it's too rich for my blood.' - 'If they think I'll pay 50 cents for a haircut, forget it.
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Johnny Green was born October 10, 1908, in New York. He entered Harvard at age 15, and while there, played piano and saxophone and led the Gold Coast Orchestra. Guy Lombardo heard the band and hired Green to write arrangements for his own band. This he did during summer vacations while eventually earning a masters degree in English literature, and it was while working for Lombardo that he wrote his first hit song, . At his fathers insistence, Green got a job as a stockbroker, but soon left Wall Street to pursue a full time music career. In the early 30's, he worked as an accompanist for Ethel Merman, Gertrude Lawrence and James Melton, and also worked as a pianist for Leo Reisman. He was pianist and assistant conductor for Buddy Rogers, spent much of 1933 in London writing for musical productions at the London Hippodrome and for the BBC, then had his own band back in the U.S. (1933-41). With this band, he frequently appeared on radio, on his own show as well as the shows of Ruth Etting (1934), Ethel Merman (1935), Jack Benny (1935-36), Fred Astaire (1936-37) and the Philip Morris Show (1939-40). Beginning in 1942, he settled into the Hollywood studios, and was musical director for MGM from 1949 into the 60's. He won an Oscar in 1968 for his work on the movie Oliver!. As chairman of the music branch of the Academy of Motion Pictures Art and Sciences, he conducted the orchestra for 17 Oscar telecasts. He also guest conducted several symphony orchestras. Among the songs he wrote are Body and Soul, Out of Nowhere, I Cover the Waterfront, Weep No More My Baby, re Mine You and I Wanna Be Loved. He died in 1989.
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by Steve Evans, Conservation Director of Friends of the River
In a draft decision released today, the California State Water Board proposed to revoke the Bureau of Reclamation’s water rights to build the controversial Auburn Dam on the American River. Citing California’s tough “use it or lose it” water rights policy, the Water Board noted that the Bureau failed to construct the project and apply water to beneficial use with due diligence as required by state law.
Friends of the River has worked for over 33 years against the construction of Auburn Dam. Since its inception the dam has represented a project that was very expensive and destructive to the environment, while at the same time providing little benefit to the region. Friends of the River successfully convinced Congress to deny authorization and funding for the Auburn Dam in the 1990s. With no practical prospect of building the dam any time in the foreseeable future, the Bureau was unable to convince the Water Board that it deserved to retain its water rights. Without the state-granted right to store water behind the Auburn Dam, the Bureau will not be able to build the giant structure, which threatened to flood more than 50 miles of the American River.
Ron Stork, Friends of the River’s Senior Policy Advocate, has worked tirelessly in opposition to the dam for several years. His efforts to seek better flood protection for the Sacramento valley through improvements to Folsom Dam and regional levees made Auburn Dam practically unnecessary. More recently, Ron lobbied the Water Board to pursue the water rights revocation and prepared and submitted more than 400 pages of testimony. The draft decision from the Water Board is replete with references to Ron’s expert testimony.
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Everywhere you turned - in one publication or another - there was an in-depth analysis of the Takashi Murakami retrospective at MOCAS Geffen Contemporary.
A couple of critics have raved about recent exhibitions as well.
An artist friend of friend (were both abstract-expressionist painters) chuckles when I remark:
They must like black velvet paintings, too.
Well, theres no accounting for taste, is there?
One journalist argued that because collectors are allegedly snapping up Murakamis art - labelled the influence - that many critics are forced to sit up and take notice.
Not me!
In my minds eye, the class of people flocking to exalt his renderings are probably the nouveau riche who lament non-plussed,
I dont know anything about art, but I know what I like.
According to Edmond de Goncourt,
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
Murakami is known in art circles for blending elements of pop culture with the formal styles of Japanese Art.
is the term thats been coined by high-brow arts-fartsy types who wax eloquently about his - um - creative bowel movements.
Yes, when asked how he conjured up the idea for one exotic sculpture, he noted without apology, that the concept flashed up when he was toiling away on the pottie one day.
I have heard of art being called **it, but this amounts to the payload.
In musing on the retrospective, the artist - a classically-trained student with a doctoral in Art history - noted his initial idea was to see postwar anime and magna as the progeny of the 17th and 18th Century Edo eras two-dimensional artistic techniques.
He merged the flat patterns with modern decoration to create a specifically Japanese post-modern aesthetic.
A smiley face is art?
And what of the horrendous sculpture that sits like Humpty Dumpty on the lip of a flower vase with an oversized head too big for the tiny torso?
A rebellion against the Golden Mean?
Curiously, I attended a screening of s Afraid of Virginia Woolf the other evening.
In one scene, George Segals character is surveying a landscape and starts to opine, It has a certain -
The professor (Burtons character) interrupts him and cynically remarks - Noisy, relaxed quality?
He has reduced the lofty intellectualization of Art to s what the scholarly meanderings of this artists musings smack of.
In contrast, when Warhol depicted a soup can, he inspired provocative thought - and in the process - stirred up a society with powerful ideas that still hold sway today.
About Murakamis art (?), one writer babbled,
Murakami taps into contemporary Japans otaku culture of hard-core fans of anime and manga whos obsession with detail, affection for infantile objects and sexual fetishes have since moved from the fringe of Japanse Society in the 1970s to become a mass commercial movement.s the operative word: commercial.
The renderings are not creative, artistic, or visionary; to be sure, the odd-ball expressions do not warrant homage worthy of inclusion in any major gallery worth its salt - or any pretigious collection - for that matter.
Personally, I wouldnt hang the eyesores in my closet, in spite of the bizarre novelies currently stored there.
In sum, the scribbles are mere doodles - tinted, colored in - insignificant childish pieces of strange euphoria on canvas evoked in jarring tones.
Simply put - the imaginings are a mass of fawning eccentric swirls and blotches that annoy - theyre so wretched!
Give me a Braque, Paul Klee - even a quality Lichtenstein - any day!
At least those dynamic works are appealing to the eye and the sensibilities overall; balanced in shape and form - they resonate with passion, integrity, and the essence of an artistic spirit - and touch the soul.
I say, cast out the tasteless crap, knocked off for cash.
The in-house Louis Vitton Boutique can pack up its bags and heave-ho, too.
Yeah, theyre flogging limited edition signature technicolor handbags, Murakami is noted for.
In the publicity stills, Takashi Murakami smiles broadly.
Liberace - would no doubt roar - hes laughing all the way to the bank.
No self-respecting artist would flog their art like this.
One superflat fan asserted that Murakamis work promoted the notion that there are no boundaries between high and low art.
In my estimation, never the twain should meet.
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