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Thursday, March 24, 2011

Sargent Shriver, American diplomat and politician, Ambassador to France (1968–1970), Vice Presidential nominee died he was , 95

Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr., known as Sargent Shriver, R. Sargent Shriver, or, from childhood, Sarge,[3]  was an American statesman and activist died he was , 95. As the husband of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, he was part of the Kennedy family, serving in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Shriver was the driving force behind the creation of the Peace Corps, founded the Job Corps, Head Start and other programs as the "architect" of Johnson's "War on Poverty" and served as the United States Ambassador to France.[3] During the 1972 U.S. presidential election, he was George McGovern's running mate as the Democratic Party's nominee for U.S. Vice President, replacing Thomas Eagleton who had resigned from the ticket.

 

( November 9, 1915 – January 18, 2011)

Early life and career

Shriver was born in Westminster, Maryland, to Robert Sargent Shriver, Sr., and his wife Hilda Shriver. Of partial German ancestry, the Shriver (originally Schreiber) family are descendants of David Shriver, who signed the Maryland Constitution and Bill of Rights at Maryland's Constitutional Convention of 1776.[6] He spent his high school years at Canterbury School in New Milford, Connecticut, which he attended on a full scholarship. He was in Canterbury's baseball, basketball, and football team, became the editor of the school's newspaper, and participated in choral and debating clubs.[7] After he graduated in 1934, Shriver spent the summer in Germany as part of the Experiment in International Living, returning in the fall of 1934 to enter Yale University. He received his bachelor's degree in 1938, having been a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Phi chapter) and the Scroll and Key Society. He was chairman of the Yale Daily News. Shriver then attended Yale Law School, earning an LL.B. degree in 1941.
An early opponent of American involvement in World War II, Shriver was a founding member of the America First Committee, an organization started in 1940 by a group of Yale law students, also including future U.S. President Gerald Ford and Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, that tried to keep the United States out of the European war.[8] Nevertheless, Shriver volunteered for the United States Navy before the attack on Pearl Harbor, saying he had a duty to serve his country even if he disagreed with its policies. He spent five years on active duty, mostly in the South Pacific, reaching the rank of lieutenant (O-3). He was awarded a Purple Heart for shrapnel wounds he received during the bombardment of Guadalcanal.[9]
Shriver's relationship with the Kennedys began shortly after his discharge, when the family patriarch Joseph Kennedy, Sr. hired him to manage the Merchandise Mart, part of Kennedy's business empire, in Chicago, Illinois.

After a seven-year courtship, Shriver married Eunice Kennedy, a sister of then-Senator John F. Kennedy, on May 23, 1953 at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City.[10] They had five children: Robert Sargent Shriver III (born April 28, 1954), Maria Owings Shriver (born November 6, 1955), Timothy Perry Shriver (born August 29, 1959), Mark Kennedy Shriver (born February 17, 1964), and Anthony Paul Kennedy Shriver (born July 20, 1965).
Shriver was admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia, Illinois, and New York, and at the U.S. Supreme Court.[11]
A devout Catholic, Shriver attended daily Mass and always carried a rosary of well-worn wooden beads.[12] He was critical of abortion and was a signatory to "A New Compact of Care: Caring about Women, Caring for the Unborn", which appeared in the New York Times in July 1992 and stated that "To establish justice and to promote the general welfare, America does not need the abortion license. What America needs are policies that responsibly protect and advance the interest of mothers and their children, both before and after birth."[13]

Political career

1960s


Shriver and JFK at the White House in August 1961.
When John F. Kennedy ran for president, Shriver worked as a political and organization coordinator in the Wisconsin and West Virginia primaries. During Kennedy's presidential term, Shriver founded and served as the first director of the Peace Corps.[3]
After Kennedy's assassination, Shriver continued to serve as Director of the Peace Corps and served as Special Assistant to President Lyndon Johnson. Under Johnson, he created the Office of Economic Opportunity with William B. Mullins and served as its first Director.[14] He is known as the "architect" of the Johnson administration's "War on Poverty".[3]
Shriver founded numerous social programs and organizations, including Head Start,[15] VISTA, Job Corps, Community Action, Upward Bound, Foster Grandparents, Legal Services, the National Clearinghouse for Legal Services (now the Shriver Center), Indian and Migrant Opportunities and Neighborhood Health Services, in addition to directing the Peace Corps. He was active in Special Olympics, founded by his wife Eunice.
Shriver served as U.S. Ambassador to France from 1968 to 1970, becoming a quasi-celebrity among the French for bringing what Time magazine called "a rare and welcome panache" to the normally sedate world of international diplomacy.[16]

Vice Presidential candidate

Main article: United States presidential election, 1972
Shriver returned to elective politics in 1972, when George McGovern chose him as his Vice Presidential running mate after McGovern's first pick, Thomas Eagleton, resigned from the Democratic ticket following revelations of past mental health treatments. The McGovern-Shriver ticket lost to Republican incumbents Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew.
Shriver unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for President in 1976. His candidacy was short and he returned to private life.[17]

Life after politics

He was associated with the Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson law firm in Washington, D.C., where he specialized in international law and foreign affairs, beginning in 1971.[11] He retired as partner in 1986 and was then named of counsel to the firm.[18]
In 1981, Shriver was appointed to the Rockefeller University Council, an organization devoted exclusively to research and graduate education in the biomedical and related sciences.
In 1984, he was elected President of Special Olympics by the Board of Directors; as President, he directed the operation and international development of sports programs around the world. Six years later, in 1990, he was appointed Chairman of the Board of Special Olympics.
He was an investor in the Baltimore Orioles along with his eldest son Bobby Shriver, Eli Jacobs and Larry Lucchino from 1989[19] to 1993.

Illness and death

Shriver was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2003. In 2004 his daughter, Maria, published a children's book, What's Happening to Grandpa?, to help explain Alzheimer's to children. The book gives suggestions on how to help and to show love to an elderly person with the disease.[20] In July 2007, Shriver's son-in-law, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, speaking in favor of stem-cell research, said that Shriver's Alzheimer's disease had advanced to the point that "Today, he does not even recognize his wife."[21] Maria Shriver discusses her father's worsening condition in a segment for the four-part 2009 HBO documentary series The Alzheimer's Project called Grandpa, Do You Know Who I Am?, including describing a moment when she decided to stop trying to correct his various delusions.[22]
On August 11, 2009, Shriver's wife of 56 years, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, died at the age of 88.[23] He attended his wife's wake and funeral mass in Centerville and Hyannis, Massachusetts.[24] Two weeks later, on August 29, 2009, he attended the funeral of his brother-in-law Edward M. Kennedy in Boston, Massachusetts.[25]
Shriver died on January 18, 2011 in Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, at age 95.[3][4][5] Shriver's family released a statement calling him "a man of giant love, energy, enthusiasm, and commitment" who "lived to make the world a more joyful, faithful, and compassionate place."[4] President Barack Obama also released a statement, calling Shriver "one of the brightest lights of the greatest generation"[4] Aaron S. Williams, the director of the Peace Corps, said in a statement, "The entire Peace Corps community is deeply saddened by the passing of Sargent Shriver." He further noted that Shriver "served as our founder, friend, and guiding light for the past 50 years" and that "his legacy of idealism will live on in the work of current and future Peace Corps volunteers."[26]

Legacy

In 1993, Shriver received the Franklin D. Roosevelt Freedom From Want Award. On August 8, 1994, Shriver received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian honor, from President Bill Clinton.[18]
The Job Corps dedicated a Center to his name in 1998 - the "Shriver Job Corps Center" - located in Devens, Massachusetts.[27] The National Clearinghouse for Legal Services (renamed the National Center on Poverty Law in 1995) was re-named the Shriver Center in 2002 and each year awards a Sargent Shriver Award for Equal Justice.[28]
Sargent Shriver Elementary School, located in Silver Spring, Maryland, is named after him.[29][30][31]
In January 2008, a documentary film about Shriver aired on PBS, titled American Idealist: The Story of Sargent Shriver.[3]\
Following his death, Daniel Larison wrote:
Shriver was an admirable, principled, and conscientious man who respected the dignity and sanctity of human life, and he also happened to be a contemporary and in-law of Kennedy. Not only did Shriver represent a “link” with JFK, but he represented a particular culture of white ethnic Catholic Democratic politics that has been gradually disappearing for the last fifty years. A pro-life Catholic, Shriver had been a founding member of the America First Committee, and more famously he was also on the 1972 antiwar ticket with George McGovern. In short, he represented much of what was good in the Democratic Party of his time.[32]

Electoral history

United States presidential election, 1972
1976 Democratic presidential primaries[33]

Portrayals in film

The film Too Young the Hero (1988), about the life of Calvin Graham, features a scene during World War II in which Graham (played by Rick Schroder) meets Shriver (played by Carl Meuller).
The film W. (2008), about the life of George W. Bush, features Matt Sigloch as Shriver
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Brian Boobbyer, English rugby union player and cricketer died he was 82.



Brian Boobbyer  played in nine Test matches for England at rugby union between 1950 and 1952 died he was 82.. He also played cricket at first-class level, and was awarded Blues for both sports by Oxford University for appearing against Cambridge. But in 1952, at the age of twenty-four, he gave up playing both games, in order to devote his life to working for the Moral Re-Armament (MRA) movement.[1]

(25 February 1928 -17 January 2011 )

 Early life

The son of a doctor, Boobbyer attended Durston House preparatory school before transferring to Uppingham, a leading "public school". Whilst there he became Head Boy. After school, he did his National Service, during which time he first played rugby at senior club level, for Rosslyn Park. In 1948 he went up to Oxford University to read History at Brasenose College, already with a reputation as a good cricketer and rugby player.[1]

Rugby career

As well as playing club rugby for Rosslyn Park, Boobbyer played for Middlesex in the County Championship. He also appeared for the Barbarians.[2] He first played for Oxford in his second year, going on to appear in three matches against Cambridge, thus achieving the distinction of becoming a "double Blue". All three matches were won.
A centre, he made his international debut for England, against Wales, on 21 January 1950. He won nine caps during this and the following two seasons, all in the Five Nations Championship, scoring two tries.[3] He performed particularly well on an England tour of South Africa in 1951. In 1952 he was the only scorer in a 3-0 victory against Ireland.[1]

Cricket career

While at Uppingham, in 1946 Boobbyyer captained a Combined Schools side, The Rest, against the Southern Schools at Lord's, acoring 61.[4] The same year, he played for the Public Schools against Combined Services, also at Lord's, scoring 102 in the first innings.[5]
In 1947, while doing his National Service, he played for the Army against the Royal Navy and against the Royal Air Force, both matches being played at Lord's. The following year, he again appeared for the Army against the Royal Navy, again at Lord's.[6]
All his first-class cricket was played for Oxford University, for whom he played 40 first-class matches between 1949 and 1952. He scored 1970 runs in all at an average of 26.98, including two centuries and with a highest score of 126.[2] Both centuries were scored against Sussex.[7] His best season was his last, when he scored 802 runs in 13 first-class matches at an average of 34.86.[8] He made his first appearance in the annual University Match against Cambridge in his first season of 1949, and thus was awarded his Blue. He scored what proved to be a match-winning 80 in the 1951 match. The Daily Telegraph, in its obituary, described him as "a doughty rather than a spectacular cricketer" (though adding that this could not be said of his rugby). Middlesex were interested in signing him as an opening batsman had he not given up the game.[1]

Work for Moral Re-Armament

Boobbyer joined the MRA movement whilst at Oxford. After finishing at university, he went on a rugby tour to Japan, but at the end of the tour he stayed on to work with an international MRA group which had the aim of promoting reconciliation following World War II. He devoted the rest of his life to his MRA work, and never subsequently played sport at a serious level. He later travelled for the movement to the Philippines, the USA and India, amongst many other places. He was a fine public speaker, able to put across spiritual themes in an understandable and sympathetic way.[1]

Family

Boobbyer married Juliet Rodd (who survived him) in 1957; they had two sons. The couple lived and worked in Oxford for many years.[1] In 2004 his family published a paperback entitled Like a Cork out of a Bottle, containing a selection of his talks and writings.[9] Boobbyer died at Hereford County Hospital on January 17 of 2011.[10]

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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

MK Binodini, Indian writer died she was , 88.

Maharaj Kumari Binodini Devi  was a Indian writer from Manipur, a Southeast Himalayan state in North-east India and a member of the erstwhile royal family of Manipur died she was , 88.. [1] She was notable for bridging the two worlds of ancient royalty and modern art. Born as a princess into a palace life which she lovingly recalled in a series of late essays, she made her name in the wider world as a novelist and a writer of short stories, essays, plays and award-winning screenplays, lyrics and ballet scripts.[2] She received the Padma Shri in 1976, one of India’s highest civilian awards, followed by Sahitya Akademi Award given by Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of letters) in 1979 for her novel Boro Saheb Ongbi Sanatombi (The Princess and the Political Agent).
M. K. Binodini Devi wrote under the single name of Binodini. Her screenplays were made into award-winning feature films, directed by her long-time collaborator director Aribam Syam Sharma, such as My Son, My Precious, 1982[3]; The Chosen One (1992), that have also been screened in the London Film Festival as well as the Museum of Modern Art, and Cannes, Toronto and Locarno Film Festivals. Her wildlife and environment themed script for a modern ballet was made into Sangai, Dancing Deer of Manipur, a performance film that won the British Film Institute’s Outstanding Film of the Year Award in 1984.

(February 6, 1922 - January 17, 2011)

 Early life and family

M. K. Binodini Devi, also known as Princess Wangolsana, was born on February 6, 1922 in the kingdom of Manipur in the Southeastern Himalaya on the Myanmar border (a state in Northeastern India since 1949). She is the youngest of the five daughters of Maharaja Sir Churachand Singh, KSCI, CBE, and Maharani Dhanamanjuri Devi of Manipur.[1] In 1950. She married Dr. L. Nanda Babu Roy, a surgeon, with whom she had two sons.
Maharaja Churachand, who ruled Manipur from 1891 till 1941, was the first Western-educated monarch of Manipur. His queen, Maharani Dhanamanjuri, played a major role in giving modern education to her children, assigning her English companion, Mrs. E. M. Jolly, as her daughters’ first English teacher. M. K. Binodini Devi got her formal education at Pine Mount School, Shillong; Tamphasana Girls High School, Imphal; St Mary’s College, Shillong; Vidyasagar College, West Bengal; and studied art at Tagore’s Viswa Bharati University in Santiniketan. She was Manipur’s first female graduate.

Literary career

M. K. Binodini Devi wrote in Manipuri, the Tibeto-Burman language of Manipur. Her last book, Maharaj Churachandgi Imung, (2009; translated as The Maharaja’s Household) is a collection of 34 personal memoir essays about life with her father, Maharaja Churachand. Some of the earlier essays were written and published in local newspapers from 1997 onwards.
It was during the years just before and during World War II, at a time when she lived with her mother in the pilgrim town of Nabadwip in Bengal, that Binodini was introduced to her greatest literary influence: the Bengali literature of Saratchandra Chatterjee, Bankimchandra Chatterjee, Rabindranath Tagore and Michael Madhusudan Dutt.
As early as 1939, while still a student in the tenth grade, the future author made an attempt to publish her first short story called Imaton. The young writer was scolded by her tutor for her unconventional theme of a relationship between a young man and his stepmother. During her days at St. Mary’s College in Shillong, she began writing stories again. But it was only in the early 1960s that her first published story, Nung'gairakta Chandramukhi, appeared in a Calcutta-based Manipuri journal. Elangbam Nilakanta Singh, the eminent Manipuri literary critic, acclaimed it as the first fully realized Manipuri short story.
Her work is noted for a modernity rooted in Manipur’s traditions and for her strong, unconventional female characters. Young women authors especially look to M. K. Binodini Devi, whom they call Imasi[4] or Royal Mother, as a role model. Binodini has published a collection of short stories, Nung'gairakta Chandramukhi (Chysanthemum among the Rocks,1965); more than 50 song lyrics; and over 40 radio plays, some of which are published in the collection Asangba Nongjabi (Azure Skies,1966). Her novel Boro Saheb Ongbi Sanatombi (The Princess and the Political Agent)[5] was published in 1979 and a collection of travel essays called O Mexico! Travel Stories was published in 2004. She has also translated into Manipuri the works of Bengali writers such as Rabindranath Tagore, Shankar and Badal Sircar.
Binodini was a prolific writer, with her essays appearing with regularity in Manipur’s newspapers. These include the series, Maharaj Churchandgi Imung; a series of portraits called Yaiskul Yai on colorful characters in her neighborhood, The Last Saheb; and Yengkhom Ongbi Hemabati, an essay on World War 2 from the Manipuri perspective. Known for her horsemanship as a young woman, she wrote 16 essays on Manipur’s equestrian culture, commissioned and broadcast by All India Radio.
Binodini has written scripts - some original screenplays and some based on her own stories - for eight feature films and four documentaries. The films Binodini scripted in her on-going collaboration with director Aribam Syam Sharma have garnered international acclaim at many screenings including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Cannes, Locarno, London, and Toronto film festivals. A selection of these films was screened at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2000. Their film Imagi Ningthem (My Son, My Precious) received the Grand Prix at the 1981 Festival des 3 Continents at Nantes; their documentary Sangai, Dancing Deer of Manipur, based on her wildlife ballet, received the British Film Institute Outstanding Film of the Year Award for 1989; and their feature film Ishanou (The Chosen One (1992)[6] was selected for the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival in 1991.[7] Their last collaboration, the feature-length documentary Rajarshi Bhagyachandra, was screened at the 2007 International Film Festival of India.
As President and Founder of Leikol, the literary organization of women writers in Manipur, she was the guiding spirit for its publication of Nachom (2003), an anthology of women writers on love.

Arts and activism

In her writing and in her arts and social activism, M. K. Binodini is recognized as a pioneer of a non-doctrinaire thinking in Manipur that borrows little from conventional modernism and is rooted deeply in Manipur’s own traditions.
Although M. K. Binodini Devi is known best for her writing, she is an also an accomplished sculptor. While a student at Tagore’s Santiniketan, she became celebrated as the muse of the Indian sculptor and painter Ramkinkar Vaij. Portraits and sculptures of her by Vaij are in the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi.
Her vocal renditions of Rabindra Sangeet have aired over All India Radio. She is a Founder Member of Roop Raag, Manipur’s pre-eminent association of writers, poets, dancers, musicians and dramatists since 1960. This association paved the path of a lifelong immersion in the arts for her.
M.K. Binodini Devi served as the first Secretary of the Jawaharlal Nehru Manipur Dance Academy where she pioneered the incorporation of martial arts into the canon of classical Manipuri Dance and took the first all-Manipuri dance troupe on a tour of Latin America, North America and Europe in 1976.
She ignited environmental awareness in Manipur with Thoibidu Warou'houee, her 1972 essay on the state’s wetlands and wildlife. An elegy to the brow-antlered deer, the essay was the basis for her script for Thoibi (1972), an environmental ballet she wrote during the time she ran the Jawaharlal Nehru Manipuri Dance Academy. Other contemporary Manipuri Dance ballet scripts with an environmental message include Keibul Lamjao (1984) and Loktak Isei (1991) a ballet on the wetlands of Manipur. Her environmentalism often takes on an active aspect as with The Nong’goubi Project, a series of community actions taken in 2002 to clean up the Nambul River.
She has also held elected office as was a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Manipur and founded micro-financing for women in Manipur with the formation of Manipur’s first women’s cooperative bank in 1973.

Awards

M. K. Binodini Devi was honored with India’s National Book Award (the Sahitya Akademi Award given by Sahitya Akademi, India's national arts and letters academy) in 1979 for her novel Boro Saheb Ongbi Sanatombi (The Princess and the Political Agent).[8] The Sahitya Akademi also commissioned Binodini: A Writer’s Life (2001), a documentary film on her literary career, directed by Aribam Syam Sharma.[9] In 2007, the Sahitya Akademi selected her for their Eminent Senior Writer Award.
Other awards include the Jamini Sunder Guha Gold Medal in 1966 by the Manipuri Sahitya Parishad for Nung'gairakta Chandramukhi, her collection of stories; and the 2002 Kumari Barooah Foundation Award for Culture.
In 1976 she was awarded the Padma Shri (India's national honors list) by the President of India for her contribution to music, drama, dance, film and literature [10], She subsequently returned the award in 2001 in protest to India's plans to alter Manipur’s historical boundaries.

BINODINI: A BIBLIOGRAPHY

PUBLICATIONS (IN MANIPURI) Nung'gairakta Chandramukhi (1965), short stories Asangba Nongjabi (1966), plays Boro Saheb Ongbi Sanatombi (1979), novel Amasung Indrajit (1990), “And Indrajit” play by Badal Sircar, 1963, from the Bengali O Mexico! (2004), travel writing about Mexico, the US and Europe Maharaj Churachandgi Imung (2008) memoir essays

FILM SCRIPTS (IN MANIPURI) Olangthagee Wangmadasoo (feature film, original screenplay,1980) Imagi Ningthem (“My Son, My Precious”, feature film,1981) Paokhum Ama (“One Answer”, short feature, original screenplay,1983) Sangai, the Dancing Deer of Manipur (documentary,1988), Ishanou (feature film, original screenplay,1990) Mayophigee Macha (feature film, 1994) Orchids of Manipur (documentary,1994) Sanabi (feature film,1995) La (documentary,1997), Thengmallabara Radha-manbi (feature film, 1999) Asangba Nongjabi (short feature, 2003) Ngahak Lambida (short feature, 2006) Nangna Kappa Phajade (short feature, 2007)

BALLET SCRIPTS (IN MANIPURI) Kong Hangoi (children’s ballet,1971) Thoibi (wildlife ballet,1972) Keibul Lamjao (wildlife ballet,1984) Loktak Isei (ecology ballet,1991)
TRANSLATIONS Amasung Indrajit (“And Indrajit”, Badal Sarkar, 1963). Play. From the Bengali.
RELATED: BINODINI: A WRITER’S LIFE A documentary film by Aribam Syam Sharma. Manipuri with English subtitles. Produced by Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, 2001. 45 minutes.

TRANSLATIONS INTO ENGLISH My Little Friend (Imphal Turelgi Itamacha). Short story. Translated by L. Somi Roy. Published in Sahitya Akademi anthology. New Delhi 2005 One Answer (Paokhum Ama). Original screenplay. Published by Cinewave, Calcutta 1984 My Son, My Precious (Imagi Ningthem). Original screenplay from the radio play. Translated by L. Somi Roy. Published by Cinewave, Calcutta 1981

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David Bradby, British theatre scholar died he was , 68.

Professor David Bradby was a drama and theatre academic with particular research interests in French theatre, Modernist / Postmodernist theatre, the role of the director and the Theatre of the Absurd died he was , 68.. He wrote extensively on the theatre of Samuel Beckett, Roger Planchon, Jacques Lecoq, Arthur Adamov among many others. He also translated several works, principally by Michel Vinaver, Jacques Lecoq and Bernard-Marie Koltes.

(27 February 1942 - 17 February 2011)

 Life

Bradby was educated at Rugby School and originally studied Modern Languages at Trinity College, Oxford, but started to develop an interest in the theatre. During his time as a language assistant in Lyon, Bradby became a bit-part actor in Roger Planchon’s theatre company.
Bradby’s subsequent education saw him taking a postgraduate teaching course at the University of Bristol, and then a PhD on the playwright Arthur Adamov at the University of Glasgow.
His academic career included the founding of the Department of Drama at the University of Kent in 1970, as well as work with the British Council in Nigeria. Bradby developed the first colloqium on popular film and theatre, featuring contributions from the British theatre director, Max Stafford-Clark. David Bradby was appointed head of the Department of Drama at the University of Caen, Normandy before moving to Royal Holloway, University of London in 1988, where he also took the position of department head. He retired in Summer 2007.
Bradby edited the Cambridge University Press ‘Studies in Modern Drama’ series, as well as the journal, Contemporary Theatre Review.
He was Professor Emeritus of Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway. David Bradby give many public lectures and broadcasts; he has also been a consultant and advisor to many productions of works by Jean Genet, Molière, Michel Vinaver and Bernard-Marie Koltes.
In 1997, he was made a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French government in recognition of his contribution to the study of French culture.[1] Bradby was married to the Author Rachel Anderson and died on 17th January 2011.

Bibliography

  • Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot (2001)
  • Mise en Scène: French Theatre Now (with Annie Sparks) (1997)
  • The Theater of Michel Vinaver (1993)
  • Modern French Drama 1940-1990 (1991)
  • Le Théâtre Français Contemporain (1990)
  • Directors' Theatre (with David Williams) (1988)
  • The Theatre of Roger Planchon (1984)
  • Modern French Drama 1940-1980 (1984)
  • Studying Drama (with K. Pickering and P. Thomas) (1984)
  • People's Theatre (with John McCormick) (1978)
  • Adamov (1975)
  • The Paris Jigsaw: Internationalism and the City’s Stages (ed. with Maria M. Delgado) (2002)
  • Morality and Justice: The Challenge of European Theatre (2001)
  • Renard the Fox (with Rachel Anderson) (1986)
  • Performance and Politics in Popular Drama (ed. with Louis James and Bernard Sharratt) (1982)

As editor

  • Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt: Plays I (2002)
  • Frontline Drama 6: New French Plays (1998)
  • Bernard-Marie Koltès: Plays I (1997)
  • Michel Vinaver: Plays I; Plays II. (1997).
  • Michel Vinaver: Théâtre de Chambre (1995)
  • Landmarks of French Classical Drama (1991)
  • New French Plays (with C. Schumacher) (1989)
  • Kean (1973)

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Keith Davey, Canadian politician and campaign organizer, Senator (1966–1996) died he was , 84.

Keith Douglas Davey, OC  was a Canadian politician, Senator, and campaign organizer died he was , 84. Born in Toronto to Charles Minto Davey (Toronto Star Production Manager) and Grace Viola (née Curtis), Keith Davey attended high school at North Toronto Collegiate Institute.[1] Davey graduated with a BA from the University of Toronto in 1949.

(April 21, 1926 — January 17, 2011)

 Career

Davey became a Sales Manager for CKFH, a Toronto radio station from 1949 to 1960. In 1960 he entered politics as a campaign organizer for his home riding of Eglinton and was appointed National Campaign Director of the Liberal Party of Canada in 1961, 1962, 1963 and 1965.
In 1966, Davey served briefly as commissioner of the Canadian Football League. He was appointed to the Canadian Senate by Lester Pearson in 1966. He resigned in 1996.

Other

Davey was portrayed on an episode of King of Kensington as Senator Keith Davis on the episode titled Mr. King Goes to Ottawa; he was portrayed by actor Ken James.
He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1999.
In 1986, Davey published a political memoir, The Rainmaker - a Passion for Politics.

Marriage

He married Catherine Isobel Hart in 1952; they had three children, Douglas, Ian and Catherine. The union was dissolved around 1975. He remarried to Dorothy Elizabeth Petrie in 1978.

Death

Davey died on January 17, 2011, aged 84,[2] at Belmont House in Toronto. He had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease. He was survived by his second wife, and his three children from his first marriage.[3]

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Gita Dey, Indian actress, died from cardiac arrest she was , 79.

Gita Dey  was a well-known actress in Bengali film, theatre and Bengali folk theatre died from cardiac arrest she was , 79.. She acted in over two hundred Bengali language films and over two thousand stage shows.[1]

(5 August 1931 – 17 January 2011)

 Early life

She started as an actress in the Bengali film industry based in Kolkata's Tollygunge since 1938. Her first role was as a child artiste when she was six years old in a film directed by Dhiren Ganguly.[1]

Later career

She has been associated with All India Radio since 1954, and enacted character roles in radio plays. However, her last play was Badsahi Chaal (1996), which was directed by Ganesh Mukherjee, and was staged at the Rangana theatre in north Kolkata.
She acted diverse roles in a wide variety of films, and is known for her versatile outlook in her many roles. Her acting even caught the attention of the legendary Laurence Olivier.[2]
Proficient in both negative and comic roles, Dey was brilliant in the role of torn and scheming mother in Ritwik Ghatak's Meghe Dhaka Tara.[3]
Throughout her long career, she worked with directors like Sisir Bhaduri, Ritwik Ghatak, Debaki Bose and Satyajit Ray. She also acted in a Bollywood musical based on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's Parineeta, starring Saif Ali Khan and Vidya Balan.[1]
Though ailing, she went on acting and won applause in recent films like Tolly Lights and Chirodini Tumi Je Amar.
Dey died on 17 January 2011 in Kolkata, aged 79.

Filmography

Awards

For her lifetime contributions to Bengali cinema, in 1998 she received a star medal from the University of Calcutta from the then Governor of West Bengal Saiyid Nurul Hasan.

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Don Kirshner, American record producer and songwriter, host of Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, died from heart failure he was , 76.

Don Kirshner, known as "The Man With the Golden Ear", was an American song publisher and rock producer who is best known for managing songwriting talent as well as successful pop groups, such as The Monkees and The Archies died from heart failure he was , 76..[1]

(April 17, 1934 – January 17, 2011)

Early life

Don Kirshner was born to Gilbert Kirshner, a tailor, and Belle Jaffe in The Bronx, New York. He attended Upsala College in East Orange, New Jersey.[2]

Aldon Music

Main article: Aldon Music
Kirshner achieved his first major success in the late 1950s and early 1960s as co-owner of the influential New York-based publishing company Aldon Music with partner Al Nevins, which had under contract at various times several of the most important songwriters of the so-called "Brill Building" school, including Carole King, Gerry Goffin, Neil Sedaka, Howard Greenfield, Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil and Jack Keller.
As a producer-promoter, Kirshner was influential in starting off the career of singers and songwriters, including Bobby Darin, Neil Diamond, Carole King, and Sarah Dash of Labelle, as well as discovering the occasional rock act such as Kansas.

Don Kirshner's record labels

Kirshner also had three record labels. The first was Chairman Records, a subsidiary of London Records. Although he was responsible for scores of hits in the 1960s, he was only to have one on the Chairman label, 1963's "Martian Hop" by The Ran-Dells, which reached #16 nationally. Kirshner later had two other record labels, Calendar, which had early hits by The Archies and the Kirshner label, which had later hits by The Archies and Kansas. Calendar/Kirshner recordings were first distributed by RCA Records, then CBS Records. He was also involved in Dimension Records.

The Monkees

In the early 1960s, Kirshner was a successful music publisher as head of his own company, Aldon Music, with Al Nevins, bringing performers such as Bobby Darin together with songwriters and musicians.
Kirshner was hired by the producers of The Monkees to provide hitworthy songs to accompany the television program, within a demanding schedule. Kirshner quickly corralled songwriting talent from his Brill Building stable of writers and musicians to create catchy, engaging tracks which the band could pretend to perform on the show.
This move was not because of any lack of Monkee talent — Mike Nesmith and Peter Tork were already experienced musicians, and Davy Jones was an established musical performer; but as a working band they had little experience, and Micky Dolenz was completely new to drums — but to churn out ready-to-go recordings to give each new episode its own song. Each Monkee was retained for vocal duties, but they were not allowed to play on the records.
The formula worked phenomenally well: singles "Last Train to Clarksville" and "I'm a Believer"; the first two Monkees albums were produced and released in time to catch the initial wave of the television program's popularity. Future Taj Mahal and John Lennon guitarist Jesse Ed Davis sat in on guitar. After a year, the Monkees wanted another chance to all play their own instruments on the records. They also wanted additional oversight into which songs would be released as singles. Further, when word belatedly came out that the band had not played on the first season's songs, a controversy arose, and the public expressed a desire to hear the television stars perform their own music.
The matter reached a breaking point over a disagreement regarding the Neil Diamond-penned "A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You" in early 1967. The song, released by Kirshner as a single without Columbia Pictures' consent,[3] led to his dismissal. The initial B-side was replaced with a Nesmith song, performed by the Monkees, and they performed on the next year's recordings, featured in the show's second season. Monkees record sales dropped by nearly half after Kirshner's departure[citation needed].
Kirshner's later venture was The Archies, an animated series where there were only the studio musicians to be managed.

Don Kirshner's Rock Concert

Main article: Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
In the fall of 1972, Kirshner was asked by ABC Television to serve as executive producer and "creative consultant" for their new "In Concert" series, which aired every other week in the 11:30 p.m. slot normally showing The Dick Cavett Show. The following September, Kirshner left "In Concert" to produce and host his own syndicated weekly rock-concert program called Don Kirshner's Rock Concert. With its long-form live performances, as compared to rehearsed, often lip-synced performances that were the staple of earlier television shows like Shindig!, it was a new direction for pop music presentation. The last show aired in 1981, the year that MTV was launched.
The program presented many of the most successful rock bands of the era, but what was consistent week-to-week was Kirshner's deliberately flat delivery as the program host. In its final season Rock Concert was mostly hosted by Kirshner's son and daughter, whose delivery was the same as their father's.
Kirshner's wooden presentation style was later lampooned on Saturday Night Live by Paul Shaffer, most notably in Shaffer's introduction of the Blues Brothers during the duo's television debut. Shaffer and Kirshner worked together on the short-lived situation comedy, A Year at the Top, which Kirshner co-produced with Norman Lear, and in which Shaffer starred.[4]
In the Blue Öyster Cult song "The Marshall Plan", from the album Cultösaurus Erectus, Don Kirshner's voice is sampled to introduce the fictitious Johnny: "This is Don Kirshner. And tonight on Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, a new phenomenon in the music world — with six million albums to his credit in just two short years, my good friend, here's Johnny!"

Later career

Kirshner received the 2007 Songwriters Hall of Fame Abe Olman Publishing Award.[5] He was a creative consultant for Rockrena, a company founded by Jack Wishna, launching in 2011, to promote new music talent online.[6] He died of heart failure in a Boca Raton, Florida hospital on January 17, 2011, at age 76, survived by his wife of 50 years, Sheila, his two sons and five grandchildren.[7][8]

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