![]() ![]() ![]() The scenes he chose for his artwork are deeply personal and yet many would be familiar, not only to Black people in his hometown, but to White people as well, and to others who lived in the rural South in the 1940s, 50s, and early 60s.” Rembert’s story tells of the extreme, often sadistic and deadly, racism that pressed on the Black community like a toxic, malicious god. My review of Winfred Rembert’s memoir, Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South, is posted at At the Seawall here.įrom the review: “Rembert (whose name oddly echoes the word, remember) first told his life story not in words, but in vivid images carved, tooled, and colored on sheets of leather. ![]()
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![]() ![]() His popular radio series The Armchair Detective attracted more than ten million listeners a week. He also began writing plays and crime series for BBC Radio. He appeared in the West End in numerous small parts, before taking a job with "The Daily Mail" during the late 1930s as a society reporter. He featured the character in many short stories and numerous novels as well as a stage play Dr Morelle, which he co-wrote with Arthur Watkyn. ![]() He met and married the actress Jane Graham while they were on tour in 1930.ĭudley created Dr Morelle for a BBC Radio anthology programme Monday Night at Eight during the Second World War. He began his theatrical career acting in repertory in Ireland, later joining Charles Doran's Shakespeare company. In the fifties the role was given to Cecil Parker, who co-starred with Sheila Sim.ĭudley was born Vivian Ernest Coltman-Allen, in Dudley, Worcestershire and educated at Taplow School. He was later succeeded by Heron Carvic, himself a writer. ![]() The Dr Morelle - "the man you love to hate!" - series was hugely popular during the 1940s and 1950s and originally starred Dennis Arundell in the title role. The actor and scriptwriter Ernest Dudley (1908-2006) was the creator of the hit BBC radio crime series Dr Morelle and also the television series The Armchair Detective. ![]() ![]() ![]() Acknowledging that Helen has long served as a lens through which male thinkers have projected their views of women, Hughes traces the uses to which the ancient princess has been put, from the prehistoric Mycenaean world, in which she would have been admired for her beauty and strength, through the Elizabethan age, when she was reviled as a demonic harlot. ![]() ![]() Now British historian Hughes investigates the history and myth of Helen, using a mix of archeological evidence, literary sources and personal observation to flesh out this archetypal creature. Helen of Troy has been a part of the Western cultural consciousness for thousands of years, an often troubling figure of female sexual power. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Fear, doubt, uncertainty, lack of confidence and focus are all internal dialogues that not only influence our outer actions and results but everything that we hope to achieve with our own lives and manifest with our lives. The good news is that whether personally or professional, individually or collectively, the biggest obstacles we face are placed by ourselves from within not from without. To do that, requires a great deal of unlearning of bad habits and a new way of being that involves us being much more open and trusting to what is actually happening within and around us. It requires more than most of us realize and asks us all to have deep enough commitment not only to short-term performance but how we are truly learning and growing in the process. The challenge is how to transform ourselves and our institutions that have been hardwired for consistency, control, and predictability into cultures where not only performance is valued but where real human growth, learning and evolving is equally as important.īecoming a high performing individual and organization is demanding. So much is changing in every area of our lives that the capacity to shift our thinking is increasingly critical to success. ![]() ![]() An important pro which I had not thought of before was that after all it was a good-natured piece of unselfishness to join Davies for he had spoken of the want of a pal, and seemed honestly to be in need of me. The fact was that, at breakfast on the morning after the arrival of the letter, I had still found that inexplicable lightening which I mentioned before, and strong enough to warrant a revival of the pros and cons. You will guess, at any rate, that I was armed with the conviction that I was doing an act of obscure penance, rumours of which might call attention to my lot and perhaps awaken remorse in the right quarter, while it left me free to enjoy myself unobtrusively in the remote event of enjoyment being possible. That two days later I should be found pacing the deck of the Flushing steamer with a ticket for Hamburg in my pocket may seem a strange result, yet not so strange if you have divined my state of mind. ![]() ![]() The pilot banked and descended, aiming for a clearing along a riverbank.Īmong those stepping from the helicopter was an archaeologist named Chris Fisher. There were no signs of human life-not a road, a trail, or a wisp of smoke. Flocks of egrets flew below, and the treetops thrashed with the movement of unseen monkeys. Beyond it lay a valley surrounded by serrated peaks: an unblemished landscape of emerald and gold, dappled with the drifting shadows of clouds. Picking his way through the summits, the pilot headed for a V-shaped notch in a distant ridge. Below, farms gradually gave way to steep sunlit slopes, some covered with unbroken rain forest, others partially stripped for cattle ranching. On February 18, 2015, a military helicopter lifted off from a shabby airstrip near the town of Catacamas, Honduras, and headed toward the mountains of La Mosquitia on the northeast horizon. ![]() ![]() This story appears in the October 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His latest, “The Heavenly Table,” takes place in 1917 from the border dividing Georgia and Alabama to Pollock’s own Ross County in southern Ohio. With these two books, Pollock established himself as one of the leading scribes of a new generation of American Gothic literature, full of rugged prose, desperation and decadent violence. His first novel, “The Devil All the Time,” was a masterful follow-up, mining the same dark depths with a sharper eye for narrative arc. After working 32 years in a paper mill in Chillicothe, Ohio, Pollock got his MFA in his 50s and in 2008 published “Knockemstiff,” a harrowing collection of short stories named for his hometown in southern Ohio. There are few living novelists with a stronger point of view than Donald Ray Pollock. ![]() ![]() ![]() The first types of cubes he created were simple wooden blocks that were held together with rubber bands and paperclips. Original images such as the fairly unstable looking 2x2 puzzle above surfaced as Rubik’s first attempt at accomplishing his goal. It is believed that the cube was also used to help explain three-dimensional objects to his then-students at the Academy of Applied Arts and Crafts in Budapest Hungary. Rubik Erno wanted to create an object that seemed to defy the laws of possibility he wanted a structure which, whilst staying held together, had movable independent parts that could be manipulated and have their positions changed. The wooden prototype presented on the Beyond Rubik's Cube exhibition But where did the original Rubik’s Cube come from? How was the original 3x3 puzzle that has sold over 350 million units since its release originally developed? Here we will take a look at the first prototype of the original toy and how this paved the way for future versions of the same puzzle. New types of puzzles from higher-order standard cubes such as the 4x4 or 5x5 to different shaped puzzles such as cuboids and pyramids have surfaced, all originating from the original Rubik’s Cube design. Over the years the Rubik’s Cube has evolved immensely. Home » Rubik's Cube » The first Rubik’s Cube Prototype - The invention of Erno Rubik The first Rubik’s Cube Prototypes ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There are a lot of recurring motifs in the book, but the one that stands out to me is the idea of the first step. You don't know whether you're going to make the crowd cheer or boo." ![]() ![]() You don't know whether you're going to win or lose. When you step out on a basketball court, no matter how well prepared you are, you really don't know how things are going to go. "As I was following the team, I was struck by the courage of the coaches and especially the players," Yang tells me in an email interview. Gene Luen Yang is known as a cartoonist - the author of American Born Chinese and the New Super-Man comics, he's received a MacArthur genius grant for his work, and the Library of Congress named him as its Ambassador for Young People's Literature in 2016.īut for years, Yang was a computer science teacher at Bishop O'Dowd High School in Oakland, Calif., and his new book Dragon Hoops, chronicles a year he spent observing the school's incredibly talented basketball team as they strove for the state championship. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Dragon Hoops Author Gene Luen Yang ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This collection includes six short stories all set within the Grishaverse. Perfect for new readers and dedicated fans, these tales will transport you to lands both familiar and strange-to a fully realized world of dangerous magic that millions have visited through the novels of the Grishaverse.” ![]() Inspired by myth, fairy tale, and folklore, #1 New York Times–bestselling author Leigh Bardugo has crafted a deliciously atmospheric collection of short stories filled with betrayals, revenge, sacrifice, and love. Travel to a world of dark bargains struck by moonlight, of haunted towns and hungry woods, of talking beasts and gingerbread golems, where a young mermaid’s voice can summon deadly storms and where a river might do a lovestruck boy’s bidding but only for a terrible price. Short Story Collection | Fantasy | Folktales The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic by Leigh Bardugo (2017) ![]() |