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A Few Stout Individuals

Author : John Guare
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802199666
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book A Few Stout Individuals written by John Guare and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ulysses S. Grant faces mortality and his own failing memory in this “exciting and vivid” play by the Tony Award-winning author of Six Degrees of Separation (Michael Feingold, Village Voice). Arthur Schlesinger calls A Few Stout Individuals “a political extravaganza.” This latest work from award-winning playwright John Guare, author of House of Blue Leaves and Six Degrees of Separation, addresses ideas of history and memory, fame and ignominy, reason and insanity with his trademark Guare imagination. In a Fifth Avenue brownstone in 1880s New York, former president and Civil War general Ulysses S. Grant is penniless, dying of throat cancer, and attempting to finish his memoirs while he’s cajoled and pestered by everyone from his wife and children to Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain) and, by way of drug-induced hallucinations, the Emperor of Japan. A thoroughly original play that explores the nature of memory, ambition, and history itself, A Few Stout Individuals is “unmistakably the product of Mr. Guare’s exotic yet very American imagination” (Ben Brantley, The New York Times).

Cultivating Conscience

Author : Lynn Stout
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140083600X
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Cultivating Conscience written by Lynn Stout and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-04 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the science of unselfish behavior can promote law, order, and prosperity Contemporary law and public policy often treat human beings as selfish creatures who respond only to punishments and rewards. Yet every day we behave unselfishly—few of us mug the elderly or steal the paper from our neighbor's yard, and many of us go out of our way to help strangers. We nevertheless overlook our own good behavior and fixate on the bad things people do and how we can stop them. In this pathbreaking book, acclaimed law and economics scholar Lynn Stout argues that this focus neglects the crucial role our better impulses could play in society. Rather than lean on the power of greed to shape laws and human behavior, Stout contends that we should rely on the force of conscience. Stout makes the compelling case that conscience is neither a rare nor quirky phenomenon, but a vital force woven into our daily lives. Drawing from social psychology, behavioral economics, and evolutionary biology, Stout demonstrates how social cues—instructions from authorities, ideas about others' selfishness and unselfishness, and beliefs about benefits to others—have a powerful role in triggering unselfish behavior. Stout illustrates how our legal system can use these social cues to craft better laws that encourage more unselfish, ethical behavior in many realms, including politics and business. Stout also shows how our current emphasis on self-interest and incentives may have contributed to the catastrophic political missteps and financial scandals of recent memory by encouraging corrupt and selfish actions, and undermining society's collective moral compass. This book proves that if we care about effective laws and civilized society, the powers of conscience are simply too important for us to ignore.

Storytelling with Collage

Author : Roxanne Evans Stout
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440340501
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Storytelling with Collage written by Roxanne Evans Stout and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every collage has a tale to tell. Tell your story in paper, fabric, and objects collected from your world. Storytelling With Collage will inspire you to capture your poetic thoughts, fond memories and passionate daydreams in a soft and simple style. Using simple tools and supplies that delight you, you'll learn to work with a variety of prompts and will discover how each element you select--from small shells collected on your last trip to the pretty paper you unwrapped from a recent gift--has its own part of a complete narrative. Nine collage prompts will walk you step-by-step through a collage creation as you work with textured papers, fabric, stitching, found objects, images, natural materials, color, wax and metal. In addition, inside you will find: • Numerous Tasks--ideas for combing your world for collage fodder • Beautiful photos to inspire you to customize your own worktable • Perspective on finding inspiration outside your window through the seasons • Extra inspiration in each chapter from the Collage Stories and works by 25 contributing artists Capture the textures and colors of your moments today through your own Storytelling With Collage!

The New Monthly Magazine

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book The New Monthly Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chaucer in Rome

Author : John Guare
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822218401
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book Chaucer in Rome written by John Guare and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2002 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: In the Holy Year of 2000 in Rome, Matt has learned that his painting has given him a curable form of cancer. In return for survival, he must abandon paint for a new artistic medium. Ultimately he chooses to dress in religious garb, video

Feiffer's People

Author : Jules Feiffer
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822203964
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Feiffer's People written by Jules Feiffer and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1969 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A long-run Broadway hit, this warmly humorous--and human--play by our theatre's most renowned comic writer, offers a wise and witty examination of a family hilariously beset by marital and domestic problems. ...one of the most professional pieces of work Bro

The People Next Door

Author : James Pinckney Miller
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822208846
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The People Next Door written by James Pinckney Miller and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1969 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: As The New York Times comments: Mr. Miller's drama involves two middle-class families that outwardly symbolize the tranquillity of stable suburbia. But behind the green shutters and the contentment of sustained affluence lies the latent

A Free Man of Color

Author : John Guare
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802145663
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book A Free Man of Color written by John Guare and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Guare’s new play is astonishing, raucous and panoramic. A Free Man of Color is set in boisterous New Orleans prior to the historic Louisiana Purchase. Before law and order took hold, and class, racial and political lines were drawn, New Orleans was a carnival of beautiful women, flowing wine and pleasure for the taking. At the center of this Dionysian world is the mulatto Jacques Cornet, who commands men, seduces women and preens like a peacock. But, it is 1801 and the map of New Orleans is about to be redrawn. The Louisiana Purchase brings American rule and racial segregation to the chaotic, colorful world of Jacques Cornet and all that he represents, turning the tables on freedom and liberty.

The People's Violin

Author : Charles Varon
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822220022
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The People's Violin written by Charles Varon and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2005 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: A play about Americans and Israelis, Jews and gentiles, truth and deception. Sol Shank, 43, is an experimental filmmaker, transplanted New York Jew, and unhappy son of a famous man. Sol's father, Sidney Shank, is a psychotherapist, Holoc

Understanding John Guare

Author : William Demastes
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611177391
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Understanding John Guare written by William Demastes and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study of an award-winning playwright known for unconventional blending of genres John Guare, one of the most innovative and influential contemporary American playwrights of the last sixty years, is best known for such works as House of Blue Leaves, winner of an Obie Award, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play, and four Tony Awards, and Six Degrees of Separation, recipient of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play and the Olivier Best Play Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama. In Understanding John Guare, William W. Demastes provides a concise biography and analyzes the playwright's career from his earliest works produced off-off Broadway in the 1960s to his most recent Broadway play, A Free Man of Color, a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Often compared to his contemporaries Sam Shepard and David Mamet, who have distinctive voices tied to their mastery of realistic, idiomatic American English, Guare has a style that is perhaps more varied, Demastes speculates, the result of his formal training in theater. After earning a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University, Guare earned an M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama. He then polished his theater craft in New York City during the exciting and turbulent 1960s, breaking from realist conventions and creating an unlikely blend of comedy, burlesque, stand-up comedy, and absurdly incongruous plotlines. The result has been a theater of surprise that is rich in stage action and experimentally invigorating. Demastes examines Guare's tools and techniques such as mixing serious with comic, creating characters who break into song and dance, inserting stand-up comedy routines, and drawing from the most absurd incongruities of everyday life. In doing so, Guare has created plays about the best and worst of humanity, about lost souls, and about delusional ideals.

The Sphere

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Sphere written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Violence in American Drama

Author : Alfonso Ceballos Muñoz
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786488972
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Violence in American Drama written by Alfonso Ceballos Muñoz and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary collection of 19 essays addresses violence on the American stage. Topics include the revolutionary period and the role of violence in establishing national identity, violence by and against ethnic groups, and females as perpetrators and victims, as well as state and psychological violence and violence within the family. The book works to assess whether representing violence may cause its cessation, or whether it generates further destruction. Featured playwrights include Susan Glaspell, Sophie Treadwell, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Amiri Baraka, Luis Valdes, Cherrie Moraga, Sam Shepard, Tony Kushner, Neil LaBute, John Guare, Rebecca Gilman, and Heather MacDonald.

Dental Brief

Author : Thomas Bromwell Welch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 966 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Dental Brief written by Thomas Bromwell Welch and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

People Park

Author : Pasha Malla
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1619023660
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book People Park written by Pasha Malla and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the Silver Jubilee of People Park, an urban experiment conceived by a radical mayor and zealously policed by the testosterone-powered New Fraternal League of Men. To celebrate, the insular island city has engaged the illustrator Raven, who promises to deliver the most astonishing spectacle its residents have ever seen. As the entire island comes together for the event, we meet an unforgettable cross-section of its inhabitants, from activists to nihilists, art stars to athletes, families to inveterate loners. Soon, however, what has promised to be a triumph of civic harmony begins to reveal its shadow side. And when Raven's illustration exceeds even the most extreme of expectations, the island is plunged into a series of unnatural disasters that force people to confront what they are really made of. People Park is a tour de force of eerily prescient, grotesque, and hilarious observation and a narrative of gripping, unrelenting suspense. Malla writes as if the twin demons of Stephen King and Flannery O'Connor were resting on his shoulders. You've never read anything quite like People Park.

Some Buried Caesar/The Golden Spiders

Author : Rex Stout
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0307762165
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Some Buried Caesar/The Golden Spiders written by Rex Stout and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2013-07-17 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Nero Wolfe towers over his rivals...he is an exceptional character creation.” —New Yorker A grand master of the form, Rex Stout is one of America’s greatest mystery writers, and his literary creation Nero Wolfe is one of fiction’s greatest detectives. Here, in this special double edition, the arrogant, gourmandizing, sedentary sleuth and his trusty man-about-town, Archie Goodwin, solve two of their most bizarre cases. Some Buried Caesar A prize bull destined for the barbecue is found pawing the corpse of a late restaurateur. Wolfe is certain that Hickory Caesar Grindon, the soon-to-be-beefsteak bull, isn’t the murderer. But who among a veritable stampede of suspects—including a young woman who’s caught Archie’s eye—turned the tables on Hickory’s would-be butcher? It’s a crime that wins a blue ribbon for sheer audacity—and Nero Wolfe is the one detective audacious enough to solve it. The Golden Spiders A twelve-year-old boy shows up at Wolfe’s brownstone with an incredible story. Soon the great detective finds himself hired for the grand sum of $4.30 and faced with the question of why the last two people to hire him were murdered. To keep it from becoming three, Wolfe must discover the unlikely connection between a gray Cadillac, a mysterious woman, and a pair of earrings shaped like spiders dipped in gold.

Brands, Consumers, Symbols and Research

Author : Sidney J. Levy
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1452264597
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book Brands, Consumers, Symbols and Research written by Sidney J. Levy and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 1999-08-11 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 54 collected works in this volume provide an opportunity for the reader to determine whether Sidney′s work, individually and/or collectively, qualify as a masterpiece. For me, Sidney has created more individual pieces of his work that merit this status than any other marketing scholar I know. Collectively, the work in this volume is a masterpiece of insight into the social enterprise that is marketing. Again, I don′t know anyone whose career-long program of thought is so extraordinarily rich in imagination and practical value. He challenges, provokes, excites, soothes, and supports us with one or another of his writings. —from the foreword by Gerald Zaltman, Harvard Business School For the first time, the writings of marketing legend Sidney J. are available in this comprehensive collection of significant scholarly essays and studies in the field of marketing. And what a compendium this is! Dennis Rook, a former student of Sidney J. Levy, has compiled the work of this prolific, internationally-recognized and award-winning writer whose ideas began to influence marketing executives in the late 1940s. His ideas continue to impact how we think about marketing′s role in management, how managers develop products and brands, how they understand their consumers, and how corporate and academic researchers investigate marketplace concerns. Brands, Consumers, Symbols, and Research is an exciting and definitive volume that should have a place on the bookshelves of every marketing professional, educator, and student around the globe!

Walking for Breezes

Author : James Nelson Caulkins
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1491822570
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (918 download)

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Download or read book Walking for Breezes written by James Nelson Caulkins and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about a boy taking the first steps towards being a young man with an independent perspective. It takes place over a two week period on a walkabout with his great uncle. At the same time his parents get to enjoy a break from their parenting and their effort of introducing the boy to the idea of holding an independent perspective. The story takes place several hundred years in the future after humans have once again chosen to spend their future by violently destroying what they have. It is a time when governmental influence is minimal and can be distant if desired. It is a time when Constitutional freedoms can be openly lived on an individual level. The constraining hierarchies of organized religions and an aggressive government with police and military support have been found to be wanting and negative to individual development. The walkabout takes place in the Rocky Mountains of the Western United States and from early to mid-June. Descriptions of the plant and animal life found along the way are from the author's experiences but are not meant to be from one locale. The various thoughts and perspectives of the characters in the book are shared by the author. The future conflicts are not intended to be prophetic in any way as the author thinks humanity's future is fluid and ours to choose. "...correctness, accuracy, truth, whatever you want to call it, is based on the content of what is said, not on who's talking." "Your clear mind will enable you to focus on detail and encompass the breadth of the Earth around you, ultimately causing you to have thoughts and emotions strong enough to add energy to your soul." "Different people do the same things in different ways. Freedom of religion is the concept that embraces different people seeking truth in different ways. If freedom is restricted truth is restricted and fanaticism grows."