User:Roger A. Lohmann/sandbox
"When there isn't anything else fun to do, I go outside and play in my sandbox."
- Anon. (Age 8)
Dewey, Lippman and Bourne on Publics
(This section is being written for addition to the Public article I've been working on.)
Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) was a working journalist and political commentator. Along with Herbert Croly and Walter Weyl, he was one of the founding editors of The New Republic and a highly influential force in American journalism during the first half of the twentieth century. He coined the term "stereotype" to describe "the pictures in our heads". In Public Opinion (1922) Lippmann offered the fullest statement of his elitist view of representative democracy, the general public and the process of formation of public opinion. He saw the accuracy of news and the protection of journalistic sources as the principal problem of democracy and presented the public largely in Platonic terms as a bewildered and rather passive herd. In modern, industrial society, according to Lippmann, it was the job of the journalist to translate the actions and motives of the "governing class" of bureaucratic experts and specialists into terms that the general public could comprehend. He found the notion of actual government by the people (as opposed to their better-informed representatives) altogether implausible.
Article Ideas, Fragments, etc
| Title | Composer/Librettist | Location | Main Characters | Date Written |
Date Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | Oscar Hammerstein/Richard Rodgers | Oklahoma Territory | Curley McLain, Laurey Williams | 1941 | 1943 |
| State Fair | Iowa State Fair | 1948 | 1948 | 1948 | |
| Annie Get Your Gun | Annie Oakley | 1900 | 1900 | ||
| Meet Me In St. Louis | 1900 | 1900 | |||
| South Pacific | WWII in Pacific | 1900 | 1900 | ||
| Wonderful Town | NYC | 1900 | 1900 | ||
| New York, New York | 1900 | 1900 | |||
| Phantom of the Opera | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Paris Opera, Paris Sewer | 1941 | 1943 | |
| Aspects of Love | Andrew Lloyd Webber | 1948 | 1948 | 1948 | |
| Cats | 1900 | 1900 | |||
| Evita | Buenos Aires | 1900 | |||
| West Side Story | 1900 | 1900 | |||
| The Sound of Music | Austria | 1900 | 1900 | ||
| My Fair Lady | Edwardian London | 1900 | } | ||
| Private Lives | Noel Coward | 1900 | } | ||
| Kiss Me Kate | 1900 | } | |||
| The King and I | Siam | 1900 | } | ||
| Pal Joey | 1900 | } | |||
| Guys and Dolls | Broadway | 1900 | } |
- Grand opera [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Operetta [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Alan Furst [r]: Add brief definition or description
References
(No workgroup is going to want to claim this!)