Shaye cogan biography of barack
All presidencies are historic. But no president since at least LBJ, and probably FDR, has arrived in Washington at a moment of greater historic urgency than Barack Obama. The man who took that oath of office seemed cut from American folklore — a neophyte politician elected senator only four years before, a prodigious and preacherly orator from the “Land of Lincoln” and the South Side of Chicago of the Great Migration. An embodiment not just of the American Dream as it had been imagined by the Greatest Generation of his own maternal grandparents but of a new version, too, one that might be embraced by his daughters — global, utopian-ish, post-boomer, “post-racial.”
More than “hope,” Obama’s candidacy promised “one America.” It is the deep irony of his presidency, and for Obama himself probably the tragedy, that the past eight years saw the country fiercely divided against itself. The president still managed to get a ridiculous amount done, advancing an unusually progressive agenda. But however Americans end up remembering the Obama years decades from now, one thing we can say for sure is that it did not feel, at the time, like an unmitigated liberal triumph. It felt like a cold civil war.
Or a never-breaking political fever. There was the tea-party rage and Occupy Wall Street. Every other week, it seemed, a new shooting. Each movement was met by a countermovement, and yet, somehow, both the left and the right were invigorated, watched over by a president marked so deeply by temperamental centrism even his supporters called him Spock. Whether you noticed or not, our culture was shaken to its core. There was a whole new civil-rights era, both for those whose skin color and for those whose love was long met by prejudice. The first iPhone was released during the 2008 campaign. We got our news from Facebook, debated consent, and took down Bill Cosby. Elon Musk built a spaceship to Mars.
In this issue, we’ve tried to create an inventory of those years and to think a
Bernie Sanders
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Bernard Sanders (born September 8, 1941) is an American politician and activist who is the seniorUnited States senator from Vermont. He is the longest-serving independent in U.S. congressional history, but maintains a close relationship with the Democratic Party, having caucused with House and Senate Democrats for most of his congressional career and sought the party's presidential nomination in 2016 and 2020. Sanders has been viewed as the leader of the modern American progressive movement.
Born into a working-classJewish family and raised in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, Sanders attended Brooklyn College before graduating from the University of Chicago in 1964. While a student, he was a protest organizer for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) during the civil rights movement. After settling in Vermont in 1968, he ran unsucces
Mr. Know-it-all: A star is born in Hudson
Dear Mr. Know-It-All, wasn't there a Hollywood actress in the 1950s who grew up in Hudson. I think she was in a few Abbott and Costello movies. D.V., Hudson
You are correct, D.V. The actress in question is Shaye Cogan. She was born Helen J. Coggins, the daughter of Dr. Charles Coggins, a Hudson dentist.
In the late 1930s, she lived on O'Neil Street, according to Allan Johnson, a member of the Hudson Historical Society, who lived a few houses down from the Coggins clan. He says he was two years older than Helen Coggins. "She was an attractive girl," recalled Johnson during a recent phone interview. "She and her brothers, Charles Jr. and Alan, went to tap dancing school. There was also a younger brother, Donald."
Johnson, who graduated from Hudson High School in 1940, figures Coggins graduated in either 1942 or '43.
She changed her name to Shaye Cogan for her professional career as an actress and a singer.
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"Shaye Cogan is one of those performers whose work turns up today almost exclusively in two sets of cult vehicles -- a fetching blonde, she appeared as an actress in two movies starring Abbott and Costello: "Comin' Round the Mountain" (1951) and "Jack and the Beanstalk" (1952), co-starring in the latter; and as a singer, she appeared in one of the defining jukebox movies of the late '50s, "Mr. Rock 'n Roll" (1957), starring Alan Freed and featuring Little Richard and Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers," according to the Musicmatch Web site.
"Comin' Round the Mountain," which also starred Dorothy Shay and Kirby Grant, is described by the Rotten Tomatoes Web site as a comedy set in the hills of Kentucky that combines "hillbillies, feuds, witches, voodoo, a failed escape artist and a search for buried treasure." What, no six white horses?
What's interesting about "Jack and the Beanstalk" is that the film begins in black and white and changes to color like "The W .