scholarly journals Platform and prophecy: the rise and fall of Rabbi Stuart E. Rosenberg as foreshadowed in his early Toronto sermons on leadership

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Brown
Keyword(s):  
Chief Executive ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Religious Institution ◽  
Conservative Movement ◽  
Half Century ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Early Success ◽  
Sociological Literature ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
As If

Stuart Rosenberg, who served from 1956 to 1976 as rabbi of Beth Tzedec Synagogue in Toronto, enjoyed a meteoric rise and suffered as precipitate a fall. A charismatic speaker with a powerful personality, Rosenberg presided over Beth Tzedec as if he were the chief executive of a corporation. The activities he initiated in the synagogue and his high profile in the Jewish and general communities put Beth Tzedec “on the map,” making it, for a time at least, Canada’s premier Jewish religious institution. During his early years at Beth Tzedec, Rabbi Rosenberg published two books of sermons: Man Is Free: Sermons and Addresses and A Time to Speak: Of Man, Faith and Society. Both were widely distributed to colleagues and congregants. His only collections of sermons can be viewed as his written testament. Read from the perspective of a half-century later, the sermons are clearly documents of their time and place. They reflect the well-known, mostly sociological literature on religion, Toronto, and the Conservative Movement written during the 1950s and earlier, as well as the history and mood of the congregation itself. Read in the light of Rabbi Rosenberg’s rise and fall at Beth Tzedec, these sermons appear to be both his platform for early success and a prophecy of his sudden downfall.

scholarly journals Corporate Governance since the Managerial Capitalism Era

2015 ◽  
Vol 89 (4) ◽  
pp. 717-744 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian R. Cheffins
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Chief Executive ◽  
Public Companies ◽  
Managerial Capitalism ◽  
Corporate Scandals ◽  
High Profile ◽  
The 1950S

Executives of today's public companies face a considerably different set of opportunities and constraints than did their counterparts in the managerial capitalism era, which reached its apex in the 1950s and 1960s. The growing importance of corporate governance featured prominently as circumstances changed for those running public companies. This article explores these developments, taking into account high-profile corporate scandals occurring in the first half of the 1970s and the early 2000s, the 1980s “Deal Decade,” the “imperial” chief executive phenomenon, and changes to the roles played by directors and shareholders of public companies.

The Influence of the Infomercial in New Zealand

2019 ◽  
pp. 67-80
Author(s):  
Rosser Johnson
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Cultural Impact ◽  
Cultural Importance ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
As If

New Zealand television networks introduced infomercials (30 minute advertisements designed to appear as if they are programmes) in late 1993. Although infomercials date from the 1950s in the USA, they were unknown in this country and quickly came to be seen as a peculiarly “intense” form of hyper-commercial broadcasting. This article aims to sketch out the cultural importance of the infomercial by analysing historical published primary sources (from the specialist and general press) as they reflect the views and opinions that resulted from the introduction of the infomercial. Specifically, it outlines the three main areas where that cultural importance was located. It concludes by analysing the significance of the cultural impact of the infomercial, both within broadcasting and within wider society.

scholarly journals Anat Helman, Israeli National Ideals and Everyday Life in the 1950s. Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2014. 312 pp.

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Fundamental Question ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Israeli Society ◽  
Weak Component ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The 1950S

This chapter reviews the book Becoming Israeli: National Ideals and Everyday Life in the 1950s (2014), by Anat Helman. Becoming Israeli deals with those aspects of Israeli society and culture that make Israel distinct from other countries. The book explores how the Israeli society emerged, mainly on its own terms, and tackles the fundamental question of “what it means to be Israeli,” along with the extent to which the characteristics comprising Israeliness emerged in the early years of statehood. Among the book’s strengths is Helman’s choice of foci: the power of her study derives from its locating spheres and behavioral acts that are extremely important but frequently overlooked (kibbutz dining halls, for example). A weak component of the book is its discussion of the subject of humor.

Wartime San Francisco’s Pragmatic Religious Institution

2021 ◽  
pp. 110-154
Author(s):  
Amanda Brown
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Social Activism ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Religious Institution ◽  
World War

Chapter 3 focuses closely on the ways in which Thurman’s inherent pragmatism—specifically his social activism centered on pluralism and mysticism—was represented within the Fellowship Church. It explores the years of Thurman’s direction between 1944 and 1953, as he is overwhelmingly accepted to be the primary leader of the institution and the groundwork he set during his tenure continues to frame its spiritual and philosophical character today. Chapter 3 traces the early years of the Fellowship Church during the tumultuous yet promising World War II era and explores its experimentation with affirmation mysticism. Examining both the pluralistic make-up of the congregation and the means by which Thurman tried to elicit moments of heightened consciousness, the chapter highlights and evaluates the ways in which the institution aimed to incite social activism through spiritual pursuit.

Outside the Ellington Constellation: The 1950s and 1960s

2019 ◽  
pp. 133-138
Author(s):  
Con Chapman
Keyword(s):  
Recording Session ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
As If

The chapter discusses Johnny Hodges’s work apart from Ellington during the 1950s and 1960s. He made albums with pianist Billy Taylor, who went on to become a noted broadcaster and jazz educator; baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan; Coleman Hawkins; trumpeter Roy Eldridge; and in one instance television bandleader Lawrence Welk, a date for which Hodges received a fair amount of criticism, as if his participation in a recording session with a “sweet” band backed by a string section confirmed the complaints of some critics that Hodges’s style was overripe and sentimental. A defense is mounted against this charge on two grounds: first, that the album featured some of the best arrangers of the day, including Benny Carter; second, that an album with strings is a fairly common aspiration of many jazz musicians, who long for the respectability that is denied to their genre because of its disreputable origins.

scholarly journals 'Can Mummy Come Too?' Rhetoric and Realities of 'Family-Centred Care' in One New Zealand Hospital, 1960-1990.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Kim Therese Chenery
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Emotional Health ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Public Response ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Separation Thesis ◽  
Society Application ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The Difference

<p>The development of ‘family-centred care’ began in the United Kingdom during the 1950s and 1960s in response to ‘expert’ concern for the child as an ‘emotional’ being. John Bowlby’s maternal deprivation thesis suggested that constant maternal attention in the early years of life would ensure emotionally healthy future members of society. Application of this theory to the hospital children’s ward indicated that young children should not be without their mothers for long periods of time. This theory and the subsequent release of the Platt Report in the United Kingdom in 1959 provided the necessary ‘scientific’ justification allowing mothers greater access to the historically restrictive hospital children’s wards. Influenced by trends in the United Kingdom the tenets of the separation thesis were reflected in New Zealand government policy towards child care and the care of the hospitalised child. However, the wider societal context in which these changes were to be accepted in New Zealand hospital children’s wards has not been examined. This study explores the development of ‘family-centred care’ in New Zealand as part of an international movement advanced by ‘experts’ in the 1950s concerned with the psychological effects of mother-child separation. It positions the development of ‘family-centred care’ within the broader context of ideas and beliefs about mothering and children that emerged in New Zealand society between 1960 and 1980 as a response to these new concerns for children’s emotional health. It examines New Zealand nursing, medical and related literature between 1960 and 1990 and considers both professional and public response to these concerns. The experiences of some mothers and nurses caring for children in one New Zealand hospital between 1960 and 1990 illustrate the significance of these responses in the context of one hospital children’s ward and the subsequent implications for the practice of ‘family-centred care’. This study demonstrates the difference between the professional rhetoric and the parental reality of ‘family-centred care’ in the context of one hospital children’s ward between 1960 and 1990. The practice of ‘family-centred care’ placed mothers and nurses in contradictory positions within the ward environment. These contradictory positions were historically enduring, although they varied in their enactment.</p>

scholarly journals The House for the Students of the Empire (CEI), African women poets from the 1950s, and Sarah Maldoror’s films

Diacrítica ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 148-166
Author(s):  
Joana Filipa Da Silva de Melo Vilela Passos
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
African Women ◽  
Women Poets ◽  
Political Awareness ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Literary Achievement ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Literary Systems ◽  
Presence Africaine

In the 1950s, in Lisbon, several students coming from different Portuguese colonies in Africa met at “CEI - Casa dos Estudantes do Império” - a cultural and leisure centre for college students and other scholars from Africa or Asia. I would highlight names such as Amílcar Cabral (1924-1973), Mário Pinto de Andrade (1928-1990) and Agostinho Neto (1922-1979), famous activists that, at the time, invested in cultural forms of resistance against colonialism, being literature a means to raise political awareness among students. The high-profile women writers in this millieu were Noémia de Sousa (1926-2002), Alda Lara (1930-1962) and Alda do Espírito Santo (1926-2010). My research will assess the role of these three women in the cultural front of a collective political awakening, which later led to the independence struggles of the Portuguese colonies. These three women were also the first canonised women writers in their own national literary systems, thus being founding figures in a women’s genealogy of literary achievement. However, their works also the represent a particular generation, framed by the atmosphere lived at CEI. As a consequence of the political activism developed by the CEI millieu, some of the involved young scholars had to leave Portugal going into exile in Paris, where they gathered around the magazine Présence Africaine. This paper also explores CEI’s “Paris connection”, via Mário Pinto de Andrade and his wife, the film director Sarah Maldoror (1938-), who eventually adapted Luandino Vieira’s texts to cinema (Monangambé, 1968 and Sambizanga, 1972). At the time, Maldoror’s work was conceived as a means to promote international awareness of the regime Angolan people were fighting against. The final aim of the research is to explore the articulation among the works by these four women in relation to CEI’s activism.

scholarly journals The Problem of Personality on Soviet Television, 1950s-1960s

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Huxtable
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Television Shows ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Source Materials

This article analyses the role of the television personality on Soviet television in its early years in the 1950s and 1960s. Using primary source materials from Russian archives, articles from the professional press, and analysis of a number of television shows, the article argues that television’s appearance in Soviet everyday life brought about a key change in the form of mass communication from a Stalinist model that focused on the pre-prepared and based on written Russian to a more spontaneous model that was closer to everyday speech forms. Analysing the role of continuity announcers, programme hosts, and ordinary individuals on Soviet television, the article suggests that while early television professionals held high hopes for the possibility of television to democratise the post-Stalin Soviet Union, these hopes were in fact riven with contradictions.

Introduction

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Wuthnow
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Medical Research ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
Half Century ◽  
Elementary And Secondary Education ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
The Social ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Middle West ◽  
North And South

This book examines the resilience shown by the American Middle West—Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota, Missouri, North and South Dakota, Arkansas, and Oklahoma—despite going through profound social upheavals during the half century that began in the 1950s. It shows that the Middle West has undergone a strong, positive transformation since the 1950s—a time when many families were still recovering from the Great Depression. The transformation is surprising because it took place in the nation's heartland. The region's economy fared surprisingly well; agribusiness was flourishing; elementary and secondary education was among the best in the nation; the region was known for innovative medical research and biotechnology. The chapter suggests that one precondition for the social change that has happened in the Middle West is the fact that the region largely comprised rich land with vast potential for crops and livestock as well as mineral wealth.

The Case of Youth Exchanges and Interactions Between the PRC and Italy in the 1950s

2016 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 194-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
SOFIA GRAZIANI
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Relations ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Youth Organizations ◽  
Chinese Youth ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Youth Groups ◽  
The People ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The Cold War

AbstractSoon after the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC), youth exchanges came to be a major part of the Chinese campaign to reach out and influence the people of other nations. Despite the growing scholarly discussion regarding the role of people-to-people diplomacy and external propaganda in China's foreign policy, so far no direct attention has been paid to the Chinese Communist Party's efforts to institutionalize youth exchanges and use them as a tool to promote the new Chinese government's foreign relations. This article locates the position of young people within the PRC's people-to-people diplomacy. It attempts to explore youth exchanges with the West in the early years of the Cold War by focusing on relations between Italian and Chinese youth groups in the 1950s. Relying mainly on unexplored archival material and memoirs, this article documents contacts and exchanges between adult-led youth organizations and their members, and shows how Italian left-wing party-affiliated youth groups and Soviet-dominated transnational organizations provided important channels for Sino-Italian encounters and for building long-lasting contacts among potential future leaders of these countries.

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