Author: National Brick Manufacturers' Association of the United States of America
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brickmaking
Languages : en
Pages : 1176
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Welcome to Our City
Author: Thomas Wolfe
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807125038
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
In 1920 Thomas Wolfe left the South with the strong desire to become a dramatist. To pursue his chosen craft, he enrolled in the Harvard 47 Workshop, at that time the most renowned in the nation. At first he wrote plays about Appalachian society and the Civil War. But it was not until Wolfe turned to the modern South—inspired by a disturbing return to his hometown of Asheville, North Carolina—that his genius awoke. There he found the material he would work into the best of his three full-length plays written at Harvard, the material that in the next decade would be recast into the novels that would make him famous. This is the first book publication of Welcome to Our City, Thomas Wolfe’s play in ten scenes of a modern South ruled by liars and real estate agents, overrun with boosterism, and dedicated to greed. This sprawling, fiery work has lain dormant among Wolfe’s papers for over fifty years, abandoned by its author after an unsuccessful attempt to revise and shorten it for a New York Theatre Guild production. For this edition, Richard S. Kennedy has reassembled a full performance text of the workshop version presented at Harvard in 1923—a production that involved forty-five cast members, including over thirty speaking parts, required seven stage changes, and lasted over three and a half hours in performance. The action of Welcome to Our City centers on a scheme of the town fathers and real estate promoters of Altamont, a small southern city, to snatch up all the property in a centrally located black district, evict the tenants, tear down their houses and shops, and build a new white residential section in its place. When the blacks, under the angry leadership of a strong-willed doctor, resist eviction, a race riot breaks out—shattering both the precarious social balance of the city and the “progressive” dreams of Altamont’s boosters. Building on this plot, Wolfe guides his audience through the back rooms, stately homes, ans shanty towns of Altamont, contrasting tradition-bound southern characters with a new breed of life drawn from the vast menagerie of 1920s Main Street America: fact-spouting yes-men, hypocritical religious leaders, anti-intellectual professors, provincial country club matrons, and politicians inauthentic from their heads to their feet. Welcome to Our City is not merely an exhibit in the artistic development of a future novelist. Wolfe used the dramatic form inventively and with considerable inspiration to expose the culture of greed that he saw spreading around him and to caricature the men who, he feared, would usher in an age of mediocrity across America. Emotionally gripping and mockingly satiric, Welcome to Our City captures the festering social climate of the 1920s in a vision of life that is uncomfortably relevant to our own times.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807125038
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
In 1920 Thomas Wolfe left the South with the strong desire to become a dramatist. To pursue his chosen craft, he enrolled in the Harvard 47 Workshop, at that time the most renowned in the nation. At first he wrote plays about Appalachian society and the Civil War. But it was not until Wolfe turned to the modern South—inspired by a disturbing return to his hometown of Asheville, North Carolina—that his genius awoke. There he found the material he would work into the best of his three full-length plays written at Harvard, the material that in the next decade would be recast into the novels that would make him famous. This is the first book publication of Welcome to Our City, Thomas Wolfe’s play in ten scenes of a modern South ruled by liars and real estate agents, overrun with boosterism, and dedicated to greed. This sprawling, fiery work has lain dormant among Wolfe’s papers for over fifty years, abandoned by its author after an unsuccessful attempt to revise and shorten it for a New York Theatre Guild production. For this edition, Richard S. Kennedy has reassembled a full performance text of the workshop version presented at Harvard in 1923—a production that involved forty-five cast members, including over thirty speaking parts, required seven stage changes, and lasted over three and a half hours in performance. The action of Welcome to Our City centers on a scheme of the town fathers and real estate promoters of Altamont, a small southern city, to snatch up all the property in a centrally located black district, evict the tenants, tear down their houses and shops, and build a new white residential section in its place. When the blacks, under the angry leadership of a strong-willed doctor, resist eviction, a race riot breaks out—shattering both the precarious social balance of the city and the “progressive” dreams of Altamont’s boosters. Building on this plot, Wolfe guides his audience through the back rooms, stately homes, ans shanty towns of Altamont, contrasting tradition-bound southern characters with a new breed of life drawn from the vast menagerie of 1920s Main Street America: fact-spouting yes-men, hypocritical religious leaders, anti-intellectual professors, provincial country club matrons, and politicians inauthentic from their heads to their feet. Welcome to Our City is not merely an exhibit in the artistic development of a future novelist. Wolfe used the dramatic form inventively and with considerable inspiration to expose the culture of greed that he saw spreading around him and to caricature the men who, he feared, would usher in an age of mediocrity across America. Emotionally gripping and mockingly satiric, Welcome to Our City captures the festering social climate of the 1920s in a vision of life that is uncomfortably relevant to our own times.
You're Welcome, Mama
Author: Heather Cook
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781719867795
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
You're Welcome, Mama is a lighthearted read for young mamas who feel overwhelmed, exhausted, frazzled, or all that craziness balled up into one messy life. This book boasts a mix of humor and bite-sized, reasonable challenges that can inject a dose of productivity to a mama's day and a sense of accomplishment to her world. So often, mamas give to others. Rarely, do they give to themselves. This book takes young mamas through a journey of "I'm overwhelmed" to "Here we go," showing them how to be a better person for everyone, and most importantly, for themselves.
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781719867795
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
You're Welcome, Mama is a lighthearted read for young mamas who feel overwhelmed, exhausted, frazzled, or all that craziness balled up into one messy life. This book boasts a mix of humor and bite-sized, reasonable challenges that can inject a dose of productivity to a mama's day and a sense of accomplishment to her world. So often, mamas give to others. Rarely, do they give to themselves. This book takes young mamas through a journey of "I'm overwhelmed" to "Here we go," showing them how to be a better person for everyone, and most importantly, for themselves.
Official Report, Annual Convention
Author: National Brick Manufacturers' Association of the United States of America
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brickmaking
Languages : en
Pages : 1176
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brickmaking
Languages : en
Pages : 1176
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Official Report ... Annual Convention
Author: National Lumber Manufacturers Association
Publisher:
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Category : Lumber trade
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lumber trade
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Official Proceedings
Author:
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Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Hardware
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 878
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 878
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National Bulletin
Author:
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Category : Liquor industry
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Publisher:
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Category : Liquor industry
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Proceedings of the Annual Session
Author: Ohio Stenographers' Association
Publisher:
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Category : Shorthand
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shorthand
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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The London Gazette
Author:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1328
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Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1328
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The Pennsylvania Medical Journal
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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