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...Norma propels the score, Joe Gillis carries the story. In London, Anderson seemed bloated and corrupt long before Norma got to him. In Los Angeles, Alan Campbell's selling out is much more of an emotional journey. As Betty, the budding screenwriter with whom Gillis has a professional rebirth and fleeting flirtation, Judy Kuhn can do no wrong. As Max, George Hearn finds charm and humor in an all-but-monocled Prussian stereotype...
Spectator: The death and rebirth of movie musicals...
...speech entitled "Life Against Death: Judaism after the Holocaust and the Rebirth of Israel," Greenberg depicted the Jewish faith as representative of humanity's quest for equality...
...revolution in America's city halls began in 1967 with the election of Carl Stokes as Cleveland's first black mayor. In the next two decades, hundreds of black mayors were swept into office by a tide of black pride, white-liberal optimism and the hope for an urban rebirth. As veterans of the civil-rights wars, these pioneering politicians saw themselves as crusaders for racial justice. For many voters, black and white, that was enough. As Jesse Jackson crowed after Harold Washington's 1983 triumph in Chicago, "Our time has come...
...spelled out in The American Evasion of Philosophy. The book traces how Emerson's emphasis on innovation, refined by John Dewey and other American thinkers, then leavened with a dose of Marxist class analysis and the black church's commitment to racial justice, can be the basis for a rebirth of democratic radicalism. Says West: "I'm trying to revive a grand yet flawed tradition, to take the best from liberalism, populism and the Gospel while keeping track of what happens to everyday people, the ones the Bible calls the least of these...