My Grandfather's Spoon

Public Voices ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Russell Ayres
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Short Story ◽  
World War ◽  
Generational Change ◽  
Administrative Services ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Public Servant ◽  
Father And Son ◽  
Australian Department

This short story is about a public servant with the Australian Department of the Arts and Administrative Services, Ayres writes of generational change in the professional and persona} lives of a father and son working in the Service. They hold the last of their 1raditional chess games on the father's final day of his career. The prize for the winner is a family "heirloom" --a spoon stolen by the father's father from a U.S. Navy warship during World War II.

Lincoln Kirstein’s Social Modernism and the Cultural Front

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Harris
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Popular Front ◽  
World War ◽  
Social Relevance ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Biographical Approach ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Political Economic

This chapter takes a biographical approach to Lincoln Kirstein’s creation of a modernist theory of ballet to situate its development in the 1930s cultural wing of the Popular Front and explore its evolution through and after World War II. Fueled by the cultural front’s belief in the role of the arts in social revolution, Kirstein seized the opportunity to decouple ballet from existing biases about its elitism and triviality, and formulate new ideas about its social relevance in the Depression period. After exploring the development of Kirstein’s social modernism in the cultural front, chapter 2 then turns to the challenges posed to the 1930s belief that art could be productively combined with politics through two major turning points in Kirstein’s life. These are his experiences in World War II, and the erosion of his own artistic role in the ballet company after the formation of the New York City Ballet and the ascendance of George Balanchine’s dance-for-dance-sake aesthetic in the late 1940s. The chapter illustrates Kirstein’s attempts to negotiate the social modernist aesthetic he crafted under the wing of the cultural front within the volatile political, economic, and artistic circumstances of World War II, anticommunism, and the Cold War.

“In a Strange Country”

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucas E. Morel
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Class Conflict ◽  
Black American ◽  
World War ◽  
White American ◽  
Full Participation ◽  
American Citizenship ◽  
The Face ◽  
Racially Mixed

Lucas Morel’s “‘In a Strange Country’: The Challenge of American Inclusion” interprets Ellison’s 1944 short story as a civics lesson for a republic struggling with the legacy of race. The story follows a black Merchant Marine, Mr. Parker, during World War II as he recovers from a mugging by white American servicemen while on shore leave in Wales. Ellison presents a lesson of civic inclusion by showcasing a “black Yank” being rescued by Welshmen. Parker witnesses how his Welsh hosts transcend class conflict through a common devotion to music, which he likened to the racially mixed “jam sessions” back in America. Herein Ellison articulates the obstacles and pathways to black American citizenship—a reminder that “the land of the free” requires one not only to be “brave” in the face of majority tyranny, but also good-humored, self-disciplined, and hopeful as one seeks full participation in the American regime.

William Watson 1917–2007

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosemary Scott
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
British Museum ◽  
African Studies ◽  
Chinese Art ◽  
World War ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Fellow Student ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The University

William Watson (1917–2007), a Fellow of the British Academy, was a scholar whose contribution to the field of Asian art and archaeology was both multifaceted and far-reaching. He earned a scholarship to Gonville and Caius College at the University of Cambridge to read Modern and Medieval Languages (1936–1939), and it was at Cambridge that he met a fellow-student Katherine Armfield, whom he married in 1940. After World War II, Watson took up his first post in the arts in 1947, joining the staff of the British and Medieval Department of the British Museum. In 1966, he left the British Museum and moved to the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art to become its Director and take up the professorship of Chinese Art and Archaeology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Watson travelled widely and often, and he became fascinated with the arts and language of Japan.

scholarly journals “THE SHAWL”, THE SUBALTERN, AND THE CASE OF THE SUBALTERN GENOCIDE

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-160
Author(s):  
Natan Gultom
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Jewish Woman ◽  
Concentration Camp ◽  
World War ◽  
Subaltern Studies ◽  
Holocaust Studies ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Relationship

Holocaust studies post-World War II have found ways in intersecting to other studies within the Postmodern era. In 1980, a short-story “The Shawl” was written depicting a holocaust brutality done towards the Jews. The story revolves around a Jewish woman, Rosa, that lived through the bitterness of seeing her daughter, Magda, being slaughtered in a concentration camp. In the context of “The Shawl”, this article would like to describe the relationship between holocaust studies and the subaltern studies within postcolonialism. Furthermore, this article discusses if there are hints “The Shawl” invokes a sentiment for the Jews to take revenge towards their former oppressors. The aim of this article is to further the argument “The Shawl” has no characteristics of taking revenge which eventually leads to subaltern genocide. “The Shawl” functions better as a remembrance so generations of the future do not repeat the horrors of the past.

scholarly journals RELIGIOSITAS MASYARAKAT TIONGHOA DALAM CERPEN DI MAJALAH STAR WEEKLY, LIBERAL, DAN PANTJAWARNA TAHUN 1954—1956

Sirok Bastra ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-95
Author(s):  
Dea Letriana Cesaria
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Chinese Literature ◽  
Chinese People ◽  
Chinese Community ◽  
World War ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Post War ◽  
Bahasa Indonesia

Sastra Peranakan Tionghoa adalah karya sastra dalam bahasa Indonesia yang dihasilkan oleh orang Tionghoa yang dilahirkan di Indonesia. Seusai Perang Dunia II, sastra peranakan tetap berkembang. Bentuknya bukan lagi novel tetapi cerpen. Namun, berbeda dengan keadaan sebelum Perang Dunia II, pada zaman Pasca-Perang itu tidak lagi terdapat majalah seperti Tjerita Romans atau Penghidoepan. Kebanyakan karya dimuat dalam majalah-majalah umum atau berita, seperti Star Weekly, Liberal, dan Pantjawarna. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah melihat kontribusi majalah Star Weekly, Pantjawarna, dan Liberal pada tahun 1950-an terhadap publikasi karya penulis Tionghoa. Metode yang digunakan adalah metode kualitatif dan deskriptif.  Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa cerpen dalam majalah Star Weekly, Liberal, dan Pantjawarna menggambarkan religiositas masyarakat Tionghoa dalam menjalani kehidupan yang multikultural di Indonesia. Konsep kemanusiaan dalam ajaran Konghucu erat kaitannya dengan konsep Tepa Sarira dalam kebudayaan Jawa. Chinese Literature is literary works in Indonesian produced by Chinese people who were born in Indonesia. After World War II, peranakan literature continued to flourish. The form is no longer a novel but a short story. However, in contrast to the situation before World War II, the Post-War era there were no magazines anymore, such as Tjerita Romans or Penghidoepan. Most of his work is published in public magazines or news, such as Star Weekly, Liberal, and Pantja Warna. The purpose of this study is to look at the contributions of Star Weekly, Pantja Warna and Liberal magazines in the 1950s to the publication of works by Chinese writers. The method used is qualitative and descriptive methods. The results showed that short stories in Star Weekly, Liberal, and Pantjawarna, magazines illustrate the religiosity of the Chinese community in leading a multicultural life in Indonesia. The concept of humanity in Confucianism is closely related to the concept of Tepa Sarira in Javanese culture.

‘African philosophy’ The History of an Expression

2019 ◽  
pp. 291-302
Author(s):  
Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
African Philosophy ◽  
World War ◽  
Democratic Transitions ◽  
Post World War Ii ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of

Souleymane Bachir Diagne’s text is on the history of what has been called ‘African philosophy,’ a phrase with origins in the early post-World War II period. Diagne begins by tracing the complex history and legacy of the book Bantu Philosophy (1949), which was written by the philosopher and theologian Placide Tempels, a Franciscan missionary and Belgian citizen. Diagne argues that that text represented an important break with the way in which Africa had been ignored and set aside in philosophical circles (a practice that Diagne traces to Hegel). From there, he outlines how currents in African philosophy first imitated, and then later broke with, Tempels’s model. He concludes with observations on current trends in African philosophy, which above all focus on democratic transitions, human rights, the future of the arts, citizenship, and languages in use on the continent today.

Generational Change and the Decline of Party Identification in America: 1952–1974

1976 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 469-478 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul R. Abramson
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Party Identification ◽  
Cohort Analysis ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Wide Spread ◽  
World War ◽  
Generational Change ◽  
Partisan Identification ◽  
The University

A large and growing proportion of Americans claims to be neither Republican nor Democratic, and partisan independence is most wide-spread among young adults. A time-series cohort analysis of eleven surveys conducted by the Survey Research Center of the University of Michigan between 1952 and 1974 strongly suggests that the low level of partisan identification among young adults results largely from fundamental differences between their socialization and that of their elders. The overall decline in party identification results largely from generational change. High levels of partisan identification persist among persons who entered the electorate before World War II, but among those who entered the electorate more recently levels of identification are low. The analysis strongly suggests that overall levels of party identification will continue to decline, and permits examination of one process by which party loyalties among mass electorates gradually are transformed.

Post World War II—America Rising

Artful Noise ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 64-81
Author(s):  
Thomas Siwe
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Chamber Music ◽  
The United States ◽  
Full Time ◽  
World War ◽  
New Faculty ◽  
New Graduates ◽  
Andre Jolivet ◽  
The Arts ◽  
French Composers

Following World War II, thousands of returning servicemen and women enrolled in American colleges and universities with the financial assistance of the GI Bill. Colleges acted in response to the needs of these older students by offering career-oriented courses and by hiring new faculty to teach them. Music departments began hiring full-time percussion teachers and graduating classes of educated and skilled percussionists. Contemporary composers found these new graduates willing to play their works and responded by dramatically increasing the number of works written for percussion, both solo and ensemble. In the United States, Michael Colgrass, Alan Hovhaness, Henry Brant, and William Kraft created a variety of works ranging from chamber music to solos and even a symphony for percussion. As Europe and Asia recovered from the war, the arts there began a process of rebirth. In the late 1950s and 1960s, French composers André Jolivet, Marius Constant, and Maurice Ohana added a number of percussion works for the concert hall as well as for the dance. The years following World War II and the decades that immediately followed saw a resurgence of musical creativity and the schooled percussionist became sought after as both performer and teacher.

John Turton Randall, 23 March 1905 - 16 June 1984

1987 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 491-535 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
State Physics ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Double Helix ◽  
Great Success ◽  
World War ◽  
Solid State Physics ◽  
Dna Double Helix ◽  
Fund Raiser ◽  
Father And Son ◽  
Personal Engagement

John Randall was an unusual scientist who made outstanding contributions in three very different areas of science. First he made his mark in solid-state physics. Next, for radar he invented (with H. A. H. Boot) the cavity magnetron, which was probably the most decisive contribution of science to the winning of World War II. Lastly, and most significantly, he entered biology and built up a biophysics laboratory that was a world leader in pioneering the new area of molecular biology and contributed to both the discovery of the DNA double helix and of the sliding filament mechanism of muscle contraction. Randall’s success derived from his exceptional energy, foresight and sound judgement. Although an original and even somewhat maverick scientist, he had a very shrewd understanding of how established society worked and, as a result, he achieved great success as a scientific entrepreneur, fund-raiser and administrator. But he was never content with such success and his greatest enthusiasm was always for personal engagement in laboratory work. It is sometimes claimed that creativity springs from contradiction; the aspect of contrast in Randall’s personality and in his work in some ways supports that idea. I began research as a Ph.D. student studying luminescence under Randall, was fairly closely in touch with him during his magnetron work and also worked in his laboratory for nearly all of his biological period (except for his characteristically active retirement). My career depended much on him, and between us there was an undercurrent of father and son relationship. As a result I do not feel I can be wholly objective about him. Therefore, while I give here primarily my own impressions, I also give those of others and quote directly from Randall’s Personal Record written 1962-68 (all unnumbered quotes are from the Record).

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