Miles in 3-D: Images of Bitches Brew

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Svorinich
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Visual Narrative ◽  
The People ◽  
Miles Davis ◽  
Bitches Brew ◽  
At Home

Using new commentary from the people behind the lens blended with revealing photographs, this chapter examines the visual narrative of Bitches Brew. Although the sessions were never shot, Miles Davis was photographed just about everywhere else at the time, whether it was on stage, at home, at the gym, or driving around New York in his Ferrari. Despite his shy and difficult demeanor, Davis had a warm and sincere relationship with the camera and the people behind it. These photographers were not only able to document this period in Davis’s life, but were also able to unveil a whole other side of him.

Across The Continent 1877–78

1964 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 56-68
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Religious Activities ◽  
Missionary Work ◽  
The People ◽  
One Year ◽  
Journal Entries ◽  
At Home

In 1877 a thirty-one year old Wesleyan minister was returning, after twelve months at home in England, to the missionary work in China which he had begun in 1868. This time he decided to sail to New York, travel across the continent to San Francisco, and conclude his journey thence by sea. He was the Reverend Thomas Gunn Selby, son of a Nottingham lace manufacturer, and he recorded some of his impressions of the overland route in the journal entries reproduced below. Despite the inevitable brevity of some of his comments, the journal may be of interest to our readers for its first-hand and often graphic account of travel conditions, its reference to places familiar in another light to more recent visitors, the aspects of American religious activities on which it touches, and for many other details that emerge pleasantly ond spontaneously from his writing. This was Mark Twain's America, but not quite as Twain saw it. To Mr. Selby's account I have added only such notes as may clarify for the modem reader some ot his aliusions, but no attempt has been made to identify all the people he met.

Universal Values and Muslim Democracy

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Anwar Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
World Today ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Universal Values ◽  
Human Desire ◽  
Dignified Life

This study deals with Universal Values and Muslim Democracy. This essay draws upon speeches that he gave at the New York Democ- racy Forum in December 2005 and the Assembly of the World Movement for Democracy in Istanbul in April 2006. The emergence of Muslim democracies is something significant and worthy of our attention. Yet with the clear exceptions of Indonesia and Turkey, the Muslim world today is a place where autocracies and dictatorships of various shades and degrees continue their parasitic hold on the people, gnawing away at their newfound freedoms. It concludes that the human desire to be free and to lead a dignified life is universal. So is the abhorrence of despotism and oppression. These are passions that motivate not only Muslims but people from all civilizations.

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