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Airfares: a reason to sing the blues Where have all the folkies gone? Gone to Kansas City, every one. When will we (Memphis) ever learn? (My apologies to Pete Seeger.)
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BACK IN 1976, WHEN James Weinstein decided to move to Chicago to start In These Times, his inspiration was Appeal to Reason, a socialist weekly published out of Girard, Kansas, between 1895 and 1922. At its peak in 1912, the paper had 761,000 subscribers-including 38,000 in Oklahoma. When the Post Office banned its special issues, which had print runs in the millions, subscribers around the country, "the Appeal army," circulated it by hand. For example, in 1904 and 1905, Appeal to Reason serialized [Upton Sinclair]'s The Jungle and he was damned by the powerful. "I have utter contempt for him," wrote President Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt derided crusading journalists as "muckrakers" unable to look up from the filth and appreciate America's glory. Yet, for all his disdain, thanks to Si...
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Mildred Richard has every reason to be despondent. Depressed. Damn near suicidal, even. She was abandoned by her drug-addicted mother when she was 8 and dropped out of school when she was 12.
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Before it was published in book form as a novel, The Jungle appeared in 1905 in serialized form in a periodical, Appeal to Reason, whose explicitly socialist agenda formed the core of its editorial mission.1 With a $500 advance from the magazine, Sinclair spent almost two months in south Chicago, doing the necessary shoe-leather reporting needed to get the details of the physical and social realities which he used in the story.2 It may be stating the obvious, but for the last century or so the magazine form has been the keeper of the flame of long-form journalism. The legitimacy of journalism's role in speaking truth to power-or, in the oft-quoted words of Finley Peter Dunne's Mr. Dooley, to "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable"10-as well as a number of other progressive ...
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Tranquility alone might be a reason to visit the new salt spa at Karen Wilder Fitness in East Memphis. The cool, dark salt chamber is filled with half a ton of pink Himalayan salt and bathed in the amber light of natural salt crystal lamps. Visitors rest in reclining chairs to the sounds of ocean waves lapping the shore, while salty air is blown invisibly into the room.
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THIS IS how leaders are supposed to act. When the federal government turns down a state's request for help after a natural disaster, it's not time to whine, score political points or make threats. It's time to be a forceful, respectful advocate, to appeal to reason, cite facts, and avoid hype and histrionics.
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The father lives on in his son's work. Some of Barthelme's best stories take place in schools. It's almost as if his dramatic reference point, his primal scene, is a moment of learning and adjusting one's attitudes toward the world. In "The School," a teacher chronicles the deaths of a half-dozen class pets, crescendoing to the deaths of several parents and a fatal accident involving two students. The story ends with a class discussion ("And they said, is death that which gives meaning to life? And I said, no, life is that which gives meaning to life") and a kiss between the teacher and his assistant, Helen, "as a demonstration" of the transcendence of life over death. A new gerbil arrives at the classroom, and the children cheer. My next stop was Barthelme's papers in the M.D. Anderson...
...For half a century, his work has appealed to readers as a moment of great opportunity in Ame..., "The Cry Over Spilt Milk," "The Appeal to Reason" and "The Call of the Wild," all paired with Victo...
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I would like to respond to the recent editorial and article concerning the concealed weapons permit change (April 6). I agree with the part about lack of training and believe that a uniform procedure should be implemented. While an ex-military honorable discharge DD214 qualifies some people, there are others that should have to attend a class and demonstrate that they are competent to operate a firearm. I feel that our law enforcement in the community is outstanding. For the most part, our officers are professionals. I do have a problem with the statement from the sheriff that he is concerned with 50 to 75 permits that he issued to individuals. Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe he still has the option to deny the application. But now under the new law the applicant has the right t...
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Global warming has ceased. In 2005, it was .45 degrees centigrade above the 1961-1990 global average temperature. In 2006, it dropped to .42 centigrade, and in 2007, to .41 centigrade. That's one of many facts to be gleaned from an intelligent and calm book, "An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming," by Lord Nigel Lawson, a British politician and former journalist.
