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The Strange Collaboration of Boris Karloff, Val Lewton and Mark Robson
Nov 23, 2016 Patrick King Movies, Reviews 0
The Isle of the Dead / Bedlam combo DVD released by Warner Archives earlier this year represents a collaboration between three very talented people who would work together on two occasions and then never again. These two films, released in 1945 and 1946 respectivel, starring Boris Karloff represent the kind of quirky collaborations that sometimes come together almost magically in low-budget filmmaking.
Beginning his career as a pulp novelist, Val Lewton was well suited for his role in heading RKO's newly created horror department, intended to rival Universal's monster movie division, the standard-bearer for horror in the United States since the release of The Hunchback of Notre Dame in 1923, starring the great Lon Chaney. Eschewing the monsters, which Lewton despised, the RKO horror films would focus on psychology. When one of Universal's top performers, Boris Karloff, signed a three-picture deal with RKO, Lewton was convinced that the two of them wouldn't get along, but they ended up becoming good friends. And why not? It's only business, after all.
Karloff, of course, was a terrific actor who could never escape his pulp trappings and ended up making B-movies after his initial fame playing Frankenstein's monster and The Mummy. But it wasn't all bad for the guy. British born Karloff had started off in silent pictures as a bit player which offered meagre money. Literally a hard worker, Karloff performed manual labor in order to supplement his income, resulting in back problems throughout the rest of his career. After the success of Frankenstein, he got to make movies for a living and at least he wasn't as typecast quite as terribly as Bela Lugosi, who was forced to play some variation of a vampire or mad scientist for the rest of his career. Though Karloff was a genre movie guy, he wasn't always a horror movie guy. He took over the lead in the Fu Manchu series from Warner Oland in The Mask of Fu Manchu, which, of course, is a rather embarrassing thing to watch in the 21st Century. Also, he played Mr. Wong in five films, so his rather dubious career of playing Chinese men with British accents is fairly extensive.
The final piece of this triumvirate, director Mark Robson, is best known for melodramas like Peyton Place and Valley of the Dolls. For Isle of the Dead and Bedlam, he kept the camera work fairly restrained, only making his presence known when he needed to pull the camera back to let a scene breathe or move in closer when he needed to create a sense of suffocation.
Written by Ardel Wray, Isle of the Dead features Karloff as General Nikolas Pherides, an eloquent but harsh commander whose strict adherence to order and logic has put him in some morally ambiguous situations, especially as it relates to the treatment of his soldiers and subordinate officers. On a whim, Pherides takes American reporter Oliver Davis (Marc Cramer) to a nearby island where his late wife is interred in a mausoleum. Upon finding her grave empty, the duo find themselves at the mansion of an archaeologist, who explains that bodies throughout the island have been dug up by the peasants on a hunt for artifacts. The archeologist at first sold the artifacts abroad before having an attack of conscience and calling the whole thing off. Pherides doesn't seem too upset with this development, because he decides to stay the night in the mansion, which is, no doubt, better than sleeping in his tent, which happens to be on the front lines of the Balkan War of 1912.
Karloff in ISLE OF THE DEAD.
Though he intends to go back to his soldiers in the morning, the good general's stay becomes extended when a man dies overnight and a doctor determines that the poor bastard had a form of the plague. The doctor orders the house quarantined, and Pherides is going to make sure this order is enforced.
Along the way, however, an old superstitious lady slowly, very slowly, convinces the otherwise logical general that a young woman, Thea (Ellen Drew), is a vorvolaka, essentially a vampire, and that she's responsible for the sickness. As he's consumed by the plague himself, Pherides descends into paranoia, intent on destroying Thea and the curse he's convinced she's responsible for.
In this battle between belief and logic, well, logic loses. The archaeologist prays to the old Greek gods, and Pherides scoffs at the superstitious rites. At first. But then Madame Kyra (Helene Thimig), the old lady who regales Pherides with tales of the dreaded vorvolaka, slowly gets under his skin. Pherides' transition from ardent skeptic to radical believer seems to suggest that people prone to radicalism will remain at the extremes of conviction even when their beliefs change. At one point early on, though, the archaeologist catches Pherides burning a pyre for the gods, suggesting that he might not be as radically skeptical as he seems. At the same time, too, when Pherides succumbs to his paranoid delusions, he still has a desire to maintain order by taking the lead and delegating responsibility. Indeed, on his deathbed Pherides confesses, "I've had command for the last time." So the exact nature of his skepticism and belief is vague. In truth, there's probably a lot he's hiding from himself.
Robson keeps the action mostly contained in the mansion and its surroundings, no doubt making the budget-conscious Lewton quite happy. The movie is shot quite competently, with minimal camera movement, except when needed for emphasis, particularly shots that close in on a group of people to seemingly constrict them, giving the audience a sense of claustrophobia. Karloff is superb, his eyes growing slowly madder as the movie heads toward its conclusion.
BEDLAM (1946)
Bedlam is based on the psychiatric hospital of the same name, founded in 1247 in London and still in operation today. The conditions were often atrocious and the patients suffered terribly. All this is reflected in the movie.
The story concerns Nell Bowen (Anna Lee) and her awakening to the cruelty of the hospital and eventual advocacy for the inmates. But first, she'll be committed and have to serve some time in the place, under the cruel eye of Karloff's Master George Sims. Sims is a guy who is so corrupt that in order to get a commission to write a play starring the patients of Bedlam, he drives his rival to kill himself. A real bastard, this one, and without any redeeming qualities. We hope for his comeuppance throughout the film, but when it finally happens, we're actually kind of guilted into feeling bad for the guy because of a Quaker stonemason who becomes Nell's love interest and advocate. Since he's Quaker, he's staunchly anti-violence, which goes somewhat against Nell's plan to exact revenge on Sims and get the hell out of Bedlam.
Boris Karloff in BEDLAM.
The dialectic between violence and pacifism is the working theme. It's not possible to convince the Quaker to engage in violence, but at one point Nell is able to get him to give her a trowel so that she can brain Sims if need be. She doesn't end up using the weapon, but another inmate does, resulting in the Quaker's de-facto participation in an act of violence. How much responsibility does he bear? By the end of the movie, a strange lesson is learned when the Quaker, who knows that the inmates have murdered Sims and sealed him inside a wall that was under construction, decides to remain silent so that the patients are not punished or killed for their crimes. At the very least, the lesson is that morality is complex, fluid, situational.
Robson again mostly stays out of the way in this movie, letting the actors and script, which he co-wrote with Lewton, do the heavy lifting. Here again, when the camera moves, there is purpose. When Sims, early in the movie and at this point on friendly terms with Nell, brings her into Bedlam's main room, a crane shot pulls slowly away from the two of them to reveal the atrocious conditions of the place — people living no better than animals. As the audience's perspective widens, so does Nells.
Restraint isn't something horror movies do very well, but in the case of these two movies, it's necessary so that idea and subtext remain the focus.
Isle of the Dead and Bedlam is available now on DVD from Warner Archive.
Mark Robson
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Del Master Plan: Bringing Back the Past for The Del's Future
Jennifer Velez
Looking down the Main Drive in 1920 (Photo courtesy of the Hotel del Coronado).
As the $200 million expansion and restoration get into full swing, you can't help but notice more fences being erected around The Del. As Robert Frost famously quoted, "Good fences make good neighbors." In this case, the new fences on the corner of Orange Avenue and R. H. Dana Place are obscuring the major construction of the North Parking Structure from its neighbors until the final product is unveiled. "Creating this parking structure will give us the needed parking, as we move forward in other phases of construction. It will offer more than 700 new parking spaces with two underground parking levels and surface parking enhanced with landscaping," says Kathy Breedlove, Master Plan Communication Director. She estimates this project will be finished by the end of the year. Upon completion of this phase, a temporary new entrance for the hotel will be created off R.H. Dana Place. It will be built out to accommodate luggage and storage, and then visitors can cross through the atrium and enter the long-standing lobby to check in.
The new guestrooms and pool courtyard will offer an indoor/outdoor experience. (Rendering courtesy of the Hotel del Coronado)
The current entrance will then be closed to start construction on the next phase of the hotel improvements. The revamped entrance on the south side will take two years to complete. Breedlove pointed out that "the first step for the new light at Avenida del Sol has been met with the recent approval by Caltrans for the need at that location. We are in the encroachment permit approval process now. The new signal is key to the new main entry and restoring the historic sense of arrival to The Del with a direct view of the turret."
Rendering of the new Event Center and Great Lawn (Rendering courtesy of the Hotel del Coronado)
The next project encompasses a new Conference Center, with a 15,000 square foot ballroom, which can accommodate up to 1000 people. Currently, the Crown Room and Grande Hall can each host just over 700 people in a seated capacity. This phase will also feature a new 14,000 square foot outdoor space with 142 new guest rooms, which will be one-, two- and three-bedroom units and are approved to sell as Condo-Hotel, with owner occupancy restrictions, similar to Beach Village. The 97 California Cabana rooms are being updated, along with the Sun Deck Bar and Grill and main pool area.
The new Vista Walk will debut in May. (Rendering courtesy of the Hotel del Coronado)
May 2019 will see some fences coming down, with the completion of the new and improved Vista Walk, located near the shops at The Del ocean-side entrance. "We are elevating it to one level with a scenic ocean view which will offer an amazing outdoor space for events," commented Breedlove.
Laundry ca 1920. Photo courtesy of Hotel del Coronado
"We are renovating one building at a time. We are currently working on the Oxford Building and will move to the smaller brick Laundry Building when it is fully renovated in May." The transformation of the former 1500 Ocean restaurant will emerge with the opening of Serẽa. "The Del partnered with Clique Hospitality and San Diego-native Chef Jojo Ruiz to bring an elevated, yet approachable seafood-themed dining experience, in a contemporary setting, with an indoor/outdoor bar," said Stacey Ellis, Director of Public Relations.
Laundry and Oxford Building renderings. (Photo courtesy of the Hotel del Coronado)
David Marshall, AIA, President and Senior Principal, Heritage Architecture & Planning, is working with OBR Architecture and has been tasked with the historic preservation and renovation. He recently gave a presentation at the Coronado Historical Association, where he detailed the architectural history of the hotel, down to describing uncovering the Oxford Building's original color scheme. "This is one of the most exciting projects I've ever worked on, but paint color investigation is not as glamorous as it sounds. We literally scrape away paint layers with a razor blade. We identified the original gold color as matching Rookwood Antique Gold from the Sherwin Williams Victorian Palette and we worked with the Design Review Committee to select a toned-down version. A color match has also been identified for the off-white trim color," commented Marshall.
Rendering of the new main entry which will provide an enhanced sense of arrival, (Photo courtesy of the Hotel del Coronado)
Upon completion of the realigned driveway to the main entry, on the right side will be the restored industrial buildings, including the Oxford Building, that pre-dates the hotel and was moved on-site in 1983 from 1st Street and Orange Avenue, the Laundry Building, which was operational until 2018, and the Power Plant. The left side will feature the new Conference Center, which will have red trimmed window sashes to match the original hotel windows, which will also be restored to red as updates continue.
The famous Front Porch and entry circa 1915 (Photo courtesy of Heritage Architecture and Planning)
Bringing back the iconic porch many remember from the 1959 movie "Some Like it Hot" featuring Marilyn Monroe, is a key element to the restoration. "The porch floor will be hardwood boards that will give it an 1888 feel and acoustic sound. The new porte-cochère will be historically reminiscent for guest drop off with a restored cathedral ceiling and lighting," says Marshall, who pointed out that originally there was one entrance for couples and men, and another for single ladies, with a veranda in between where men in bowler hats sat in rockers enjoying mint juleps.
Men in bowler hats enjoying the Front Porch. circa 1890. (Photo courtesy of Save our Heritage Organisation (SOHO)
Marshall highlighted that, "The new veranda and lobby will all be on the same level with a crisscrossing ADA ramp with three angles, allowing for landscape beautification. We will also be bringing back the balconies on the second floor to further restore the original look. The balconies didn't used to have doors, but had large windows that you opened up and walked out. The new veranda will be the original size, but 16 feet further forward to keep the current functionality. It will actually be bigger than the lobby."
"The project design is about 30 percent complete, with porch construction starting within a year and then about a year time frame to complete," said Marshall. He pointed out that original photos show a brick chimney on the front of the hotel that was removed when it was converted to steam heat, but brick detail will be added to the front facade to mimic that look. They are currently working on completing the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), which includes documentation, professional photos, drawings, and written history.
Look at the difference in The Del in 1910. (Photo courtesy of the Hotel del Coronado)
Marshall pointed out key elements from the Queen Anne Victorian asymmetrical design of the hotel and expressed delight at finding a craftsman surprise around every corner. "With a lot of repetitive details to recreate, we fortunately found original perforated molding and columns in the kitchen, so they can be perfectly replicated. There are also some original tongue and groove boards that can be repurposed. It's like a treasure hunt to find the hidden details. We discovered additional original details when we removed some of the ceiling tiles in the gift shop. Most of the restoration is being done on the first and second floor."
He went on to highlight that the original stained-glass window from the second floor was moved to the fourth floor and was reversed to be viewed from the exterior. When it's restored to its original location, it will once again be seen from the lobby. Breedlove says, "We are doing everything we can to preserve and respect the revered history, while moving forward with future trends."
The Hotel del Coronado circa 1890. (Photo courtesy of the Hotel del Coronado)
It's hard to believe the foresight that Elisha Babcock and Hampton Story had when they first envisioned the Hotel Del in 1885. "When it's done, I want to be able to stand there and take a similar photo," says Marshall, who has always had a love of historic buildings and has a collection of 60 plus postcards of the old Hotel Del Coronado, and 60 plus of Tent City. "There have been continuous changes to The Del throughout its 130-year history and we are now working to return it to its original glory," he concludes.
Breedlove pointed out, "We went into the project knowing that parking would be a challenge. There was no way around this, especially during peak seasons like the holidays and summer. There has been lots of signage and resources to make it work as smoothly as possible. Overall it is working as planned with no major construction setbacks."
The entire project, which will complete the 28-acre property, is expected to be finished by the end of 2021 or in early 2022 and will see many more fences put up and come down. With all the attention to detail in this project, it will be fascinating to see the end result, when the final fences come down showcasing The Del's past as it's poised for the future.
The Hotel del Coronado, shown here in 1888, is truly an architectural masterpiece. (Image courtesy of the Hotel del Coronado)
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Jennifer fell in love with Coronado as a teenager while visiting a college friend. She vowed that someday she would make it her home, and that dream has recently become a reality. Fast forward through completing college with a BA in Journalism, Public Relations and Communications, she then went on to work with a variety of clients. She also taught Journalism and coordinated fundraising for her children's school, and was a staff writer for San Diego Family Magazine and contributed to other parenting publications. Have news to share? Send tips, story ideas or letters to the editor to: manager@coronadotimes.com

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The Construction of Soviet Ethnography and "The Peoples of Siberia"
David G. Anderson, Dmitry V. Arzyutov
Arctic Domus Research Group
Etnos: A Life History of the Etnos Concept
HUMan-ANimal Relations Under Climate Change in NORthern Eurasia (HUMANOR)
The multi-generation book project "The Peoples of Siberia" enabled a group of Leningrad-based scholars to reshape their museum into a Soviet ethnographic community. This article analyses the face-to-face performances, the legalistic stenographic documentation, the collective crafting of a single authoritative style, and a unique temporal frame as an important background to understand a hallmark volume in Siberian studies. The authors argue that the published volume indexes nearly thirty years of scholarly debates as much as it indexes the peoples it represents. The article concludes with a critical discussion of how this volume was translated and received by a Euro-American readership influencing the perception of Siberian peoples internationally. It also links the volume to contemporary post-Soviet publication projects which seem to retrace the same path. The article is based on extensive archival work and references collections recently discovered and which are presented for publication here for the first time.
History and Anthropology
Published - 25 Feb 2016
Post-Soviet
Critical Discussion
Soviet Ethnography
Politics of Identity
Anderson, D. G., & Arzyutov, D. V. (2016). The Construction of Soviet Ethnography and "The Peoples of Siberia". History and Anthropology, 27(2), 183-209. https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2016.1140159
The Construction of Soviet Ethnography and "The Peoples of Siberia". / Anderson, David G.; Arzyutov, Dmitry V.
In: History and Anthropology, Vol. 27, No. 2, 25.02.2016, p. 183-209.
Anderson, DG & Arzyutov, DV 2016, 'The Construction of Soviet Ethnography and "The Peoples of Siberia"', History and Anthropology, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 183-209. https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2016.1140159
Anderson DG, Arzyutov DV. The Construction of Soviet Ethnography and "The Peoples of Siberia". History and Anthropology. 2016 Feb 25;27(2):183-209. https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2016.1140159
Anderson, David G. ; Arzyutov, Dmitry V. / The Construction of Soviet Ethnography and "The Peoples of Siberia". In: History and Anthropology. 2016 ; Vol. 27, No. 2. pp. 183-209.
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require 'middleman-core/cli'

module Middleman
  module Cli
    # Extension to the Middleman CLI
    class Diff < Thor
      include Thor::Actions

      namespace :diff

      # Whether to exit with status 1 when a failure happens
      #
      # @return [Boolean]
      def self.exit_on_failure?
        true
      end

      # Interactively diff a preview with the build, optionally replacing the
      # existing build with it.
      #
      # @return [void]
      desc 'diff', "Preview what's changed in the build."
      def diff
        extension.with_preview do |preview|
          preview.show_diff

          if keep?
            preview.replace_build
            say 'Build has been updated.'
          else
            say 'Preview has been discarded.'
          end
        end
      end

      private

      # Middleman application instance
      #
      # @return [Middleman::Application]
      def app
        @_app ||= ::Middleman::Application.server.inst
      end

      # Activated extension instance
      #
      # @return [Middleman::Extensions::Diff]
      def extension
        @_extension ||= begin
          extension = app.extensions.find { |e| e.first == :diff }.try(:last)

          fail Thor::Error, 'You must activate this extension.' unless extension

          extension
        end
      end

      # Whether to replace the existing build with the preview
      #
      # @return [Boolean]
      def keep?
        case extension.options.keep
        when :always then true
        when :never then false
        when :prompt
          yes?('Would you like to apply these changes to the build? [y/N]')
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

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Mark Webber backs new DRS restrictions for 2013 Formula 1 season
Mark Webber has welcomed the adjustment to DRS regulations for the 2013 Formula 1 season, saying drivers had long felt the system's free use in practice was pointless
Glenn Freeman
Matt Beer
Until this year, the straightline speed-boosting device could be utilised freely in practice or qualifying before being restricted to its designated zones in the race.
This meant teams had to optimise their set-ups around its ample use in qualifying even though this was not possible on Sundays.
From 2013, DRS use is restricted to the allocated zones through the whole weekend.
"I think it's good," said Webber. "The drivers have been pushing for it for quite a while, just to have the DRS in the sections where we have it in the race in qualifying.
"It didn't really make any sense for the teams, the drivers and the fans to run on Friday and Saturday with the DRS open. It just adds a bit more risk, and when we can manage that a bit better then why not?
"I think all the teams are happy now, they can get their gearing right to make it still worthwhile to have the DRS."
Webber admitted that he occasionally forgot the new DRS limits in testing.
"I'm still trying to use the DRS in a few places so I'm going to have to get used to that," he said.
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Tail risk hedging seems to be a popular topic at the moment, why?
Markets are at highs, but plenty of risks remain. While equity markets have rallied considerably in recent years – The equity market (as measured by the MSCI World Index) is up over 30% since Mario Draghi proclaimed the ECB had "removed tail risk for Europe" in September 2012 – with only short periods of losses (relative to history) and low levels of volatility, there are plenty of macro risks out there that could threaten stability. But at the same time there are diminishing opportunities out there in other asset classes (notably credit). Investors don't see many alternatives to equities but worry about what big falls could do to their portfolio.
So what risks are people protecting against, and what is the best way of doing it?
There are many definitions of tail risk, but I prefer one that relates it back to the objectives of the pension scheme or other investor. For example, if our objective is to produce returns of (say) 4% above inflation over the long term (defined, lets say by rolling 5 year periods) then suffering a negative asset return of -15% makes that objective pretty hard to achieve. In fact returns would have to be well over 7% p.a. above inflation for the rest of the 5 years to get close to the target. Even pushing the objective out to 10 years still makes it seem tough to achieve (returns would have to be around 6% p.a. over that period to make up for the capital loss, and achieve close to the objective).
I see many, many assets cited as tail risk hedges. Everything from bonds, commodities, options, the VIX and CTA strategies to name a few. But what really works?
I think really there are 3 layers of portfolio risk management as shown below, and we can group possible candidates for tail risk hedging into one of the categories.
A portfolio consisting of a single asset class is likely to have a relatively low sharpe ratio (a measure of the risk adjusted return. Meaning it may well generate returns, but the path to generating them is likely to be rocky. Combining several different assets gives us an improved portfolio through diversification (as long as the new assets are genuinely different risk factors or risk premia). This portfolio might well give the same return but the path will be smoother. Adding Risk Control (strategies that can curb exposure to assets at times of greater risk) is a further layer that improves the sharpe ratio of a portfolio.
It is important to note that steps 1 and 2 alone will improve the likely expected losses or drawdowns of a portfolio over a given period of time, however, neither are a tail risk hedge. They won't protect the portfolio in all scenarios, there are still situations where all assets can fall at the same time.
The final layer of risk management is downside protection. This can be achieved by direct hedges using options on the assets in the portfolio. If the underlying portfolio uses risk control to curb exposures at times of maximum risk, then the cost of these option will be minimized as there is less likelihood of a large payout. This is important as almost all tail hedging strategies are expected to create a negative drag on returns through time. Sometimes they will generate a large payoff, but often the "insurance" will expire with no value and be seen as a negative drag on returns. The key is making sure that the drag on returns is not too high that the return of the overall investment strategy becomes unattractive.
Relating back to objectives is vital. Effective tail risk hedging programs take the objectives of the pension scheme or investor into account – assessing what sort of crash would call into question the investment objective, and putting in place a strategy to hedge this.
Diversification and risk control are important building blocks to building a portfolio that can generate higher returns at a lower level of risk than a single asset class, but neither by themselves are a tail risk hedge. This can be provided by direct hedges using options.
What does it cost? There is usually some give-up in expected return associated with a tail risk hedging strategy (akin to buying insurance) and while it isn't easy to get a handle on this, its an important basis for evaluating the strategies.
For more detail on all of the above points do please see this presentation.
Interesting article but unfortunately the links to your paper and the presentation don't work. Is it possible to fix that?


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Young's Analytical Concordance to the Bible is a Bible concordance to the King James Version compiled by Robert Young. First published in 1879, it contains "about 311,000 references subdivided under the Hebrew and Greek originals with the literal meaning and pronunciation of each."

Purpose
A concordance is an index to a book allowing particular references to be found, usually with several words of context for each instance. Bible concordances normally show the individual words of the version being referenced in alphabetical order with the passages showing that word listed in traditional Bible book order. The key word is usually abbreviated to an initial.

Young's Analytical Concordance was the first multilingual concordance to the Bible. Published in 1879, some 268 years after the King James Authorised Version which it indexes, after some 40 years of work including 3 years of typesetting. It was followed in 1894 by Strong's Concordance.

Some Bible concordances are single language, e.g. English only, like Cruden's Concordance to the Bible (the first of its kind). They list the English text alphabetically. Young's Analytical is multilingual because while it lists the English words (and multiple word translations of single words) it also deals with the underlying Biblical Hebrew, Biblical Aramaic and Koine Greek languages.

Young's goal, described in his preface to the first edition, was to enable "the simplest reader to a more correct understanding of the common English Bible, "by a reference to the original words in Hebrew and Greek" referencing William Tyndale to say that " every 'ploughboy' [could] know more of the Scriptures than the 'ancients'". His concordance was designed to be clear and easy to use "at a glance". His aim was that three points would be clearly displayed and easily found for each word:
 the original Greek or Hebrew word behind the English word used in the passage.
 the literal or 'primitive' meaning.
 a list of all the other passages in the English Bible that use this word from that Greek or Hebrew original.

Together this would allow the reader to "distinguish things that differ, which are frequently confounded in the English Bible".

Young saw additional value as he "for the first time inserted in their proper alphabetical order"  with an explanation of who or what they are. Later editions of Cruden's which had listed names separately took up this format.

Young's is a complete concordance rather than an exhaustive one like Strong's in that it includes a complete list of all words with a substantive meaning leaving out the most common articles, conjunctions, prepositions and pronouns such as a, and, to, and he". The exhaustive includes all of these putting them in a separate abbreviated index.

In his later addition William Stevenson, who revised the concordance, added the Index lexicons of the Old and New Testaments by popular request. Specifically designed to facilitate word studies in the original languages they have the transliterated Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic ("Chaldee") words for the Old Testament and the Greek words for the New Testament in alphabetical order, the original script and some grammatical information followed by a vertical list of all the different words used in the English Bible to translate them along with the number of instances. Stevenson explains in his "Explanatory Note" to the Index lexicons that this allows the reader to get a sense of overall meaning of the original word from the range of senses used to translate it and the security of the translation from the number of instances altogether. The editors of the Zondervan NIV Exhaustive Concordance (originally known as the NIV Exhaustive Concordance, 1990) judged that this was a format that "more accurately interrelated the original languages ... and was easier to read [than the Strong style dictionary]".

Young's Analytical Concordance is still in print and over the years and had had over two dozen revisions by 1990

Contents
 "Hints and Helps to Bible Interpretation" (only in some later editions)
 "Analytical Concordance" - Each entry can contain the multiple original language words in the original language and in a phonetic vocalization into English. It also gives the extended meaning and usage of the word in the original language. This is a Bible concordance to the King James Version (KJV) and not a lexicon of the OT Hebrew or NT Greek languages.
 "Index lexicons to the Old and New Testaments, being a guide to parallel passages" prepared by Wm. B. Stevenson.
 The British eighth edition also includes "A complete list of Scripture Proper Names as in the Authorised and Revised Versions, showing their modern pronunciation and the exact form of the original Hebrew" by the same author. This appendix also has an informative introduction.

Use

Concordance

Whereas in an English only concordance each instance of a word is listed alphabetically without differentiation and in an exhaustive concordance they are listed alphabetically with an identifying number (Strong's Number or GK Number) keyed to a Dictionary Index to identify the original word, in the Analytical Concordance the English words are divided, within the main entry, according to the original word in Greek, Hebrew or Aramaic underlying it. The reader can therefore see at a glance what word was being translated and what other words have been translated with the same English words. At the same time every passage including that English word can be found.

Within each subdivision the word is given as a transliteration and in the original script with a brief definition, what Young called a "literal meaning". The different divisions of the word list for each English word are numbered for easy reference. So the concordance can be used simply to find particular verses containing the key word, or for a more detailed word study from the original language.

Index lexicon
The Index lexicon (described above) allows for more detailed word studies in the original language and is a valued facility offered by the analytical Concordance. The process of identifying the original Greek or Hebrew word used in the passage being studied and then using the Index lexicon to identify all the other English words used to translate this word is the main advice Harvard Divinity School give to scholars using the concordance. Of course the main concordance then allows each instance of the alternate translations to be found and as Stevenson noted the number of times each English instance is used gives an approximate guide to how well the meaning of a word is understood.

Editions
British editions and American editions are numbered differently.

British editions
These have the title Analytical Concordance to the Holy Bible.
 First published 1879, followed by editions 2–6.
 Seventh edition published 1900, revised throughout by the Glasgow Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages, William Barron Stevenson (1869-1954).
This was reprinted 1904, 1905, 1906, 1909, 1912.
1913 was the first to be published by the Religious Tract Society; Reprinted 1919, 1922, 1924, 1927, 1933, 1935.
 Eighth edition published 1938, revised further by J. H. Young with advice from Stevenson.
This was reprinted 1939, 1943, 1946, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1961, ..., 1971, 1973, 1977, ...

American editions

American editions have the title Analytical Concordance to the Bible.

The 20th American edition, first published in 1910, corresponds largely to the British 7th edition revised by W. B. Stevenson, but to which was added a further supplement, entitled A sketch of recent exploration in Bible lands by Thomas Nicol. This was originally published separately some time before its second edition which appeared in 1893.

Later editions include a supplement entitled The Canon of Scripture by R. K. Harrison and Everett F. Harrison.

See also
 George Wigram – author of
 The Englishman's Greek and English Concordance to the New Testament
 The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance to the Old Testament
 List of biblical names

References

External links
 Young's Concordance free from Archive.org – scanned facsimile only
 Google books has multiple editions from 1939 to 1977 with a few uncertain earlier dates.

Bible concordances
1879 books
1879 in Scotland
Christianity in Scotland
Scottish books

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SEATTLE – Holland America Line took delivery of Rotterdam today, July 30, 2021, officially making it the 11th ship in the fleet. A handover ceremony took place at Fincantieri's Marghera shipyard in Italy the evening of July 29.
Holland America Line takes delivery of its newest ship, Rotterdam, making it the 11th ship in its fleet.
The ceremony was attended by the ship's master, Captain Werner Timmers, and Cyril Tatar, Holland America Group's vice president of newbuilding services. Giuseppe Bono, CEO, Fincantieri, and several other executives also attended. Video congratulations were extended by Jan Swartz, president of Holland America Group, and Gus Antorcha, president of Holland America Line.
"Rotterdam looks stunning and will certainly live up to bearing such an iconic name as the new flagship of our fleet, carrying on a tradition of excellence that our guests have loved for nearly 150 years," said Antorcha. "Thank you to our partners at Fincantieri and our own team members who worked tirelessly to deliver the ship on schedule during what has been the most challenging of times, and also deliver a ship that looks beautiful, is immaculately finished and will be an incredible addition to our brand. We cannot wait to welcome guests on board later this fall."
Upon delivery, Rotterdam will remain in non-guest operations until its transatlantic crossing Oct. 20, 2021, from Amsterdam, Netherlands, to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where it will then begin its maiden season in the Caribbean. Naming details have not been finalized and will be announced at a later date.
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Rotterdam V, also known as "The Grande Dame," set sail in 1959 and began sailing transatlantic crossings with two classes of service. It later converted to a one-class ship in 1969. She sailed with Holland America Line for 38 years until 1997, including several Grand World Voyages, and currently is a hotel and museum in the city of Rotterdam. Rotterdam VI, the most recent to cruise for Holland America Line, was introduced in 1997 as the first ship in the R Class.
Rotterdam VII is the 17th ship constructed for the brand by Italian shipyard Fincantieri.
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About Holland America Line [a division of Carnival Corporation and plc (NYSE: CCL and CUK)] Holland America Line has been exploring the world since 1873 and was the first cruise line to offer adventures to Alaska and the Yukon more than 70 years ago. Its fleet of premium ships visits nearly 400 ports in 114 countries around the world, offering an ideal mid-sized ship experience. A third Pinnacle-class ship, Rotterdam, is under construction and will join the fleet in July 2021.
The leader in premium cruising, Holland America Line's ships feature innovative initiatives and a diverse range of enriching experiences focused on destination exploration and personalized travel. The best live music at sea fills each evening at Music Walk, and dining venues feature exclusive selections from Holland America Line's esteemed Culinary Council of world-famous chefs.
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Perfume de agonía es una telenovela colombiana realizada por Producciones JES transmitida por el Canal A en el año 1997 y retransmitida por el Canal 1 en el año  1998. Estuvo protagonizada por Alejandra Borrero y Marcelo Dos Santos, con las participaciones co-protagónicas de Marcela Carvajal y Ricardo Vélez, y las actuaciones especiales de Pilar Uribe, Humberto Dorado y Marcela Agudelo, bajo la dirección de Kepa Amuchastegui.

Sinopsis

Helena Saldarriaga (Alejandra Borrero) es una joven periodista hija de un poderoso dueño de las comunicaciones en Colombia. Ella ha vivido en el exterior un largo tiempo estudiando para hacerse cargo de las empresas de la familia, pero al llegar al país es víctima de un secuestro de un grupo armado que requiere conseguir recursos para su manutención y que la prensa conozca sus planteamientos e ideología, pero con lo que no contaban es que al pasar del tiempo y del encierro, la víctima empieza a simpatizar con su secuestrador alias Darío (Marcelo Dos Santos), naciendo en ellos un amor que no puede ser aceptado por la sociedad.
La historia trata temas como el secuestro, el síndrome de Estocolmo y el lesbianismo.

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 Manuel Correa - Pedro Manuel
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 Orlando Daigo - Orlando
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Tokyo Ghoul: re Vol. 7 Review – AiPT!
Woah, things are starting to get interesting in this story. We are still following the revelations that Haise is having regarding his previous life. The way that this dark spirit is eating him up is really scary. It seems like Kaneki is back and isn't leaving any time soon. This is making it even more difficult to keep with what is really going on. The manga goes back and forth and you don't really know who is who.
As the story is developing, it's focusing on the Aeori Tree trying to liberate all the ghouls from their cells as well as rescuing an important figure. We see how this person affects Haise/Kaneki as well, as he betrays the CCG and begins to free all the ghouls that are being held in jail. Which brings us to the question: have Haise and Kaneki become one again or is Kaneki in control of Haise's body once more?
This is a very vital point in the story, as Haise had been loyal to the CCG and to his mentor/rival Kisho Arima until now. We know that many events led us to this point, but I'm not entirely sure what actually triggered his betrayal. We see his internal conflict with doing the right thing on both ends, from his loyalty with his new family in the CCG to helping his old ghoul family. Either way, one characteristic that never fails to show is his protectiveness over the people he loves.
The illustrations are becoming more graphic and gory in this series. We see bloodshed everywhere in this new volume. Although every fight is important, I wish we had a volume where events were explained somewhat. As I've stated before in previous reviews, I believe that though the battles have significance that will lead to the ultimate showdown, there may still be too many. Tokyo Ghoul: re is a manga that depicts the darkness that the world has overall and within its people, but I feel that if we continue to have battles in every volume then we might lose that importance that they envelop.
Overall, I feel like this volume had more to cover than it did and we should expect more going forward now that Kaneki's memory is coming back. There is an important encounter that I feel is necessary and may be the only pivotal part of the battle with Haise/Kaneki and Kisho Arima. I'm not entirely sure if Haise remembers the previous fight with Kisho, which is very confusing. I really needed more developed context regarding the status of Haise's mind rather than another battle. This volume didn't fail me entirely but it does have some loose ends.
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MSRI Governance
MSRI, now becoming the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SLMath) in 2022-23, is a non-profit organization governed by a Board of Trustees consisting of 16-40 elected members and seven ex-officio members: the Director of the Institute, the Deputy Director, the Chair of the Committee of Academic Sponsors, the co-Chairs of the Broadening Participation Advisory Committee and the co-Chairs of the Scientific Advisory Committee.
The Board elects its members who serve four-year terms. Candidates are nominated by the Chair of the Committee of Academic Sponsors and the Board itself. The Board leadership includes a Chair, Vice-Chair, Secretary, and Treasurer, each serving three-year terms. The Board meets twice a year.
SLMath is governed by Board committees and advisory committees.These committees meet regularly multiple times a year.
About BPAC, EAC, SAC and CAS:
Broadening Participation Committee (BPAC): In 1993, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) established a Human Resources Advisory Committee (HRAC), the first human resources committee established by a mathematics institute.Now called the Broadening Participation Advisory Committee (BPAC), its charge is to promote and enhance the equity, diversity, and inclusion efforts of MSRI and to broaden participation of members from historically excluded / currently underrepresented groups in the mathematical sciences, such as women, Native Americans, African Americans, Latinx/Hispanics, Pacific Islanders, persons with disabilities, and members of the LGBT+ community. For example, the HRAC sponsored the first Conference for African American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences (CAARMS), founded at MSRI in 1995; the biennial Blackwell-Tapia Conference, honoring the research of a mathematician who is deeply engaged in mentoring for diversity, founded jointly by MSRI and Cornell University; and the Modern Mathematics workshop, which takes place annually before the SACNAS meeting.
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Committee of Academic Sponsors (CAS): Over 100 universities form the Committee of Academic Sponsors (CAS). These include most of the top research universities in the United States. Academic Sponsors provide an interface between MSRI and the mathematical community. They participate in MSRI governance and take part (at MSRI's expense) in a general meeting with the other sponsors and trustees each year for this purpose. MSRI helps support visits by members to sponsoring institutions. Sponsors are offered some financial backing of conferences at sponsoring institutions. Perhaps most important: An Academic Sponsor can send up to 4 graduate students to MSRI Summer Graduate Schools each year at MSRI's expense.
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To view the membership of a particular committee, please click the committee name on the list in the left-hand navigation pane.


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"Listen, I'm going to make me happy, I don't care what anybody else says. I'm doing it for me and obviously it seems to work.
Koepka felt his opening-day performance at Augusta represented "probably the best ball-striking round I've had in a major", no mean feat for a player who has enjoyed such success at the highest level over the past two years.
Reflecting on his streak of four successive birdies from the 12th, Koepka said: "You're not thinking about anything. You're not thinking about missing. You're not thinking about the trouble. To be honest with you, I'm not even really thinking about it going in. My mind goes blank.
Having been in the final group on Thursday, Koepka will begin his second round alongside Jordan Spieth and Paul Casey at 11:04am local time on Friday.


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First Impressions of New York December 1963
Posted on November 23, 2016 by anywhereiwander
By the 31st December 1963 New York was in the grip of what was to become one of its longest and coldest winters on record. It would continue, almost unabated, until late April. But, despite the big freeze and despite the sense of guilt and shock that still pervaded the American psyche over the recent assassination of President John F. Kennedy, society-conscious New Yorkers welcomed in the New Year as they always had done. Festively-attired diners filled the Rainbow Room, atop the Rockefeller Plaza, popped champagne corks, snapped crackers, and counted down the seconds to midnight.
Times Square New Year's Eve 1963
And, when the Lester Lanin Orchestra struck the hour, they rose from their chairs, linked arms and sang Auld Lang Syne, a ritual repeated every year. Their collective voices clearly echoed in the streets below as other revellers, including me and my friends, Ming, Rupert and Mandy, wrapped in mufflers, fur hats and woolly mittens, unable to find a taxi and unwilling to wait for an elusive bus, were making our way slowly home after saluting in the New Year in front of the giant screen in Times Square.
The Rainbow Room
Although Ming and I had been invited to several parties that night, I had pleaded my case. Times Square, I said, is where I really wanted to be. I felt for my first New Year's Eve in Manhattan I should experience the event as most New Yorkers celebrated it. And Rupert and Mandy, more than a little bored of the party circuit, indulged me. So now, as we battled our way homewards, heads bowed against the biting wind, we took temporary shelter in the brightly lit doorways of some of New York's most famous stores, Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, H.O. Schwarz and Tiffany's, their Christmas windows ablaze and seductive with seasonal displays of expensive gifts and merchandise. As we reached the corner of each intersection we paused a moment to take an icy breath before leaping into the street to avoid stepping into the knee-high slush. This was my introduction to New Year in the Big Apple.
For over a month this freezing, penetrating wind had sliced through the cross streets, causing injuries as it drew the breath right out of people's lungs, blew dirt and debris in their faces and knocked the unsuspecting ones clean off their feet. New York hospitals admitted a record number of patients suffering from broken arms and legs or, like me, with fragments of grit or glass lodged in their eyes.
Those of us lucky enough to reside in uptown apartments were able to respond to the sub-zero conditions by turning up our heating systems to bask in sweltering, almost tropical, temperatures but in Harlem tenants were not so fortunate, particularly those living in the apartment building at 6 West 118th Street. In fact they were so cold that winter they were forced to carry their mattresses into their kitchens. There they would sleep on the floor huddled around their gas stoves with pans of scalding water placed beside their babies and toddlers in order to keep them warm. The residents of a further 250 long-neglected and poorly maintained apartment buildings in Harlem were on rent strike. They complained about the filthy, drafty and unsanitary conditions they were forced to live in by their uncaring landlords and, on top of that, they complained, they were being plagued by an unwelcome invasion of rats seeking shelter from the harsh conditions outside. One of the striking tenants, Mrs. Addie Lewis, told us few determined reporters who shivered on duty outside the tenement buildings, "We have plenty of rats. We have plenty of roaches. We have no heat. Our one and only radiator leaks. And that's the truth of it! Go tell that to your editors!"
Striking Tenants in Harlem 1964
President Lyndon B. Johnson recognized the appalling circumstances facing these and 9.3 million other families in the U.S., totalling an estimated 35 million people, who he referred to on his State of the Nation address that New Year as, "the forgotten fifth of our nation who are living in substandard conditions" and he vowed to wage a war on poverty.
"It is a world where Americans are literally concerned with day to day survival," he went on, " a roof over their heads – where their next meal is coming from. It is a world where a minor illness is a major tragedy."
And, with the prospect of a presidential election by the end of the year, Johnson vowed to ask Congress for $1 billion to finance the expansion of existing aid programs and create new ones in order to do something positive that would effectively alleviate their suffering and improve their standard of living.
Lyndon Johnson "War on Poverty"
At the end of the previous year, 1963, I had joined millions of people around the world as we sat around our television sets mesmerized by the sight of a U.S. astronaut circling the earth 22 times at an average, unbelievable, speed of 17,000 miles an hour. Some of us had watched, in awe, as President Johnson, in a televised address, spoke to his nation about the thrilling prospect of future high-speed global communication between countries with the launch of their latest satellite, Telstar II. Earlier in the year many of us had also all watched our television sets as an estimated 200,000 Civil Rights supporters marched on Washington and listened, in silence, to the stirring "I have a dream" speech made by one of the twentieth century's greatest orators, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. And we had listened with relief as we were told that the two great superpowers, America and the Soviet Union, had eased international tension in the world by negotiating and ratifying the nuclear test ban treaty.
Martin Luther King Jr in Washington
But, on the downside in the last year, we had all watched gloomily as one defiant Congressman, unwilling to move with the times, told the viewers proudly he had successfully blocked the passage of the Civil Rights Bill through Congress. This was despite the fact that it appeared obvious to us all that the majority of Americans supported its adoption. Lack of funds to schools, we were told, had meant that there were not enough classrooms around the country to educate all of America's children. Most of the world's youth movement listened in horrified silence as, in one of his first acts in the White House, President Johnson took the fatal decision to escalate the war in Vietnam – a decision that would so affect the emotions and lives of millions of people, young and old, around the world, including me. And, because we were young and ignorant of the facts at the time, we barely flinched when the tobacco industry proudly announced that Americans, in the past year, had smoked 523 billion cigarettes.
Although, by the time I left London at the end of 1963, people there had generally come to terms with the assassination of John F. Kennedy, it was obvious to me when I arrived in the States that Americans were still convulsed by the incident. The nation was still tearing itself apart in a desperate search for answers. The contemporary investigation by the Warren Commission, then believed but later to be ridiculed, vowed it "would leave no stone unturned to elicit the truth – since Americans" it declared, "deserved nothing but the truth."
President Kennedy visits Dallas
Now, early in the New Year, I found that New Yorkers had a renewed sense of optimism as their much-loved newspapers finally reappeared on the newsstands following a bitter three-month strike by the print unions. Within the space of a few months they had watched with pride and amazement as a new and impressive landmark rose on their landscape, the giant Unisphere of the 1964 New York World's Fair, due to open in April and constructed from a massive 900,000 pounds of steel depicting all seven continents. The Fair itself, all 175 pavilions, would be housed on 643 acres of the borough of Queens and would be entitled, "Peace Through Understanding" designed to help American children learn more about the world around them. And New Yorkers were relieved when the Democratic Mayor, Robert Wagner, in his tenth year as city Mayor, decided to subsidize the Transit Authority to the tune of $33.6 million in order to guarantee the 15cents bus and subway fares would remain unchanged for a further year.
1964 World's Fair – The Unisphere
In Wagner's decade, my boyfriend Joe later told me, New Yorkers had seen their city transformed. Manhattan's famous avenues had been turned into one-way streets to ease the flow of increased traffic. Municipal parking lots had mushroomed to expand parking facilities for the record number of cars entering the city everyday. The Throgs Neck and Verrazano Narrows Bridges had been constructed to improve rush-hour congestion, along with the Van Wyck, Grand Central and Long Island Expressways. And several youth programs had been initiated to keep young people off the streets and out of harm's way. Wagner, too, had helped to establish New York as a world centre of culture by saving Carnegie Hall from the wrecker's ball, approving and supporting the development of Lincoln Centre, preserving Shakespeare in the Park and setting up a city office specifically for Cultural Affairs. Wagner also gave the green light to the Shea Stadium and to the Twin Towers, a massive $350 million development to be erected on the lower west side, to house the World Trade Centre. In 1964, New Yorkers, apart from Mrs. Addie Lewis and the other impoverished residents in the decaying slums of Harlem, had a great deal to feel optimistic about.
The Beatles on the Jack Paar Show
On the 3rd January I watched with a sense of nationalistic pride as the Beatles, made a taped U.S. television appearance on NBC's Jack Paar Show in preparation for their first U.S. tour due to begin in February. Jack Gould, the TV critic, wrote somewhat stuffily in the New York Times the following day:
"While trade papers of the U.S. entertainment world indicate that recordings made by the Beatles should find favour among individual teenagers, it would not seem quite so likely that the accompanying fever, known as Beatlemania, will also be successfully exported. On this side of the Atlantic it is dated stuff."
Beatle fans in the US
I was indignant. How dare he? And, as if to prove Gould wrong, I was happy to witness teenagers across America embrace the Beatles, their songs, their music and their style. In the shopping malls across the country Beatle wigs became an instant best selling item. Despite Gould's words I was certain that the "Fab Four's" impact on American youth matched, or even surpassed, the impact they had already made on my own youth culture in Britain. As if to confirm this 10,000 screaming fans, braving the cold, showed up alongside me at Kennedy airport to wave, blow kisses, shriek and work ourselves up into a fainting frenzy as the four mop-haired Brits stepped off their plane from London. And, two days later on the 9th February, it was estimated that 74 million people tuned in to the Ed Sullivan Show to watch their first live TV appearance making it, at the time, the highest rated programme in TV history. It even surpassed the appearance of Elvis Presley shaking his hips on the very same show a few years earlier that had caused such a furore among the older generation. I was glad to see that Jack Gould's prediction looked sadly out of touch as Beatlemania took hold in the States in a way that even the most optimistic of their seventeen American press agents could never have dreamed of.
Making up for the loss of three months, the New York papers, desperately needing advertising revenues, bombarded us with a surfeit of news early in the New Year. Overseas Pope Paul VI cried openly, reporters informed us, in front of the Holy Sepulchre on his first pilgrimage to the Holy Land. One thousand, nine hundred and fifty three Cubans set sail from Fidel Castro's communist Cuba, in one hundred ninety three boats, hoping to reach U.S. shores and freedom. Canada's Prime Minister, Lester Pearson, upset Nuclear Disarmament groups around the world by announcing that his government would be willing to sell uranium to France to support its independent nuclear force. Early in the year, too, five U.S. pilots died in Vietnam, on one of the worst days of the war for helicopter pilots since the U.S. stepped up its military support of South Vietnam, bringing the total number of American deaths to one hundred seventy three. In Europe, Britain and France announced an agreement to build a tunnel beneath the Channel, 162 years after the original link was suggested to Emperor Napoleon by a French engineer. The European Union moved closer to a reality by solving their farming and trade problems while their own imperialist power continued to diminish in Africa, resulting in the emergence of new independent African states. And the Soviet Union staved off famine by reaching a trade deal with the U.S. Congress to buy American wheat from the prairie farmers to feed their starving population.
In an effort to increase its investment and trade with Latin American countries, the U.S. signed an agreement with Colombia to invest in a little known area of the country, namely Medellin.
In a special edition the New York Times described "Medellin as the Gateway to a New World of Business on the Make" and Colombia as "the most stable country in South America, both politically and economically." The paper went on to say " Medellin, because of its premier location, its proximity to several ports and its perfect climate, offers wonderful opportunities for highly profitable business." Not even the New York Times could have predicted what such a massive injection of US capital would do to the once sleepy rural town of Medellin. Nor could it possibly have suspected that Medellin would attract not legitimate businessmen but some of the world's most notorious drug dealers and end up claiming the dubious reputation as the cocaine-smuggling capital of Latin America.
Back home in the southern States of America admission of young black students to local, previously all-white universities continued methodically but slowly although a whites-only policy still applied in Mississippi churches despite the fact that the Minister of the largest and most influential church in the State preached brotherhood and prayed for all mankind. Dr. George E. Mueller, the Director of the Manned Space Flight Program announced that man would land on the moon by 1968. The astronaut, John Glenn, gave up plans to be part of this exciting new space program by entering the Senate race in Ohio. Barry Goldwater, the right wing senator from Arizona decided to "give Americans a choice" by challenging Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York for the Republican presidential nomination. And, Dr. Luther Terry, the Surgeon General, published his long-awaited report on smoking that, for the first time ever, officially concluded that, "cigarette smoking contributes substantially to the American death rate."
On the cultural front New York in early 1964 was buzzing. The eagerly awaited musical, "Funny Girl" starring the new singing sensation, Barbra Streisand, was in rehearsals and already fully booked six months ahead. The highly respected British actor, Alec Guinness, was playing to packed audiences as the troubled Irish writer Dylan Thomas at the Plymouth, and Carol Channing was all set to star in the musical, "Hello Dolly" at the James Theatre. Lionel Bart's "Oliver" was entering its second successful year at the Imperial and four young Englishmen, Dudley Moore, Peter Cooke, Alan Bennett and Paxton Whitehead were about to open in the brilliant satirical revue, "Beyond the Fringe."
Film, too, was flourishing. The movie, "Beckett" starring two of Britain's most respected but most controversial actors, Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton, had just opened at Loew's State, the queen of melodrama, Joan Crawford, was starring in "Straitjacket" and two young British stars, Tom Courtenay and Julie Christie, were starring in the film version of the recent stage play, "Billy Liar". The Italian director, Frederico Fellini's, "8 ½", which had been playing to packed audiences in Europe, was due to open. And, for light comedy, New Yorkers had a choice between Doris Day and James Garner in "Move Over Darling", Jack Lemmon in "Under the Yum Yum Tree" or Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn in "Charade". Audrey Hepburn was fast becoming the darling of America as girls all over the country chopped off their hair, hoping to emulate her "gamine" look.
During that winter the incident that had the most indelible and deeply disturbing effect on me was the murder of a young Queens resident, 28 year old Catherine "Kitty" Genovese. I suspected that New Yorkers were long hardened to news of murders on their doorstep. They read about them every day in the newspapers and every year the numbers seemed to be rising to a point where New York was considered by some to be the murder capital of the world. But I was not used to it at all. In London, fortunately, murders were still a fairly rare event. But, even for Americans, Kitty's murder, or the reaction to it, revealed, for the first time, something disturbingly sinister, something shameful and something deeply shocking about themselves.
Kitty had been working as a bar manager on the night of Thursday 12 March and, in the early hours of Friday morning, drove herself home to Kew Gardens, a pleasant, leafy, middle-class neighbourhood of Queens. At approximately 3.20am she left her car in a parking lot about 35 yards away from her apartment building and walked towards her door. From behind a street lamp a man jumped into her path, grabbed her and started stabbing her repeatedly. Kitty screamed for her life. Suddenly a quiet suburban street was fully awakened by her cries for help. Lights appeared in the windows as silhouettes of people, drawing back their curtains and peering out into the darkness, were clearly visible from the sidewalks below. Kitty must have seen them too – and prayed that someone would come to her rescue.
Kitty screamed again and again. "Help me, please help me! Oh, God, please help me!"
One lone voice shouted from the safety of a fourth floor window, "Leave that girl alone!" And then silence. For a few brief minutes the attacker backed off, walked away, reparked his car around the corner out of sight of the witnesses but then, when he saw no one was about to confront him, returned to his victim.
One by one the curtains drew back across the windows, the lights dimmed and Kitty's desperate pleas went ignored. Thirty-eight people admitted later to the police they had seen the incident that night. But not one of them went to her help. Not one of them bothered to call 911. People simply shrugged their shoulders, blocked her screams from their ears and went back to the warmth, comfort and security of their beds. For 30 minutes, in the street below, Kitty struggled desperately with her attacker, screaming, "I'm dying! I'm dying! Help me, help me, please!" On finally reaching her own doorstep she collapsed and died from multiple stab wounds and loss of blood.
The police finally received a belated call from one of Kitty's apartment neighbours at 3.50am. They were on the scene within two minutes but Kitty was already pronounced dead and her attacker had fled. The police were convinced that had they received a call earlier Kitty's life would have been saved.
Over the next few weeks Americans, New Yorkers in particular, were forced to look deep into their consciences and ask themselves some penetrating and painful questions. How could 38 people stand at their windows, watching a helpless young girl fight for her life and do nothing about it? How could those same witnesses return to their beds and fall back to sleep knowing there was a young girl in the street below them being murdered? And the most uncomfortable question of all – the question that no one really wanted to answer truthfully – if they were in the same position as the witnesses, would they have reacted any differently?
This represented a very black day indeed for most Americans as they were forced to swallow the new unpalatable notion of "non-involvement". It was a bitter pill indeed and it stuck in the gullet of every concerned citizen. People were discussing it, analyzing it and trying to come to terms with it for weeks. To them and to everybody across America Kitty Genovese's murder represented an ugly turning point in the annals of New York's murderous history, something that deeply shamed each and every New Yorker.
I had only been in New York about three months by then. I was still caught up in the thrill of just being there, of meeting new people, of being part of the excitement of the period, of even being a participant in the action of a city which seemed, compared to London, to be awake for 24 hours a day. As I sat in my office at the recording studio of 1010 WINS each night I had read about several prominent murders in the newspapers, I had seen them consistently reported on the television news. In fact we had even reported some of them on our all-night radio programme but, to date, none of them had touched me this way. Without wanting to sound disrespectful of the other many tragic victims and their families, there was nothing out of the ordinary about most murders. But this senseless, unprovoked killing of Kitty Genovese was entirely different. This one made a huge impact on me and everyone else. This murder drove home an icy and unwelcome message that, not only was New York an unsafe city for us all to live in, but that most of its residents were too wrapped up in their own lives to care about anyone else's.
Kitty Genovese's killer
I, too, was faced with some uncomfortable questions, what if that had happened to me? What if no one had come to my rescue? Or, more tellingly, what would I have done to help Kitty if had I been there? I remember being stunned, saddened and appalled, at the same time, when I heard the first sketchy details of the murder before I left the radio station early on the morning of Friday 13 March. My initial reaction was to reassure myself that this could never have happened in London. People would not have thought twice about risking their own lives to come to Kitty's rescue. Having thought of Americans, until this point, as much like the British, with a sense of duty, a sense of community spirit and a sense of compassion, I was now compelled to see them in a totally new and disturbing light. This, in itself, was a harsh and painful lesson. Now, suddenly, they appeared to me as selfish individuals, callous, cold-hearted and self-serving, concerned only with their own welfare and their own survival. It was a feeling that was not forgotten overnight, it stayed with me for many years colouring my attitude and sense of trust towards almost each and every American I met from then on.
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leanskieee says:
Hi! I can't find a way to send a private message to you in this blog so I guess I will just leave a comment here. I would like you to know that I relied heavily on this blog for references in a blog entry I have written regarding the ongoing historical revisionism of the martial law era that I will publish very soon. I will let you know as soon as I finished proof-reading it. Thank you!
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