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A Dangerous Summer
theHemingway newsletter Publication of The Hemingway Society | No. 73 | 2021 As the Pandemic Ends Yet the Wyoming/Montana Conference Remains Postponed Until Lynda M. Zwinger, editor 2022 the Hemingway Society of the Arizona Quarterly, as well as acquisitions editors Programs a Second Straight Aurora Bell (the University of Summer of Online Webinars.… South Carolina Press), James Only This Time They’re W. Long (LSU Press), and additional special guests. Designed to Confront the Friday, July 16, 1 p.m. Uncomfortable Questions. That’s EST: Teaching The Sun Also Rises, moderated by Juliet Why We’re Calling It: Conway We’ll kick off the literary discussions with a panel on Two classic posters from Hemingway’s teaching The Sun Also Rises, moderated dangerous summer suggest the spirit of ours: by recent University of Edinburgh A Dangerous the courage, skill, and grace necessary to Ph.D. alumna Juliet Conway, who has a confront the bull. (Courtesy: eBay) great piece on the novel in the current Summer Hemingway Review. Dig deep into n one of the most powerful passages has voted to offer a series of webinars four Hemingway’s Lost Generation classic. in his account of the 1959 bullfighting Fridays in a row in July and August. While Whether you’re preparing to teach it rivalry between matadors Antonio last summer’s Houseguest Hemingway or just want to revisit it with fellow IOrdóñez and Luis Miguel Dominguín, programming was a resounding success, aficionados, this session will review the Ernest Hemingway describes returning to organizers don’t want simply to repeat last publication history, reception, and major Pamplona and rediscovering the bravery year’s model. -
Notable Books
NOTABLE BOOKS Michael Katakis. Photographs & Words. Additional Text and Materials by Kris L. Hardin. 192 pp. With 120 colour and black & white illustrations. The British Library. Hb. £25.00. For more than 25 years the American photographer and writer Michael Katakis with his wife Kris Hardin, a cultural anthropologist, have travelled the world documenting and observing many and diverse peoples: with tenderness always, sometimes with passion. Conscious of their responsibilities to their subjects, they sought a suitable institution where their archives would be appropriately housed and, just as important, made available for others to study. So it was that, by a serendipitous meeting with a curator who recognized the true value of their material, everything is now housed and cherished in London, in the British Library's collections. In his Foreword, John Falconer, Curator of Photographs at The British Library, emphasizes that theirs is “not a voyeuristic documentary... but a record charting... the characteristics of human society which bind rather than separate.” Furthermore he explains that theirs is a shared and “continuing determination to speak out in the cause of both tolerance and honour and not to become a silent accessory to injustice.” In his Introduction Michael Palin reinforces these points when stating that a “love and respect for humanity” entwines Michael Katakis and Kris Hardin “and all of us who believe that there is a way to tell the truth.” All becomes apparent in this beautiful book, its understated design mirroring and accentuating illustrations and text, selected to highlight some of Michael's and Kris's interests and concerns. -
Framing 'The Other'. a Critical Review of Vietnam War Movies and Their Representation of Asians and Vietnamese.*
Framing ‘the Other’. A critical review of Vietnam war movies and their representation of Asians and Vietnamese.* John Kleinen W e W ere Soldiers (2002), depicting the first major clash between regular North-Vietnamese troops and U.S. troops at Ia Drang in Southern Vietnam over three days in November 1965, is the Vietnam War version of Saving Private Ryan and The Thin Red Line. Director, writer and producer, Randall Wallace, shows the viewer both American family values and dying soldiers. The movie is based on the book W e were soldiers once ... and young by the U.S. commander in the battle, retired Lieutenant General Harold G. Moore (a John Wayne- like performance by Mel Gibson).1 In the film, the U.S. troops have little idea of what they face, are overrun and suffer heavy casualties. The American GIs are seen fighting for their comrades, not their fatherland. This narrow patriotism is accompanied by a new theme: the respect for the victims ‘on the other side’. For the first time in the Hollywood tradition, we see fading shots of dying ‘VC’ and of their widows reading loved ones’ diaries. This is not because the filmmaker was emphasizing ‘love’ or ‘peace’ instead of ‘war’, but more importantly, Wallace seems to say, that war is noble. Ironically, the popular Vietnamese actor, Don Duong, who plays the communist commander Nguyen Huu An who led the Vietnamese People’s Army to victory, has been criticized at home for tarnishing the image of Vietnamese soldiers. Don Duong has appeared in several foreign films and numerous Vietnamese-made movies about the War. -
Top 30 Vietnam War Books
America's wars have inspired some of the world's best literature, and the Vietnam War is no exception By Marc Leepson The Vietnam War has left many legacies. Among the most positive is an abundance of top-notch books, many written by veterans of the conflict. NONFICTION These include winners of National Book Awards and Pulitzer Prizes, AMERICA'S LONGEST WAR: • • • • • both fiction and nonfiction. A slew of war memoirs stand with the best THE UNITED STATES writing of that genre. Nearly all of the big books about the Vietnam War AND VIETNAM, 1950-1975 remain in print in 2014, and the 50th anniversary commemoration of by George Herring, 1978 the war is an opportune time to recognize the best of them. This book is widely viewed as the besj concise history of the Vietnam War. Her• In the short history of Vietnam War literature, publishers would ring, a former University of Kentucky hardly touch a book on the war until the late 1970s and early 1980s—a history professor, covers virtually every part of the self-induced national amnesia about that conflict and its important event in the conflict, present• outcome. After sufficient time had elapsed to ease some of the war's ing the war objectively and assessing its psychic wounds, we saw a mini explosion of important books. Most legacy. Revised and updated over the of the books on the following, very subjective, list of the top 15 fiction years, America's Longest War is used in and nonfiction titles, came out in the late '70s and throughout the '80s. -
Protectionprevention
WFM-IGP ANNUAL REPORT 2014/2015 protectionprevention Peace. JOIN US to mobilize to effectively support the Rohingya, despite warnings ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER from human rights groups and activists. The unaddressed, rampant discrimination facing the Rohingya, SAIFUL and other ethnic minorities, casts a dark shadow on the fragile HUQ OMI democratic transition in Myanmar. Saiful’s photography illumi- nates the individual, amid forces working to deny them of their “Using my lens rights. At the date of publication, Saiful is in the midst of shooting to help create a a full length documentary on the Rohingya population. better world” For WFM-IGP, ‘No 136’ provides striking and vivid narratives of the individuals our work is geared towards supporting. We hope learning of these individuals and their stories affirms for you, as it does for us, the need to be relentless in efforts not just to pro- tect, but to prevent these harrowing narratives, and holistically work towards peace. This Annual Report features four stunning – yet haunting – im- ON THE COVER ages by photo activist, Saiful Huq Omi. Saiful hails from Bangla- Taken in 2009, on Bangladesh’s border, the image captures desh, and uses his camera as a medium for advocacy, through Saiful’s Rohingya guide as he points towards Myanmar, just on which to tell important stories of individuals. His photos have ap- the other side of the river. He told Saiful: “My home is not far peared in The New York Times, The Economist, and The Guardian, from here, you just cross the river Naaf and there is my home by amongst others, and his work has been on exhibit in galleries on the riverside. -
Stewardship in West African Vodun: a Case Study of Ouidah, Benin
University of Montana ScholarWorks at University of Montana Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers Graduate School 2010 STEWARDSHIP IN WEST AFRICAN VODUN: A CASE STUDY OF OUIDAH, BENIN HAYDEN THOMAS JANSSEN The University of Montana Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd Let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Recommended Citation JANSSEN, HAYDEN THOMAS, "STEWARDSHIP IN WEST AFRICAN VODUN: A CASE STUDY OF OUIDAH, BENIN" (2010). Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers. 915. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/915 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at ScholarWorks at University of Montana. It has been accepted for inclusion in Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at University of Montana. For more information, please contact [email protected]. STEWARDSHIP IN WEST AFRICAN VODUN: A CASE STUDY OF OUIDAH, BENIN By Hayden Thomas Janssen B.A., French, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 2003 Thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts In Geography The University of Montana Missoula, MT May 2010 Approved by: Perry Brown, Associate Provost for Graduate Education Graduate School Jeffrey Gritzner, Chairman Department of Geography Sarah Halvorson Department of Geography William Borrie College of Forestry and Conservation Tobin Shearer Department of History Janssen, Hayden T., M.A., May 2010 Geography Stewardship in West African Vodun: A Case Study of Ouidah, Benin Chairman: Jeffrey A. Gritzner Indigenous, animistic religions inherently convey a close relationship and stewardship for the environment. This stewardship is very apparent in the region of southern Benin, Africa. -
I Am Getting Over a Virus That I May First Have Noticed in June, When the Secretary at the Tech Firm I Manage Pointed out That I Wasn't Making Sense
I am getting over a virus. By Dan Duffy. Address: [email protected]. Distributed January 2008. I am getting over a virus that I may first have noticed in June, when the secretary at the tech firm I manage pointed out that I wasn't making sense. Making sense is my job, sending lawyers and engineers out to evaluate the intellectual property in software developed with open source components, and making sure that what they come back with adds up. If I had to explain why I'm able to do this, I'd say that anthropologists work in interdisciplinary teams at multiple sites to explore globalization, that is, capitalism. Law is the special province of socio-cultural anthropology and I am particularly grounded in the liberal ideology behind IP. I am further skilled in the utopian traditions OS comes from, and my bases in linguistics and archeology and evolution, as well as ethnography of science and medicine, help in dealing with engineers who don't think I'm a technical person. Fieldwork experience enables me to relate to the executives of multinationals, each a nation in itself, who we service. But no one asks, as long as I make sense. That week I wasn't, after I ran out Monday to bring in the hay from the back field at the farm I live on. The farmer is an old man with a bypass and the hired man was busy with his own share. Jumping in and out of a truck, climbing stacks with a bale, keeps me relaxed and happy. -
“We'll Let the Gooks Play the Indians” the Endurance of the Frontier Myth in the Hyperreality of Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick, 1987)
Miranda Revue pluridisciplinaire du monde anglophone / Multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal on the English- speaking world 18 | 2019 Guerre en poésie, poésie en guerre “We'll let the gooks play the Indians” The Endurance of the Frontier Myth in the Hyperreality of Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick, 1987) Vincent Jaunas Electronic version URL: http://journals.openedition.org/miranda/18912 DOI: 10.4000/miranda.18912 ISSN: 2108-6559 Publisher Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès Electronic reference Vincent Jaunas, ““We'll let the gooks play the Indians””, Miranda [Online], 18 | 2019, Online since 17 April 2019, connection on 16 February 2021. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/miranda/18912 ; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/miranda.18912 This text was automatically generated on 16 February 2021. Miranda is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. “We'll let the gooks play the Indians” 1 “We'll let the gooks play the Indians” The Endurance of the Frontier Myth in the Hyperreality of Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick, 1987) Vincent Jaunas 1 Upon their release, Stanley Kubrick’s films were often misunderstood and only acquired a cult status in the long run. Yet before Full Metal Jacket, none of them was ever accused of being uninventive. However, when in 1987 the director released his own take on the Vietnam War, influential American critic Roger Ebert considered that “this isn't a bad film but it‘s not a great film and in the recent history of movies about Vietnam Full Metal Jacket is too little and too late" (Ebert 1987). Released almost a decade after Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter (1978) and Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now (1979), Kubrick’s film even came after a new trend of 1980s Vietnam films such as the Rambo franchise or Oliver Stone’s Platoon (1986). -
“The Killing of Gus Hasford”
LA Weekly, June 4–10, 1993 “The Killing of Gus Hasford” By Grover Lewis 1. SEMPER GUS “The best work of fiction about the Vietnam War,” Newsweek called Gus Hasford’s The Short-Timers when it was first published in 1979. The slim hardcover sold, like most first novels, in the low thousands, but established its author as one of the premier writing talents of his generation. In the tradition of Stephen Crane, Hemingway and James Jones, the book summoned up the horrors of war in an unrelenting voice with all the potential for world-class success. Hasford’s critical stock rose even higher when Stanley Kubrick filmed the book as Full Metal Jacket. Released in 1987, the picture received one major Academy Award nomination—shared by Kubrick, Michael Herr and Hasford himself for best screen adaptation. At a stroke, the struggling, rootless young novelist entered the upper realms of “A-list” Hollywood. But in a skein of envy, spite and the inexorable grinding of bureaucratic “justice”—all of them compounded by Hasford’s own obsessive passion for books— his newfound celebrity backfired, and he was sent to jail on bizarrely exaggerated charges involving stolen and overdue library books. It all combined to kill him. Gus died alone, as he had mostly lived, in Greece on January 29 at the measly age of 45 from the complications of untreated diabetes. His death coincided eerily with the 25th anniversary of the Tet offensive, the campaign so graphically described in The Short-Timers. Two weeks after the shock of his death, 20-odd mourners had gathered in the chapel at Tacoma’s Mountain View Memorial Park. -
Carmel Pine Cone, January 20, 2012
A Special Section inside this week’s Healthy Lifestyles Carmel Pine Cone ON THE MONTEREY PENINSULA JANUARY 20, 2012 Volume 98 No. 3 On the Internet: www.carmelpinecone.com January 20-26, 2012 Y OUR S OURCE F OR L OCAL N EWS, ARTS AND O PINION S INCE 1915 P.G. mayor drops bid April ballot set with six candidates for Assembly, will By MARY SCHLEY A LATECOMER kept the city’s staff working into the evening challenge Potter instead Wednesday verifying that all six candidates for the April 10 Carmel municipal election had enough valid signatures to get their names on By KELLY NIX the ballot, assistant city clerk Molly Laughlin said Thursday. The latest candidate to enter the race, Bob Profeta, met with THE MAYOR of Pacific Grove, Carmelita Garcia, has Laughlin Wednesday morning to pick up his nomination papers for dropped her bid for State Assembly and turned her attention the city council race and managed to get the required 20 to 30 sig- toward a political office closer to home. natures by the 5 p.m. deadline the same day. Garcia announced this week she intends to run against Profeta, who co-owns Alain Pinel Realtors in Carmel with his incumbent Dave Potter for supervisor of the 5th District, an wife, Judie, said he extensively discussed a potential run for council area that includes Carmel, Carmel Valley, Pebble Beach and with her before deciding to commit to the effort. With decades of Pacific Grove. experience helping to start nuclear power plants all over the world, When Garcia disclosed in November 2011 she was run- and having lived in Carmel for more than 20 years, Profeta said he ning for Assembly, she said, “It’s time for a new leadership has the management skills and time to give back to the city he appre- and an honest discussion about our state’s priorities.” She ciates so much. -
The Encyclopedia of Stanley Kubrick
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF STANLEY KUBRICK THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF STANLEY KUBRICK GENE D. PHILLIPS RODNEY HILL with John C.Tibbetts James M.Welsh Series Editors Foreword by Anthony Frewin Afterword by Leon Vitali The Encyclopedia of Stanley Kubrick Copyright © 2002 by Gene D. Phillips and Rodney Hill All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher. For information contact: Facts On File, Inc. 132 West 31st Street New York NY 10001 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hill, Rodney, 1965– The encyclopedia of Stanley Kubrick / Gene D. Phillips and Rodney Hill; foreword by Anthony Frewin p. cm.— (Library of great filmmakers) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8160-4388-4 (alk. paper) 1. Kubrick, Stanley—Encyclopedias. I. Phillips, Gene D. II.Title. III. Series. PN1998.3.K83 H55 2002 791.43'0233'092—dc21 [B] 2001040402 Facts On File books are available at special discounts when purchased in bulk quantities for businesses, associations, institutions, or sales promotions. Please call our Special Sales Department in New York at (212) 967-8800 or (800) 322-8755. You can find Facts On File on the World Wide Web at http://www.factsonfile.com Text design by Erika K.Arroyo Cover design by Nora Wertz Illustrations by John C.Tibbetts Printed in the United States of America VB FOF 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 This book is printed on acid-free paper. -
October 1, 1987
Free Films for free in Grafton- Tough Soccer team loses to Next An update on the status FiiCkS Stovall Theatre, p. 15 LOSS number one UVa., p. 18 Issue ofWJMR THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1,1987 JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY VOL. 65 NO. 10 Warren 'initiates' plans to improve student learning By Martin Romjue news editor A five-year plan designed to improve student learning at JMU is now beyond its planning stage, said JMUs vice president for academic affairs. Formerly know as the five-year plan, the program now is called the academic initiatives for excellence "to symbolize the end of planning" and the start of carrying those plans out, said Dr. Russell Warren, who originated the plan. The academic affairs office sent a 72-page report to all faculty members and administrators last month summarizing accomplishments, remaining goals and costs of separate programs in the plan. Programs include improving advising services for students, using more evaluations of how much Staff photo by MARK MANOUKIAN students learn while at JMU, requiring more liberal arts courses and developing more learning experiences Barkley and Marina Rosser are happy to be sharing their lives and their work. outside the classroom. Higher education is not known for rapid, coordinated change, Warren said. "We're trying to Rosser lives fantasy as show that a university can change quickly, but substantially." The initiatives program is unique in that it will Russian teacher at JMU change several aspects of JMU at the same time. Warren said. By Martin Romjue "My biggest adjustment is having to speak Faculty hearings were held last semester to get news editor English," Mrs.