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"Virgil Clarence Blum SJ (March 27, 1913 – April 5, 1990) was an American Jesuit and professor of political science at Marquette University. Biography = Early life and education = Virgil Clarence Blum was born on March 27, 1913 in Defiance, Iowa, one of twelve children of John and Elizabeth Blum. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1934 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1947. In 1938 Blum received a bachelor's degree in Latin and English from St. Stanislaus Seminary at Florissant, Missouri. In 1945 he earned a master's degree in history and political science from St. Louis University. Blum returned to St. Louis University in 1950 for doctoral studies, earning a Ph.D. in political science and U.S. history in 1954. His area of expertise was American constitutional law and interest-group politics.http://www.marquette.edu/library/collections/archives/SuperC/C-1-14s2-VCB.htm = Teaching career = From 1953 to 1956 Blum taught at Creighton University. In 1956 he joined the political science faculty at Marquette University, receiving promotion to associate professor in 1958 and full professor in 1961. Blum served as chairman of the political science department from 1962 to 1974. In 1978 he was named professor emeritus. During his years at Marquette, Blum served on many important university committees, and he received the institution's Teaching Excellence Award in 1966. A prolific writer, Blum published twelve books and nearly 400 articles. = Civil rights activism = Embodying the Jesuit ideal of the "contemplative in action," Blum pursued public advocacy on behalf of educational reform and religious and civil rights. He was an indefatigable champion of parental choice in education through school vouchers for students in private schools. In 1961 Blum helped to found the Wisconsin chapter of Citizens for Educational Freedom (CEF), and he was also active in the national organization, serving on its board of directors and executive committee and, for a time, as its national executive director. A popular lecturer, Blum traveled the United States giving talks to civil and religious groups, and he often contributed editorials to newspapers throughout the country. In 1973 Blum founded the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights and served as its president until 1989. Modeled on the American Civil Liberties Union and Anti-Defamation League, the Catholic League sought to safeguard the religious freedom and free speech of Catholics. In 1983 Pope John Paul II recognized Blum's service by naming him a Knight of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.http://www.marquette.edu/library/collections/archives/SuperC/C-1-14s2-VCB.htm = Later life = In 1989 Blum was diagnosed with cancer, and he died on April 5, 1990, in his room at Marquette University's Jesuit Residence. = Archival collections = Rev. Virgil C. Blum, S.J., Papers, 1947-1990 The collection documents Blum's service activities both within and outside Marquette University. It contains no materials from his life prior to ordination in the Society of Jesus. The university-related papers make up only a fraction of the whole: a majority of the collection pertains to Blum's involvement in Citizens for Educational Freedom (CEF) and The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. The collection also contains manuscripts of Blum's articles and presentations as well as copies of his published articles, mostly from popular journals and newspapers. Many of the manuscripts are undated. The collection also contains a variety of audiovisual materials, including some sound recordings of Blum's speaking engagements and video recordings of his television appearances. Blum was a voluminous correspondent, and letters are the most abundant type of document in the collection. He mixed his incoming and outgoing correspondence, and he appears to have maintained several different filing schemes for his letters. Correspondence is scattered throughout the collection. Because Blum's personal and professional lives were so closely intertwined, researchers will find correspondence related to his public advocacy efforts among files labeled as personal correspondence. References See also *Marquette University *Marquette University Special Collections and University Archives American political scientists 20th-century American Jesuits 1913 births 1990 deaths Saint Louis University alumni Marquette University faculty Creighton University faculty Knights of the Holy Sepulchre "
"Otto Gebühr played Frederick the Great in 16 films. The Great King () is a 1942 German drama film directed by Veit Harlan and starring Otto Gebühr. It depicts the life of Frederick the Great, who ruled Prussia from 1740 to 1786. It received the rare "Film of the Nation" distinction.Erwin Leiser, Nazi Cinema p116 It was part of a popular cycle of "Prussian films". The film is a depiction of the Führerprinzip, with the analogy to Adolf Hitler being so clear that Hitler sent a print to Benito Mussolini, and Joseph Goebbels warned against the drawing of the comparison in print, in particular, because of the pessimistic mood that opens the film.Erwin Leiser, Nazi Cinema p113-4 After a sergeant gives an unauthorised order, the king orders him simultaneously promoted and punished. His decision to desert after this results in his death, because no disobedience is justified. Goebbels declared that the parallels were not a matter of propaganda, but an obvious result of the parallels of history.Pierre Aycoberry The Nazi Question, p10 Pantheon Books New York 1981 Goebbels also regarded it as instructive that current sufferings would be a source of strength.Cinzia Romani, Tainted Goddesses: Female Film Stars of the Third Reich p93 Goebbels had some difficulty with the Army High Command over this film, because it depicted the king left in the lurch by his general. He complained that the army felt that any depiction, however historical, reflected badly on them. Cast * Otto Gebühr as Frederick II. * Kristina Söderbaum as Luise Treskow * Gustav Fröhlich as Treskow * Hans Nielsen as Niehoff * Paul Wegener as General Czernitscheff * Paul Henckels as Grenadier Spiller * Elisabeth Flickenschildt as Spiller's Wife * Kurt Meisel as Alfons * Hilde Körber as Elisabeth Christine * Claus Clausen as Prince Henry the Older * Klaus Detlef Sierck as Prince Henry the Younger * Herbert Hübner as Count Finkenstein * Franz Schafheitlin as Commandant Bernburg * Otto F. Henning as General von Finken * Reginald Pasch as General Manteufel * Otto Graf as General Seydlitz * Heinrich Schroth as General Balthasar Rudolf von Schenckendorf * Leopold von Ledebur as General von Retzow Awards * Director Veit Harlan won the Mussolini Cup for Best Foreign Film at the 1942 Venice Film Festival. CitationsReferences * External links Der große König Full film at the Deutsche Filmothek 1942 films 1940s historical drama films Films of Nazi Germany Cultural depictions of Frederick the Great German films German historical drama films German-language films German black-and-white films Films directed by Veit Harlan Prussian films Films set in the 1750s Films set in the 1760s Seven Years' War films Biographical films about German royalty Tobis Film films 1942 drama films Films set in the Kingdom of Prussia "
"David Bradley Armstrong (May 24, 1954 – October 26, 2014) was an American photographer based in New York, United States. Armstrong first exhibited his work in 1977 and had one-person shows in New York City, Boston, Berlin, Paris, Rome, Zurich, Düsseldorf, Lisbon, Munich, and Amsterdam. His work was included in numerous group museum exhibitions including Visions from America: Photographs from The Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2001 in 2003, Emotions and Relations at the Hamburger Kunsthalle in 1998, and the 1995 Whitney Biennial.David Armstrong Matthew Marks Gallery, New York/Los Angeles.Whitney Biennial, (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1995) Personal life Armstrong was born in 1954, in Arlington, Massachusetts, one of four sons of Robert and Irma Armstrong.Paul Vitello (October 31, 2014), David Armstrong, Photographer of Subcultures, Dies at 60 The New York Times. He graduated from the Satya Community School, an alternative high school in Lincoln, Massachusetts, where he met Nan Goldin at the age of 14.Jane Harris, "Home-Work: Photographer David Armstrong Talks About His Latest Monograph, 615 Jefferson Avenue", 19 December 2011. Accessed 15 December 2017. On October 26, 2014, at the age of 60, he died in Los Angeles, California due to liver cancer. Career Armstrong entered into the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston as a painting major, but soon switched to photography after studying alongside Goldin, with whom he shared an apartment. He attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Cooper Union from 1974–78, and he earned a B.F.A from Tufts University in 1988 and Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art in Boston. During the late 1970s, Armstrong became associated with the "Boston School" of photography, which included artists such as Nan Goldin, Mark Morrisroe and Jack Pierson. Their aesthetic was based on intimate snapshot portraits in saturated color. Armstrong first received critical attention for his intimate portraits of men, either lovers or friends, in sharp focus.David Armstrong, "The Silver Cord", (New York: Scalo, 1997) In the nineties, he began to photograph cityscapes and landscapes in soft focus to contrast with the resolution of his portraits. Street lights, electric signs and cars are reduced to a sensual mottled blur, complementing the vividness and tactility of his portraits. In 1981, Armstrong created a series of black-and-white portraits which he showed at PS1's New York/New Wave exhibition. In 1996, Elisabeth Sussman, curator of photographs at the Whitney Museum, enlisted Armstrong's help in composing Goldin's first retrospective. She gained such respect for Armstrong’s eye, she acquired a few of his pieces for the Whitney permanent collection and he was subsequently featured in the Whitney 1994 biennial. Armstrong’s work has also appeared in publications such as Vogue Paris, L'Uomo Vogue, Arena Homme +, GQ, Self Service, Another Man and Japanese Vogue and he has worked on the advertising campaigns of companies such as Zegna, René Lezard, Kenneth Cole, Burberry, Puma, and Barbara Bui. He once shot editorials for Wonderland, Vogue Hommes and Purple. Although his primary subjects include portraits of young boys and men, Armstrong also released a book of land and cityscapes in 2002, entitled All Day, Every Day. Exhibitions * A Double Life, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York City, 1993 * Landscapes, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York City, 1995 * The Silver Cord, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York City, 1997 * Emotions and Relations, Hamburger Kunsthalle Hamburg, Germany, 1998 * Gallerie Barbara Farber/Rob Jurka Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1998 * Ugo Ferranti Rome, Italy, 1998 * New Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York City, 1999 * Scalo New York, New York City, 1999 * Galerie Fricke, Berlin, 1999 * Judy Goldman Fine Art, Boston, 1999 * Bang Street Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1999 * Joao Graça, Lisbon, 2000 * Open Studio, Toronto, 2000 * Photography in Boston: 1955 – 1985, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts, 2000 (catalogue ) * New Editions, Marlborough Graphics, New York City, 2000 * Faces, Bang Street Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 2000 * Cityscapes and Landscapes, Galerie M+R Fricke, Düsseldorf, 2001 * Bang Street Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 2001 * CITY: Prints and Photographs from the 30's through Today, Brooke Alexander, New York City, 2001 * Places and People, L.A. Galerie Lothar Albrecht, Frankfurt, 2001 * Building Dwelling Thinking, Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston, 2001 * Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, 100 Drawings and Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York City, 2001 (catalogue ) * City Light, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York City, 2002 * David Armstrong: All Day Every Day, Scalo Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland, 2002 * Visions from America. Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2001, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, 2002 (catalogue ) * Recent Acquisitions, Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, 2002 * David Armstrong: portraits and other works, early and recent, Galerie M + R Fricke, Düsseldorf, 2003 * Flesh Tones: 100 Years of the Nude, Robert Mann Gallery, New York City, 2003 * Your Picture on My Wall, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York City, 2004 * Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, 2004 * Indigestible Correctness II, Kenny Schachter Gallery, New York City, 2004 * Model Boy, Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston, 2006 * Some Tribes, Christophe Guye Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland, 2006 * True Romance - Allegorien der Liebe von der Renaissance bis heute, Kunsthalle Wien (Halle 1, Halle 2 im MQ), Vienna, 2007 Publications=Publications by Armstrong= *Polariods. 2013. . *David Armstrong: All Day Every Day. 2002. . *The Silver Cord. 1997. . =Publications with others= *Night and Day. By Armstrong, Rene Richard and Jack Pierson. 2012 . *David Armstrong: 615 Jefferson Avenue. By Armstrong, Nick Vogelson, Anton Aparin and Boyd Holbrook. 2011. . *A Double Life. By Armstrong and Nan Goldin. 1994 . *Faces of Hope:AIDS and Addiction in America.By Armstrong and Rory Kennedy. 2001. References 1954 births 2014 deaths American photographers Tufts University alumni People from Arlington, Massachusetts School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts alumni Artists from New York City Deaths from liver cancer "