5/24/2023 0 Comments IA by John Darryl Winston![]() ![]() The Blue Demon has led a distinguished career in service to the track and cross country community. Scholastica and Whitney Young where he is currently the assistant girl’s track and cross country coach. He then returned to the prep ranks including time at Jones Prep, St. After a stint at King High School, Caldow began an 11-year career at the head of the DePaul track and field program. Following his graduation fro DePaul, he began coaching at Calumet High School in 1970-71. ![]() The 1970 education graduate will be recognized as he enters his 39th year coaching. ![]() DePaul University Track and Field Hall of Famer John Caldow will be recognized for his lifetime service to the track and field community with his induction into the Illinois Track and Cross Country Coaches Association Hall of Fame on January 9, 2010.Ĭaldow will be honored at the ITCCCA’s annual clinic and luncheon. ![]()
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5/24/2023 0 Comments Dewey democracy and education![]() ![]() ![]() On one hand, there is the contrast between the immaturity of the new-born members of the group (its future sole representatives) and the maturity of the adult members who possess the knowledge and customs of the group. In Democracy and Education, Dewey argues that the primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group determine the necessity of education. Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education is a 1916 book by John Dewey. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments I am a pole by stephen colbert![]() “The Rosenbach is honored to receive Colbert’s materials from ‘I Am a Pole’ and delighted that Colbert will join the ranks of the many respected authors whose materials reside in our collection,” said Derick Dreher, John C. Colbert recently donated to the Rosenbach working materials from his book, I Am a Pole (And So Can You!), firmly planting his flagpole among the likes of renowned authors such as James Joyce, Joseph Conrad, and Bram Stoker, among others whose manuscripts are part of the Rosenbach collection. The Rosenbach Museum & Library, noted for its outstanding collection of rare books, manuscripts, and art, is pleased to announce the acquisition of materials from television host and, more recently, “children’s book” author, Stephen Colbert. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments All together dead![]() ![]() Sullivan stars as Beth, an ambitious guitar tech who visits her estranged sister, Ellie (Alyssa Sutherland), and her three kids after her latest tour ends. ![]() The story then transports to a metropolitan area, where our actual main characters are introduced. Yet, the first introduction to actual violence in the film really sets the tone, complete with jaw-dropping effectiveness and sheer visceral horror. The opening teases a familiar scene: an isolated cabin, a young couple, and a joking quarrel. Cronin successfully delivers a new chapter in the Necronomicon and slays the screen with artistic rigor until the credits roll. releases the film in theaters on Friday, April 21.įollowing the world premiere of writer and director Lee Cronin’s “ Evil Dead Rise” at this year’s SXSW, actress Lily Sullivan told the audience that “horror is the ultimate collaboration of artistry.” The fifth installment of the “Evil Dead” franchise is precisely that: an impressive amalgamation of talent working together to uphold the rotten core of the beloved original Sam Raimi films while also conjuring new evil to the franchise. ![]() Editor’s note: This review was originally published at the 2023 SXSW Film Festival. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Redhead Convention runs from next Friday to Sunday in Crosshaven. In fact, there are plenty of folks who have red hair and are of color, according to The Big Redhead Book: Inside the Secret Society of Red Hair by Erin La Rosa. ![]() It’s one of the last great social prejudices,” she said.Ī University College Cork-based study last year found that as many as nine out of ten ginger-haired men worldwide have been the victims of bullying.Īnd Colliss Harvey, a University of Cambridge graduate, agreed that the experience for red-headed males tends to be far more negative than female counterparts.Īlthough Collis Harvey doesn’t believe gingerism can be practically tackled by expanding the definition of hate crime laws, she said more needs to be done to tackle the problem of bullying and discrimination. But just because many of the famous redheads out there are fair-skinned and have Eurocentric features doesnt mean that all gingers do. “Unfortunately bullying of children with red hair is still common and people with red hair are often seen as acceptable targets, because they’re not one group and not a race. “I think people are hard-wired to react to red as a colour and as a species we seem to have a psychological need to judge an ‘other’ - and if not someone with red hair, it’s another minority group. ![]() “Prejudice against redheads goes back thousands and thousands of years to the time of the ancient Greeks and later across medieval Europe. Red hair occurs in communities from the Middle East to Africa to Polynesia, and can come with skin dark enough to protect you from desert or tropical sun. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Deathgrip by Brian Hodge![]() An evil that preys upon human weakness for its own twisted ends. But beyond their temporary haven, an evil is stirring. Louis department store, a few survivors band together to begin again. Like a biblical pestilence, this plague sweeps through modern civilization almost overnight, destroying good and evil alike, leaving only a handful of survivors to make their way through an empty landscape and face the unknown horrors awaiting them in a savage new world. It arrives without warning: a devastating plague, the medieval Black Death weaponized for the age of global terrorism. McCammon, author of Swan Song and Speaks the Nightbird His scenes blaze with energy and life, and his characters are very real." ![]() A fresh style that makes for a very enjoyable and often surprising reading." ![]() "Never predictable, never boring, and not at all easy to put down. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments 1876 by Gore Vidal![]() ![]() is the best and most ambitious of his novels, the richest in texture and the most carefully executed. "t is the melodrama of the plot, diluted though that is by long interior monologues and mood-exhibits, which carries the writing, not the other way round." Vidal's approach is coldly clinical: there is no real attempt to involve the reader's emotions." "Presented as the case history of a standard homosexual, this novel adds little that is new to a groaning shelf. ![]() It is called 'Williwaw' and it is a sound, craftsmanlike work that would do credit to a practiced "A good novel about the Aleutians has been written by one of the youngest soldiers who went there, Gore Vidal. Paul Mattick Reviews 'The Essential Gore Vidal' (February 14, 1999).First Chapter: 'The Essential Gore Vidal'.First Chapter: 'The Smithsonian Institution'.With News and Reviews From the Archives of The New York Times ![]() ![]() ![]() … The scene was a reminder of the lengths to which Trump’s loyal base will go to support and defend him, and that DeSantis has a tough road ahead convincing a sizable chunk of the Republican electorate to move on.” They continued waiting for Trump behind metal barriers even as the skies opened. Just hours before his event’s scheduled start, Trump postponed the rally due to a tornado watch.Īs our colleagues Natalie Allison and Sally Goldenberg write from Iowa : “Trump fans began lining up hours before the scheduled outdoor rally in Des Moines. Mother Nature apparently had other plans. RON DeSANTIS were scheduled to campaign in Iowa - Trump at a rally in Des Moines and DeSantis at events throughout the state. HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY - First off, we’d be remiss to not wish a Happy Mother’s Day to all the mamas out there, especially the moms of Playbook - LAURA BADE, LEAH DANIELS, BARBARA LIZZA, SHEILA DeBONIS, DeANNA IRVINE, AMSALE LEGESSE, SUE OKUN, LIZ ROSS and BETH BAGLEY-STANTON.Īnd a special shoutout to our own Rachael Bade, who today celebrates her first Mother’s Day with her baby girl, SKYLA.ĭeSANTIS STORMS THROUGH IOWA - It was supposed to be the Thrilla In Vanilla: Yesterday, both DONALD TRUMP and Florida Gov. ![]() ![]() | Charlie Neibergall/AP Photo DRIVING THE DAY Ron DeSantis worked the ground game in Iowa on Saturday after inclement weather kept Donald Trump away from the state. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And, finally, we meet her in The Trope Teacher, in which a distinguished professor of military history, trying to write his memoirs, is distracted by his wife’s illness and by the arrival next door of a new neighbor, the famous writer I. As a graduate student, she finds herself escorting a guest lecturer from the Soviet Union, and in The War Doctor, her sympathy moves him to put his painful past to paper recounting his experiences as a Soviet NKVD agent who was saved by an idealistic doctor during the Russian civil war, only to encounter him again during the terrifying period of the Kremlin doctors plot. In The Ark Builder, he shares with her the story of his friendship with a proud old builder of synagogue arks, and what happened when the German army invaded their Polish town. ![]() ![]() As a young girl, she offers English lessons to a teenage survivor of the camps. Ilana Davita Dinn is the listener to whom three men relate their lives. From the celebrated author of The Chosen and My Name Is Asher Lev, a trilogy of related novellas about a woman whose life touches three very different men stories that encompass some of the profoundest themes of the twentieth century. ![]() ![]() ![]() Faye in the Outline trilogy roved from Athens to Germany, her inner monologue as precise and elegant as an obituary: “It may be the case that to find that home is to end one’s quest,” she says in Kudos, “but it is with the feeling of displacement itself that the true intimacy develops and that constitutes, as it were, the story.” The tasteful home is the place where Cusk’s protagonists have the illusion of control and it’s frequently the place they must leave. Her fictional heroines always seem to be traveling, making their homes loom large by their absence, like something repressed. The subject of real estate is a provocative and generative one in Cusk studies. The protagonist is a landowner, after all, and her huffs and puffs over everybody’s misbehavior on her turf-her literal turf, when you consider the marsh-show a relationship between her wish to control her daughter and her wish to own the landscape that inspires a great artist when she’s not busy being a great artist. ![]() (“Does catastrophe have the power to free us, Jeffers?” asks Cusk’s narrator.) But we learn nothing at all about this second Jeffers, and so the form of address reads like a send-up of the epistolary novel more than an epistolary novel, with the ridiculous name of her confidant evoking a chauffeur or some other aristocrat’s professional acquaintance. Lawrence, Lorenzo in Taos, which is addressed to a person named Jeffers. ![]() As if unsure how to control the pitch of all this emotion, Cusk has borrowed the novel’s rough conceit from Mabel Dodge Luhan’s novel about D.H. ![]() |