Jody lynn nye biography of mahatma
Where to begin.
It has been an amazing and amazingly busy time for Nancy and me. I suppose it began in early September with DragonCon, which was great fun, as it always is. I don’t know how many more DragonCons I’ll be attending, but if this is the last, it was a good one with which to end. I saw many friends, received lots of support and love from people who hadn’t seen me since last fall. And my panels were uniformly interesting, well-attended, and entertaining.
I got home September 2 and Nancy and I spent the next ten days readying our house for real estate showings. We moved furniture, cleaned like dervishes, and made the house look like something out of Good Housekeeping. It worked, but more on that shortly.
A week and a half after DragonCon, we went out to Washington State for a wonderful wedding celebration of the daughter of dear friends and her partner. We were out there for a week, sharing a house overlooking the Hood Canal with a terrific group, a mix of old (college) friends and new ones — the newly formed Forbidden Freak Show!! (Long story . . . .)
While we were away, our real estate agent began to show our house to interested buyers. We received an offer the first day — for our asking price! — and had a preliminary contract signed after two days.
And then things really began to get crazy: We flew home from Washington on September 19th, were home for two full days — time enough to do laundry, take care of a few things at home, sign some documents for the real estate agents, and sleep a little.
On September 22nd, we boarded a plane in Atlanta and began the fifteen hour flight to Johannesburg, South Africa. For the next three weeks, we experienced what may be the most remarkable travel experience either of us will ever have. We spent the first several days in the Pretoria and Johannesburg area, the highlight being a full-day (close to nine hours) tour of JoBerg, which included visits to the Apartheid Museum, the township of Soweto, Nelson Mande
This eBook is a reproduction produced by the National Library of New Zealand from source material that we believe has no known copyright. Additional physical and digital editions are available from the National Library of New Zealand.
EPUB ISBN: 978-0-908329-17-5
PDF ISBN: 978-0-908332-13-7
The original publication details are as follows:
Title: Low's autobiography.
Author: Low, David
Published: Michael Joseph, London, England, 1956
THE NATIONAL LIBRARY
OF NEW ZEALAND
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
LOW's
HFW TFALAPfD
MATKSNAL Lll AKY SEIVK-*
LOW's
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
London
MICHAEL JOSEPH
First published by MICHAEL JOSEPH LTD 26 Bloomsbury Street London , W.C.i *956
Set and printed in Great Britain by Unwin Brothers Ltd. at the Gresham Press, Woking, in Baskerville type, eleven point leaded on paper made by Henry Bruce at Currie, Midlothian, and bound by James Burn at Esher
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
In writing this book, besides making use of a fifty-year accumulation of personal press cuttings, countless T-remember’ conversations, a mound of relevant correspondence and a fragmentary diary, I have helped myself freely to my own writings published in a multitude of newspapers and periodicals. Some of the proprietors and editors of these, with their publications, are beyond my felicitations, but to those who survive I make my acknowledgments.
Particularly I should mention that I have borrowed from my book Ye Madde Designer , published by The Studio Ltd., some anecdotes, for re-telling here in their appropriate place and sequence as part of Chapters 10 and 17; from the New Statesman and Nation , London, and the New Republic , New York, part of Chapter 16; from the New York Times and Nash’s Magazine other parts of the same chapter; and from the London Evening Standard and New York Times passages which appear in Chapters 10, 14 and 18.
I offer my thanks to Lord Bcaverbrook, Herbert Morrison, Gilbert Murray and Aldous Huxley; and the executors of the late H. G. Wells, Arnold Benn The New Negro (1925) is an anthology by Alain Locke. Expanded from a March issue of Survey Graphic magazine, The New Negro compiles writing from such figures as Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Toomer, and Locke himself. Recognized as a foundational text of the Harlem Renaissance, the collection is organized around Locke's writing on the function of art in reorganizing the conception of African American life and culture. Through self-understanding, creation, and independence, Locke's New Negro came to represent a break from an inhumane past, a means toward meaningful change for a people held down for far too long. "For generations in the mind of America, the Negro has been more of a formula than a human being-a something to be argued about, condemned or defended, to be 'kept down,' or 'in his place,' or 'helped up,' to be worried with or worried over, harassed or patronized, a social bogey or a social burden." Identifying the representation of black Americans in the national imaginary as oppressive in nature, Locke suggests a way forward through his theory of the New Negro, who "wishes to be known for what he is, even in his faults and shortcomings, and scorns a craven and precarious survival at the price of seeming to be what he is not." Throughout The New Negro, leading artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance offer their unique visions of who and what they are; voicing their concerns, portraying injustice, and illuminating the black experience, they provide a holistic vision of self-expression in all of its colors and forms. Find out more 120 books from 120 years
.