Patricia Breslin, American actress (The People’s Choice, Peyton Place, The Twilight Zone), wife of Art Modell, died from pancreatitis she was 80.
Patricia Rose Breslin was an American actress known for her guest roles in various television series in the 1950s and 1960s.[2]
(March 17, 1931 – October 12, 2011[1])
Early years
Patricia Breslin was born in New York City, the only child of Edward (a judge) and Marjorie Breslin. She graduated from the Academy of Mount St. Ursula High School and the College of New Rochelle.[3]
Television appearances
In 1953, Breslin co-starred with Jackie Cooper as his wife in the NBC sitcom, The People’s Choice. In 1954, she guest-starred with Peter Mark Richman in an episode of NBC‘s legal drama, Justice, as a woman threatened by hoodlums.[4]
In 1955, Breslin guest starred in the CBS anthology series Appointment with Adventure. In 1960, she played the newlywed wife of William Shatner‘s character in The Twilight Zone episode “Nick of Time” and also in the 1963 Twilight Zone episode “No Time Like the Past“, in which she played Abigail Sloan.[5] Breslin played the role of Anne Mitchell, along with co-stars Ralph Bellamy and Paul Fix, in the 1961 episode “The Haven” of CBS’s anthology series The DuPont Show with June Allyson.
In 1964, she landed in the role of Laura Brooks on the ABC prime time soap opera Peyton Place. She also played the role of Meg Baldwin in the ABC soap opera General Hospital from 1966 to 1969.[5]
Personal life
Breslin married former Cleveland Browns and Baltimore Ravens NFL team owner and advertising and business executive Art Modell in 1969.[2] Breslin had two sons from her first marriage to character actor David Orrick McDearmon (1914–1979),[5] sons John and David. Shortly after their marriage, Modell legally adopted Patricia’s sons and they took his surname. The family lived in Owings Mills, Maryland with a total of six grandchildren between them.
Death
Breslin died on October 12, 2011, aged 80, from pancreatitis, after a lengthy hospitalization.[3]
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Joel DiGregorio, American keyboardist (The Charlie Daniels Band), died from a car crash he was 67..
William Joel “Taz” DiGregorio was a longtime member and keyboardist for the Charlie Daniels
Band. He was born and lived in Worcester, Massachusetts until 1962 when he went on the road. He was self-taught on the keyboards, practicing from tunes by Elvis Presley, Fats Domino, and Little Richard following his attendance at a Ray Charles concert.
(January 8, 1944 – October 12,
2011)
Musical career
He learned the Fats Domino song “Blue Monday“
at age sixteen. Once, he just started playing and singing the entire
song and his sister asked him “How did you do that?” and he replied “I
don’t know” and that kickstarted his career. He once played with a band
at The Golden Nugget in Worcester, Massachusetts and played with Fay Adams & The Drifters.
He fulfilled his goal of becoming a professional musician, initiating
his career with his first band, the group Paul Chaplain and his
Emeralds, best known for their minor hit “Shortnin’ Bread“
(1960). They sold about 250,000 copies of their album in 1959. He was
on the album at age seventeen and he didn’t know a lot about life and
music, but he knew 8 chords and he recorded the song, Shortnin’ Bread, and it became a hit.
By the early 1960s, the group disbanded, leaving DiGregorio to find other gigs which included playing in a lounge band in Florida.
In 1964, he was working with a band that played different types of
music. He sang and played bass pedals on the organ. There was a
saxophone player in the band named Jerry Kaskie, who was then drafted
into the military. Then, they hired a guitarist, who was also drafted.
Taz then got a job at a club called the LaFlame near the Air Force base in Orlando. Charlie Daniels
went there as the main attraction once, and his guitarist quit and he
was playing bass. They decided to have lunch together and Daniels told
Joel that if he cut his hair, he could play in his band called the
Jaguars. [1]
A few years later, DiGregorio was drafted and served with the US
Army. Upon his return home, he resumed his career with Daniels and
following some ensemble changes The Charlie Daniels Band launched what
was to become a commercially successful body of work, beginning with
their self-titled debut album in 1970. In 1979, their signature hit “The Devil Went Down To Georgia,”
which achieved a number 3 placing on the US Pop Charts, was co-written
by DiGregorio. In addition to his work with Daniels, he recorded the
solo projects Midnight in Savannah (2008) and Shake Rag (2008).
Charlie Daniels Band
The original Charlie Daniels Band was Charlie, Jerry Corbitt from the Youngbloods, Billy Cox from the Band of Gypsys,
Jeffrey Meyer, and Taz. They stayed together six months, but then it
didn’t work out. After that, it was Charlie, Taz, Jeffrey, and Earl
Grigsby. The original Charlie Daniels Band can still be heard on a bootleg album called “Corbitt and Daniels, Live from Carnegie Hall.”
Nickname
From the Charlie Daniels Band album Te John, Grease, & Wolfman,
which the name comes from the band members’ nicknames, “Te John” was
the bassist, “Wolfman” the drummer, and Joel, being that he was half Italian and half French Canadian was “Grease”. According to DiGregorio, “Charlie loves giving people nicknames,” which is “one of those Southern rock
cultural things.” Taz got his nickname from when they were on the tour
bus with their first road manager named Jesse Craig. Joel had his hair
down past his shoulders and once, his hair was sticking up and Jesse was
laughing and saying that he looked like a Tasmanian Devil. Then Charlie was joking around and called him “Taz”. The nickname “Grease” never stuck, but “Taz” did.
Death
DiGregorio was killed in a single car accident on Interstate 40 in Cheatham County, Tennessee, on October 12, 2011.[2] He was driving to meet the band’s tour bus, which was headed to a concert set for Wednesday night in Cumming, Georgia.[3] He was 67 years old.
was a longtime member and keyboardist for the Charlie Daniels
Band. He was born and lived in Worcester, Massachusetts until 1962 when he went on the road. He was self-taught on the keyboards, practicing from tunes by Elvis Presley, Fats Domino, and Little Richard following his attendance at a Ray Charles concert.
Musical career
He learned the Fats Domino song “Blue Monday“
at age sixteen. Once, he just started playing and singing the entire
song and his sister asked him “How did you do that?” and he replied “I
don’t know” and that kickstarted his career. He once played with a band
at The Golden Nugget in Worcester, Massachusetts and played with Fay Adams & The Drifters.
He fulfilled his goal of becoming a professional musician, initiating
his career with his first band, the group Paul Chaplain and his
Emeralds, best known for their minor hit “Shortnin’ Bread“
(1960). They sold about 250,000 copies of their album in 1959. He was
on the album at age seventeen and he didn’t know a lot about life and
music, but he knew 8 chords and he recorded the song, Shortnin’ Bread, and it became a hit.
By the early 1960s, the group disbanded, leaving DiGregorio to find other gigs which included playing in a lounge band in Florida.
In 1964, he was working with a band that played different types of
music. He sang and played bass pedals on the organ. There was a
saxophone player in the band named Jerry Kaskie, who was then drafted
into the military. Then, they hired a guitarist, who was also drafted.
Taz then got a job at a club called the LaFlame near the Air Force base in Orlando. Charlie Daniels
went there as the main attraction once, and his guitarist quit and he
was playing bass. They decided to have lunch together and Daniels told
Joel that if he cut his hair, he could play in his band called the
Jaguars. [1]
A few years later, DiGregorio was drafted and served with the US
Army. Upon his return home, he resumed his career with Daniels and
following some ensemble changes The Charlie Daniels Band launched what
was to become a commercially successful body of work, beginning with
their self-titled debut album in 1970. In 1979, their signature hit “The Devil Went Down To Georgia,”
which achieved a number 3 placing on the US Pop Charts, was co-written
by DiGregorio. In addition to his work with Daniels, he recorded the
solo projects Midnight in Savannah (2008) and Shake Rag (2008).
Charlie Daniels Band
The original Charlie Daniels Band was Charlie, Jerry Corbitt from the Youngbloods, Billy Cox from the Band of Gypsys,
Jeffrey Meyer, and Taz. They stayed together six months, but then it
didn’t work out. After that, it was Charlie, Taz, Jeffrey, and Earl
Grigsby. The original Charlie Daniels Band can still be heard on a bootleg album called “Corbitt and Daniels, Live from Carnegie Hall.”
Nickname
From the Charlie Daniels Band album Te John, Grease, & Wolfman,
which the name comes from the band members’ nicknames, “Te John” was
the bassist, “Wolfman” the drummer, and Joel, being that he was half Italian and half French Canadian was “Grease”. According to DiGregorio, “Charlie loves giving people nicknames,” which is “one of those Southern rock
cultural things.” Taz got his nickname from when they were on the tour
bus with their first road manager named Jesse Craig. Joel had his hair
down past his shoulders and once, his hair was sticking up and Jesse was
laughing and saying that he looked like a Tasmanian Devil. Then Charlie was joking around and called him “Taz”. The nickname “Grease” never stuck, but “Taz” did.
Death
DiGregorio was killed in a single car accident on Interstate 40 in Cheatham County, Tennessee, on October 12, 2011.[2] He was driving to meet the band’s tour bus, which was headed to a concert set for Wednesday night in Cumming, Georgia.[3] He was 67 years old.
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Franz Jozef Van Beeck, Dutch author and Christian theologian, died he was 81.
Frans Jozef Van Beeck or Franz Jozef van Beeck, also known as Joep van Beeck (June 11, 1930 – October 12, 2011),[1] was a Dutch author and Christian theologian who was also a prominent priest of the Society of Jesus.[2]
Born in Helmond, Netherlands, he entered the Jesuit religious order in 1948 after studies at the Jesuit-run Aloysius College in The Hague. He received a doctorate in English from the University of Amsterdam in 1961 and was ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood in 1963. From 1968 to 1985, Van Beeck taught theology at Boston College in Boston, Massachusetts. He then moved to Loyola University Chicago in Chicago, Illinois where he served as John Cardinal Cody Professor of Theology until his retirement in 2002. From 2006 until his death, he resided in Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Van Beeck wrote hundreds of thousands of pages of letters, treatises and books used today in Christian colleges and universities throughout the world. His most famous theological work is an ambitious series of six books called God Encountered: A Contemporary Catholic Systematic Theology (Liturgical Press).
Some of his most controversial works considered the issues arising from World War II. Critics challenged van Beeck’s attempt to define a single universal theme in the overall tragedy of the Holocaust.
They believed that such an attempt to explain the Holocaust as a
metaphor or symbol was dangerous and could lead to a minimalization of
the horrors of the mass murder.[3]
Van Beeck’s Christ Proclaimed: Christology as Rhetoric (1979)
is a significant synthesis of theological reflection in christology with
a distinctive consideration of rhetoric and the Christian proclamation.
Van Beeck’s thought about rhetoric and proclamation culminated in the
publication of the article “Divine Revelation: Intervention or Self-Communication” in Theological Studies 52 (1991): 199-226.
In 2006, Sacred Heart University Press published his Driven under the Influence: Selected Essays in Theology 1974-2004.
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Heinz Bennent, German actor,died he was 90.
Heinz Bennent was a German actor.
Bennent was born in Stolberg, Rhineland, and served in the Luftwaffe during World War II.[2] His career began after the end of World War II in Göttingen. He moved to Switzerland in the 1970s, where he lived until his death at age 90. He was survived by his son, actor David Bennent, and daughter, actress Anne Bennent.
(18 July 1921 – 12 October 2011[1])
Awards
In 1980, Bennent was nominated for the César Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Last Metro.
Selected filmography
- 1994: Maigret et le fantôme: Gustav Jonker
- 1986: Le Tiroir secret
- 1982: Via degli specchi
- 1982: L’amour des femmes
- 1982: Espion, lève-toi (as Meyer)
- 1981: Possession (as Heinrich)
- 1980: The Last Metro (as Lucas Steiner)
- 1980: From the Life of the Marionettes (as Arthur Brenner)
- 1979: The Tin Drum (as Greff)
- 1978: Germany in Autumn
- 1977: The Serpent’s Egg (as Hans Vergerus)
- 1976: I Want to Live
- 1975-83: Derrick
- Season 2, Episode 6: “Paddenberg” (1975)
- Season 5, Episode 9: “Lissas Vater” (1978)
- Season 9, Episode 3: “Nachts in einem fremden Haus” (1982)
- Season 10, Episode 3: “Geheimnisse einer Nacht” (1983)
- 1975: Sisters, or the Balance of Happiness
- 1975: The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum: Dr. Hubert Blorna
- 1975: The Net
- 1975: Ice Age
- 1972: Der Kommissar
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Dieudonné Kabongo, Congolese-born Belgian comedian, musician and actor (Lumumba), died he was 61.
Dieudonné Kabongo was a Congolese-born Belgian comedian, humorist, musician and actor. Kabongo co-starred in the 2000 film, Lumumba, portraying Godefroid Munongo.[1] He was the first comedian of African descent to achieve widespread popularity in Belgium.[2][3]
(1950 – October 11, 2011)
Kabongo was born in 1950 in Katanga, Belgian Congo, which is now the Democratic Republic of Congo.[1] He immigrated to Belgium in 1970.[2] He originally studied electromechanical engineering in Virton, Belgium, before embarking on a self-apprenticeship in theater and writing.[3]
In 1984, Kabongo and fellow actor Mirko Popovitch jointly won the First Prize at the Festival International du Rire de Rochefort.[1][2] His film credits included Identity Pieces in 1998, the 2000 film Lumumba, directed by Raoul Peck, and the 2005 film, Le Couperet, directed by Costa-Gavras.[1][2] He was awarded the lifetime achievement award by the Africa Filmfestival in 2010.[2]
Kabongo collapsed and died during a performance on stage at a cultural center in Jette, a district of Brussels, on October 11, 2011, at the age of 61.[1]
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Otto Tausig, Austrian writer, director and actor, died he was 89.
Otto Tausig was an Austrian writer, director and actor. Although he usually appeared in German language films, he also played in films in English such as Love Comes Lately, and in French in such as La Reine Margot and Place Vendôme.
(13 February 1922 – 10 October 2011)
Life and career
Tausig was the son of author Franziska Tausig. As a Jew, Otto emigrated from Austria on January 1938 after the country was being taken over by Germany.[1] His mother sent Otto, then 16, to England through an advertisement in The Times looking for factory workers, thus saving him from The Holocaust.[2]
After the end of World War II, he returned back to Austria in 1946 and became a student the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna. Two years later, in 1948, Tausig began as an actor, director and chief editor at the New Theatre in the Scala.[3]
After The New Theatre was closed in 1956, Tausig worked at the Deutsches Theater and the Volksbühne in East Berlin.[1] It was there where he worked as a screenwriter and director of satirical short films of DEFA, the so-called “Das Stacheltier“.[2] In 1960, Tausig then moved to Zurich to work at the Schauspielhaus as a free-lance actor and director.[1] A decade later, Tausig was an ensemble member and director at the Vienna Burgtheater, where he was active until 1983.[1]
Tausig also worked as a freelance artist throughout the German-speaking world as well he taught at the Max Reinhardt Seminar. He frequently wrote and directed German television films.[citation needed]
Awards
Tausig winning the Nestroy Theatre Award for Lifetime Achievement
- 1997: Bruno Kreisky Award for Services to the Human Rights[4]
- 2007: Austrian Honorary Cross for Science and Art, First Class
- 2009: Nestroy Theatre Award, Award for Lifetime Achievement
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Jagjit Singh, Indian musician, died from brain haemorrhage he was 70.
Jagjit Singh, born Jagmohan Singh, was a prominent Indian Ghazal
singer, songwriter and musician. Known as the “Ghazal King”, he gained
acclaim together with his wife, another renowned Indian ghazal singer Chitra Singh in the 1970s and 1980s. Their combination album comprising music from the films, Arth and Saath Saath is the HMV‘s largest selling combination album of all time.[citation needed] Sajda (An Offering, 1991), Jagjit Singh’s magnum opus double album with Lata Mangeshkar holds the same record in non-film category.[citation needed] He sang in numerous languages. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the government of India in 2003.
(8 February 1941 – 10 October 2011)
Singh is credited for the revival and popularity of ghazal, an Indian
classical art form, by choosing poetry that was relevant to the masses
and composing them in a way that laid more emphasis on the meaning of
words and melody evoked by them. In terms of Indian Classical music, his
style of composing and Gayaki (singing) is considered as Bol-pradhan, one that lays emphasis on words. He highlighted this in his music for films such as Prem Geet (1981), Arth and Saath Saath (1982), and TV serials Mirza Ghalib (1988) and Kahkashan
(1991). Jagjit Singh is considered to be the most successful ghazal
singer and composer of all time in terms of critical acclaim and
commercial success. With a career spanning over five decades and a
repertoire comprising over 80 albums,[1]
the range and breadth of his work has been regarded as genre-defining.
He is the only composer and singer to have composed and recorded songs
written by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee — also a critically acclaimed poet — in two albums, Nayi Disha (1999) and Samvedna (2002).
Singh’s 1987 album, Beyond Time, was the first digitally recorded release in India.[citation needed] He was regarded as one of India’s most influential artistes. With sitar legend Ravi Shankar and other leading figures of Indian classical music and literature,
Singh voiced his concerns over politicisation of arts and culture in
India and lack of support experienced by the practitioners of India’s
traditional art forms, particularly folk artists and musicians. He lent active support to several philanthropic endeavors such as the library at St. Mary’s School, Mumbai, Bombay Hospital, CRY, Save the Children and ALMA.
Early life and career
Jagjit Singh was born on 8 February 1941 in Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan, India. His birth name was Jagmohan but this was changed to Jagjit after his parents sought the advice of a member of the Sikh Namdhari sect.[2]
His parents were Sikhs — Amar Singh and Bachan Kaur — and had several
other children, with sources variously reporting the number between six
and eleven.[3][4]
Educated initially at Khalsa High School and Sri Ganganagar Government College, Singh obtained an arts degree from DAV College at Jalandhar and then a post-graduate degree in history from Kurukshetra University in Haryana.
Throughout this time, and as a consequence of a natural talent that was
spotted by his father, Singh learned music in Sikh temples and from
musicians such as Pandit Chaganlal Sharma and Ustad Jamaal Khan,
both of whom were trained in classical Indian music. He performed on
radio and on stage, as well as composing some material, although he
subsequently claimed that his father, who was a government employee, had
hoped that he would become an engineer.[5]
On another occasion his memory was that his father aspired for him to
become a bureaucrat and that his siblings were encouraged musically.[3]
In March 1965, and without the knowledge of his family,[5] Singh moved to Mumbai, where there were many opportunities for music artists because of the Bollywood film industry. He obtained work initially as a singer of advertising jingles and later progressed to playback singing.[2] In the same year he persuaded the record company HMV to produce an EP; he also altered his Sikh image by abandoning his turban, shaving and cutting his hair.[5] His first film role was in Dharati Na Chhoru, a Gujarati production by Suresh Amin.[citation needed]
Fame
Singh was still struggling to make a living in 1967 when he met the Bengali-born Chitra Dutta.[5]
She was also a jingle singer and was unhappily married with a daughter.
She divorced her husband and married Singh in December 1969.[3] Following the birth of their son, Vivek, the couple performed as a singing duo but it was not until the 1976[clarification needed] release of the album The Unforgettables
that they found significant, and surprising, success. In the interval,
the primary difficulty for them had been that the ghazal music genre was
dominated by Muslim artists[5] and especially those from Pakistan.[6]
The Unforgettables, which was the couple’s first LP,[3]
was an unconventional recording and it turned them into stars. The song
“Baat Niklegi” from the album achieved great popularity for the Singhs.[4] The Independent
described it in 2011 as “ground-breaking … it became a
transformative, before-and-after milestone in the history of Indian
popular and ghazal music. It remains that.” Using modern arrangements,
it consists of ten tracks that include two on which they sang as a duo
and the remainder equally split between Jagjit and Chitra singing the
lead. The Independent further noted that “This format of solo and
duet performances from the first commercially successful
husband-and-wife team in Indian popular music proved astonishingly
successful.”[2]
Jagjit explained that “I was determined to polish up the genre and make
it more acceptable to modern tastes, so chose simple poems and set them
to simple tunes. I also introduced western instrumentation to make them
livelier.” Thereafter, the couple worked both on solo and joint musical
projects and performed concerts worldwide. There was success from
involvement with the film industry and they amassed considerable wealth,[5] while Jagjit became known as “the Ghazal king”.[6]
Jagjit Singh’s work in film[7] encompassed playback singing for productions such as Arth, Saath Saath and Premgeet. He composed all of the songs for the latter, as well as for the TV serial Mirza Ghalib that was based on the life of the eponymous poet, Mirza Ghalib.[citation needed]
Among their subsequent duo recordings of the 1970s were Shiv Kumar Batalvi – Birha da Sultan (1978), Live in Concert at Wembley (1979) and Come Alive (1979). Of those released in the 1980s, Ecstasies (1984) has been described as “one of their finest”.[2]
The joint projects ceased in 1990 when their 18-year-old son, Vivek,
was killed in a road accident. Chitra felt unable to sing following
these events. Monica, Chitra’s daughter from her first marriage,
committed suicide in 2009.[2][5]
Although Jagjit continued to work and to have success after Chitra
withdrew from public life he, too, was affected by the death of Vivek. The Guardian
notes that he “suffered from deep depression and his anguish was often
evident in his live performances.” Aside from occupying himself with
solo projects, which he performed in several languages,[6] he collaborated with Lata Mangeshkar on an album titled Sajda, an Urdu word meaning “prostration”.[2][5]
On 10 May 2007, in the presence of numerous political and diplomatic luminaries at an event held in the Central Hall of the Parliament of India, Jagjit Singh rendered Bahadur Shah Zafar’s famous ghazal Lagta nahin hai dil mera to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Indian Rebellion of 1857.[4][8]
Death
Singh toured the UK in 2011 and was due to perform with Ghulam Ali in Mumbai[5] but suffered a cerebral hemorrhage on 23 September 2011. He was in a coma for over two weeks and died on 10 October 2011 at Lilavati Hospital, in Mumbai. He was cremated the following day at Chandanwadi Crematorium in Mumbai.[9][10]
A number of tributes have been paid to Singh after his death,[11][12][13][14][15] and some tried to encash his popularity which was criticised by his wife.[16]
Awards
- In 2003, Singh was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India’s third highest civilian award, by the government of India[5]
- In 1998, Jagjit Singh was awarded Sahitya Academy Award, a literary honor in India. He was awarded for popularizing the work of Mirza Ghalib.
- Sangeet Natak Academy Award
- Sahitya Kala Academy Award by Rajasthan government in 1998
- Ghalib Academy by Delhi Government in 2005
- Dayavati Modi Award
- Lata Mangeshkar Samman in 1998 by Madhya Pradesh government
- D. Litt. by Kurukshetra University, Haryana in 2003
- Teacher’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006
Film scores
| Film name | Year | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Bahuroopi | 1966 | “Laagi ram bhajan ni lagani”[17] |
| Avishkaar | 1974 | “Babul Mora Naihar” |
| Griha Pravesh | 1979 | |
| Ek Baar Kaho | 1980 | “Raakh Ke Dher Ne”, “Phir Pukara Hai” |
| Prem Geet | 1981 | “Hontho se chhoo lo tum” |
| Arth | 1982 | “Jhuki Jhuki Si Nazar”, “Koi Yeh Kaise Bataye”, “Tere Khushboo Mein Base Khat”, “Too Nahin To Zindagi Mein Aur Kya Reha Jayega”, “Tum Itna Jo Muskura Rahe Ho” |
| Saath Saath | 1982 | “Pyar Mujh Se Jo Kiya Tumne”, “Tum Ko Dekha To Yeh Khayal Aaya”, “Yeh Bata De Mujhe Zindagi”, “Yeh Bata De Mujhe Zindagi”, “Yeh Tera Ghar Yeh Mera Ghar”, “Yun Zindagi Ki Raah Mein” |
| Sitam | 1982 | |
| Kalka | 1983 | |
| Tum Laut Aao | 1983 | |
| Zulf Ke Saye Saye | 1983 | “Nashili Raat Mein” |
| Ravan | 1984 | “Hum to Yun Apni Zindagi Se Mile”, “Main Gar Mein Chunariya” |
| Bhavna | 1984 | “Mere Dil Mein Tu Hi Tu Hai” |
| Phir Aayee Barsat | 1985 | “Na Mohabbat Na Dosti Ke Liye” |
| Aashiana | 1986 | “Humsafar Ban Ke Hum” |
| Long Da Lishkara | 1986 | “Ishq Hai Loko”, “Main Kandyali Thor Ve”, “Sare Pindch Puare Paye” |
| Rahi[disambiguation needed] | 1987 | |
| Mirza Ghalib | 1988 | TV serial directed by Gulzar |
| Aakhri Kahani | 1989 | |
| Doosra Kanoon | 1989 | TV |
| Kaanoon Ki Awaaz | 1989 | |
| Billoo Badshah | 1989 | |
| Nargis | 1992 | “Dono Ke Dil Hai Majboor Pyar Se”, “Main Kasie Kahoon Janeman” |
| Khalnayak | 1993 | “O Maa Tujhe Salaam” |
| Neem Ka Ped | 1994 | TV serial (“Muunh ki baat sune har koii (Title Song)”) |
| Khudai | 1994 | “Din Aa Gaye Shabab Ke”, “Ulfat Ka Jab Kisis Ne Liya Naam”, “Ye Sheeshe Ye Rishte” |
| Mammo | 1994 | “Hazaar baar ruke ham, hazaar baar chale” |
| Hello Zindagi | 1995 | TV documentary (“Hai Lau Zindagi (Title Song)”) |
| Dushman | 1998 | “Chhitti Na Koi Sandesh” |
| Bhopal Express (film) | 1999 | “Is duniya mein rakha kya hai” |
| Sarfarosh | 1999 | “Hosh Walon Ko” |
| Heena | 1999 | TV serial |
| Tarkieb | 2000 | “Kiska Chehra ab mai dekhun” |
| Shaheed Udham Singh | 2000 | |
| Deham | 2001 | “Yun To Guzar Raha Hai” |
| Tum Bin | 2001 | “Koi Fariyaad” |
| Leela | 2002 | “Dhuan Uttha Hai”, “Jaag Ke Kati”, “Jabse Kareeb Ho Ke Chale”, “Tere Khayal Ki” |
| Vadh | 2002 | “Bahut Khoobsurat” |
| Dhoop | 2003 | “Benaam Sa Ye Dard”, “Har Ek Ghar Mein Diya”, “Teri Aankhon Se Hi” |
| Joggers’ Park | 2003 | “Badi Nazuk Hai” |
| Pinjar | 2003 | “Haath choote” |
| Aapko Pehle Bhi Kahin Dekha Hai | 2003 | “Aisi Aankhen Nahin Dekhi” |
| Veer-Zaara | 2004 | “Tum paas aa rahe ho” |
| Aap Ko Dekh Kar Dekhta Reh Gaya | 2005 | |
| Umar | 2006 | “Khumari Chaddh Ke Utar Gayi” |
| Pyar Kare Dis: Feel the Power of Love | 2007 | |
| Shahrukh Bola “Khoobsurat Hai Tu” | 2010 | “Bhool Jaana” |
| Gandhi to Hitler | 2011 | “Har or tabahi ka manzar” |
| Khap | 2011 | “Tumse Bichhad Kar” |
| Maharana Pratap: The First Freedom Fighter | 2012 | “Yaad Ayega” |
Discography
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Albert Rosellini, American politician, Governor of Washington (1957–1965), died from complications from pneumonia he was 101.
Albert Dean Rosellini was the 15th governor of the state of Washington for two terms, from 1957 to 1965, and was the first Italian American, Roman Catholic governor elected west of the Mississippi River.[citation needed]
During a political career that spanned 40 years, Rosellini was an
activist leader who worked to reform the state’s prisons and mental
health facilities, expand the state highway system, create the University of Washington Medical School and Dental School, and build the second floating bridge across Lake Washington.
Rosellini is the longest-lived U.S. state governor ever, having reached the age of 101 years, 262 days.
(January 21, 1910 – October 10, 2011)
Early life
Rosellini was born in Tacoma, Washington, the only son of Italian immigrants. He worked his way through college and law school at the University of Washington.[1]
Career
State senator
At the age of 29, Rosellini was elected to the Washington State Senate as its youngest member, representing the 33rd district in south Seattle, the home of many Italian immigrants. A New Deal
Democrat, Rosellini served from 1939 to 1957, eventually rising to the
rank of majority leader. He was elected governor in 1956.
Governorship
A 2007 photograph of the interior of Seattle’s Blue Moon Tavern, where a Rosellini re-election campaign sign is still hanging.
As governor, Rosellini coupled personal charm with decades of political know-how,[citation needed]
developing a reputation for decisiveness and ability to move ahead on
long-stalled projects. Don Hannula, longtime political columnist for The Seattle Times, wrote in 1996, “He was not a man of empty rhetoric. He got things done. His legacy is everywhere.”[2] In his 1997 biography, Rosellini, Immigrant’s Son and Progressive Governor,
author Payton Smith wrote: “He was attracted to issues where progress
could be made and measured . . . Budget reform, economic development,
transportation, higher education and institutions were the core matters
to which he devoted his talent and governmental know-how.”[page needed]
In order to promote economic development, Rosellini established a state department of commerce and championed the Seattle World’s Fair in 1962.
He shepherded construction of what still is the longest floating bridge in the world, the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, which was opened in 1963, and carries State Route 520 over Lake Washington from Seattle to Medina.
The bridge was later named after him. In addition, he was a tireless
supporter of higher education, strengthening the state university system
and developing a system of junior colleges. During his time in office,
Rosellini also reformed the state budget process and balanced the
budget. Rosellini was defeated in his bid for a third term as governor
by Republican Daniel J. Evans
in 1964. Rosellini made a comeback bid in 1972, but while he captured
the Democratic nomination, he was again defeated by Evans.
In order to support projects, he raised the state sales tax from 3.5 cents to 4 cents,[when?] prompting Republicans to dub him “Taxellini.”[citation needed]
Consultant and elder statesman
After leaving office in 1965, Rosellini returned to the practice of
law, and also became a political consultant, specializing in matters of
the liquor and entertainment industries. Over the years, Rossellini
served as an elder statesman of the state Democratic Party, mentoring
political figures including Washington governors Christine Gregoire and Gary Locke.
In 2003, Rosellini was back in the news briefly when he was reported to have delivered campaign contributions to Seattle City Council
members on behalf of strip-club owners, one of whom was a convicted
racketeer. Rosellini was never charged in the scandal that became known
as “Strippergate.”[3]
Until his death, Rosellini attended fundraisers for candidates and
helped raise money for charities, particularly the Washington State
Olympics Committee, which he chaired for many years.[citation needed]
Danny Westneat, columnist for The Seattle Times, wrote in 2005, “His record makes most governors after him look like slackers.”[4]
Later years and death
On January 21, 2010, Rosellini celebrated his 100th birthday, becoming one the few U.S. state governors ever to reach the age of 100.[5] Rosellini died of complications related to pneumonia in Seattle on October 10, 2011, at the age of 101.[5][6]
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Uno Röndahl, Swedish author, died he was 87.
Uno Röndahl was a Swedish police officer and author.[1]
(1924 – 10 October 2011)
Uno Röndahl’s writings centered on the Scanian history and especially the war events taking place in the province of Skåne and in particular in the border areas between contemporary Danish Skåne/Blekinge and Swedish Småland during the period 1645-1720.
Uno Röndahl was born in Näsum in Göinge. His career began in the Swedish Navy and then he became a policeman in Stockholm.
Already during childhood, his interest history of Göinge was awakened.
During his time in Stockholm he enjoyed rich opportunities to visit
museums, libraries and archives. This interest followed him when he
later took over as a police detective in the city of Kristianstad. With
research methods similar to that of a detective’s persistent curiosity,
he supplemented his history knowledge by for many years going through
old documents and archives not only in Kristianstad and the university
city of Lund but also in the National Archives in Copenhagen (Rigsarkivet).
The results often gave a very brutal picture of the war events during this period, particularly in the border regions between Sweden
and Denmark in north-eastern Skåne. On an almost chocking way, he
highlighted the difficult living conditions and suffering of the
contemporary civilian population. By means of his books he was able to
spread a more nuanced picture of the region’s history and the daily life
of the people of the era.
In 1981 he published the book “Skåneland utan förskoning”
(“Scania without mercy”) This book became a fierce criticism of the
established description of the Swedish wars in the former Danish
provinces of Skåne, Halland and Blekinge
in the second half of the 17th century. Uno Röndahl claimed that what
in Swedish history books was called “a peaceful transition from Denmark
to Sweden” was not as peaceful as is often claimed.
The book “Skåneland II – På jakt efter historien” (“Scania II -
In search of history”), was released in 1986. In this book Uno Röndahl
discussed the consequences of depriving people of their history. He also
describes in the book many of the historical figures, including those
from before 1658, who had played an important role in the history of the
old Danish provinces of Skåne and Halland, Blekinge.
The book “Skåneland ur det fördolda” (“Scania from the oscure”) was
published in 1996 and covers the often grim and tragic fates of the
common civilians, often forgotten in established history books or at
best are referred to as “a bunch of peasants”, “snapphane” and the like.
Year 2006 the book “Herulerna, det glömda folket” (“The Herulis – the forgotten people”) was released, with Uno Röndahl as a co-writer.
Uno Röndahl did not become fully recognized by the academic
establishment, despite his extensive research in the primary source
material. However, in later years his work has increasingly been used as
reference material in different historical contexts.
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Alan Fudge, American actor (7th Heaven, Matlock, Hawaii 5-O), died from lung and liver cancer he was 67.
Alan Fudge was an American actor known for being part of the cast of four television programs: Man from Atlantis, Eischied, Paper Dolls, and Bodies of Evidence, along with a recurring role (eighteen appearances over eight years, as of 2005) on 7th Heaven.
(February 27, 1944 – October 10, 2011)
Fudge was born in Wichita, Kansas. He has scores of credits, including appearances on many of the top-rated shows in the US, such as Banacek, Kojak, Marcus Welby, M.D., Little House on the Prairie, The Streets of San Francisco, Hawaii Five-O, M*A*S*H, Starsky and Hutch, Charlie’s Angels, Wonder Woman, Lou Grant, Knots Landing, Magnum, P.I., Cagney & Lacey, The A-Team, St. Elsewhere, Highway to Heaven, Dallas, MacGyver, Dynasty, Matlock, Falcon Crest, L.A. Law, The Wonder Years, Northern Exposure, Murder, She Wrote, Home Improvement, Beverly Hills, 90210, Baywatch, and Dawson’s Creek.
Fudge has also appeared in many television movies, some of which are based on popular series, such as Columbo: Columbo Goes to the Guillotine, Columbo: Columbo Goes to College, Matlock: The Witness Killings, and Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For. Well-known movies Fudge has appeared in include Airport 1975, Capricorn One, The Natural, and Edward Scissorhands.
He has appeared on Broadway, including being part of the original cast of War and Peace at the Lyceum Theatre, in 1967. Fudge died from cancer on October 10, 2011.
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Ray Aghayan, Iranian-born American costume designer (Funny Lady, Doctor Dolittle), died he was 83.
Gorgen Ray Aghayan was a costume designer in the United States film industry. He won an Emmy Award in 1967 with his partner Bob Mackie for his work in Alice Through the Looking Glass died he was 83..
(July 28, 1928 – October 10, 2011)
Aghayan was also nominated for an Academy Award for Costume Design three times for his work in “Gaily, Gaily” in 1970, “Lady Sings the Blues” in 1973 and “Funny Lady” in 1976. He was also responsible for designing the costumes for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1984 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles. [2]
Aghayan was the lifetime partner of costume designer Bob Mackie for nearly 50 years.
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Mark Kingston, 77, British actor, died he was 77.
Mark Kingston was an English actor who made many television and stage appearances over his 50 year career.
(18 April 1934 – 9 October 2011
Kingston’s father was a blacksmith and he attended Greenwich Central School and trained as an actor at LAMDA, he then appeared in repertory theatre and at the Old Vic with Vivien Leigh.[1]
He played the lecturer Dr Frank Bryant in the original stage production of Educating Rita with Julie Walters. On television he had significant roles in Beryl’s Lot, A Voyage Round My Father, Shine on Harvey Moon, and other productions.
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Imre Makovecz, Hungarian architect, died he was 75.
Imre Makovecz was a Hungarian architect[1] active in Europe from the late 1950s onward.
(November 20, 1935 – September 27, 2011)
Makovecz was born and died in Budapest. He attended the Technical University of Budapest. He was founder and “eternal and executive president” of the Hungarian Academy of Arts.
Makovecz was one of the most prominent proponents of organic architecture. As such, his buildings attempt to work with the natural surroundings rather than triumph over them. Frank Lloyd Wright and Rudolf Steiner are both strong influences, as is traditional Hungarian art.[1]
His work began as a critique of communist ideology and the brutal
uniformity of system building but, after the fall of the Communist
regime in 1989, it became a comment on the nature of globalisation and
corporate culture. In its attempts to refer to and build on Hungarian
national archetypes Makovecz was continuing the work and ideas of the
architects of Hungarian Art Nouveau and National Romanticism. The first
English language monograph on his work, Imre Makovecz: The Wings of the Soul, by Edwin Heathcote, was published in 1997.
Makovecz’s key works
- Cultural Center, Sárospatak (completed in 1982)
- Sports Hall, Visegrád (1985)
- Town Hall and Commercial Center of Dunajská Streda
- Community Center, Kakasd (1996)
- His group designed the buildings of the Piliscsaba campus of Pázmány Péter Catholic University.
- Hungarian pavilion at the Seville Expo ’92 in Seville, Spain.
Other important works
Roman Catholic church, Paks (1987-91)
- Restaurant, Berhida (1964);
- Shark Restaurant, Velence (1965);
- Fisherman’s Inn, Szekszárd (1965);
- Cottages, Balatonszepezd (1965);
- Inn, Tatabánya (1966);
- Restaurant, Gyulavár (1969);
- Cultural Centre, Sárospatak, (1972);
- Restaurant, Szentendre, (1973);
- Funeral Chapel, Farkasrét, (1975);
- Tourist Lodges, Visegrád (1977);
- Camping Complex and Recreation Centre, Visegrád, Mogyoró Hill, (1978);
- Ski-lift House, Dobogókő (1979);
- Farm and Restaurant, Visegrád 1980);
- Cultural Centre, Jászapáti (1983);
- Community Centre, Bak (1985);
- Cultural Centre, Szigetvár (1985);
- Church, Siófok, (1986);
- Holy Spirit Church, Paks (1987);
- Secondary School, Sárospatak, (1988);
- Ecological Centre, Überlingen, Germany, (1989);
- Theatre and Hungarian Community Center, Lendava, Slovenia (1991–2004);
- Swimming Pool, Eger, (1993);
- Stephaneum, Piliscsaba, (1995);
- Church, Százhalombatta, (1995);
- OnionHouse Theatre, Makó, (1995);
- Funeral Chapel, Sfântu Gheorghe, Romania (1996);
- Roman Catholic Church, Miercurea Ciuc, Romania (2001);
- Reformed church on Donath street, Cluj, Romania (2008).
- His group also oversaw the Eco-Shelter on The Trust For Urban Ecology site in Stave Hill Park, Bermondsey, London, 1992. In association with the Prince’s Trust
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Mo Rothman, Canadian-born American movie executive, persuaded Charlie Chaplin to return to the United States, Parkinson’s disease, died he was 92
Moses “Mo” Rothman was a Canadian-born, American studio executive who persuaded Charlie Chaplin to return to the United States in 1972, ending Chaplin’s twenty year, self-imposed exile died he was 92..[1][2][3] Chaplin’s return to the United States restored his popularity and public reputation.[1][2]
Jeffrey Vance, author of the 2003 Chaplin biography, Chaplin: Genius of the Cinema, wrote that Chaplin’s 1972 return to the United States, which was arranged by Rothman, was “one of the greatest P.R. coups, and personal rehabilitations” in the history of the film industry.[2] Vance further wrote that, “Rothman is the guy who re-made Chaplin.”[2]
(January 14, 1919 – September 15, 2011)
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Career
Rothman was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on January 14, 1919, to Meyer and Molly Rotman.[1] Rothman was one of his parents four children.[2] His father worked as a kosher butcher.[2] Rothman would later change his name from Moses to Mo once he entered the work force.[2] Rothman served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II, stationed in Dublin, Ireland. While in Ireland, Rothman began to meet Americans who worked in the film industry, who invited him to New York City to work in entertainment after the war.[2]
Rothman took their advice and moved to New York City after the end of the war.[2] He worked for Universal Pictures from 1946 to 1952 as an overseas manager in India, Singapore and Venezuela.[1][3] In 1952, Rothman joined United Artists‘ office in Paris, France, as the studio’s continental European manager, where he worked from 1952 to 1959.[3]
Rothman was hired by Columbia Pictures in 1960 as the CEO of Columbia’s international division.[1][3] He rose to become Columbia Pictures’ vice president for worldwide marketing.[1][3] Rothman also served as Columbia Pictures’ representative to director Stanley Kubrick during the production of his 1964 film, Dr. Strangelove.[3] He retired from Columbia Pictures in 1971 to focus on the distribution of Charlie Chaplin’s film library.[1][3]
Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin, one of Hollywood’s best known figures, had founded United Artists with Mary Pickford, D. W. Griffith and Douglas Fairbanks. By the early 1950s, Chaplin’s stardom had dimmed due to perceived Communist sympathies and scandals involving his two previous, early marriages to sixteen-year old girls.[1][2]
Chaplin, though a British citizen, had lived in the United States for
forty years, but his political affiliations made him a subject of
suspicion during the McCarthy Era.[1]
In 1952, Chaplin traveled to his native home to promote the London premiere of Limelight, the last film he made in the United States. While abroad, United States Attorney General James P. McGranery revoked Chaplin’s re-entry permit and would not allow him to return to the United States.[1] Chaplin moved to Switzerland in 1952, and swore never to return to the United States.[2] Chaplin owned and retained the rights to most of his movies, which he took with him to Switzerland.[1]
Rothman’s relationship to Chaplin stretched back to the 1950s, when
he first met Chaplin while working as United Artists’ European manager.[1] In early 1971, a group of investors, led by Rothman, paid Chaplin $6 million dollars, plus 50% royalties, for the distribution rights to some of his best known movies, including The Great Dictator, Limelight, City Lights, The Gold Rush and Modern Times.[1][2]
Rothman left his job as vice president of worldwide marketing for
Columbia Pictures in 1971 to lead the investors and handle the
distribution of Chaplin’s films on a full-time basis.[1]
Rothman successfully persuaded Chaplin, who was 83-years old at the
time, to return to the United States in order to promote the re-release
of his film catalog.[2] Chaplin was hesitant, but agreed to Rothman’s offer.[1] Charlie Chaplin, accompanied by both his wife, Oona, and Mo Rothman, arrived in New York City on April 2, 1972.[1] Chaplin attended a tribute to his films held by the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York.[1] He was further awarded the honorary Academy Award one week later.[1][3]
The visit, orchestrated by Rothman, restored Chaplin’s popularity and reputation. At the time, the New York Times
noted Rothmam’s extensive involvement with the visit describing Rothman
as “abrupt and ingratiating five times in three minutes” — as a kind of
performance in its own right, evoking the manner of “the Hollywood tycoon of the 1930s.”[2] Chaplin’s daughter, Geraldine Chaplin, later wrote that Rothman was the “brave and clever reviver of Charlie Chaplin worldwide.”[1][4]
Chaplin died in 1977, his popularity restored. Rothman continued to
release his films throughout the 1970s and 1980s. During the mid-1980s,
Rothman loaned the now defunct United States Information Agency twelve of Chaplin’s films, which were screened at American embassies worldwide as an example of American film and art.[1]
Later life
In 1982, Rothman was the recipient of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic for his contributions to Italian cinema.[3] He served as a judge for both the Venice Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival in 1985.[3]
Rothman was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease later in life. In
2001, his wife, Lyn Rothman, spurred on by her husband’s diagnosis,
founded the Parkinson’s Appeal for Deep Brain Stimulation, based in
London.[3]
Mo Rothman died from Parkinson’s disease in Los Angeles on September 15, 2011, at the age 92.[1]
He was outlived by his wife, Lyn Rothmam, with whom he had been married
to for 37 years. He had had three children from his previous marriage,
Keith, Nicole and Monique; two stepchildren, Sebastian and Arabella; and
seven grandchildren.[2] He was interred at Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.[3]
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Khalid Abdel Nasser, Egyptian professor, eldest son of Gamal Abdel Nasser, died he was 62
Opposition to Sadat and Mubarak
Nasser’s public profile became pronounced in his early adulthood on
account of his often troubled relationship with late Egyptian president Anwar El-Sadat, his father’s successor. Time Magazine
stated that when Sadat asked to acquire Gamal Abdel Nasser’s
bulletproof limousine, Khalid refused and after a heated argument with
Sadat, he set the car on fire, destroying it.[2]
In later years, Nasser became a vocal critic of Sadat, and his presidential successor, Hosni Mubarak,
both of whose policies had diverged significantly from those of Gamal
Abdel Nasser. In 1988, he was accused of being part of a secret leftist
organization, Egypt Revolution (“Thawret Misr,”) a Nasserist group that violently opposed the 1979 Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel.[3]
The Mubarak government sought the death penalty in a case which accused
Nasser of trying to overthrow the Egyptian government, and of
involvement in a spate of assassinations and bombings. The case
eventually became a test of strength between the judiciary and the
executive when judges threw out much of the case, accusing police and
prosecutors of collusion in torturing the defendants.[4]
Later life and death
In the mid-1990s following international sanctions against Iraq, Nasser received $16.6 million worth of Saddam Hussein‘s oil vouchers in the Oil-for-Food Programme, more than anyone else in Egypt, according to the list of beneficiaries.[5] He later became a professor in Cairo University‘s Faculty of Engineering, a job which he held for the remainder of his life.[1]
In February 2011, during the 2011 Egyptian revolution, Nasser joined pro-democracy demonstrations in Tahrir Square against Mubarak and his regime.[6] Later that year, on August 30, he fell into a coma ending in his death at age 62 in a Cairo hospital on September 15.[1]
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John Hubert Kelly, American diplomat, died he was 72.
John Hubert Kelly was a United States diplomat.[1][2]
(July 20, 1939, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin – 15 September 2011, Atlanta, Georgia)
Biography
John Hubert Kelly was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin on July 20, 1939. He attended Emory University, receiving a B.A. in 1961. He spent 1962 through 1965 working as a teacher, first in Danville, Virginia, then in Niles, Michigan.[3]
Kelly entered the United States Foreign Service in 1965. His first posting was in Turkey, first in Adana, then in Ankara, where he worked from 1965 to 1967. He spent 1968 in Thai language instruction and was then posted to Songkhla from 1969 to 1971. He spent 1971–72 as a student at the Armed Forces Staff College. He spend 1972–73 working on political-military affairs in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research. In 1973, he was detailed to the United States Department of Defense as an expert on Thailand, and then spent 1974 working in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs. He spent 1975–76 as Special Assistant to Counselor of the United States Department of State Helmut Sonnenfeldt. He returned to the field in 1976 and spent the next four years as a political-military officer in Paris. In 1981–82 he was the Una Chapman Cox Fellow and Diplomatic Associate at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University and worked on French defense and international terrorism.[3][4]
Returning to the State Department, Kelly spent 1982–83 as Senior Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and 1983–85 as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs. From 1985 to 1986, he was Short Terms Project Specialist in the Office of the Under Secretary of State for Management.[3]
On July 17, 1986, President of the United States Ronald Reagan nominated Kelly as United States Ambassador to Lebanon, a post he held for the next two years.[3][5] He returned to Washington, D.C. in 1988 to become Deputy Director of Policy Planning.
President George H. W. Bush then nominated Kelly as Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs and Kelly held this office from June 16, 1989 until September 30, 1991.[5] Bush next nominated Kelly as United States Ambassador to Finland; he presented his credentials on December 20, 1991 and held this position until July 5, 1994.[2][5]
Kelly later founded John Kelly Consulting, Inc., a consulting firm
that provided its American clients with strategic, marketing and
business advice for their overseas operations.[1][4]
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Dorothy Harrell, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League), died she was 87.
Dorothy Harrell was a shortstop who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5 4″, 127 lb., Harrell batted and threw right-handed. After being married she played under the name of Dorothy Doyle.[1][2]
(February 4, 1924 – September 15, 2011)
An All-Star Team
member in five of her eight seasons, Dorothy Harrell was one of the
premier shortstops of All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in
its twelve years history. Harrell helped bring four championship titles
to the Rockford Peaches, including back-to-back victories from 1947 to 1950, while leading her team in runs batted in several times. A classic slap hitter,
she rarely tried to drive the ball and was able to put it in play very
often, driving in a career 306 runs to rank 13th on the league’s all-time list. Well respected for her keen eye for pitches, she garnered 203 walks and strike out only 95 times in 2,920 at-bats for a very solid 2.14 BB/K ratio.[3]
A native of Los Angeles, California,
Dorothy Harrell was knicknamed ″Snookie″ by her grandmother when she
was born. She had an interesting bloodline. Her father, William D.
Harrell, was of Irish, Scottish and Cherokee heritage, while her mother, Catherine Harrell, was of Welsh and German
ancestry. She received encouragement early in her life from her mother,
a huge baseball fan, who gave her a baseball glove and a uniform for
Christmas when she was five years old. Harrell graduated from John C. Fremont High School
and played organized softball in the Los Angeles area before marrying
in 1943 to Leonard Isbell. She remained married through 1946.[4][5][6]
Harrell was discovered in 1944 by Bill Allington, former minor league player and then a coach in the California leagues, who was also an active scout
for the All-American League. She attended a tryout and made an
immediate impact on Allington and her future Peaches teammates.
Allington eventually would be named manager for the team in the summer of that year as a replacement for Jack Kloza.[7][8]
Entering her first season as the starting shortstop, Harrell was
instrumental part of a solid and durable Rockford infield that included Dorothy Kamenshek at first base, Mildred Deegan at second and Alice Pollitt at third. After two losing seasons the Peaches led the circuit with a 67-43 record in 1945. During the playoffs, Rockford beat the Grand Rapids Chicks in the first round, three to one games, and defeated the Fort Wayne Daisies in the best-of-seven series, four to one games, behind a strong pitching effort from Carolyn Morris (3-0) and the opportune hitting of Kamenshek (6-for-21, .285, two RBI).[9][10]
In 1946 Rockford finished in fourth place (60-52) and disposed of
Grand Rapids in the first round, three-to-two games, but lost the finals
to the Racine Belles in six games. In the final contest, which ended with a score of 1–0, Morris hurled a no-hitter
for nine innings but lost her gem because Rockford failed to score. She
was not removed until the bottom of the twelfth inning. On the other
hand, Racine ace Joanne Winter
won her fourth game of the playoffs (third against Rockford), despite
allowing 19 base runners. The scoreless game went into the bottom of
fourteen, when Sophie Kurys hit a single off reliever Mildred Deegan; stole second base, and, in the midst of stealing third, saw her teammmate Betty Trezza hit a single to right field. Kurys taged and slid at home plate for the only run of the game.[11][12]
Dorothy Harrell, acrobatic All-Star shortstop for the Rockford Peaches,
one of the top players in AAGPBL history, who served as an inspiration
for the 1992 film A League of Their Own. Photo Credit: Bettmann/CORBIS.
Harrell earned her first All-Star selection in 1947. Starting that
year, she led her team in runs batted during four consecutive seasons,
batting a career-high .271 average
in 1950, and joining the All-Star squad from 1948 to 1950. Rockford
returned to the playoffs in 1948, to start a string of three straight
championships.[11]
In 1948 Rockford beat Fort Wayne Daisies in the best-of-seven series, four to one games. Helen Nicol won all four playoff games she pitched, including the finale in the championship against Maxine Kline, by a 4–2 score. Throughout the finals Harrell was the best hitter, leading all players with a .432 average (7-for-17).[11]
In 1949, Harrell married David Doyle and played the rest of her
career under her married name, Dorothy Doyle. Her husband died in 1963,
and she never remarried.[2]
Meanwhile, Rockford continued their torrid pace in 1949, sweeping their longtime rival South Bend Blue Sox
in the best-of-seven final series. The defending champion Peaches won
again in 1950, this time beating Fort Wayne in the maximum seven games.
Notably, the Peaches and the Blue Sox were the only original teams to be
active through the 12 years of existence of the circuit. South Bend
would break the championship run of Rockford in 1951. In 58 postseason
games, Dorothy batted an average of .281 (61-for-217) with four doubles, two triples and 15 stolen bases, driving in 21 runs while scoring 18 times.[11]
In 1951 Dorothy played with the Phoenix A-1 Queens in an Arizona
independent league. She rejoined the Peaches in 1952, earning her fifth
All-Star berth during what turned out to be her last AAGPBL season.
After that she returned to the Queens for the 1953 and 1954 seasons, and
also played for the Orange Linoettes fastpitch softball team of California from 1956 to 1960, participating in Major National Tournaments.[13][14]
Harrell graduated from Long Beach State University in 1958, earning her bachelor’s degree after earning an associates degree from El Camino Junior College. Following her baseball retirement, she taught mathematics and worked as counselor and physical education teacher at Compton Unified School District in the Los Angeles area, retiring in 1984 after 26 years of service.[15]
After retiring, she joined the Golden Diamonds Girls, a group of
former AAGPBL players who made frequent appearances at reunions, card
shows and sign autographs. She also became an avid golfer and remained close friends with her infield teammates Deegan, Kamenshek and Pollitt.[16]
Since 1988 Dorothy Harrell Doyle is part of Women in Baseball, a permanent display based at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York,
which was unveiled to honor the entire All-American Girls Professional
Baseball League. She is also featured as one of the best shortstops to
ever play the game with a 10-foot banner hanging at Safeco Field in Seattle, in between Roberto Clemente and Brooks Robinson banners.[2]
She was a long time resident of Cathedral City, California, where she died at the age of 87.[2]
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José Manuel Rodriguez Delgado, Spanish scientist and professor, died he was 96.
José Manuel Rodriguez Delgado was a Spanish professor of physiology at Yale University, famed for his research into mind control through electrical stimulation of regions in the brain died he was 96.
(August 8, 1915 – September 15, 2011)
Biography
Delgado was born in Ronda, a province of Málaga, Spain in 1915. He received a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Madrid just before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.
During the Spanish Civil War he served as a medical corpsman on the
Republican side while he was a medical student. Delgado was held in a
concentration camp for five months after the war ended.[2] After serving in the camp, he had to repeat his M.D. degree, and then took a Ph.D. at the Cajal Institute in Madrid.
Delgado’s father was an eye doctor and he had planned to follow in
his footsteps. However, once he discovered the writings of Santiago
Ramón y Cajal and spent some time in a physiology laboratory, Delgado no
longer wanted to be an eye doctor. Delgado became captivated by “the
many mysteries of the brain. How little was known then. How little is
known now!”[3]
In 1946 Delgado won a fellowship at Yale University. In 1950, Delgado
accepted a position in the physiology department which at the time was
headed by John Fulton. By 1952, he had co-authored his first paper on
implanting electrodes into humans.[4]
The Spanish minister of health, Villar Palasi, asked Delgado to help organize a new medical school at the Autonomous University of Madrid. Delgado accepted Palasi’s proposal and relocated to Spian with his wife and two children in 1974.[5]
Delgado had last moved with his wife, Caroline, to San Diego, California before his death on September 15, 2011. [6]
Research
Delgado’s research interests centered on the use of electrical
signals to evoke responses in the brain. His earliest work was with
cats, but he later did experiments with monkeys and humans, including
mental patients.
Much of Delgado’s work was with an invention he called a stimoceiver, a radio which joined a stimulator of brain waves with a receiver which monitored E.E.G.
waves and sent them back on separate radio channels. Some of these
stimoceivers were as small as half-dollars. This allowed the subject of
the experiment full freedom of movement while allowing the experimenter
to control the experiment. This was a great improvement from his early
equipment which included implanted electrodes whose wires ran from the
brain to bulky equipment that both recorded data and delivered the
desired electrical charges to the brain. This early equipment, while not
allowing for a free range of movement, was also the cause of infection
in many subjects.[7]
The stimoceiver could be used to stimulate emotions and control
behavior. According to Delgado, “Radio Stimulation of different points
in the amygdala and hippocampus in the four patients produced a variety
of effects, including pleasant sensations, elation, deep, thoughtful
concentration, odd feelings, super relaxation, colored visions, and
other responses.” Delgado stated that “brain transmitters can remain in a
person’s head for life. The energy to activate the brain transmitter is
transmitted by way of radio frequencies.”[8]
Using the stimoceiver, Delgado found that he could not only elicit
emotions, but he could also elicit specific physical reactions. These
specific physical reactions, such as the movement of a limb or the
clenching of a fist, were achieved when Delgado stimulated the motor
cortex. A human whose implants were stimulated to produce a reaction
were unable to resist the reaction and so one patient said “I guess,
doctor, that your electricity is stronger than my will”. Some consider
one of Delgado’s most promising finds is that of an area called the
septum within the limbic region. This area, when stimulated by Delgado,
produced feelings of strong euphoria. These euphoric feelings were
sometimes strong enough to overcome physical pain and depression.[9]
Delgado created many inventions and was called a “technological
wizard” by one of his Yale colleagues. Other than the stimoceiver,
Delgado also created a “chemitrode” which was an implantable device that
released controlled amounts of a drug into specific brain areas.
Delgado also invented an early version of what is now a cardiac
pacemaker.[10]
In Rhode Island, Delgado did some work at what is now a closed mental
hospital. He chose patients who were “desperately ill patients whose
disorders had resisted all previous treatments” and implanted electrodes
in about 25 of them. Most of these patients were either schizophrenics
or epileptics. To determine the best placement of electrodes within the
human patients, Delgado initially looked to the work of Wilder Penfield,
who studied epileptics’ brains in the 1930s, as well as earlier animal
experiments, and studies of brain-damaged people.[11]
The most famous example of the stimoceiver in action occurred at a Cordoba
bull breeding ranch. Delgado stepped into the ring with a bull which
had had a stimoceiver implanted within its brain. The bull charged
Delgado, who pressed a remote control button which caused the bull to
stop its charge. The region of the brain Delgado stimulated when he
pressed the handheld transmitter was the caudate nucleus. This region
was chosen to be stimulated because the caudate nucleus is involved in
controlling voluntary movements.[12] Delgado claimed that the stimulus caused the bull to lose its aggressive instinct.
Although the bull incident was widely mentioned in the popular media,
Delgado believed that his experiment with a female chimpanzee named
Paddy was more significant. Paddy was fitted with a stimoceiver linked
to a computer that detected the brain signal called a spindle which was
emitted by her part of the brain called the amygdala. When the spindle
was recognized, the stimoceiver sent a signal to the central gray area
of Paddy’s brain, producing an ‘aversive reaction’. In this case, the
aversive reaction was an unpleasant or painful feeling. The result of
the aversive reaction to the stimulus was a negative feedback to the
brain.[13] Within hours her brain was producing fewer spindles as a result of the negative feedback.[14]
As a result, Paddy became “quieter, less attentive and less motivated
during behavioral testing”. Although Paddy’s reaction was not exactly
ideal, Delgado hypothesized that the method used on Paddy could be used
on others to stop panic attacks, seizures, and other disorders
controlled by certain signals within the brain.[15]
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Malcolm Wallop, American politician, United States Senator from Wyoming (1977–1995), died he was 78.
Malcolm Wallop was a Republican politician and former three-term United States Senator from Wyoming died he was 78..
(February 27, 1933 – September 14, 2011[1])
Early years
Wallop was born in New York City, graduated from the Cate School in Santa Barbara, California, and attended Yale University, where he was a member of St. Anthony Hall. His roots in Wyoming stemmed back to pioneer ancestors in Big Horn.[citation needed] After his graduation from Yale in 1954, Wallop served in the U.S. Army as a first lieutenant from 1955 to 1957. He worked for a decade as a cattle rancher and small businessman, having entered politics in 1969 as a successful candidate for the Wyoming House of Representatives. He served two terms, followed by a stint in the Wyoming State Senate from 1973 to 1976. In 1974, Wallop sought the Republican gubernatorial nomination but was defeated by Richard R. “Dick” Jones, a trucking executive from Cody and Powell in Park County in northwestern Wyoming. Jones went on to lose the general election in a heavily Democratic year to Edgar Herschler of Kemmerer in Lincoln County in southwestern Wyoming.
In 1976, in another nationally Democratic year, Wallop unseated three-term Democratic U.S. Senator Gale W. McGee by a margin of nearly 10 points in a rare bright spot for Republicans that year.
Marriages
Wallop was married four times:[2]
- Vail Stebbins (1956–65; divorced); (three sons and one daughter)
- Judith Warren (1967–1981; divorced)
- French Carter Gamble Goodwyn (1984–2001)
- Isabel Thompson (2005–2011)
Senate service
In his first term, Wallop authored the legislation that established
the Congressional Award program to recognize outstanding volunteerism
among America’s youth. The 1977 Wallop Amendment to the Surface Mining
Control Act was hailed by property rights advocates for forcing the
federal government to compensate property owners whose ability to mine
was undercut by regulation. Three years later, Wallop successfully
amended the Clean Water Act to protect states’ interests.[citation needed]
His bill to cut inheritance and gift taxes in 1981 was a key component of President Ronald Reagan‘s
tax reform package and is remembered as one of the most substantive
changes to tax policy that decade. Four years earlier, Wallop was
partially responsible for phasing out President Jimmy Carter‘s Windfall Profits Tax.
In 1982, he was re-elected by a 14-point margin over Democrat Rodger
McDaniel, a Wyoming state legislator. Six years later, Wallop won his
final term by earning just 1,322 more votes than another state senator,
Democrat John Vinich.[citation needed]
Wallop’s later career was characterized largely by his participation
in the foreign policy and trade debates of the late 1980s and early
1990s. He was a member of the Helsinki Commission
and travelled extensively in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union
as an arms control negotiator. Wallop was also a strong advocate of the
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and U.S. participation in the World Trade Organization.
From 1990-94, he was the top Republican member of the Senate Energy and
Natural Resources Committee. In 1992, Wallop was a key force behind
passage of the far-reaching Energy Policy Act.[citation needed]
In 1994, Wallop opted out of a race for a fourth term. He was succeeded by Republican Craig Thomas.
Post-senate career
Immediately upon his retirement from the Senate in January 1995, Wallop founded the Frontiers of Freedom Institute, a Virginia-based non-profit group that lobbies for constitutionally limited government and a strong national defense.[3]
George Landrith is the current president of the Institute, a position
he has held since 1998. One of the Institute’s early staffers was Myron Ebell.[4]
In 1996, Wallop served as General Chairman of the Steve Forbes presidential campaign.[3] Wallop died after a protracted period of illness in Big Horn, Wyoming. He was 78.
Aristocratic connections
Malcolm Wallop was the second son of Jean Wallop and the Hon. Oliver Malcolm Wallop, son of Rt. Hon. Oliver Henry Wallop, 8th Earl of Portsmouth, making him a first cousin, once removed, of the current Earl of Portsmouth.[5]
As a result he was in remainder to the Earldom and subsidiary titles.
His sister, Jean, is the current dowager Countess of Carnarvon, having
married Henry Herbert, 7th Earl of Carnarvon in 1956; he was Queen Elizabeth II‘s horse racing manager.[6] Senator Wallop was therefore an uncle of the current Earl of Carnarvon. Among his cousins are the present Earl Cadogan and the Marquess of Abergavenny.[7]
Works by Malcolm Wallop
Wallop, Malcolm. “The Environment: Air, Water & Public Lands,” In A Changing America: Conservatives View the 80s from the United States Senate, edited by Paul Laxalt and Richard S. Williamson, pp. 133–56. South Bend, Ind.: Regnery/Gateway, 1980.
Wallop, Malcolm, and Angelo Codevilla. The Arms Control Delusion. San Francisco: ICS Press, 1987.
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Buddy Tinsley, American-born Canadian football player (Winnipeg Blue), died he was 87.
Robert Porter “Buddy” Tinsley was a Canadian Football League offensive lineman for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. died he was 87. He was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1982, and was a member of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers Hall of Fame, the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame and the Baylor University Hall of Fame.
(August 16, 1924 – September 14, 2011)
Tinsley died on September 14, 2011, aged 87, from undisclosed causes, in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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Rudolf Mössbauer, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (1961), died he was 82
Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer was a German physicist best known for his 1957 discovery of recoilless nuclear resonance fluorescence for which he was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics died he was 82.. This effect, called the Mössbauer effect, is the basis for Mössbauer spectroscopy.[2]
(January 31, 1929 – September 14, 2011[1])
Career
Mössbauer was born in Munich, where he also studied physics at the Technical University of Munich. He prepared his Diplom thesis in the Laboratory of Applied Physics of Heinz Maier-Leibnitz and graduated in 1955. He then went to the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg.
Since this institute, not being part of a university, had no right to
award a doctorate, Mössbauer remained under the auspices of
Maier-Leibnitz who was his official thesis advisor when he passed his
PhD exam in Munich in 1958.
In his PhD work, he discovered recoilless nuclear fluorescence of gamma rays in 191 iridium, the Mössbauer effect. His fame grew immensely in 1960 when Robert Pound and Glen Rebka used this effect to prove the red shift of gamma radiation in the gravitational field of the earth; this Pound–Rebka experiment was one of the first experimental precision tests of Albert Einstein‘s theory of general relativity. The long-term importance of the Mössbauer effect, however, is its use in Mössbauer spectroscopy. Along with Robert Hofstadter, Rudolf Mössbauer was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics.
On suggestion of Richard Feynman, Mössbauer was invited in 1960 to Caltech,
where he advanced rapidly from Research Fellow to Senior Research
Fellow; he was appointed full professor of physics in early 1962. In
1964, his alma mater, the Technical University of Munich (TUM),
convinced him to come back as full professor. He retained this position
until he became professor emeritus
in 1997. As a condition for his return, the faculty of physics
introduced a “department” system. This system, strongly influenced by
Mössbauer’s American experience, was in radical contrast to the
traditional, hierarchical “faculty” systems of German universities, and
it gave the TUM an eminent position in German physics.
In 1972, Rudolf Mössbauer went to Grenoble to succeed Heinz Maier-Leibnitz as director of the Institut Laue-Langevin, just when its newly built high-flux research reactor
went into operation. After serving a 5 years term, Mössbauer returned
to Munich, where he found his institutional reforms reversed by
overarching legislation; till the end of his career he often expressed
bitterness over this “destruction of the department”. His research
interests shifted to neutrino physics.
Rudolf Mössbauer was an excellent teacher. Highly specialized lectures were given by him on numerous courses including Neutrino Physics, Neutrino Oscillations, The Unification of the Electromagnetic and Weak Interaction and The Interaction of Photons and Neutrons With Matter.
In 1984 he taught undergraduate lectures to the 350 people taking the
physics course. He told his students: “Explain it! The most important
thing is, that you are able to explain it! You will have exams, there
you have to explain it. Eventually, you pass them, you get your diploma
and you think, that’s it! – No, the whole life is an exam, you’ll have
to write applications, you’ll have to discuss with peers… So learn to
explain it! You can train this by explaining to another student, a
colleague. If they are not available, explain it to your mother – or to
your cat!”
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Frank Parkin, British sociologist and novelist, died he was 80.
Dr. Frank Parkin was a British sociologist and novelist died he was 80.. He was a professor emeritus at the University of Kent and editor of the Concepts in the Social Sciences series published by Open University Press.
(26 May 1931 – 14 September 2011)
Biography
Frank Parkin was born in 1931 in Aberdare, Mid Glamorgan, Wales. He studied at the London School of Economics and was awarded a Ph.D. in 1966. He worked briefly as an assistant lecturer at the University of Hull in 1964 and 1965. By 1974, he was a reader in sociology at the University of Kent.[3] He later became lecturer in politics and a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.[4] At some point he left this position.[5]
From the early 1980s and onwards, Parkin wrote little sociology,
focusing instead on fiction. Exceptions to this are his book on Durkheim from 1992, and the second edition of his book on Weber in 2002.
Closure theory
In sociology, Frank Parkin is best known for his contribution to the theory of social closure, most fully laid out in his Marxism and class theory: A bourgeois critique.
In quite sharp tone, Parkin argues that Marxist theories of social
class were marked by fundamental deficiencies, particularly associated
with the ambiguous status of their central explanatory concept, mode of production.[6]
He attacks the Marxists’ overemphasis on deep levels of structure, at
the expense of social actors, and suggests a radical recasting of the
theory of class and stratification. He proposes to do this by centering
theory around the concept of social closure. Parkin follows Weber in
understanding closure as
- the process by which social collectives seek to maximize rewards by
restricting access to resources and opportunities to a limited circle of
eligibles. This entails the singling out of certain social or physical
attributes as the justificatory basis of exclusion. Weber suggests that
virtually any group attribute – race, language, social origin, religion-
may be seized upon provided it can be used for “the monopolization of
specific, usually economic opportunities”. This monopolization is
directed against competitors who share some positive or negative
characteristic; its purpose is always the closure of social and economic
opportunities to outsiders. The nature of these exclusionary
practices, and the completeness of social closure, determine the general
character of the distributive system.[7]
Parkin goes on to elaborate this concept, by identifying two main
types, exclusionary and usurpationary closure. ‘The distinguishing
feature of exclusionary closure is the attempt by one group to secure
for itself a privileged position at the expense of some other group
through processes of subordination’.[8]
He refers to this metaphorically as the use of power downwards.
Usurpationary closure, however, is the use of power upwards, by the
groups of subordinates created by the exclusionary closure, aimed at
winning a greater share of resources, threatening ‘to bite into the
privileges of legally defined superiors’.[9]
Arguably, the most novel aspect of Parkin’s contribution was that he
wanted to define classes in terms of their closure strategies, as
opposed to defining class with reference to some structure of positions.
The bourgeoisie could be identified, he held, by their reliance on
exclusionary closure, as opposed to, say, their ownership of the means
of production. Similarly, a subordinate class would be identified by
their reliance on usurpationary closure:
- the familiar distinction between bourgeoisie and proletariat, in its
classic as well as its modern guise, may be conceived of as an
expression of conflict between classes defined not specifically in
relation to their place in the productive process but in relation to
their prevalent modes of closure, exclusion and usurpation,
respectively.[10]
Writing style
Parkin’s works, at least those from the late ’70s and onwards, are
notable for their lively discursive tone, frequently using sarcasm and
irony in driving home their points. This was noted by many reviewers of Marxism and class theory. Dennis Wrong called it a ‘bitingly witty and incisive assault on the sociological pretensions of western academic Marxism’.[11]
Guenter Roth remarked: ‘This is an unusually well-written essay. Its
wit, sense of irony, and elegance of phrase add stylistic power to a
trenchant critique of Marxist class theories and to “re- thinking class
analysis”…’.[12]
Gavin Mackenzie called it “a beautifully written, savage and supremely
witty attack’ on Marxism: ‘I haven’t laughed so much since
ethnomethodology’.[13] Anthony Giddens commented on the ‘vivid change in [Parkin's] writing style’: While Class inequality and political order(1971) was ‘written neutrally and dispassionately’, Marxism and class theory
was marked by a ‘deliberatively provocative tone’. ‘Parkin’s discussion
of contemporary marxist accounts of class is heavily ironic and often
openly sarcastic.’ Giddens drew particular attention to the first page
of the Preface:.[14]
- Lenin’s wry comments on the efflorescence of Marxism in Russia at
the turn of the century seem quite pertinent to our own time and place: - ‘Marxist books were published one after another, Marxist jour-nals
and newspapers were founded, nearly everyone became a Marxist, Marxists
were flattered, Marxists were courted and the book publishers rejoiced
at the extraordinary, ready sale of Marxist literature.’ - Lenin was not too enthusiastic about a species of Marxism that
appeared to be more congenial to the literati than to the class that
really mattered. On these grounds alone, it is unlikely that he would
have felt very differently about the Marxist products that have been
manufactured and marketed in western universities over the past decade
or so. Contemporary western Marxism, unlike its classical predecessor,
is wholly the creation of academic social theorists – more specifically,
the creation of the new professoriate that rose up on the wave of
university expansion in the 1960s. The natural constituency of this
Marxism is not of course the working class, but the massed ranks of
undergraduates and postgraduate students in the social sciences; its
content and design mark it out exclusively for use in the lecture
theatre, the seminar room, and the doctoral dissertation. Hence the
strange and fascinating spectacle to be witnessed in social science
faculties throughout western Europe and beyond of diligent bands of
research students and their mentors busily combing through the pages of
Theories of Surplus Value in search of social reality.[15]
Parkin continues:
- As if to make secure its newly-won respectability, professorial
Marxism has, in the manner of all exclusive bodies, carried out its
discourse through the medium of an arcane language not readily
accessible to the uninstructed. Certainly no-one could possibly accuse
the Marxist professoriate of spreading the kind of ideas likely to cause
a stampede to the barricades or the picket lines. Indeed, the
uncomplicated theory that has traditionally inspired that sort of
extra-mural activity is now rather loftily dismissed as ‘vulgar’ Marxism
– literally, the Marxism of the ‘common people’. This is not
necessarily to suggest that the new breed of Marxists are less dedicated
than the old to the revolutionary transformation of society; their
presence at the gates of the Winter Palace is perfectly conceivable,
provided that satisfactory arrangements could be made for sabbatical
leave.[16]
Parkin’s wit was not exclusively reserved for Marxist academics. The
passage quoted below follows a sharply critical review of American
theories of stratification, particularly their interpretation of Weber:
- … one searches these various offerings in vain for any trace of
the persistent Weberian concerns with property or state bureaucracy or
class antagonisms and structural change; or for any small recognition
that for Weber the “dimensions” of stratification were never regarded as
aggregates of individual attributes but as “phenomena of the
distribution of power.” Instead, the American reality portrayed gives
every appearance of a society in which property has been liquidated,
classes have dissolved, and the state has withered away. It is a
sociological portrait of America as drawn by Norman Rockwell for the
Saturday Evening Post. One can only surmise whether Weber, if confronted
with the knowledge of the things said and written in his name, would
take a leaf out of his predecessor’s book and declare, “Je ne suis pas Weberien”.[17]
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Jorge Lavat, Mexican actor, died he was 78.
Jorge Lavat Bayona was a Mexican film and television actor died he was 78..
(3 August 1933 − 14 September 2011)
Life and work
Born in Mexico City, Mexico, he appeared in more than 25 serialized telenovelas over the decades between 1958 and 2001 including his participation in Senda Prohibida,
the first telenovela ever produced in Mexico. He was also known for his
recordings combining music and the spoken word, particularly a single
he released for the essay-poem Desiderata.
He was married four times: first with Ana María Torres, then with
Silvia Burgos, his third marriage was once again with Ana María Torres
and finally he was the husband of the actress Rebeca Martínez. He had
two sons and two daughters. One of them, Adriana Lavat also became an actress. He is also related to the Mexican telenovela actress Queta Lavat, his sister, and his brother is also an actor José Lavat.
Death
After a back operation he suffered a severe infection, he was kept in a coma
and was never able to recover. He died from complications of a
respiratory infection in a Mexico City hospital, his remains were
cremated. [2]
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Steven Michael Woods, Jr., American murderer, died from lethal injection he was 31.
Steven Michael Woods, Jr. was an American who was executed by lethal injection in the state of Texas died from lethal injection he was 31.
(April 17, 1980 – September 13, 2011)
Woods was sentenced to the death penalty after a jury convicted him of
the capital murders of drug dealer Ronald Whitehead, 21, and Bethena
Brosz, 19, on May 2, 2001 in The Colony, Texas.[3] Woods petitioned to media outlets for prisoner rights in February 2004.[4]
In late 2006, Woods was part of a hunger strike in the Polunsky unit in West Livingston, Texas, to oppose death row inmates’ treatment.[5]
Woods’ co-defendant, Marcus Rhodes, pled guilty to shooting both
victims to death with a firearm in the same criminal transaction and
received a life sentence. During the trial it was revealed that
authorities had recovered backpacks belonging to the slain pair along
with shell casings and a bloodied knife in Rhodes’ car. Guns used in the
slayings were also recovered from the home of Rhodes’ parents.[6]
However, in Texas, the Law of Parties
states that a person can be criminally responsible for the actions of
another if he or she aids and abets, conspires with the principal or
anticipates the crime. Although Rhodes pled guilty to the murders and
Woods’ did not, and there was no physical evidence tying Woods to the
scene, Woods was executed for the crime.[7] Witnesses testified at Woods’ 2002 trial that he and Rhodes said that they lured
Whitehead to an isolated road on the pretense of a drug deal and that
Woods shot and killed him, because Whitehead knew about a killing two
months earlier in California. Rhodes was later found guilty of the
California murder and Woods was not. Prosecutors said Brosz was merely
driving her boyfriend Ron to the drug deal. Brosz had been killed
because she witnessed Whitehead’s death, yelled and then attempted to
flee.[2]
Fairness of Sentencing/Conviction Dispute
The fairness of Woods’ case and punishment was criticized by Noam Chomsky[8] and Amnesty International.[9] Woods’ criminal case was reported locally and internationally. Woods’ final motion for a stay was denied on September 2, 2011.[13]
Execution
In his last words, Woods stated, “You’re not about to witness an
execution, you are about to witness a murder. I am strapped down for
something Marcus Rhodes did. I never killed anybody, never. I love you,
Mom. I love you, Tali. This is wrong. This whole thing is wrong. I can’t
believe you are going to let Marcus Rhodes walk around free. Justice
has let me down. Alex Calhoun completely screwed this up. I love you
too, Mom. Well Warden, if you are going to murder someone, go ahead and
do it. Pull the trigger. It’s coming. I can feel it coming. Goodbye
everyone, I love you”.[14] then took several deep breaths before all movement stopped.[2]
A needle carrying the lethal drugs on his right arm pierced a green
tattoo of a rose branch. The distinctive tattoo had identified him when
he was arrested. Woods was pronounced dead on September 13, 2011 at
6:22pm.[15] Woods’ was the 10th execution carried out in Texas in 2011[16] and the 474th since Texas resumed the death penalty in 1982.
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