"The story of 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' was written solely to pleasure children of ... was in fact a full-blown "parable on populism," a "vibrant and ironic portrait" of America on th...
Introduction I. Methodology II. Context of Debate A. A Review of Basic Concepts and Fundamental Arguments B. Why is Euthanasia Controversial? III. The "Right to Die" Debate A. The Facts B. The Meaning of Life C. The Problem with Professional Judgment D. Absolute Rule v. Variegated Circumstances E. Are There Absolute Moral Values and Universal Human Rights? F. The Problem with the AMA Code of Ethics G. Active vs. Passive Euthanasia H. Compassion vs. Professionalism I. The Problem with Rationing Medical Resources J. What Is a Rational Choice-Facts, Values, Opinions and Judgments? K. The Problems with Paternalism L. Rationality By Process or By Result? M. The Problem of Making a Decision in a Vacuum N. Should One Be Expected to Help Another Kill Himself? O. How to Evaluate Intangibles Such...
... social and political satire The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. 23 The book speaks of four characters-Doro..., The Wizard of Oz: Parable on Populism, 16 AMERICAN QUARTERLY 47, 54-5 (1964) (quoting Ba...
..., such as the false political "Populism" theory of Oz. . * shows how Oz is really a spirit...
Educated at Columbia University, where he was a pupil of Lionel Trilling, Dickstein was bred on the humanistic idea that literature is a criticism of life: important works of the imagination must report on the complexity of social experience and transcend the mere preaching of propaganda. [...] unlike his Columbia teachers and the intellectuals associated with the Partisan Review in the 1930s and '40s, including Dwight Macdonald and Clement Greenberg, Dickstein refuses to dismiss populist works that depend on broad-brush technique and heavy doses of Popular Front rhetoric about the People, Progress, and Equality.
... of this sort, its "fuzzy vocabulary and populism," its failure to handle "the wrinkles of the indiv... FDR, is compared by Dickstein to the Wizard of Oz. Like the man behind the curtain, FDR told A...
I set out to ponder the 110th anniversary of a piece of history in which Ohio played a large part. But along the Yellow Brick Road, I found out I'd already honored the event by watching the family Scarecrow and friends on stage last weekend at Oakwood High. It was on March 25, 1894, that businessman and political populist Jacob Coxey set off from Massillon with a group of 100 unemployed men he called the "Commonweal of Christ" to the U.S. Capitol to demand that something be done about the depression that followed the Panic of 1893. There were several other squads of what was popularly known around the country as "Coxey's Army," but traveling was tough for poor folks in those days, and only the Ohio group made it to Washington.
... from Kansas because it was a hotbed of Populism, the Scarecrow represented Western farmers outsmar...
..... not simply Islamic populism, but rather a political process available to other... obvious that he was a smoke-and-rattles Wizard of Oz (though not harmless). He said the idea of r...
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... fantasy, (For instance, when watching "The Wizard of Oz," no one complains, "Why, monkeys can't fly!.... The nostalgia factor in populism sometimes hits been criticized by reviewers such i...
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