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May 1, 1995 www.amazon.com Watch the full program: thefilmarchived.blogspot.com Lifton investigated the thought-reform procedures used against American POWs returning from the Korean War while involved in their psychiatric evaluation. Lifton's 1961 book Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of "Brainwashing" in China was a study of coercive techniques that he labelled thought reform or "brainwashing", though he preferred the former term. Others have labelled it also as "mind control". Lifton describes in detail eight methods which he says are used to change people's minds without their agreement: * Milieu Control -- The control of information and communication. * Mystical Manipulation -- The manipulation of experiences that appear spontaneous but in fact were planned and orchestrated. * Demand for Purity -- The world is viewed as black and white and the members are constantly exhorted to conform to the ideology of the group and strive for perfection. * Confession -- Sins, as defined by the group, are to be confessed either to a personal monitor or publicly to the group. * Sacred Science -- The group's doctrine or ideology is considered to be the ultimate Truth, beyond all questioning or dispute. * Loading the Language -- The group interprets or uses words and phrases in new ways so that often the outside world does not understand. * Doctrine over person -- The member's personal experiences are subordinated to the sacred science and any contrary ...
May 1, 1995 www.amazon.com Watch the full program: thefilmarchived.blogspot.com Marvin Julian Miller (born April 14, 1917) is the former executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) from 1966 to 1982. Under Miller's direction, the players' union was transformed into one of the strongest unions in the United States. In 1992, the Hall of Fame broadcaster Red Barber said, "Marvin Miller, along with Babe Ruth and Jackie Robinson, is one of the two or three most important men in baseball history." Miller, a labor economist, was born in The Bronx, New York City. He first started at the National War Labor Relations Board, and then moved on to the Machinist Union and the United Auto Workers. Finally, he worked his way up the United Steelworkers union to become its leading economist and negotiator. In the spring of 1966, Miller visited Spring Training camps in an effort to get selected as executive director of the MLBPA. He closely followed the joint holdout of Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale. He was elected head of the MLBPA in 1966. Miller negotiated MLBPA's first collective bargaining agreement with the team owners in 1968. That agreement increased the minimum salary from $6000 to $10000, the first increase in two decades. In 1970, Miller was able to get arbitration included in the collective bargaining agreement. Arbitration meant that disputes would be taken to an independent arbitrator to resolve the dispute. Previously disputes were taken to the ...
May 1, 1995 www.amazon.com Watch the full program: thefilmarchived.blogspot.com Louis "Studs" Terkel (16 May 1912 -- 31 October 2008) was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985 for The Good War, and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago. Terkel joined the Works Progress Administration's Federal Writers' Project, working in radio, doing work that varied from voicing soap opera productions and announcing news and sports, to presenting shows of recorded music and writing radio scripts and advertisements. His well-known radio program, titled The Studs Terkel Program, aired on 98.7 WFMT Chicago between 1952 and 1997. The one-hour program was broadcast each weekday during those forty-five years. On this program, he interviewed guests as diverse as Bob Dylan, Leonard Bernstein, and Alexander Frey. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Terkel was also the central character of Studs' Place, an unscripted television drama about the owner of a greasy-spoon diner in Chicago through which many famous people and interesting characters passed. This show, along with Marlin Perkins's Zoo Parade and the children's show Kukla, Fran, and Ollie, are widely considered canonical examples of the Chicago School of Television. Terkel published his first book, Giants of Jazz, in 1956. He followed it with a number of other books, most focusing on ...
June 6, 2009 www.amazon.com On October 5, 2005, the DC Comics imprint Vertigo released Pekar's autobiographical hardcover The Quitter, with artwork by Dean Haspiel. The book detailed Pekar's early years. In 2006 Pekar released another biography for Ballantine/Random House, Ego & Hubris: The Michael Malice Story, about the life of Michael Malice, who was the founding editor of OverheardinNewYork.com. Pekar was also given the honor of being the first guest editor for the The Best American Comics 2006 collection published by Houghton Mifflin, the first comics publication in the "Best American series" series. In June 2007 Pekar collaborated with student Heather Roberson and artist Ed Piskor on the book Macedonia, which centers around Roberson's studies in the country. January 2008 saw another biographical work from Pekar, Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History, released through Hill & Wang. In March 2009 Pekar released The Beats, a history of the Beat Generation including Kerouac and Ginsberg, illustrated by Ed Piskor. In May 2009 he released Studs Terkel's Working: A Graphic Adaptation. Pekar had recently started up a webcomic with Smith Magazine online called The Pekar Project. In the late 1980s, Pekar's comic book success led to eight guest appearances on Late Night with David Letterman. His confrontational style and overt on-air criticism of General Electric (which owned NBC) led to the show banning him as a guest until the early 1990s. Pekar was a prolific ...
June 6, 2009 www.amazon.com Pekar's friendship with Robert Crumb www.amazon.com led to the creation of the self-published, autobiographical comic book series American Splendor. Crumb and Pekar became friends through their mutual love of jazz records when Crumb was living in Cleveland in the mid-1960s. Crumb's work in underground comics led Pekar to see the form's possibilities, saying, "Comics could do anything that film could do. And I wanted in on it." It took Pekar a decade to do so: "I theorized for maybe ten years about doing comics." Pekar laid out some stories with crude stick figures and showed them to Crumb and another artist, Robert Armstrong. Impressed, they both offered to illustrate, and soon Pekar's story "Crazy Ed" appeared in Crumb's The People's Comics, and Crumb became the first artist to illustrate American Splendor. The comic documents daily life in the aging neighborhoods of Pekar's native Cleveland. The first issue of appeared in 1976. Pekar's most well-known and longest-running collaborators include Crumb, Gary Dumm, Greg Budgett, Spain Rodriguez, Joe Zabel, Gerry Shamray, Frank Stack, Mark Zingarelli, and Joe Sacco. In the 2000s, he teamed regularly with artists Dean Haspiel and Josh Neufeld. Others cartoonists who worked with him include Jim Woodring, Chester Brown, Alison Bechdel, Gilbert Hernandez, Eddie Campbell, David Collier, Drew Friedman, Ho Che Anderson, Rick Geary, Ed Piskor, Hunt Emerson, Bob Fingerman, and Alex Wald; as well as such non ...
June 6, 2009 www.amazon.com Works by Harvey Pekar www.amazon.com * American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar (Doubleday, 1986) * More American Splendor (Doubleday, 1987) ISBN 0-385-24073-2 * The New American Splendor Anthology (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1991) ISBN 0-941423-64-6 * Our Cancer Year, with Joyce Brabner and Frank Stack (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1994) ISBN 1-56858-011-8 * American Splendor Presents: Bob & Harv's Comics, with R. Crumb (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1996) ISBN 1-56858-101-7 * American Splendor: Unsung Hero, with David Collier (Dark Horse, 2003) ISBN 1-59307-040-3 * American Splendor: Our Movie Year (Ballantine Books, 2004) ISBN 0-345-47937-8 * Best of American Splendor (Ballantine Books, 2005) ISBN 0-345-47938-6 * The Quitter, with Dean Haspiel (DC/Vertigo, 2005) ISBN 1-4012-0399-X * Ego & Hubris: The Michael Malice Story, with Gary Dumm (Ballantine Books, 2006) ISBN 0-345-47939-4 * Macedonia, with Heather Roberson and Ed Piskor (Ballantine Books, 2006) ISBN 0-3454-9899-2 * American Splendor: Another Day (DC/Vertigo, 2007) ISBN 978-1-4012-1235-3 * Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History (Hill and Wang, 2008) ISBN 978-0809095391 * American Splendor: Another Dollar (2009) ISBN 978-1-4012-2173-7 * The Beats (2009) ISBN 978-0-2856-3858-7 * Studs Terkel's Working: A Graphic Adaptation (2009) ISBN 978-1-59558-321-5 * Circus Parade by Jim Tully. Foreword by Harvey Pekar. Introduction by Paul J. Bauer and Mark Dawidziak. (Kent State ...
June 6, 2009 www.amazon.com Paul Buhle www.amazon.com graduated from the University of Illinois in 1966, where he had been a spokesperson for the chapter of Students for a Democratic Society's antiwar activities. He received a Master's degree from the University of Connecticut (in 1967) and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin--Madison (in 1975). He had been active in the civil rights movement in SDS, and a member for some months of the Socialist Labor Party. In 2006-07, he was one of the founding figures of the new Students for a Democratic Society, and more recently a leader of the Movement for a Democratic Society. Buhle was founding editor of the journal Radical America (1967--1999), an unofficial organ of Students for a Democratic Society, founder of Cultural Correspondence (1977--83), a journal of popular culture studies, and founder and director of the Oral History of the American Left archive at New York University in 1976. In Rhode Island, he co-founded the Rhode Island Labor History Society, was active in labor history and labor support activities and produced several popular histories of the state's labor movement. He also produced Vanishing Rhode Island, a pictorial history and plea for preservation; and with his students, Underground Rhode Island.' He has contributed frequently to the journals and newspapers The Nation, The Village Voice, Monthly Review, Jewish Currents, The Chronicle of Higher Education and The San Francisco Chronicle. Buhle is the co ...
June 6, 2009 www.amazon.com Harvey Lawrence Pekar www.amazon.com (October 8, 1939 -- July 12, 2010) was an American underground comic book writer, music critic, and media personality, best known for his autobiographical American Splendor comic series. In 2003, the series inspired a critically acclaimed film adaptation of the same name. Pekar described American Splendor as "an autobiography written as it's happening. The theme is about staying alive. Getting a job, finding a mate, having a place to live, finding a creative outlet. Life is a war of attrition. You have to stay active on all fronts. It's one thing after another. I've tried to control a chaotic universe. And it's a losing battle. But I can't let go. I've tried, but I can't." Paul Merlyn Buhle www.amazon.com (born 27 September 1944 in Urbana, Illinois) is a (retired) Senior Lecturer at Brown University, author or editor of 35 volumes including histories of radicalism in the United States and the Caribbean, studies of popular culture, and a series of nonfiction comic art volumes. He is the authorized biographer of CLR James. Louis "Studs" Terkel www.amazon.com (16 May 1912 -- 31 October 2008) was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985 for The Good War, and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago. Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They ...
Studs Terkel talks about his interest in the history of the common man. From the 2000 documentary special "Studs on a Soapbox" by Tom Weinberg. "Quick Hits From The Archive." To watch the entirety of "Studs on a Soapbox" at Media Burn, click the link below: www.mediaburn.org
Oral Historian Studs Terkel talks about his book "The Good War." "Quick Hits From The Archive." To watch the full version of this piece at Media Burn, click here: www.mediaburn.org
Oral Historian Studs Terkel talks about the prime impulse of human beings: work. "Quick Hits From The Archive." To watch the full version of this piece at Media Burn, click the link below: www.mediaburn.org
Oral Historian and Legendary Broadcaster Studs Terkel shares his thoughts on race in the 20th Century. "Quick Hits From The Archive." To watch the full version of this piece at Media Burn, click the link below: www.mediaburn.org
Oral Historian Studs Terkel weighs in on the modern day depression. "Quick Hits From The Archive." Want more archival video? To watch the full version of this piece at Media Burn, click the link below: www.mediaburn.org
Raw video of Oral Historian Studs Terkel and Columnist Mike Royko at a Chicago bar. To watch the full version of this piece at Media Burn, click the link below: mediaburn.org
Oral historian Studs Terkel talks about his friendship with gospel singer Mahalia Jackson. "Quick Hits From The Archive." Want more archival video? Watch the full version of this piece at Media Burn at the link below: www.mediaburn.org
Studs Terkel chats and jokes with Nelson Algren at a party in Chicago. Algren had recently moved from Chicago to Paterson, New Jersey, and this move was the subject of most of the conversation, told mainly through deadpan jokes. For more archival video of Studs Terkel and Nelson Algren at Media Burn, click the link below: tinyurl.com
Studs Terkel appears on an October 1995 episode of "Common Ground" with host Monroe Anderson. This is the second of two ten minute segments. You can watch the full video here: mediaburn.org
Studs Terkel appears on an October 1995 episode of "Common Ground" with host Monroe Anderson. This is the first of two ten minute segments. You can watch the full video here: mediaburn.org
Highlights from the Studs Terkel celebration on January 30, 2009 at the Chicago Cultural Center. You can watch the full video here: mediaburn.org
Studs Terkel 1912-2008: Beloved Oral Historian and Broadcaster Dies at 96 The legendary radio broadcaster, writer, oral historian, raconteur and chronicler of our times, Studs Terkel, died Friday at the age of ninety-six in his home town of Chicago. Over the years, Terkel has been a regular guest on Democracy Now! In 2005, he appeared on the show shortly after undergoing open heart surgery. My curiosity is what saw me through," Terkel said. "What would the world be like, or will there be a world? And so, thats my epitaph. I have it all set. Curiosity did not kill this cat. And its curiosity, I think, that has saved me thus far.
Studs Terkel (1912-2008) was interviewed for one-and-a-half hours in Chicago, IL. Mr. Terkel related the history of the Chicago School of television (including his relationships with Burr Tillstrom, Fran Allison and Dave Garroway) and spoke in detail about his own program, Studs Place and efforts to keep the show on the air after he was blacklisted. After the program went off the air, Terkel became one of Americas premier oral historians and radio interviewers. The interview was conducted by Karen Herman on July 19, 1999. For Studs' complete online interview, www.youtube.com For more information about this and other Archive interviews, visit www.emmytvlegends.org
Studs Terkel 1912-2008: Beloved Oral Historian and Broadcaster Dies at 96 The legendary radio broadcaster, writer, oral historian, raconteur and chronicler of our times, Studs Terkel, died Friday at the age of ninety-six in his home town of Chicago. Over the years, Terkel has been a regular guest on Democracy Now! In 2005, he appeared on the show shortly after undergoing open heart surgery. My curiosity is what saw me through," Terkel said. "What would the world be like, or will there be a world? And so, thats my epitaph. I have it all set. Curiosity did not kill this cat. And its curiosity, I think, that has saved me thus far. For the full transcript, audio and video podcasts and downloads go to: www.democracynow.org For the rest of today's show go to www.democracynow.org or http
Recorded by the University of Chicago in 2004
Studs Terkel (May 16, 1912 - October 31, 2008): www.michaelmoore.com In October of 1996, while crisscrossing the country during the making of 'The Big One,' Michael Moore had the honor of sitting down with Studs Terkel for a radio interview on Chicago's 98.7 WFMT. Continue to sit down with Studs at www.michaelmoore.com
Studs Terkel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose best-selling oral histories celebrated the common people has died in Chicago. He was 96. (Nov. 1)
Selected full Forums now available at www.theforumchannel.tv Studs Terkel talks about "Working" with William F. Buckley.
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...YORK The great Studs Terkel -- author, radio journalist, activist, Chicago institution, terrific listener -- died today at his Chicago home. He was 96. Millions will now learn that his real first was Louis. The Chicago Tribune reports, "At his bedside was...
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Author Studs Terkel wrote novels such as Division Street: America,Hard Times and Working. CHICAGO (AP) Pulitzer Prize-winning author and activist Studs Terkel has died at age 96. Colleague and close friend Thom Clark says Terkel's family confirmed his
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...(Reuters) - Studs Terkel, who chronicled America's history by letting common people tell their own stories in books like "Working" and "The Good War," died on Friday, his publisher said. He was 96. Terkel, born Louis Terkel in 1912, regaled listeners with...
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... Replies to this thread Working is one of the best pieces of literature ever. He was always a pleasure to listen to. He not only knew his stuff, he knew how to present it in a colorful and interesting way. Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997...
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...of that, kid?" Share this page using one of the following services: Born in 1912, Pulitzer Prize-winning oral historian Studs Terkel helped thousands of everyday Americans tell their own stories. Terkel hosted a Chicago radio program for 45 years and authored...
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Blind John Davis did a gig for me in a club I was running in downtown Liverpool during the mid-late 70's. When he came on his stage wife lit his cigar; and when he had finished the cigar- that was the end of his set! ere he chats to Studs Terkel ... Being a Brit I used to think that was Studs Turtle ... Oh well ...
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...better than most cities. ("Am I wrong?" I asked our waitress. "I agree," she said. I wished later that I'd thought to quote Studs Terkel: "Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.") What about Obama? Has Chicago corruption...
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...District of California. The ACLU lawsuits filed on behalf of dozens of plaintiffs - including renowned Chicago journalist Studs Terkel, former California Congressman Tom Campbell, journalist Robert Scheer and actor Richard Belzer - challenge the unlawful collaboration...
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...District of California. The ACLU lawsuits filed on behalf of dozens of plaintiffs - including renowned Chicago journalist Studs Terkel, former California Congressman Tom Campbell, journalist Robert Scheer and actor Richard Belzer - challenge the unlawful collaboration...
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...to work by sending more than 6000 journalists, novelists, and poets — including John Cheever, Kenneth Rexroth, and Studs Terkel — out across this great land to describe the country as they saw it. The most important legacy of the FWP were 48 state guides (plus...
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...was an Indian activist known nationally for her radical views, partly because of a profile noted author and historian Studs Terkel wrote about her orchestration of the armed takeover of Tacoma’s Cascadia building, site of the old Cushman Hospital. “Twenty...
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...6,000 writers back to work. Nelson Algren, Saul Bellow, John Cheever, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, Wallace Stegner, Studs Terkel and Richard Wright were among those who contributed to WPA pamphlets and books that had subjects such as "Here's New England!"...
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...extra credit given for energetic achievements post-80 and for being really, really, really old. (We're looking at you, Studs Terkel.) There's also a list of five "79ers to watch" over the next year—if these upstarts keep at it, they'll be a lock for next year's...
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...Lotte Lenya, to Ian McKellen and Arnold Schwarzenegger ("I have emotions," the latter announces, terrifyingly). There is also Terkel's own bracingly denunciatory review of The Deer Hunter ("It has succeeded admirably in denigrating the American working man...
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...In 1972, Studs Terkel wrote a marvelous book entitled “Working.” Well, actually, very few of the words in the 586-page volume were created by Terkel. Instead, Terkel’s specialty is listening. “Working” is a book of people from all walks of life — farmer, miner,...
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...way of satirists) used Richard Daley as a symbol, and Chicago itself as a reductio ad absurdum of a way of life? And couldn't Studs Terkel's shockingly sentimental statement, which Joseph Epstein cites in his review [Books in Review, September], be rephrased...
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In the storytelling tradition of Studs Terkel and the photographic spirit of Mike Disfarmer, The Oxford Project tells the extraordinary true tale of a seemingly ordinary Midwestern town through the pictures and words of its residents. Equal parts art, American history, cultural anthropology, and human narrative—The Oxford Project is at once personal and universal, surprising and predictable, simple and profound.
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...important and well-known authors." Among them: Barack Obama, Al Gore, Maya Angelou, Ray Bradbury, Rosa Parks, Gore Vidal, Studs Terkel, Joyce Carol Oates, and many more. Under the direction of the Drucker Institute and Transdisciplinary Studies Program, the...
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TV's Barbara Walters and Mike Wallace, Pulitzer Prize winner Studs Terkel, National Public Radio's Susan Stamberg, NYC Police Detective Sean Grennan, and psycho-analyst Joel Kovel are interviewed about curiosity, style, trickery, truth and conversation. This is a 1½-minute excerpt from a one-hour TV special filmed and produced by Skip Blumberg.
Opening number from Working The Musical, by the New Depot Players, June 25th, 2008
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...Studs Terkel did for American workers in "Working" and other books of oral history, so Liao does for the Chinese in this wide-ranging collection of interviews. From landowners to restroom attendants, from former Red Guards to Tiananmen parents, from professional...
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...Studs Terkel's 1974 book chronicling American working men and women, was turned into an entertaining musical by Wicked creator Stephen Schwartz. James Taylor even pitched in to craft some of the show's music. When: Through Aug. 30. Performances are Tuesdays,...
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...small criticisms of the work. Though his driving tour includes a remarkable cast of characters - William Kennedy in Albany, Studs Terkel in Chicago, some of the best university faculty members throughout the nation, and writers and artists - his modus operandi...
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