Word: percyã
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ethics Robert Coles ’50, whom Cuse says became a mentor and a big influence.One of the authors who Coles assigned for his class was Walker Percy, whose writing influenced Cuse. As an homage to Percy, Cuse had “Lost” character Sawyer read Percy??s “Lancelot” while sitting on the beach in one episode.Cuse says that while he does know how the show will end, he does not know when that end will come. The show will continue to go on as long it continues to make...
Along with co-creators Elaina Newport and Mark Eaton (who specializes in Arnold), he and the Steps debuted at Sen. Percy??s Christmas party that year, and soon began a tour of the Hill. Politicians loved them, but because the group members were still working in official posts, the Steps kept their gigs private. “We asked all the reporters to say nothing about it,” says Strauss. “We were all political people.” Only after Percy lost his Senate seat in 1984 did the Steps cut loose from...
Coles drew directly on Percy??s vision as he developed DoubleTake “in the sense that people were to look at the magazine and be informed and read, in what he considered to be a way neither patronizing nor didactic… [He said,] ‘Let the magazine be a voice, not only for the intelligentsia, and not only to give voice to the intelligentsia…[but] for the ordinary people of the country. The people who work, who go to offices, who work in factories, who are going about their ordinary lives...
Percy also said that “a good magazine can be a good schoolroom,” and Coles took these words to heart as well. When he started teaching General Education 105, he crafted a syllabus that captured Percy??s values not only in its intentions, but also in its substance. Beginning with James Agee and Walker Evans’ photographic social history “Let us Now Praise Famous Men,” the reading list included works by Percy, Williams, Flannery O’Connor, Zora Neale Hurston, and an encyclopedia of other...
...productions during that period—at first graced by the networks’ decision not to run ads, then vulgarized by their slick “Attack on America” graphics—DoubleTake was an ideal setting for personal accounts and photoessays that were, in Walker Percy??s terms, neither patronizing nor didactic...
| 1 |