[PDF] Coney Island Christmas eBook

Author : Donald Margulies, based on the story "The Loudest Voice" by Grace Paley
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 32,78 MB
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0822231514

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Pulitzer Prize-winner Donald Margulies weaves together nostalgia, music and merriment in this new seasonal classic. A holiday show for people of all ages and all faiths, CONEY ISLAND CHRISTMAS introduces us to Shirley Abramowitz, a young Jewish girl who (much to her immigrant parents' exasperation) is cast as Jesus in the school's Christmas pageant. As Shirley, now much older, recounts the memorable story to her great-granddaughter, the play captures a timeless and universal tale of what it means to be an American during the holidays.

Author : Louis J. Parascandola
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 20,50 MB
Release : 2014-12-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0231538197

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This literary anthology celebrates the history and romance of Coney Island with works by some of the 19th and 20th centuries’ greatest authors and poets. Featuring a stunning gallery of portraits by the world's finest poets, essayists, and fiction writers--including Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane, José Martí, Maxim Gorky, Federico García Lorca, Isaac Bashevis Singer, E. E. Cummings, Djuna Barnes, Colson Whitehead, Robert Olen Butler, and Katie Roiphe—this anthology illuminates the unique history and transporting experience of New York City’s quintessential beach destination. Moody, mystical, and enchanting, Coney Island has thrilled newcomers and soothed native New Yorkers for decades. Its fantasy entertainments, renowned beach foods, world-class boardwalk, and expansive beach offer a kaleidoscopic panorama of people, places, and events that have inspired writers of all types and nationalities. It becomes, as Lawrence Ferlinghetti once wrote, "a Coney Island of the mind."

Author : Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 20,55 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780811200417

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Twenty-nine poems from the 1950's.

Author : Anneliese Heider Tisdale
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 13,21 MB
Release : 2012-11-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1477278192

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The Heider family huddles together in the basement, wondering if this is the last day they will be together, if this is the last day of their lives. Its Munich, Germany, in 1945, the day American tanks are rolling in. Annelieses father finds a white sheet, ready to hang it from the attic window, hoping he times it right. Too early, and German SS forces could open fire. Too late, and the Allied forces could shoot. Thank god, its not the Russians. And so begins the memoir of Anneliese Heider Tisdale, who grew up in Germany during World War II. Hers is a universal and timeless tale of war and death, of fear and deprivation, of the inventiveness of children who want to dance and wear new clothes but instead have childhoods filled with bandages and bombs, who return to school one fall to find the crucifix in their classroom replaced with a picture of the Fhrer.

Author : Stephen M. Feldman
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 21,15 MB
Release : 1998-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 0814726844

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Nearly all discussions regarding the role of religion in American life build on two dominant assumptions: first, the separation of church and state is a constitutional principle that promotes democracy and equally protects the religious freedom of all Americans, especially religious outgroups; and second, this principle emerges as a uniquely American contribution to political theory. In Please Don't Wish Me a Merry Christmas, Stephen M. Feldman challenges both these assumptions. He argues that the separation of church and state primarily manifests and reinforces Christian domination in American society. Furthermore, Feldman reveals that the separation of church and state did not first arise in America, either at the time of the constitutional framing or later. In challenging the dominant story of the separation of church and state, Please Don't Wish Me a Merry Christmas follows the historical path of two institutions - the Christian church and the state - from the origins of Christianity forward to the present day. Feldman thus focuses on the workings of power in a specific context: he interprets the development of Christian social power vis-a-vis the state and religious minorities, particularly the prototypical religious outgroup, Jews.

Author : Alex Palmer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 19,66 MB
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1493018906

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The true story of John Duval Gluck, Jr., who in 1913 founded the Santa Claus Association, which had the sole authority to answer Santa's mail in New York City. He ran the organization for 15 years, gaining fame for making the myth of Santa a reality to poor children by arranging for donors to deliver the toys they requested, until a crusading charity commissioner exposed Gluck as a fraud. The story is wide in scope, interweaving a phony Boy Scout group, kidnapping, stolen artwork, and appearances by the era's biggest stars and New York City’s most famous landmarks. The book is both a personal story and a far-reaching historical one, tracing the history of Christmas celebration in America and the invention of Santa Claus.

Author : David C. Rubin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 33,93 MB
Release : 1999-02-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780521657235

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This book reviews the latest research in the field of autobiographical memory.