scholarly journals The President as Ethical Role Model: Instituting an Ethic of Leadership at Fisk University in the 1950s

2001 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marybeth Gasman
Keyword(s):  
Role Model ◽  
Fisk University ◽  
Ethical Role ◽  
The 1950S

I. F. Stone: Encounters with Soviet Intelligence

2009 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 144-205
Author(s):  
Max Holland
Keyword(s):  
Role Model ◽  
Active Period ◽  
The 1950S

I. F. Stone has never loomed larger as a role model for American journalists than he does now. Yet since his death in 1989, persistent allegations have surfaced about associations he may have had with Soviet intelligence. The Vassiliev notebooks shed important new light on this question, although definitive answers remain elusive. The notebooks show that Stone did actively cooperate with Soviet intelligence in the mid-to-late 1930s. They leave unclear whether he also maintained a furtive relationship in the 1950s. Evidence suggests that Stone's only active period of cooperation was in the 1930s.

Football legend, role model, cultural ambassador, and true Canadian? A critical reading of the mediated legacy of Norman Kwong, the ‘China Clipper’

2020 ◽  
pp. 101269022096934
Author(s):  
Chen Chen
Keyword(s):  
Role Model ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Alternative Interpretation ◽  
Critical Reading ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
The Media ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Chinese Canadian ◽  
Canadian Multiculturalism ◽  
Diasporic Communities

Norman Kwong was a Chinese Canadian football star with a ground-breaking career in the Canadian Football League in the 1950s before he reached unprecedented success post-retirement, most notably appointed as the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta in 2005. Acknowledging Kwong’s significant accomplishments, this paper offers a critical reading of Canadian mainstream media’s celebratory representation of Norman Kwong and his legacy, highlighting how his life stories, as constructed in the media, served to reaffirm the myth of Canadian multiculturalism. The paper concludes by pointing to an alternative interpretation of Kwong’s legacy, one that foregrounds the Chinese diasporic communities’ complicity and obligations in the settler colonial state.

‘When Barbara strips off her petticoats and straps on her guns’: Barbara Stanwyck, maturity and stardom in the 1950s and 1960s

2017 ◽  
pp. 147-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Berkvens
Keyword(s):  
Role Model ◽  
Mature Female ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Unique Position ◽  
Mature Women ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The 1960S

This chapter will consider Stanwyck’s unique position as a role model for mature women in the 1950s and 1960s. It will also examine the reasons for Stanwyck’s popularity as a mature female during this period. Unlike many of the female stars of her generation that were forced to end their careers in the 1950s Stanwyck extended her film career until well into the 1960s by performing in B Westerns and television series. Stanwyck’s maturity and visible ageing affected the roles she played but also turned Stanwyck into a role model for mature women. The chapter will demonstrate the construction of Stanwyck’s image by locating it in its original context and it will offer explanations for the fashionability of Stanwyck as a mature star in the 1950s and 1960s.

Happiness in Chinese Socialist Discourse

2019 ◽  
pp. 25-43
Author(s):  
Gerda Wielander
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Role Model ◽  
The Political ◽  
Conceptual Frameworks ◽  
Its Analysis ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Ruling Party ◽  
Current Emphasis

This chapter analyzes the appearance of happiness in public and political discourse in China in the wider context of socialist modernization underpinned by Chinese socialist views of the psyche. It examines the link between the spiritual and the political and argues that the current emphasis on happiness needs to be understood as a continued effort on the part of the CCP to instil the “correct spirit” in China’s population. The author argues that in this process Lu Xun’s Ah Q has turned from a symbol of feudal decay into a role model for China’s citizens. The chapter draws on a range of conceptual frameworks from cultural studies, psychology, sociology and anthropology in its analysis of the tension between individual and collective happiness and the strategies adopted by the CCP, as ruling party, to address it. Examples from a debate on happiness held in the journal Zhongguo Qingnian中國青年‎ in the 1950s and 1960s are juxtaposed with contemporary sources to illustrate the continuity and differences in the Chinese socialist debates on happiness over the decades.

Rethinking the 1950s

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer A. Delton
Keyword(s):  
The 1950S
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