A Tale of a Few Cities: Interculturalism on the Road

1991 ◽  
Vol 7 (28) ◽  
pp. 315-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Schechner
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
New York University ◽  
The West ◽  
Tiananmen Square ◽  
The Road ◽  
Performance Group ◽  
Nelson Mandela ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
On The Road

This is a personal record of a theatre worker's journey to places where theatre is inextricably mixed with politics — or is no less significantly divorced from social concerns. Visiting mainland China and South Africa in the summer of 1990, Richard Schechner records how theatre people confronted the aftermath of major political upheavals – the crushing of hopes in Tiananmen Square, and the perhaps deceptive raising of them following the release of Nelson Mandela. His trip also took in the widely different perspectives and problems of Taiwan, where pluralism struggles (almost unnoticed in the West) to displace an ageing autocracy. Richard Schechner teaches at New York University, and recently returned to the editorial chair at The Drama Review, the journal he conducted through its vintage years in the 'sixties – at the same time creating the Performance Group, and beginning his researches into theatre and anthropology, the field in which he has published widely and innovatively in the interim.

scholarly journals AKSESIBILITAS PEJALAN KAKI DI STASIUN YANG TERINTEGRASI DENGAN RENCANA TERHADAP KAWASAN BERKONSEP TOD (STUDI KASUS KAWASAN STASIUN TANJUNG BARAT)

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gading Kencono Aji ◽  
Sylvira Ananda ◽  
Tri Mulyono
Keyword(s):  
Level Of Service ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
The West ◽  
The Road ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Concept Area

This research was conducted to assess the Level Of Service (LOS) pedestrian path around the Tanjung Barat Station area. In addition, to see in terms of comfort and security in reaching a TOD concept area. For this reason, a model of pedestrian design is needed so that track users can enjoy the pedestrian pathway feeling comfortable and safe. The results of this study indicate that the level of pedestrian service on the Tanjung Barat Raya road and on the road in Lenteng Agung raya: For the Tanjung Barat Raya road the LOS index is categorized as "B" while the Lenteng Agung Raya road is in the LOS index in the "C" category. And for the prediction of the next 5 years, LOS is categorized as "B". This indicates the need for improvements in terms of supporting facilities for pedestrians on the two St. Western Cape. This indicates that the pedestrian support facilities need to be improved which will have an impact on the increasing number of pedestrian users around the West Tanjung station for the next 5 years.  

scholarly journals Anglo-American views of Gavrilo Princip

Balcanica ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 273-314
Author(s):  
Slobodan Markovich
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Past Century ◽  
The West ◽  
Rebecca West ◽  
The Road ◽  
Winston Churchill ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
The Times ◽  
The Great War

The paper deals with Western (Anglo-American) views on the Sarajevo assassination/attentat and Gavrilo Princip. Articles on the assassination and Princip in two leading quality dailies (The Times and The New York Times) have particularly been analysed as well as the views of leading historians and journalists who covered the subject including: R. G. D. Laffan, R. W. Seton-Watson, Winston Churchill, Sidney Fay, Bernadotte Schmitt, Rebecca West, A. J. P. Taylor, Vladimir Dedijer, Christopher Clark and Tim Butcher. In the West, the original general condemnation of the assassination and its main culprits was challenged when Rebecca West published her famous travelogue on Yugoslavia in 1941. Another Brit, the remarkable historian A. J. P. Taylor, had a much more positive view on the Sarajevo conspirators and blamed Germany and Austria-Hungary for the outbreak of the Great War. A turning point in Anglo-American perceptions was the publication of Vladimir Dedijer?s monumental book The Road to Sarajevo (1966), which humanised the main conspirators, a process initiated by R. West. Dedijer?s book was translated from English into all major Western languages and had an immediate impact on the understanding of the Sarajevo assassination. The rise of national antagonisms in Bosnia gradually alienated Princip from Bosnian Muslims and Croats, a process that began in the 1980s and was completed during the wars of the Yugoslav succession. Although all available sources clearly show that Princip, an ethnic Serb, gradually developed a broader Serbo-Croat and Yugoslav identity, he was ethnified and seen exclusively as a Serb by Bosnian Croats and Bosniaks and Western journalists in the 1990s. In the past century imagining Princip in Serbia and the West involved a whole spectrum of views. In interwar Anglo-American perceptions he was a fanatic and lunatic. He became humanised by Rebecca West (1941), A. J. P. Taylor showed understanding for his act (1956), he was fully explained by Dedijer (1966), challenged and then exonerated by Cristopher Clark (2012-13), and cordially embraced by Tim Butcher (2014).

Dura-Europos

Antiquity ◽  
1945 ◽  
Vol 19 (75) ◽  
pp. 113-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. W. Crowfoot
Keyword(s):  
Yale University ◽  
The West ◽  
French Academy ◽  
The Road ◽  
West Wall ◽  
Strong Point ◽  
On The Road

Dura is one of the buried cities which has swum into our ken since the end of the Some paintings accidentally uncovered by a British officer first led D Breasted to the site. He was followed by Cumont and in 1928 a large expedition under Professor Rostovtzeff was sent there by Yale University and the French Academy of Inscriptions. By 1937 about one third of the site had been excavated and work was suspended through lack of funds.Dura has been compared with Pompeii but it would be hard to imagine two places more dissimilar in appearance and history. Unlike Pompeii, Dura is a grim looking site : its most striking features are the west wall on the desert side and the citadel above the Euphrates, both built of dull grey gypsum blocks : between them stretches a waste of mud brick walls. And its history covers a far longer period. Once the site of a small oriental village, it was converted by the Macedonians into a strong-point on the road between Antioch on the Orontes and Seleucia on the Tigris ; the date of its foundation is not known, but Seleucus I was regarded as the founder and it must have been about 300 B.C.

scholarly journals Exporting psychiatric skills

1993 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-40
Author(s):  
J. Nadarajah
Keyword(s):  
Medical Student ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Health Authority ◽  
Regional Health ◽  
The West ◽  
The Road ◽  
West Midlands ◽  
Land Rover ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Exchange Visit

In early 1992, I spent five weeks at the Costina Hospital in Romania – an exchange visit organised by the West Midlands Regional Health Authority at the request of a charity known as Faure Alderson Romanian Appeal, based in London. The team who set off with me in a lorry, minibus and a Land Rover, included a residential social worker, a medical student who helped me with the assessment of patients and four other volunteers from the charity to help in an orphanage. The journey across Europe was confronted with difficulties at Romanian customs but we eventually managed to meet the Director of the Hospital we were visiting, after a week on the road.

Reaganomics: A Watershed Moment on the Road to Trumpism

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
John Komlos
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
The Road ◽  
Blue Collar Workers ◽  
Class A ◽  
Long Run ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Socio Economic Impact ◽  
The New Deal ◽  
Trump Administration

Abstract The socio-economic impact of Reaganomics and its long-run deleterious legacy is documented. The empirical evidence indicates that the tax cuts of 1981 and 1986 failed to have an effect on economic growth. GDP did snap back to its potential but did not accelerate beyond the rates achieved in prior or subsequent decades. The supposed incentives of supply-side economics failed to materialize. People did not work more, they did not save or invest more than they did before, and the benefits trickled down like molasses and got stuck at the very top of the income distribution. Reagan’s presidency was a watershed in US economic development in the sense that it reversed many of the accomplishments of the New Deal and inaugurated an era in which low-skilled men’s wages began a long period of decline. His true legacy is a dual economy that accompanied the hollowing out of the middle class, a more business-friendly regulatory framework for Wall Street that ultimately led to the financial crisis, a stupendous increase in the national debt from 30% to 50% of GDP that put it on a path such that by 2012 it exceeded 100%, anti-statism that contributed to the rise of Trumpism, a remarkable rise in inequality that gave rise to an oligarchy, and the neglect of blue-collar workers who eventually became Hillary Clinton’s “deplorables.” Reagan put the economy on a trajectory that ultimately, even if not inevitably, led to the triumph of Trumpism and an economy of malaise [Johnston, David Cay, 2018. It’s Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America. New York: Simon & Schuster.].

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