Word: ganz
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...harness its power? Obama anchored his presidential ambitions in his background as a bottom-up community organizer and in his belief that two people together are exponentially more powerful than two people alone. "In the last 30 or 40 years, a lot of politics turned into marketing," explains Marshall Ganz, a Harvard professor and community organizer who has worked with Obama. "Marketing is all about selling soup to individuals. It's not about bringing people together." Obama's model, which has made him the envy of a generation of political consultants, focuses both on selling the soup and on giving...
...partnership between the show's key pilots, Jim Henson and Joan Ganz Cooney: "It was Henson who helped the grandest and most ambitious experiment in children's television find its legs ... Henson's touch helped definitively establish Sesame Street's 'delicate balance between fun and learning,' as he once described it. Cooney understood from the show's earliest days, back before it became a brand of excellence here and around the globe, that using television to teach the alphabet and counting to twenty would have been a noble effort, but not nearly as much fun, without...
...called Organizing for Change—sought to “digest the experience of working on the Obama campaign,” as well as to “talk about what’s next,” Nuni said. Social Studies and Government Lecturer Marshall L. Ganz, who teaches Nuni’s tutorial, opened the discussion by talking about the significance of the grassroots campaign. “This is the first time in American history that an electoral campaign has birthed a movement,” he said. “The question...
...similar concerns after Madame Tussauds had announced plans to feature Hitler in its waxwork collection. The museum tried to mollify critics by banning visitors from taking pictures of the exhibit, and by depicting Hitler as the broken, deranged figure in his final days as portrayed by German actor Bruno Ganz in the 2004 movie Downfall. Still, many voices, such as Johannes Tuchel, head of the German Resistance Memorial Center in Berlin, rejected the presence of a Hitler waxwork, and attacked Madame Tussauds' decision to restore it on show "as soon as possible", saying the museum was trivializing the Nazi terror...
...Every encounter between black and white was a ritual in subordination,” Ganz, who is now a lecturer in public policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, said of the 1960s. “That’s gone. Now, of course, the political inequality is a whole lot different than...