LETTER WRITING: THE PIONEER & A LONG TRADITION
I want to add this short essay as a sort of addendum to my comments on letter writing, my letter writing and the letter writing of pioneers because it provides some historical context particularly for me as a person of Welsh ancestry and it seems particularly relevant to this autobiography. I am indebted in my writing of this short essay which follows to a Bill Jones and his article Writing Back: Welsh Emigrants and their Correspondence in the Nineteenth Century in the North American Journal of Welsh Studies, Vol. 5, No.1, Winter 2005.
Near and Not Lost -- The International Memorialization of the Czech Holocaust...YHRUploads
Olivia Noble's prize-winning essay, "Near and not Lost-- The International Memorialization of the Czech Holocaust Torahs" appears in the Fall 2020 edition of The Yale Historical Review.
The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503, Free eBookChuck Thompson
The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503, Free eBook. http://www.gloucestercounty-va.com Think you know the story of Christopher Columbus? Think again, find out more of the real facts here and more to come. Visit us for the surprising.
Benjamin Franklin - Early and Private LifeChuck Thompson
Benjamin Franklin - Early and Private Life. Liberty Education Series on Gloucester, Virginia Links and News website. Visit us for more incredible content.
Liberty Education Series. A play written about the battle of Bunker Hill, American Revolution in Massachusetts. Contains a few pictures. Free PDF or ePub editions will be available for download on our main website at Gloucester, Virginia Links and News.
Near and Not Lost -- The International Memorialization of the Czech Holocaust...YHRUploads
Olivia Noble's prize-winning essay, "Near and not Lost-- The International Memorialization of the Czech Holocaust Torahs" appears in the Fall 2020 edition of The Yale Historical Review.
The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503, Free eBookChuck Thompson
The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503, Free eBook. http://www.gloucestercounty-va.com Think you know the story of Christopher Columbus? Think again, find out more of the real facts here and more to come. Visit us for the surprising.
Benjamin Franklin - Early and Private LifeChuck Thompson
Benjamin Franklin - Early and Private Life. Liberty Education Series on Gloucester, Virginia Links and News website. Visit us for more incredible content.
Liberty Education Series. A play written about the battle of Bunker Hill, American Revolution in Massachusetts. Contains a few pictures. Free PDF or ePub editions will be available for download on our main website at Gloucester, Virginia Links and News.
This Part 5 comes from VOLUME FOUR: CHAPTER FIVE
of my now lengthy work. It begins with INTERNATIONAL PIONEERING5: 1982-1988
Autobiography is a literary form by which I attempt to centre my life in a literary way, a way that embellishes and defines, describes and delineates, that has been centred at least since my late teens when this pioneering venture began. This literary effort is not the only form; it is also method and function. I bring together form, method and function in one process, one expression. I like to think there is an intellectual, a spiritual union, a conjoining, here. Poetry attempts to whittle this conjoining away, to scatter it, fragment it. Life is an immense series offragments. Perhaps my poetry, as well as some of my prose, especially my more confessional journals, even defaces my life from time to time by inscribing, describing some of my sins of omission and commission which have been many.
There are many forces that attempt to fracture whatever unity, oneness and centring there has been in my life. That is putting the function of poetry about as negatively as one can. On a more positive note, poetry does more for me than I can describe in a few words here. Since my autobiography is really poetic autobiography, I think I try to combine the positive aspects of both genres. My autobiography weaves continuities and digs holes to find air-pockets. It engages in ventilations, drillings, exposures, divergencies and plays with time and space in a multitude of ways.-Ron Price with thanks to "Poetry: The Autobiography of a Thirst," Poetry and Autobiography: Internet.
The title of this autobiography is: PIONEERING OVER FOUR EPOCHS. This Part 4 begins with an INTRODUCTION TO BOOK TWO
-------------------------------
Book One of this autobiography has taken you, dear reader, to the start of the tenth and final stage of history, as Shoghi Effendi called the years, the time, after April 21st 1963. It has also provided a brief survey of the years up to the first year of the Nine Year Plan in 1964-1965, to the beginning of anything that could be called my sex life in 1965 and to the death of my father that same year as I turned 21.
Book Two will take the story and the analysis up to the time of writing this work, a writing that took place in stages, over many years of a long process from 1984 to now—2011. I will then give you a final Book Three of interviews, poetry, essays and a discussion of history.
This Book Two begins, then, with volume 3 chapter 2 of my autobiography.
VOLUME 3: CHAPTER TWO
HOMEFRONT PIONEERING 2--1965 to 1967:
"To capture one's life textually is a doomed struggle....."
Western autobiography has a strong emphasis on the individual and tends to be linear and chronological; autobiography among many non-western cultures has a strong focus on community. These tend to be non-linear, circular, include flashbacks and a range of techniques involving the perspectives of others in addition to the narrative position of the main storyteller. -Ron Price with thanks to Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior, Random House, NY, 1976.
This document is an essay, a review, of the latest of the books of poetry by Les, or Laci, Endrei. The review has yet to appear at Endrei's website or anywhere else in cyberspace.
In addition to my standard resume found below, my Baha’i resume is also found here, as is: (a) a list of subjects I taught while lecturing and teaching in post-secondary schools and colleges in Australia, (b) a list of essays and articles I have published and (c) some relevant bio-data. Once used to apply for jobs from the early 1960s to the early years of this third millennium, this evolving document is now an archive that I update occasionally for internet use in these middle years(65-75) of my late adulthood, a period developmental psychologists generally define as one’s stage in the lifespan from the age of 60 to 80. This document is 30 pages in length in a font 14. Readers with little time are advised to skim and/or scan the more than 7000 words contained therein as suits their taste, interests and needs.
This document was sent to the National Baha’i Archives of Australia(NBAA) to assist in providing a context for the collection of my letters(1960 to 2010) which I sent to them in 2010. This document could also be useful in providing a base of facts for anyone writing my obituary after my passing in the years to come.
______________________________________
INTERVIEW NO. 3 WITH RON PRICE
Preamble:
This is the third interview in the year 1996 with the Australian-Canadian poet Ron Price. This interview continues to explore some of the same questions, examine similar issues and talk about poetry, reading and writing as the first two interviews did earlier in 1996. He has also added material in the years after 1996 and up to 2012.
Questioner(Q): We have talked before about your first poem, or poems. Could you tell us more about how you got started in the poetry business?
Price(P): The first poem I wrote and kept in my files was two to three months after I started taking lithium carbonate, a mood stabilizer, for my bipolar 1 disorder. I wrote some forty poems in the six years: 1981 to 1987 and another one hundred and thirty from 1988 to 1991. I have come to see this period of some 11 years as my ‘first poems’. There was an emotional stability in my life that I had not had before as a young adult or middle-aged man, indeed, since I was in my mid-teens, since about 1959. I have talked about lithium before and I don’t want to belabor the point here, but I think it has been crucial to my balance and well-being. In the ‘80s I had several some major battle-zones in my life: in my employment, and in my fight for compliance on the medication. I worked in Zeehan, Tasmania; Katherine, Northern Territory; Port Headland and Perth in Western Australia--all in the same decade. In addition, my wife was sick much of the time in that decade---and on and on goes the litany of troubles. I think this zone of troubles kept my production limited, although I did write many essays.
When one writes about politics, the people and the events, the ideas and the issues, one does not have to engage in the partisan variety which divides the nation and individuals from each other and engages millions in hair-splitting discussions on topics about which they usually or, at least, often know very little. Often the opinions are endless, opinions which get dropped-about now in cyberspace's social media and elsewhere, and in real space.
I have studied politics and taught it from grade 10 when I was 15 to these years of my retirement more than half a century later. I am now 70. My parents had political meetings in our home back in the early to mid-1950s. It was in those early, those embryonic, years when I was inoculated against partisan-party politics. That in-house political discussion was characterized by endless hair-splitting and personality clashes in what were my pre-puberal years, and the scene has changed little in those several decades.
WHEN A PSYCHOSIS IS FUNNY ...and when mental illness is stigmatizedRon Price
Part 1:
Analyze This is a 1999 gangster comedy film directed by Harold Ramis. He co-wrote the screenplay with playwright Kenneth Lonergan and Peter Tolan. The film starred Robert De Niro as a mafioso and Billy Crystal as his psychiatrist. A sequel, Analyze That, was released in 2002.
I had the pleasure of watching these two comedy films about a mafia mobster who has a psychotic-break while in prison and several panic attacks outside prison. It was more than a dozen years, though, after these films were released before I watched them. That is the pattern now in the evening of my life. I have not been to the cinema in all the years of my retirement from paid-employment since back in 1999 when I lived in Western Australia. I wait, and eventually I can watch the movie on television.
Initially there was no plan to create a sequel to Analyze This, but the positive reaction generated by the first film encouraged the producers to consider a sequel and discuss it with the studio and actors. They believed, as Crystal put it, that: "There was an unfinished relationship between Ben Sobel and Paul Vitti, the psychiatrist and the mobster, from the first film" and "there was a good story to tell", so the sequel was commissioned. I leave it to readers with the interest to Google the story, the plot and the characters, the production and background details, the box office and reception/ratings the films received, the money which the films grossed, and all the who's whos.
Part 2:
"Freud has never been more relevant," said David Cronenberg(1943- ) recently. Cronenberg is a Canadian filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor. He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or venereal horror genre. "Because of Freud's understanding of what human beings are, and his insistence on the reality of the human body. We do not escape from that. Jung went into a kind of Aryan mysticism, whereas Freud was insisting on humans as we really are, not as we might want to be."2
Cronenberg points out in relation to some of his more extreme depictions of violence and sex, mental health issues and criminality that: "Different countries have different reactions to my depictions of somewhat extreme situations and topics..2 Some films are successful in some places; some not. What will play in Glasgow for three years non-stop will be taken off the air in a dozen or more Middle Eastern countries.......I'm interested in people who don't accept the official version of reality, but try to find out what's really going on under the hood."-Ron Price with thanks to 1Wikipedia, 7/2/'15; & 2Steve Rose, "David Cronenberg: Analyse this," The Guardian, 6 February 2012.
JESSE OWENS and THE RACE
....little did we know
Part 1:
My mother was 32 and my father 46 when American track and field athlete, Jesse Owens, won four Olympic gold medals. This stunning triumph of the most famous athlete at the 1936 Olympic Games captivated the world even as it infuriated the Nazis. My parents had not yet met in 1936, although they both worked in the lunch-pail city of Hamilton Ontario. They would meet at some time before WW2 broke out, or in the first years of that terrible conflict. I don't know exactly when they did meet; they have long since passed away and so I will never know.
But much is known about the late 30s and early 40s. Modern history is replete with information: Donald Bradman, the cricket legend was scoring 100s of runs in his winning ways; the first players were elected to baseball's hall of fame; the first Volkswagen was built; Alan Turing submitted On Computable Numbers for publication, and in this work he set out the theoretical basis for modern computers; two days later, on 30 May 1936, Shoghi Effendi asked the North American Baha'i community to design the first systematic teaching plan.1 I have been associated with extensions of that plan for more than 60 years.
Part 1.1:
Despite the racial slurs he endured, Jesse Owens' grace and athleticism rallied crowds across the globe. But when the four-time Olympic gold-medalist returned home, he could not even ride in the front of a bus. Jesse Owens(1913-1980) is the story of the 22-year-old son of a sharecropper who triumphed over adversity to become a hero and world champion. His story is also about the elusive, fleeting quality of fame and the way Americans idolize athletes when they suit their purpose, and forget them once they don't.2
Last night I watched a documentary on Jesse Owens.2 I am looking forward to the 2015 biopic Race starring Stephan James who will play Olympic legend Jesse Owens. This is the work of director Stephen Hopkins' which began shooting on 24 July 2014 in Montreal, and on location at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin. The film will be released in April 2015.
Part 2:
The atmosphere around the 1936 Berlin Olympics was highly politically charged. Originally opposed to the idea of the games, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler was convinced by his propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels that they were the perfect opportunity to showcase the superiority of Aryan athletes. Hitler presided over the opening day ceremonies, whipping the crowds into a frenzy of excitement. On 3 August 1936, when Jesse Owens stepped into the massive new Olympic Stadium in Berlin, the crowd went silent with anticipation, sitting on the edge of their seats to see the much-talked-about track star from America compete against the Germans.
Elia Kazan: From the Periphery to the CentreRon Price
Mr. Kazan's first novel in 1962, America America, retraced the odyssey of an uncle, a Greek youth, who fled the poverty and persecution of Turkey and reached America despite numbing setbacks. The book was a best seller, and Bosley Crowther of The Times called Mr. Kazan's movie version one of the 10 best films of 1963. Kazan, by 1963, was a famous film and theatre director, but most people then and now do not know the names of film directors.
In 2003 Elia Kazan died at the age of 94. He was an influential director in film and theatre1 even if not that well known in the world of popular culture. Back in 1962 my own odyssey had just begun both in the Canadian Baha'i community, and in the community of higher education. I have remained in both these communities, in a wide variety of ways, for the rest of my life although, for the most part, in Australia after a brief decade in Canada.
Сотрудники компаний, в зависимости от специфики выполняемой работы, вынуждены использовать совершенно разные информационные системы. Естественно, им необходимо взаимодействовать между собой.
Всем гораздо удобнее работать в одной системе с привычным интерфейсом и развивать именно ее функционал. Например, согласование реестров счетов, заявки на формирования бюджета, валютный контроль, управление первичной документацией – это задачи не СЭД.
Расширяя функционал систем, важно не нарушать «тонкую грань непереполнения функционала». Автоматизация финансовых процессов – задача актуальная, и решить ее можно посредством интеграции СЭД с финансово-учетной системой.
В рамках онлайн-семинара мы рассматриваем два подхода к автоматизации таких финансовых процессов, как согласование бюджетов и счетов на оплату. В первом случае согласование происходит исключительно в ECM-системе, во втором – эксперты продемонстрировали совместную работу ECM-системы DIRECTUM и CPM-системы Prestima (Corporate Performance Management, поддержка эффективности управления).
Если для вас актуален вопрос интеграции систем или вы сомневаетесь в эффективности такого «слияния», советуем вам посмотреть семинар в записи «Зачем финансисту ECM?» http://www.directum.ru/webinar/z%D0%B0chem_fin%D0%B0nsistu_ecm.
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Practicum DIRECTUM – ваш ECM-решебник. Это серия онлайн-семинаров (http://www.directum.ru/webinar/archive.aspx), в рамках которых эксперты сообщества DIRECTUM ежемесячно демонстрируют возможности использования ECM-технологий на практике.
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A 2600 page, five volume narrative, a 300 page study of the poetry of Roger White, the major Bahai; poet of that half-century; 6600 prose-poems, 120 pages of personal interviews, 400 essays; 5000 letters, emails and interent posts; 300 notebooks, six volumes of diaries/journals, 12 volumes of photographs and memorabilia, a dozen attempts at a novel, indeed, an epic-opus of material has been integrated into an analysis of my religion, my times and my life. This variety of genres aims at embellishing and deepening my own experience and that of readers. Only a very small portion of this epic work is found here, a portion that readers can dip into anywhere.
This is Part 2 of my autobiography
This Part 5 comes from VOLUME FOUR: CHAPTER FIVE
of my now lengthy work. It begins with INTERNATIONAL PIONEERING5: 1982-1988
Autobiography is a literary form by which I attempt to centre my life in a literary way, a way that embellishes and defines, describes and delineates, that has been centred at least since my late teens when this pioneering venture began. This literary effort is not the only form; it is also method and function. I bring together form, method and function in one process, one expression. I like to think there is an intellectual, a spiritual union, a conjoining, here. Poetry attempts to whittle this conjoining away, to scatter it, fragment it. Life is an immense series offragments. Perhaps my poetry, as well as some of my prose, especially my more confessional journals, even defaces my life from time to time by inscribing, describing some of my sins of omission and commission which have been many.
There are many forces that attempt to fracture whatever unity, oneness and centring there has been in my life. That is putting the function of poetry about as negatively as one can. On a more positive note, poetry does more for me than I can describe in a few words here. Since my autobiography is really poetic autobiography, I think I try to combine the positive aspects of both genres. My autobiography weaves continuities and digs holes to find air-pockets. It engages in ventilations, drillings, exposures, divergencies and plays with time and space in a multitude of ways.-Ron Price with thanks to "Poetry: The Autobiography of a Thirst," Poetry and Autobiography: Internet.
The title of this autobiography is: PIONEERING OVER FOUR EPOCHS. This Part 4 begins with an INTRODUCTION TO BOOK TWO
-------------------------------
Book One of this autobiography has taken you, dear reader, to the start of the tenth and final stage of history, as Shoghi Effendi called the years, the time, after April 21st 1963. It has also provided a brief survey of the years up to the first year of the Nine Year Plan in 1964-1965, to the beginning of anything that could be called my sex life in 1965 and to the death of my father that same year as I turned 21.
Book Two will take the story and the analysis up to the time of writing this work, a writing that took place in stages, over many years of a long process from 1984 to now—2011. I will then give you a final Book Three of interviews, poetry, essays and a discussion of history.
This Book Two begins, then, with volume 3 chapter 2 of my autobiography.
VOLUME 3: CHAPTER TWO
HOMEFRONT PIONEERING 2--1965 to 1967:
"To capture one's life textually is a doomed struggle....."
Western autobiography has a strong emphasis on the individual and tends to be linear and chronological; autobiography among many non-western cultures has a strong focus on community. These tend to be non-linear, circular, include flashbacks and a range of techniques involving the perspectives of others in addition to the narrative position of the main storyteller. -Ron Price with thanks to Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior, Random House, NY, 1976.
This document is an essay, a review, of the latest of the books of poetry by Les, or Laci, Endrei. The review has yet to appear at Endrei's website or anywhere else in cyberspace.
In addition to my standard resume found below, my Baha’i resume is also found here, as is: (a) a list of subjects I taught while lecturing and teaching in post-secondary schools and colleges in Australia, (b) a list of essays and articles I have published and (c) some relevant bio-data. Once used to apply for jobs from the early 1960s to the early years of this third millennium, this evolving document is now an archive that I update occasionally for internet use in these middle years(65-75) of my late adulthood, a period developmental psychologists generally define as one’s stage in the lifespan from the age of 60 to 80. This document is 30 pages in length in a font 14. Readers with little time are advised to skim and/or scan the more than 7000 words contained therein as suits their taste, interests and needs.
This document was sent to the National Baha’i Archives of Australia(NBAA) to assist in providing a context for the collection of my letters(1960 to 2010) which I sent to them in 2010. This document could also be useful in providing a base of facts for anyone writing my obituary after my passing in the years to come.
______________________________________
INTERVIEW NO. 3 WITH RON PRICE
Preamble:
This is the third interview in the year 1996 with the Australian-Canadian poet Ron Price. This interview continues to explore some of the same questions, examine similar issues and talk about poetry, reading and writing as the first two interviews did earlier in 1996. He has also added material in the years after 1996 and up to 2012.
Questioner(Q): We have talked before about your first poem, or poems. Could you tell us more about how you got started in the poetry business?
Price(P): The first poem I wrote and kept in my files was two to three months after I started taking lithium carbonate, a mood stabilizer, for my bipolar 1 disorder. I wrote some forty poems in the six years: 1981 to 1987 and another one hundred and thirty from 1988 to 1991. I have come to see this period of some 11 years as my ‘first poems’. There was an emotional stability in my life that I had not had before as a young adult or middle-aged man, indeed, since I was in my mid-teens, since about 1959. I have talked about lithium before and I don’t want to belabor the point here, but I think it has been crucial to my balance and well-being. In the ‘80s I had several some major battle-zones in my life: in my employment, and in my fight for compliance on the medication. I worked in Zeehan, Tasmania; Katherine, Northern Territory; Port Headland and Perth in Western Australia--all in the same decade. In addition, my wife was sick much of the time in that decade---and on and on goes the litany of troubles. I think this zone of troubles kept my production limited, although I did write many essays.
When one writes about politics, the people and the events, the ideas and the issues, one does not have to engage in the partisan variety which divides the nation and individuals from each other and engages millions in hair-splitting discussions on topics about which they usually or, at least, often know very little. Often the opinions are endless, opinions which get dropped-about now in cyberspace's social media and elsewhere, and in real space.
I have studied politics and taught it from grade 10 when I was 15 to these years of my retirement more than half a century later. I am now 70. My parents had political meetings in our home back in the early to mid-1950s. It was in those early, those embryonic, years when I was inoculated against partisan-party politics. That in-house political discussion was characterized by endless hair-splitting and personality clashes in what were my pre-puberal years, and the scene has changed little in those several decades.
WHEN A PSYCHOSIS IS FUNNY ...and when mental illness is stigmatizedRon Price
Part 1:
Analyze This is a 1999 gangster comedy film directed by Harold Ramis. He co-wrote the screenplay with playwright Kenneth Lonergan and Peter Tolan. The film starred Robert De Niro as a mafioso and Billy Crystal as his psychiatrist. A sequel, Analyze That, was released in 2002.
I had the pleasure of watching these two comedy films about a mafia mobster who has a psychotic-break while in prison and several panic attacks outside prison. It was more than a dozen years, though, after these films were released before I watched them. That is the pattern now in the evening of my life. I have not been to the cinema in all the years of my retirement from paid-employment since back in 1999 when I lived in Western Australia. I wait, and eventually I can watch the movie on television.
Initially there was no plan to create a sequel to Analyze This, but the positive reaction generated by the first film encouraged the producers to consider a sequel and discuss it with the studio and actors. They believed, as Crystal put it, that: "There was an unfinished relationship between Ben Sobel and Paul Vitti, the psychiatrist and the mobster, from the first film" and "there was a good story to tell", so the sequel was commissioned. I leave it to readers with the interest to Google the story, the plot and the characters, the production and background details, the box office and reception/ratings the films received, the money which the films grossed, and all the who's whos.
Part 2:
"Freud has never been more relevant," said David Cronenberg(1943- ) recently. Cronenberg is a Canadian filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor. He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or venereal horror genre. "Because of Freud's understanding of what human beings are, and his insistence on the reality of the human body. We do not escape from that. Jung went into a kind of Aryan mysticism, whereas Freud was insisting on humans as we really are, not as we might want to be."2
Cronenberg points out in relation to some of his more extreme depictions of violence and sex, mental health issues and criminality that: "Different countries have different reactions to my depictions of somewhat extreme situations and topics..2 Some films are successful in some places; some not. What will play in Glasgow for three years non-stop will be taken off the air in a dozen or more Middle Eastern countries.......I'm interested in people who don't accept the official version of reality, but try to find out what's really going on under the hood."-Ron Price with thanks to 1Wikipedia, 7/2/'15; & 2Steve Rose, "David Cronenberg: Analyse this," The Guardian, 6 February 2012.
JESSE OWENS and THE RACE
....little did we know
Part 1:
My mother was 32 and my father 46 when American track and field athlete, Jesse Owens, won four Olympic gold medals. This stunning triumph of the most famous athlete at the 1936 Olympic Games captivated the world even as it infuriated the Nazis. My parents had not yet met in 1936, although they both worked in the lunch-pail city of Hamilton Ontario. They would meet at some time before WW2 broke out, or in the first years of that terrible conflict. I don't know exactly when they did meet; they have long since passed away and so I will never know.
But much is known about the late 30s and early 40s. Modern history is replete with information: Donald Bradman, the cricket legend was scoring 100s of runs in his winning ways; the first players were elected to baseball's hall of fame; the first Volkswagen was built; Alan Turing submitted On Computable Numbers for publication, and in this work he set out the theoretical basis for modern computers; two days later, on 30 May 1936, Shoghi Effendi asked the North American Baha'i community to design the first systematic teaching plan.1 I have been associated with extensions of that plan for more than 60 years.
Part 1.1:
Despite the racial slurs he endured, Jesse Owens' grace and athleticism rallied crowds across the globe. But when the four-time Olympic gold-medalist returned home, he could not even ride in the front of a bus. Jesse Owens(1913-1980) is the story of the 22-year-old son of a sharecropper who triumphed over adversity to become a hero and world champion. His story is also about the elusive, fleeting quality of fame and the way Americans idolize athletes when they suit their purpose, and forget them once they don't.2
Last night I watched a documentary on Jesse Owens.2 I am looking forward to the 2015 biopic Race starring Stephan James who will play Olympic legend Jesse Owens. This is the work of director Stephen Hopkins' which began shooting on 24 July 2014 in Montreal, and on location at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin. The film will be released in April 2015.
Part 2:
The atmosphere around the 1936 Berlin Olympics was highly politically charged. Originally opposed to the idea of the games, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler was convinced by his propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels that they were the perfect opportunity to showcase the superiority of Aryan athletes. Hitler presided over the opening day ceremonies, whipping the crowds into a frenzy of excitement. On 3 August 1936, when Jesse Owens stepped into the massive new Olympic Stadium in Berlin, the crowd went silent with anticipation, sitting on the edge of their seats to see the much-talked-about track star from America compete against the Germans.
Elia Kazan: From the Periphery to the CentreRon Price
Mr. Kazan's first novel in 1962, America America, retraced the odyssey of an uncle, a Greek youth, who fled the poverty and persecution of Turkey and reached America despite numbing setbacks. The book was a best seller, and Bosley Crowther of The Times called Mr. Kazan's movie version one of the 10 best films of 1963. Kazan, by 1963, was a famous film and theatre director, but most people then and now do not know the names of film directors.
In 2003 Elia Kazan died at the age of 94. He was an influential director in film and theatre1 even if not that well known in the world of popular culture. Back in 1962 my own odyssey had just begun both in the Canadian Baha'i community, and in the community of higher education. I have remained in both these communities, in a wide variety of ways, for the rest of my life although, for the most part, in Australia after a brief decade in Canada.
Сотрудники компаний, в зависимости от специфики выполняемой работы, вынуждены использовать совершенно разные информационные системы. Естественно, им необходимо взаимодействовать между собой.
Всем гораздо удобнее работать в одной системе с привычным интерфейсом и развивать именно ее функционал. Например, согласование реестров счетов, заявки на формирования бюджета, валютный контроль, управление первичной документацией – это задачи не СЭД.
Расширяя функционал систем, важно не нарушать «тонкую грань непереполнения функционала». Автоматизация финансовых процессов – задача актуальная, и решить ее можно посредством интеграции СЭД с финансово-учетной системой.
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Letter Writing: Pioneering
1. LETTER WRITING: THE PIONEER & A LONG TRADITION
I want to add this short essay as a sort of addendum to my comments on letter writing,
my letter writing and the letter writing of pioneers because it provides some historical
context particularly for me as a person of Welsh ancestry and it seems particularly
relevant to this autobiography. I am indebted in my writing of this short essay which
follows to a Bill Jones and his article Writing Back: Welsh Emigrants and their
Correspondence in the Nineteenth Century in the North American Journal of Welsh
Studies, Vol. 5, No.1, Winter 2005.
Jones points to a remark made by Eric Richards in relation to British and Irish people
who moved to Australia in the nineteenth century that migrants were “more likely to
reflect on their condition and their lives than those who stayed at home.”1
I’m not sure if
pioneers in the Baha’i community did more reflecting on their condition and lives than
those who stayed at home, but there is no question I did a sizeable amount of reflecting
and I documented a portion of it in my letters and, after about 1995, in my emails. I am
also inclined to think that, as the decades advance and as collections of the letters and
emails of pioneers take form, they will reflect mutatis mutandis Eric Richards’ comment.
As is true of most European peoples whose histories took on an international dimension
as result of nineteenth-century migrations, that emigrant letters became the largest and
arguably the most important source for an insight into the mentalities, activities and
attitudes of ordinary migrants. Commentators have long emphasised the importance of
emigrant letters in illuminating the human and personal aspects of the experience of
migration.2
The comparison and contrast between emigrant letters and those of Baha’i
pioneers is heuristic.
1
Eric Richards, Voices of British and Irish Migrants in Nineteenth-Century Australia, in
Migrants, Emigrants and Immigrants: A Social History of Migration, editors: Colin
G. Pooley and Ian D. White, Routledge, London, 1991, p. 20.
2
For important discussions on emigrant letters, their strengths and limitations as a
historical source and the ways scholars have utilized them, see Charlotte Erickson,
Invisible Immigrants: The Adaptation of English and Scottish Immigrants in
Nineteenth-Century America, University of Miami Press, 1972, pp. 1-31; David
Fitzpatrick, Oceans of Consolation: Personal Accounts of Irish Migration to
Australia; David A. Gerber, Correspondence in Twentieth-Century American
Scholarship,” Journal of American Ethnic History, Vol. 16, No. 4, Summer 1997, pp.
3-34; idem, “Ethnic Identification and the Project of Individual Identity: The Life of
Mary Ann Wodrow Archbald,” Immigrants and Minorities, Vol. 17, No. 2, July 1998,
pp. 1-22; and idem, “Epistolary Ethics: Personal Correspondence and the Culture of
Emigration in the Nineteenth Century,” Journal of American Ethnic History, Vol. 19,
No. 4, Summer 2000, pp. 3-23; Eric Richards, “Annals of the Australian Immigrant,” in
Visible Immigrants. Neglected Sources for the Study of Australian Immigration, ed.
Eric Richards, Richard Reid, and David Fitzpatrick, ANU, Canberra, 1989, pp. 7-22. My
thinking on both 19th
century emigrant letters and my own letters has benefited greatly
from the insights contained in these studies.
2. Just at the time when the collections of Welsh migrant letters were first being published
in the 1960s, my first letters as a Baha’i pioneer in Canada--a pioneer with a Welsh
ancestry--were being written and collected. A continuity of little to no significnace to the
outside world or even within the Baha’i community at the time was taking place, a
continuity that began in Wales in the 19th
century. Perhaps, in the long run it would be a
continuity with some significance. Time would tell. Alan Conway’s collection, published
in 1961, The Welsh in America: Letters from the Immigrants appeared just as my
own collection was taking in its first letter.3
By the time H. S. Chapman’s article4
about
letters from Welsh migrants “From Llanfair to Fairhaven,” in Transactions of the
Anglesey Antiquarian Society and Field Club and Letters from America: Captain
David Evans of Talsarnau, my own collection of letters were beginning to assume a
substantial body of material for future archivists and historians, writers and analysts. I
belonged to a religion within which the letter had assumed more than an insignificant
proportion and those mysterious dispensations of Providence would determine whether
my letters and those of other international pioneers would take on any significance. As a
non-betting man, I was inclined to the view that one day they would.
This brief analysis can not do justice to the many dimensions that collections of letters
from Baha’i international pioneers embrace, although I hope what I write here contributes
in a small way by conveying something of the diversity and complexity of the subject. I
am only discussing somewhat impressionistically a few of the functions of the letters of
pioneers and the relationships between them and certain aspects of the process of
pioneering. I also want to discuss certain features of the letters as texts, examine some of
their contexts and subtexts, and try to explain some of the complex ways in which this
correspondence came into existence. My remarks here are limited, though, for this is a
short essay and deals with its subject in a general and personal way making no attempt to
be comprehensive, well-researched or extensively analysed. I seek to shed light on some
of the experiential aspects of emigrant letter writing over two centuries and pioneer
letter/email writing and receiving in the period: 1971-2021, the period in which I was
myself an international pioneer.
A collection of letters like my own are so unlike any of the nineteenth century collections
from European or United Kingdom migrants to the colonies, the new world, any world
outside of the Eurocentric world migrants had been born in. Their letters, their history,
production and reception, intersected with, contributed to and were shaped by key
contemporaneous developments in that part of the nineteenth century in which their
letters were written. These included the conspicuous increase in literacy, the emergence
of mass print culture and formal state-based education, the expansion of the postal service
and of reading and letter-writing in general, the social and cultural practices of the time
together with the growth of instructional literature devoted to a range of cultural and
3
Alan Conway, editor, The Welsh in America: Letters from the Immigrants,
University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 1961.
4
H. S. Chapman, “From Llanfair to Fairhaven,” in Transactions of the Anglesey
Antiquarian Society and Field Club, pp. 147-57, 1986 and Letters from America:
Captain David Evans of Talsarnau, 1817-1895(Aled Eames, Lewis Lloyd, and Bryn
Parry, editors), Gwynedd Archives Service, Caernarfon, 1995
3. educational pursuits. In the case of my letters, only a few were written back to my
country of origin and the few that were were not written essentially to explain to anyone
or convince anyone of the value of this new country as a pioneer destination for them.
My letters, for the most part, were produced and intersected with developments in my
country of destination. The affects of the spread of media technology: TV, coloured TV,
DVDs, video and by the 21st
century large-screen plasma TVs, the computer; social and
political developments locally, nationally and internationally; the decline of letter writing
and the increase in the use of the email; the expansion of the Baha’i community from,
say, 200 thousand in 1953 to, say, 800 thousand in 1971 and to nearly six million in
2003, indeed, the list of influences is and has been endless. This brief statement can not
do the subject justice. I leave that to future writers and students of the subject of letter
writing and pioneering in the Baha’i community.
In the case of my letters, only a few were written back to my country of origin and the
few that were were not written essentially to explain to anyone or convince anyone of the
value of this new country as a pioneer destination for them. My letters, for the most part,
were produced and intersected with developments in my country of destination. The
affects of the spread of media technology: TV, coloured TV, DVDs, video and by the 21st
century large-screen plasma TVs, the computer; social and political developments
locally, nationally and internationally; the decline of letter writing and the increase in the
use of the email; the expansion of the Baha’i community from, say, 200 thousand in 1953
to, say, 800 thousand in 1971 and to nearly six million in 2003, indeed, the list of
influences is and has been endless. This brief statement can not do the subject justice. I
leave that to future writers and students of the subject of letter writing and pioneering in
the Baha’i community.
Numerous scholars have emphasised that the writing and receiving of letters had a high
priority for those emigrants who engaged in correspondence over 100 years ago. Without
denying the importance of emigrant letters in any way, however, we should be careful not
to exaggerate and over-romanticise their significance to all emigrants and to the
emigration process in general. This is equally true of the letters and the emails of pioneers
in the last half of the first century of our Formative Age: 1971-2021. Undoubtedly they
have immense importance as the main, if not the only, practical method of keeping in
touch with relatives, friends and neighbours back in the Old Country or country of origin.
Yet letters and emails also had certain limitations that undermined their effectiveness in
these regards. Not every emigrant or pioneer wrote letters and emails. The pleasure taken
in the act of writing was not universal. In the 19th
century not everyone could write; in the
last half of the 20th
century virtually everyone could write, at least in the western world,
but new influences kept many from writing more than the perfunctory communication.
Some emigrants in the 19th
and pioneers in the 20th wrote only very occasionally and the
number who wrote regularly in both centuries was perhaps smaller still. The email
certainly resulted in an explosion in the sheer quantity of written communication from
pioneers and among the general population and I am confident that this sheer quantity
would one day be reflected in the letters and emails of pioneers. Further, the importance
attached to the act of writing to people on either side of the Atlantic and/or the Pacific
4. varied from family to family and changed over time. For so many families, one of the
most intense consequences of emigration was disintegration or, perhaps the word
ephemeralization, is better. The situation was often created in which connections with
family and friends were broken or they became tenuous at best. There were also other
important elements to the process of maintaining correspondence that could complicate
matters and even restrict the letter’s effectiveness in keeping families together and
keeping friendships alive. If letters were chains that bound distant kith and kin and
connections with Baha’i communities of origin, they were often fragile or poor links for
many a pioneer. Even when the links were strong, the letters and emails were often
thrown away and became of no use to future historians.
Pioneer and migrant correspondence was a multi-faceted, complex and sometimes
ambiguous, even contradictory phenomenon. There is no doubt that the relationship
between the letter writing of some emigrants and some pioneers was characterised more
by apathy, neglect and avoidance than by emotional intensity and deep psychological
need. Some people preferred gardening, watching TV and engaging in any number of a
cornucopia of activities that popular and elite culture had made available in the late
twentieth century. The hobby apparatus of many a leisure time activity became immense
as the 21st
century turned its corner. So many people really did not like to write and when
they did they saw its only significance in personal terms, in terms of their relationship
with the person they were writing to. This was only natural.
Personal preference and circumstances as well as factors far beyond the control of
emigrants/pioneers and their families could limit the effectiveness of the letter/email as a
means of communication. Yet, for other transnational families, the letters received in and
sent from the country of origin were all as precious as life itself. Written correspondence
was the principal means of sustaining that transnationality and a future age would collect
and analyse this sustaining force and this often ephemeral reality.
The practice of writing, receiving and responding to letters in the 19th
century and, say,
until what Baha’is called the ninth stage of history beginning in 1953--to a country of
origin from, say, America, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Patagonia, South Africa and
elsewhere was an essential element in the process of emigration and pioneering and the
lived experience of emigrants/pioneers. It had a centrality that was lost, though, in the
second half of the twentieth century and the second half of the first century of the
Formative Age(1971-2021) as the letter was challenged by mass use of the telephone and,
later, e-mail, and by cheaper and faster overseas travel. I would suggest that because of
their richness as literary artifacts, their symbolic importance and their revelatory power,
the position that the written communications of pioneers beginning in the nineteenth-
century and continuing until, say, 1953, should occupy, is prominent. These letters
should be found, if not the very best place in the house of the Baha’i literary heritage,
then at least a significant one that might draw the visitor’s eye as the threshold is crossed.
Further, like families and friends in nineteenth-century, we need to bring emigrant and
pioneer letters out to study them more often, to pass them around and scrutinise and
discuss their contents. My view is that it will be some time before this kind of
scrutinizing takes place. In a very real sense those large and laden letters that take wing
5. across the oceans, still await — and deserve — our responses—perhaps our children’s
children!
6. across the oceans, still await — and deserve — our responses—perhaps our children’s
children!