Friday Night Fighter

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Troy Rondinone
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Organized Crime ◽  
Prime Time ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Network Television ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Changing Attitudes ◽  
Friday Night

This book relives a lost moment in American postwar history, when boxing ruled as one of the nation's most widely televised sports. During the 1950s and 1960s, viewers tuned in weekly, sometimes even daily, to watch widely recognized fighters engage in primordial battle; the Gillette Cavalcade of Sports Friday Night Fights was the most popular fight show. This book follows the dual narratives of the Friday Night Fights show and the individual story of Gaspar “Indio” Ortega, a boxer who appeared on prime-time network television more than almost any other boxer in history. From humble beginnings growing up poor in Tijuana, Mexico, Ortega personified the phenomenon of postwar boxing at its greatest, appearing before audiences of millions to battle the biggest names of the time, such as Carmen Basilio, Tony DeMarco, Chico Vejar, Benny “Kid” Paret, Emile Griffith, Kid Gavilan, Florentino Fernández, and Luis Manuel Rodriguez. The book explores the factors contributing to the success of televised boxing, including the rise of television entertainment, the role of a “reality” blood sport, Cold War masculinity, changing attitudes toward race in America, and the influence of organized crime. At times evoking the drama and spectacle of the Friday Night Fights themselves, this book is a lively examination of a time in history when Americans crowded around their sets to watch the main event.

The Lattimore case

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Penrose
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Internal Security ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Witch Hunt

Edith’s career and collaboration with Fritz Machlup at Johns Hopkins University flourished and she began work on the growth of the firm, and studied the Hercules Powder Company. As Cold War tensions increased during the 1950s she and Penrose became involved in the defence of their friend and colleague Owen Lattimore who was named as the top Soviet spy by Senator McCarthy. The chapter covers the persecution of Lattimore, his trials, the role of Judge Luther Youngdahl, and the operation of his defence fund. Other friends of E. F. Penrose became victims of the anti-communist ‘witch hunt’, he grew increasingly disillusioned with the USA, and determined he must leave. In 1953 Edith and Penrose testified before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. They were also investigated by the FBI. After five years the case against Lattimore was dropped. Edith’s father died and her brother Harvey was killed in an air accident.

Rethinking Intersections of Crime and Terrorism: Insights from Political Economies of Violence

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariya Y Omelicheva ◽  
Lawrence P Markowitz
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Organized Crime ◽  
Local Politics ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
State Participation ◽  
Terrorist Groups ◽  
Political Economies

Abstract The post–Cold War environment has ushered in an era of threats from terrorism, organized crime, and their intersections giving rise to the growing literature on the so-called crime–terror nexus. This article takes stock of this literature, assesses its accomplishments and limitations, and considers ways to deepen it conceptually, theoretically, and empirically. To challenge assumptions informing the crime–terror studies and suggest avenues for future research, the article draws on ideas from the scholarship on political economies of violence. These insights are used to probe the (1) non-state actors that form the crime–terror nexus, (2) conditions under which the nexus is likely to emerge, and (3) varied effects of criminal–terrorist intersections. The article emphasizes the ties of criminal and terrorist groups to local politics, society, and economy, and relationships of competition, rather than cooperation, which often characterize these ties. The conditions under which these groups operate cannot be understood without considering the role of the state in criminal–terrorist constellations. The structure of resource economies influences both the preferences of terrorist groups for crime and the consequences of terrorist–criminal convergence, which are also mediated by state participation in crime.

Facing an “Emotional Crunch”: State Visits as Political Performances During the Cold War

2007 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Derix
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Emotional Burden ◽  
Total Control ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
And Behavior

This article argues that state visits are highly symbolic political performances by analyzing state visits to Berlin in the 1950s and 1960s. The article concentrates on how state visits blended in the Cold War's culture of suspicion and political avowal. Special emphasis is placed on the role of mass media and on the guests' reactions and behavior. State visits to Berlin illuminate the heavy performative and emotional burden placed on all participants. Being aware of the possibilities for self-presentation offered by state visits, West German officials incorporated state visitors into their symbolic battle for reunification. A visit to Berlin with extensive media coverage was, therefore, of prime importance for the German hosts. Despite their sophisticated visualization strategies, total control of events was impossible. Some visitors did not want to play their allotted role and avoided certain sites in Berlin, refused to be accompanied by journalists or cancelled their trips altogether.

The Bauhaus in Brazil: Pedagogy and Practice

ARTMargins ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-49
Author(s):  
Adele Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
German School ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Art Schools

This article analyzes the rhetorical and discursive resonance of the claims by artists and art professionals in Brazil in the 1950s of a connection to the Bauhaus. I examine the curricula of two new art schools established in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, emphasizing the role of central figures, including Mário Pedrosa, and the works by artists trained at the schools, and study paintings by Lygia Clark that in part elicited Alfred H. Barr, Jr. in 1957 to dismiss Brazilian contemporary art as “Bauhaus exercises.” Rather than a case of imitation, as Barr suggested, Brazilian actors transformed Bauhaus ideas, mediated by Cold War re-interpretations of the German school and its approaches to artistic education, to articulate tactics of citation and adaptation and to assert a non-derivative, radical conception of modernism.

scholarly journals Are We Still Illyrians?

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 25-36
Author(s):  
Valerie Higgins
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Cold War ◽  
National Narrative ◽  
Archaeological Heritage ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Direction ◽  
Changing Attitudes ◽  
World Perspective

This paper examines the changing attitudes of young Albanian archaeologists to Albania’s archaeological heritage. As Cold War archaeologists retire and are replaced by a generation trained after the fall of communism, this paper asks how their different world perspective will influence the future direction of archaeology. Particular issues that are addressed are the perceived role of the Illyrians in national identity and the willingness of young archaeologists to embrace new types of heritage sites, such as industrial and Cold War archaeology. Examples of the latter are very prominent in the Albanian landscape, but their interpretation and incorporation into the national narrative are still contentious issues for many.

scholarly journals Lethal Violence in Brazil: A Systematic Review of Portuguese-Language Literature From 2000 to 2020

2021 ◽  
pp. 073401682110382
Author(s):  
Vania Ceccato ◽  
Tulio Kahn ◽  
Lisandra Cardoso Vazquez
Keyword(s):  
Black Men ◽  
Organized Crime ◽  
National Literature ◽  
International Literature ◽  
Lethal Violence ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Theses And Dissertations ◽  
Language Literature

Reviewing national literature on homicides in Brazil, this article explores questions that relate to the nature, trends, determinants, and impact of these crimes on society, as well as interventions to combat this type of violence. The article contributes to the international literature by reviewing and critically discussing a sample of 112 theses on homicides from the Portuguese-language literature using the Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations from 2000 to 2020. Highlighting an issue that primarily affects young, poor Black men, the article helps advocate for a better understanding of other types of lethal violence that affect women, LGBQTI and other minorities. The article calls for a better understanding of the role of the state, the police and other criminal justice actors as generators and/or controllers of violence, as well as the need for other perspectives on homicide prevention, which include the microsituational aspects of killing, organized crime, and interaction between the individual and the environment.

Cut Off from Words: Robert Lowell's “Tranquilized Fifties”

Prospects ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 149-168
Author(s):  
William Doreski
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Berlin Wall ◽  
Robert Lowell ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Previous Decade ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Crisis Situations

In a 1961 letter to his cousin Harriet Winslow, Robert Lowell, reflecting on the Cold War crises of the period, particularly the erection of the Berlin Wall, wroteThe world's really strange isn't it? I mean the world of the news and the nations and the bomb testings. I feel it this fall and wonder, if it's just being forty three. Under a certain calm, there seems to be a question that must be answered. If one could think of the question. (Papers)Though this passage illustrates Lowell's tendency to read the world in autobiographical terms, it also displays his sensitivity to the role of language in crisis situations. The rhetorical, public, and communal problem of voicing the required question may be the key to “the world of the news,” yet asking that question is not only beyond Lowell but beyond everyone else (the uncharacteristically impersonal “one”). By the end of the 1950s, voicing the need to ask such a question had become an intrinsic part of Lowell's poetics, most clearly formulated in “For the Union Dead,” a poem completed in 1960 in which the public and the personal dimensions powerfully cohere. However, Lowell's work of the previous decade, collected in Life Studies (1959), in a subtle way had already explored the clichés, aporia, rhetorical corruption, and general verbal difficulties of the first decade of the television era.

Enrico Cuccia, Mediobanca, and the decolonization of Guinea. An attempt at money-doctoring to boost Italian trade with Africa

2021 ◽  
pp. 85-96
Author(s):  
Giovanni Farese
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Cold War ◽  
European Integration ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Policy Tools ◽  
Foreign Economic Policy ◽  
European Banks ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The Cold War

This paper looks at Enrico Cuccia's attempt at establishing an issuing bank, along with a consortium of major European banks, in Ahmed Sekou Toure's Guinea in the aftermath of its independence from France in 1958. The topic is framed both in Mediobanca's African business in the 1950s and in Cuccia's own geopolitical and development views. As Guinea was not an isolated case, the paper also takes into consideration Italy's new place in the postwar world economy and general issues such as the Cold War, decolonization, European integration, as well as the role of merchant banking in shaping foreign economic policy tools and goals.

National Socialism and the Technological Culture of the Weimar Republic

1992 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 387-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kees Gispen
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Weimar Republic ◽  
National Socialism ◽  
Patent System ◽  
Traditional Role ◽  
Technological Culture ◽  
Patent Rights ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Cold War

At the height of the Cold War in 1962, U.S. Senator John McClellan, chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights, raised the possibility of introducing legislation to “restore the patent system, in at least some measure, to its traditional role of rewarding the inventor, in order the better to carry out the constitutional objective of ‘promoting the progress of science and useful arts.’” The rise of the corporate research establishment, McClellan stated, had caused the employer to interpose “himself between the individual inventor and the patent system, with the former appropriating the patent rights and the latter often being rewarded by nominal monetary grants or other recognition.”

On the Individual

1999 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 205-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Magnusson
Keyword(s):  
School Psychologist ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Developmental Research ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Over Time

A description of two cases from my time as a school psychologist in the middle of the 1950s forms the background to the following question: Has anything important happened since then in psychological research to help us to a better understanding of how and why individuals think, feel, act, and react as they do in real life and how they develop over time? The studies serve as a background for some general propositions about the nature of the phenomena that concerns us in developmental research, for a summary description of the developments in psychological research over the last 40 years as I see them, and for some suggestions about future directions.

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