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Miracle On 34th Street (DVD)
Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Gene Lockhart, Natalie Wood, …
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Doris Walker (Maureen O'Hara), an executive at Macy's department
store, believes in taking a common-sense approach to life and is
consequently raising her daughter Susan (Natalie Wood) not to
believe in Santa Claus. This year however, the convictions of both
mother and child are challenged when the kindly old man (Edmund
Gwenn) hired as the store Santa insists that he is in fact the real
thing. No one believes him, some even think he's insane, but he is
willing to go to court to prove his case. Oscars were won by Edmund
Gwenn (Best Supporting Actor) and George Seaton (Best Screenplay)
and the film was remade in 1994 with Richard Attenborough in the
lead.
In an acting career of more than seventy years, Hollywood legend
Maureen O'Hara came to be known as "the queen of Technicolor" for
her fiery red hair and piercing green eyes. She had a reputation as
a fiercely independent thinker and champion of causes, particularly
those of her beloved homeland, Ireland. In "'Tis Herself, " O'Hara
recounts her extraordinary life and proves to be just as strong,
sharp, and captivating as any character she played on-screen.
O'Hara was brought to Hollywood as a teenager in 1939 by the great
Charles Laughton, to whom she was under contract, to costar with
him in the classic film The Hunchback of Notre Dame. She has
appeared in many other classics, including "How Green Was My
Valley, Rio Grande, The Quiet Man, " and "Miracle on 34th Street."
She recalls intimate memories of working with the actors and
directors of Hollywood's Golden Age, including Laughton, Alfred
Hitchcock, Tyrone Power, James Stewart, Henry Fonda, and John
Candy. With characteristic frankness, she describes her tense
relationship with the mercurial director John Ford, with whom she
made five films, and her close lifelong friendship with her
frequent costar John Wayne. Successful in her career, O'Hara was
less lucky in love until she met aviation pioneer Brigadier General
Charles F. Blair, the great love of her life, who died in a
mysterious plane crash ten years after their marriage.
Candid and revealing, "'Tis Herself" is an autobiography as witty
and spirited as its author.
In 2001, Goldman Sachs structured a financial contract to allow the
Greek government to appear to have less debt than it actually did.
Years later, when the Eurozone crisis erupted, Goldman's actions
were seen to be technically legal but the inevitable question of
whether they were ethically wrong arose. In Something for Nothing,
Maureen O'Hara examines the murky moral universe of modern finance
and its foundational technique: arbitrage. Examining key cases,
including the Lehman Brothers' collapse, O'Hara reveals the ways
arbitrage can transgress ethical lines. In its assessment of the
mechanics of markets today and its call for more transparent and
sound financial practices, Something for Nothing powerfully engages
with the moral decision-making inherent in the financial system.
In his 1980 essay, The World of Tomorrow and the Person of
Tomorrow, the psychologist Carl Rogers contemplated the future. He
described those who would usher in this new era as people with the
capacity to understand, bring about and absorb a paradigm shift. He
added: "I have an uneasy feeling about this chapter... It is a
beginning, an outline, a suggestion... I believe that what I am
saying here will some day be fleshed out much more fully, either by
me or someone else." Maureen O'Hara and Graham Leicester are
uniquely qualified to flesh out Carl Rogers's vision (Maureen
worked closely with Rogers for many years). Here they explore the
competencies - the ways of being, doing, knowing and organising -
that can help us navigate in complex and powerful times. They argue
that these competencies are innate and within reach of all of us -
given the right setting, plenty of practice and some gentle
guidance. But they are seldom seen because they are routinely
undervalued in today's culture. That must change, the authors
insist, and this book is intended to begin that change. The book is
based on the authors' extensive research and their practical
experience observing the qualities demonstrated by some of today's
most successful cultural, political and business leaders. They
write of `persons of tomorrow' that they have witnessed: "We find
that people who are thriving in the contemporary world, who give us
the sense of having it all together and being able to act
effectively and with good spirit in challenging circumstances, have
some identifiable characteristics in common... They are the people
already among us who inhabit the complex and messy problems of the
21st century in a more expansive way than their colleagues. They do
not reduce such problems to the scale of the tools available to
them, or hide behind those tools when they know they are partial
and inadequate. They are less concerned with `doing the right
thing' according to standard procedure than they are with really
doing the right thing in the moment, in specific cases, with the
individuals involved at the time. In a disciplined yet engaging way
they are always pushing boundaries, including their own. They dance
at the edge." Theodore Hesburgh, President Emeritus of Notre Dame
University, once said that leadership demands certainty: "You
cannot blow an uncertain trumpet." On the contrary, argue Leicester
and O'Hara, we must all learn to play the uncertain trumpet like
virtuosos. It is an image that conveys the subtle discipline
required of the `person of tomorrow' - an artistry that, they
argue, is essential to restore hope in the future.
In normal times we go about our lives oblivious to the structures,
institutions, processes, and shared values that shape our
behaviours. In powerful times like ours, deep structures of love,
power, and justice are brought to light. International Futures
Forum has been tracking three emergencies: a real emergency (the
challenges we face in the world), a conceptual emergency (making
sense of the world to take on those challenges), and an existential
emergency (how all of this leaves us feeling). It is the
existential emergency, the human consequences of living in powerful
times, that dominates the scene. Together we need to support
individuals, groups, organisations, communities, institutions,
human beings in all formations to expand, to develop, and to grow,
to rise to the occasion. This booklet proposes 3 steps: Section 1
explores the context of our times and how we can read the landscape
more effectively, coming to feel more at home in it. Second 2
focuses on transformative growth, both what we need to develop in
ourselves and how we can do so. Section 3 moves to transformative
action that will shift our systems and patterns of activity towards
our aspirations for the future.
Thoroughly updated to reflect the latest trends in theory and
practice, this this substantially revised and extended edition is
the most in-depth and wide-ranging textbook available on
person-centred psychotherapy and counselling. Divided into four
parts, it examines the theoretical, philosophical and historical
foundations of the person-centred approach; the fundamental
principles of person-centred practice and applications of
person-centred practice; how person-centred conceptualisations and
practices can be applied to groups of clients who bring particular
issues to therapy; and, finally, professional issues for
person-centred therapists, such as ethics, supervision and
training. Written by a diverse range of expert contributors,
unified by a more relational, ethics-based reading of
person-centred theory and practice, this is a comprehensive,
cutting-edge resource for students on all advanced level
person-centred courses, as well as for a wide range of professional
practitioners in the field. New to this Edition: - A new,
introductory chapter looking at contemporary challenges and
opportunities for growth for the person-centred world - Nine
further new chapters, including work with children and young
people, older clients, arts-based therapies, addiction and
bereavement, spiritual dimensions, contact and perception, working
integratively, global and political implications - Increased use of
text learning features to make the chapters more accessible and
engaging - A greater focus on actual practice, with more case
studies and examples of therapist-client dialogues Increased
reference to research - A general updating of all chapters to
include all relevant references
Born Joan Boniface Winnifrith on January 2, 1913, Anna Lee is best
known for her portrayal of General Hospital's Lila Quartermaine, a
character she brought to life for over two decades. From her early
years in England to her final days in Hollywood, she recounts
details of her extraordinary life in her memoir. Expressed in her
energetic style, Anna Lee tells of her childhood as the daughter of
an English clergyman and her early determination to become an
actress. She writes of her teenage struggles to realize her dream,
two failed marriages, and the difficulties she faced raising a
family while maintaining her career. Finally, we see the picture of
a mature Anna Lee?a successful actress playing a role she loved
while enjoying an ideal marriage to writer Robert Nathan. Personal
remembrances from her family and General Hospital co-stars round
out this touching, entertaining self-portrait of the actress? life.
A complete filmography and list of television appearances is also
included.
If the idea of a conceptual emergency seemed original when it was
introduced in the first edition of this booklet, it now appears
inescapable. Brought on by the global credit crunch and the
collapse or effective nationalisation of so many familiar
institutions (HBOS, Lehman Brothers, Woolworths...), we face a
fresh crisis of faith, as the instability of our previous
perceptions of identity, morality, cultural coherence and social
position is revealed. In a world where we are losing our collective
bearings, we urgently need leadership inspired by fresh and
insightful thinking. This little book provides a remarkable amount
of both. The authors are writing under the banner of the
International Futures Forum (IFF), an innovative and
forward-thinking group that has inspired many communities to
respond powerfully to severe social and economic challenges. Ten
Things records IFF's learning over seven years on how to take more
effective and responsible action in a world we do not understand
and cannot control. This second edition has been expanded and
updated with seven inspirational case studies from around the
world, generated by IFF's work. Insightful yet playful, compact,
readable and touchingly illustrated, this is a gem of a book. It
will appeal to managers and organisational and political leaders
but also to environmental campaigners, social psychologists and
educationalists.
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