tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11979414486367100232024-03-14T00:57:11.606-04:00The Senses of RhetoricTom Bensonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10187000395048731857noreply@blogger.comBlogger693125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197941448636710023.post-40162000318285178562021-01-19T16:35:00.003-05:002021-01-19T16:35:47.925-05:00The Coming Debate<p>
</p><p class="journalentry">-- For four years, we have been witnessing, and some of
us have been trying in our various ways to bear witness, to a sordid,
incompetent, and malicious presidential administration. Now that a new
administration is about to be installed, perhaps our daily experience of living
in America will change, and I hope our own habits of attention will change,
too. Instead of bearing witness to crime and incompetence, we will witness an
emerging debate in the majority party about the extent and nature of reform. No
doubt the debate in the Democratic party that is going to be newly central to
our political drama will in some places be referred to as a battle, or as
disunity. But the coming debate is normal, natural, and the special gift of
self-government. I look forward to it, though I know that there are bound to be
decisions made that seem to me insufficiently progressive, or misdirected. Even
so, we're all in this together. Now, let's get on with the common deliberation.</p>
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</p><p class="journalentry" style="margin-left: .5in;">". . . none were more crass
than the sellers of pardons.</p>
<p class="journalentry" style="margin-left: .5in;">"Supposed to be
commissioned by the Church, the pardoners would sell absolution for any sin
from gluttony to homicide, cancel any vow of chastity or fasting, remit any
penance for money, most of which they pocketed. . . . What they were peddling
was salvation, taking advantage of the people's need and credulity to sell its
counterfeit. The only really detestable character in Chaucer's company of
Canterbury pilgrims is the Pardoner with his stringy locks, his eunuch's
hairless skin, his glaring eyes like a hare's, and his brazen acknowledgment of
the tricks and deceits of his trade." </p>
<p class="journalentry" style="margin-left: .5in;">Barbara Tuchman, <i>A Distant
Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century</i> (New York: Random House, 1978), 32.</p>
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</p><p class="journalentry">Draft of a hypothetical VP Pence speech/declaration:</p>
<p class="journalentry">My fellow Citizens,</p>
<p class="journalentry">The past several days have witnessed events unprecedented
in American history. It is my duty to announce on behalf of the cabinet that as
of this hour, the vice president and the cabinet have agreed that it is
necessary to invoke the 25<sup>th</sup> Amendment of the Constitution to remove
Donald Trump from the Office of President, with immediate effect.</p>
<p class="journalentry">President Trump has been under enormous strain, dealing
with a world-wide pandemic, which affected him personally and with unknown
long-term effects; a faltering economy; a divided country; and a wearying
political campaign. For his enormous service to the country, he takes with him
the thanks of a grateful nation.</p>
<p class="journalentry">In the days ahead, I will, as the Constitution provides,
assume the duties of President. I ask that the cabinet and senior staff remain
in place. Our primary task, as always, is to provide for the security and well
being of the American people. We shall be preparing for an orderly transfer of
this office with the inauguration in a few days of President Elect Joe Biden.
In the meantime we will hold steady to the course of this democratic republic.
We call on our friends to be patient, and we caution our adversaries, foreign
and domestic, not to suppose that this is an opportunity for mischief. </p>
<p class="journalentry">I ask the American people for their patience and prayers.
</p>
<p class="journalentry">God Bless the United States of America.</p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>Tom Bensonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10187000395048731857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197941448636710023.post-80393979075553540792020-01-07T16:27:00.002-05:002020-03-29T16:16:44.186-04:00Let There Be PeaceI hoped when <i>Posters for Peace</i> was published in 2015 by the Penn State University Press some of the anonymous artists of the posters would come forward. One artist, Jay Belloli, was known to me at the time of publication. Then another of the artists, <a href="http://sensesofrhetoric.blogspot.com/2015/11/run-this-one-up-your-flagpole-dick.html" target="_blank">Phil Allen,</a> identified himself. Now another of the artists, Robin Repp has come forward.<br />
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With her permission I enclose Ms. Repp's letter to me about the creation of the posters. The plate numbers to which Ms. Repp refers are from Thomas W. Benson, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Posters-Peace-Visual-Rhetoric-Action-dp-0271065877/dp/0271065877/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1578433354" target="_blank"><i>Posters for Peace: Visual Rhetoric and Civic Action</i></a> (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2015).<br />
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Here are the posters to which Ms. Repp refers, with plate numbers from the published book.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Robin Repp. Let There Be Peace and Let It Begin With Me. <a href="https://digital.libraries.psu.edu/digital/collection/benson/id/218/rec/1" target="_blank">Plate 28</a>.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Robin Repp. Did We Really Come in Peace for All Mankind? <a href="https://digital.libraries.psu.edu/digital/collection/benson/id/123/rec/1" target="_blank">Plate 47</a>.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Robin Repp and Michael [?]. It's Only the Beginning. <a href="https://digital.libraries.psu.edu/digital/collection/benson/id/190/rec/1" target="_blank">Plate 27</a>. </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">December 19, 2019 </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Hello Mr. Benson,
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Thank you for your recent letter. Yes, it was me who wrote the
review on Amazon of your book, Posters for Peace. l really enjoyed
reading your book.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Plate 28 and 47 are two of mine. Also, plate 27 I collaborated with
a friend, Michael whose last name, I don't remember. It was May 1970,
when I made my posters at home with photo silk screen techniques,
printing on large paper, 26x40 and 17x22 that I purchased at a local
store(Ponderosa?) on Page Street. I bought my screens at California
Process Supply in Berkeley. All of my posters were not part of the
workshop that printed on that smaller, old computer paper. I made
another poster that is not in the book, "The Cruel War is Raging",
included in the Guardian article listed below.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I did bring my screens into the classroom when everyone started
printing posters in large quantities. Lincoln Cushing, who lives in
Berkeley has researched political posters extensively. You may know him?
(<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.docspopuli.org/articles/Bancroft/1970folio/1970folio.html&source=gmail&ust=1578517000251000&usg=AFQjCNEu4RnX4HDKz6IbHkfvRTRFqgXz-Q" href="http://www.docspopuli.org/articles/Bancroft/1970folio/1970folio.html" target="_blank">http://www.docspopuli.org/<wbr></wbr>articles/Bancroft/1970folio/<wbr></wbr>1970folio.html</a> and <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.docspopuli.org/articles/Bancroft/1970workshop.html&source=gmail&ust=1578517000251000&usg=AFQjCNGK5HW4h3Y7gt1Z3Pfd5JHusQIQ2Q" href="http://www.docspopuli.org/articles/Bancroft/1970workshop.html" target="_blank">http://www.docspopuli.org/<wbr></wbr>articles/Bancroft/<wbr></wbr>1970workshop.html</a>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The Guardian, London, interviewed me a couple of years ago when
there were 2 shows in London, one at the Stapero Modern and another
exhibition at The Victoria and Albert Museum which included several of
my posters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/jan/30/after-kent-state-1970s-anti-war-student-art-in-pictures&source=gmail&ust=1578517000251000&usg=AFQjCNFiKBZLjk99znHPimzPoxoAIte6Ug" href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/jan/30/after-kent-state-1970s-anti-war-student-art-in-pictures" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/<wbr></wbr>artanddesign/gallery/2016/jan/<wbr></wbr>30/after-kent-state-1970s-<wbr></wbr>anti-war-student-art-in-<wbr></wbr>pictures</a></span>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/jan/30/poster-power-anti-vietnam-war-art-berkeley-california-students-exhibition-shapero-modern&source=gmail&ust=1578517000251000&usg=AFQjCNGTeej4seBCgSa-gayJepN1qJb20A" href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/jan/30/poster-power-anti-vietnam-war-art-berkeley-california-students-exhibition-shapero-modern" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/<wbr></wbr>artanddesign/2016/jan/30/<wbr></wbr>poster-power-anti-vietnam-war-<wbr></wbr>art-berkeley-california-<wbr></wbr>students-exhibition-shapero-<wbr></wbr>modern</a></span>
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That would be great if you can make the proper attributions. If I can
connect with the other artists, that would be wonderful. The 50
anniversary exhibition idea would definitely be of interest. Since the
original show was in the Berkeley Art Museum, organized by Hershel
Chipp, seems like that would be the perfect place, or Worth Ryder
Gallery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Thank you for reaching out to me. I look forward to hearing more in the future.</span></div>
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Best regards,<br /><i>Robin <span class="il">Repp</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><i> Artist </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><i>OCCCA</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.occca.org&source=gmail&ust=1578517000251000&usg=AFQjCNEFWzlncs4Q9gX7LJVJShqoZH3Oqw" href="http://www.occca.org/" target="_blank">http://www.occca.org</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Jack Delano. <span>Spectators at labor day parade in Du Bois, Pennsylvania. September 1940. FSA-OWI Collection, Library of Congress.</span></span></div>
Tom Bensonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10187000395048731857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197941448636710023.post-18611093691042219012017-01-24T12:29:00.001-05:002017-01-24T12:29:28.003-05:00Posters from Women's March<a href="http://www.chronicle.com/article/In-Discarded-Women-s-March/238987">http://www.chronicle.com/article/In-Discarded-Women-s-March/238987</a><br />
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<br />Tom Bensonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10187000395048731857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197941448636710023.post-8687498911143290672016-11-21T08:02:00.002-05:002016-11-21T09:10:41.581-05:00Republic or Democracy?Is the United States a Republic or a Democracy?<br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g">This
non-issue is sometimes raised by those on the right--it was a favorite
claim of the John Birch Society that America is "a republic, not a
democracy," meaning the people should not rule. The same dichotomy is
sometimes claimed on the Left, but as a
complaint that the United States is not actually a direct democracy, or
that at its founding the franchise was not universal. You will be
hearing the claim coming from the Right in the days ahead -- be ready
for it. Democracy and Republicanism are not contraries or mutually
exclusive -- the United States is a republic (there is no monarch) and a representative
democracy (despite the worries of the founders about the hazards of Democracy). Yes, the democracy is imperfect--how could it not be?--and it
could be improved. But it's not one or the other, it's both.</span></span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g">see also <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/05/13/is-the-united-states-of-america-a-republic-or-a-democracy/?">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/05/13/is-the-united-states-of-america-a-republic-or-a-democracy/?</a></span></span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"> See also Abraham Lincoln, <i>The Lyceum Address</i> (1838)</span></span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g">Tocqueville, <i>Democracy in America</i>. </span></span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"><br /></span></span>Tom Bensonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10187000395048731857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197941448636710023.post-44369400777652612872016-11-10T21:12:00.000-05:002016-11-10T21:19:44.906-05:00Thank You, Secretary Clinton<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody">It's
hard to sort out Hillary Clinton the person, Hillary Clinton the
evolving political actor (Senate, Secretary of State, presidential
nominee) from the lies and smears, mostly baseless, directed against her
for decades now. As a politician she has--perhaps often rightly,
sometimes mistakenly--taken positions on issues, and sometimes changed
positions. When looked at with any degree of seriousness, the scandals
seem to evaporate into smears and lies and distortions--hypocrisies
flung by other politicians. I'll admit that as the presidential election
began to come into focus a couple of years ago, I hoped that someone
other than Hillary Clinton might step forward, but not because I had any
real belief in the smears against her--to which I have paid close
attention since about 1990. But my hope for "someone else" was not
really about doubts I had towards her so much as a sense of all that
ugly bad memory. If nothing else, what other people believed about her
would be a millstone--and it was. But when she emerged as a candidate,
and then as the nominee, I found her direct, smart, profoundly serious
and well informed. I supported her with confidence and hope--even
recognizing what seemed to me some limits. She wasn't FDR, but she
wasn't George W. Bush, either. I'm sorry she lost and I don't blame her
for it.</span></span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody">It
is hard for me not to think that we are seeing a resurgence here, and a
victory, at least for the time being, of an old fashioned American
brutalism, nativism, racism, misogyny, and homophobia, along with
20th-21st century authoritarianism. Those elements of our national
experience have always been present and now they are taking new forms
and new strength with this election. We have sometimes, in our history,
managed to overcome -- but never to eliminate -- these parts of our
history and character. It is easy for us at colleges and universities,
perhaps, or in our comfortable cities and suburbs, to imagine that those
forces were gone or shrinking to a manageable level. We were wrong. The
work is not finished. We can only make a difference together.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody">Okay, mourn. Then what? Most of my friends are teachers
and parents, and we all have elderly relatives and children who are
relatives. They need your wisdom, your patience, and your love now. And
then, organize. And teach. </span></span> </span></span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody">Progressives
will have differences as we pick up the pieces, but though we do now
need tough self appraisal we do not need factional infighting -- a
historically likely development at a moment like this.</span></span> </span></span>Tom Bensonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10187000395048731857noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197941448636710023.post-33782324151220790332016-10-13T07:51:00.003-04:002016-10-13T07:51:53.598-04:00STOP. TRUMP. NO OUTLET.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Tom Bensonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10187000395048731857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197941448636710023.post-5500694416466173602016-10-01T13:06:00.000-04:002016-10-01T13:07:01.405-04:00Get in the Scrap<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Salvage. School children get in the scrap. The school children of
America were officially organized for a nationwide salvage program
starting on Monday, October 5, 1942. The children are going into the
field as a junior army engaged in a major campaign for victory. Plans
included the laying out of definite areas in each community to be
assigned to specific groups of children. Plans were also made for
holding meetings, collecting scrap, storing it and getting it to central
points for shipment. Roanoke, Virginia has already gotten its program
underway. This picture shows scrap being dug out of an attic by the
"junior commandos." Photo by Howard Liberman. October 1942. Office of War Information. FSA-OWI Collection, Library of Congress.
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/oem2002004863/PP/Tom Bensonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10187000395048731857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197941448636710023.post-57484962774445554972016-09-26T09:10:00.002-04:002016-09-26T09:10:44.438-04:00Why Debate Preparation MattersWho cares about debate prep? The press, sadly, seems to depict debate
prep as about pretty much nothing but preparing one-liners, put-downs,
and elegant evasions. And yet debate preparation for a president or a
presidential candidate has an important substantive and systemic
function, as it requires the principal to listen to and to read
briefings on a range of important and difficult policy matters, to try
formulating sensible and persuasive responses, and to hear those resp<span class="text_exposed_show">onses
criticized by smart aides -- forcing the candidate or president to try
again--and to think again. In a fine book called the Fourth Branch of
Government, Douglass Cater wrote, many years ago, that a presidential
press conference has the beneficial effect not only of providing an
occasion for presidential communication, but also as requiring the
president and crucially the presidential staff to see to it that they
had a grasp of everything that was happening in the administration, so
as not to be surprised. Without such occasions, the temptation of
subordinates to hide bad news from the principal is strong. Debate
preparation matters -- as a function of self government.</span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show">If Donald Trump does not bother to prepare for the current round of presidential debates but instead treats them as an occasion for extemporaneous mud-slinging and lies, what does that predict about how a Trump presidency might unfold? </span>Tom Bensonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10187000395048731857noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197941448636710023.post-36464069506682326592016-09-26T09:07:00.003-04:002016-09-26T09:07:22.720-04:00Mud Wrestling for the Oval OfficeHeadlines: the face-off, the battle . . . Granted these are not actually
"debates" as we academics would describe them, and of course they are
dramatic mysteries as well as a rehearsal of presidential speech, but
Donald Trump is already programmed to win the sort of encounter that our
press describes in its metaphors of conflict. If we sell ourselves on
the idea of the debates as mud wrestling, we have decided it before it
has begun.Tom Bensonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10187000395048731857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197941448636710023.post-74790582530650400612016-07-29T10:32:00.000-04:002016-07-29T10:33:04.233-04:00Women of America!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Women of America! If you want to put a vote in in 1920 put a (.10, 1.00, 10.00) in now. National Ballot Box for 1920. Photograph by Harris & Ewing. 1920. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Collection.
<a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/hec2013000235/">http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/hec2013000235/</a>Tom Bensonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10187000395048731857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197941448636710023.post-16751013783634464332016-07-14T16:59:00.002-04:002016-07-14T17:02:08.564-04:00Posters for Peace wins Everett Lee Hunt Award<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://smile.amazon.com/Posters-Peace-Visual-Rhetoric-Action/dp/0271065877/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1468530057&sr=1-1&keywords=benson+posters+for+peace" target="_blank"><i>Posters for Peace: Visual Rhetoric and Civic Action</i></a> (Penn State University Press, 2015) is the 2016 recipient of the Everett Lee Hunt Award of the Eastern Communication Association.<br />
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ECA describes the Hunt Award: <br />
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The Everett Lee Hunt Award is presented annually at the discretion of
the ECA Committee of Scholars. The Hunt Award reflects the philosophic
commitment and scholarly contributions of Everett Lee Hunt, one of the
founders of the discipline of communication and the eighth president of
ECA (1927-1929). </blockquote>
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The nominee should have provided a major contribution to the
understanding of rhetoric and communication as a human function in the
contemporary world; a means of explaining and realizing public
responsibilities beyond the discipline of communication; and/or an
intellectual and humane instrument for merging diverse fields of
knowledge in a way that infuses them with moral purpose and public
significance.</blockquote>
<br />Tom Bensonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10187000395048731857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197941448636710023.post-60218079057032886322016-03-13T12:22:00.000-04:002016-03-13T12:22:19.622-04:00I'm With Them<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm With Them. 2016 Primary Election Poster</div>
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Tom Bensonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10187000395048731857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197941448636710023.post-17768765752604336422016-03-10T12:34:00.000-05:002016-03-10T12:35:00.222-05:00DONTRUMP<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Tom Bensonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10187000395048731857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197941448636710023.post-27690980782556589052016-02-24T16:21:00.000-05:002016-02-24T16:23:42.132-05:00New York Public Library Poster Collection<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection,
The New York Public Library. "Harper's July"
New York Public Library Digital Collections.
Accessed February 24, 2016.
<a href="http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dc-487d-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99">http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dc-487d-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99</a></div>
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From the free, downloadable collection of turn of the century art posters at the New York Public Library. <a href="http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/turn-of-the-century-posters?format=html&id=turn-of-the-century-posters&per_page=250&page=2#/?tab=navigation">http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/turn-of-the-century-posters?format=html&id=turn-of-the-century-posters&per_page=250&page=2#/?tab=navigation</a><br />
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<br />Tom Bensonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10187000395048731857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197941448636710023.post-6926285543197934172016-02-12T08:43:00.000-05:002016-02-12T12:37:47.114-05:00The Canary in the MineSome friends have disliked Hillary Clinton's yellow coat at the debate with Bernie Sanders last night. <span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody">I
did not much like that coat either, but with all due respect I think
this line of criticism wanders into and reveals the anti-feminist double
bind. This is a middle aged woman. The rules of dress for senior
politicians are based on the standard followed by men -- dark suit,
white shirt, dark or red tie. Women's clothing either imitates men
(reminding us that she's not a man, implicitly qualified on those
grounds for senior office), or it doesn't (ditto). That's the double
bind, and none of us is immune to it. I don't remember much mockery of
the clothing choices of the men in the race -- suit for the debate,
jeans for the farmyard, casual for the diner, or whatever. Or implicit
mockery of them for their figures. It is fashionable to suppose that
the society has moved past sexism (or racism), but we haven't. I'm not
accusing any of my friends here of this -- it's all of us.</span></span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"> http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/11/politics/democratic-debate-highlights/</span></span><br />
Tom Bensonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10187000395048731857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197941448636710023.post-79750360538355349122016-02-10T09:58:00.000-05:002016-02-10T10:02:53.171-05:00Burning the Autumn Leaves, 1940.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jack Delano. Burning the Autumn Leaves on Broadway in Norwich, Connecticut. October 1940. FSA-OWI Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/fsa2000023717/PP/">http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/fsa2000023717/PP/</a></span></div>
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<br />Tom Bensonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10187000395048731857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197941448636710023.post-66303529331562512342016-02-08T16:08:00.003-05:002016-02-08T16:10:55.416-05:00Football Season, 1937.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">John Vachon. Spectators at football game, Annapolis, Maryland. November 1937.
FSA-OWI Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/fsa1997002916/PP/" target="_blank">http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/fsa1997002916/PP/ </a></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">John Vachon. Watching Columbia-Navy football game, Annapolis, Maryland. November 1937. FSA-OWI Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null">http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/fsa1997002915/PP/ </a></span></div>
Tom Bensonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10187000395048731857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197941448636710023.post-83895337610490457922016-02-08T15:42:00.001-05:002016-02-08T15:53:12.434-05:00Franklin D. Roosevelt: Message to the Boy Scouts of America on their Twenty-fifth Anniversary.Enlisting the Boy Scouts in the New Deal. <br />
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<span class="displaytext">President Head, Members of the Boy Scouts:</span><br />
<span class="displaytext">The year 1935 marks the Twenty-fifth Birthday celebration of the Boy Scouts of America. During these years the value of our organization in building character and in training for citizenship has made itself a vital factor in the life of America. That is why not only the Boy Scoutsof today, but the millions of men and boys who have graduated through Scouting, will be joined by millions of other Americans in the proper marking and celebration of our anniversary.</span><br />
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<span class="displaytext">As I review the record of these twenty-five years of Scouting in America, I am impressed with the extent of the volunteer service we have rendered. We as a Nation are proud of the fact that in addition to our splendid system of education and of other services made available through funds secured by taxation, there are in each community so many well-organized and efficiently administered agencies which supplement the work of Government and make available additional opportunities which strengthen the best objectives of the home, the church and the school.</span><br />
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<span class="displaytext">Every Scout seeks to do a good turn daily; every troop seeks to accomplish some community benefit;and occasionally, as last year, Scouts everywhere unite to do a good turn nationally. A year ago, as your Honorary President, I started the national Scout effort to collect household furnishings and clothing and supplies for those in need; and the results were truly amazing. Hundreds of thousands of families were helped by the Boy Scouts.</span><br />
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<span class="displaytext">The program for this year, embracing as it does over one million boys, lasts throughout the year. In May there will be a gathering of the Leaders of Scouting at the Twenty-fifth Annual Meeting of the National Council.</span><br />
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<span class="displaytext">But the outstanding event will be America's first National Jamboree, to be held here in the City of Washington from August 21st to August 30th. I hope to attend it in person. Since I extended the invitation a year ago,definite plans have crystallized. With the cooperation of various officials here in Washington a fine camp site has been made available and will be all ready to receive thirty thousand boys when the meeting starts. I am glad to know that the selection of these boys is being made on the basis of merit and, furthermore, that in many cases these boys will come to Washington at the expense of the troop and not merely because the boy's economic situation in life is such as to make it possible for his parents to send him.</span><br />
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<span class="displaytext">Thirty thousand Scouts brought together under such conditions will mean the most thoroughly representative group of American boys ever mobilized for a purpose of this character.<br /><br />
We hope, too, that other countries will send at least small delegations to meet with us on this occasion. Because Scouting is now in active operation in almost every civilized Nation of the world, this will give us a splendid opportunity to enlarge our basis of mutual respect, of understanding and of friendship among the people of the world, regardless of race or creed.</span> </blockquote>
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<span class="displaytext">In a moment Dr. West is going to lead the Scouts in thousands of halls and other meeting places in every State in the Union in repeating the Scout Oath and Law. I hope that the people who are listening to my voice will give careful heed to this Scout Oath. It is the basis of good citizenship; it is the basis of good government; it is the basis of orderly progress for our country in the years to come.</span></blockquote>
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<span class="displaytext"><span class="ver10"><b></b></span><span class="ver10">Franklin D. Roosevelt: </span><span class="ver10">"Message to the Boy Scouts of America on their Twenty-fifth Anniversary.," February 8, 1935. </span><span class="ver10">Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, <i>The American Presidency Project</i>. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=14979.</span></span> <br />
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<br />Tom Bensonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10187000395048731857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197941448636710023.post-2002482413583744912016-02-08T13:03:00.000-05:002016-02-08T13:03:43.210-05:00Salvage Campaign, 1942.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Alfred T. Palmer. <span>Annette del Sur public[iz]ing salvage campaign in yard of Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, California. October 1942. FSA-OWI Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. </span> <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/fsa1992001591/PP/"><span>http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/fsa1992001591/PP/</span></a><br />
<br />Tom Bensonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10187000395048731857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197941448636710023.post-23241486814132316562016-02-07T11:58:00.000-05:002016-02-07T11:58:44.137-05:00At the Wharves, Annapolis. 1937.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">John Vachon. <span>Men at the wharves, Annapolis, Maryland. November 1937. FSA-OWI Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. </span><a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/fsa1997002872/PP/" target="_blank"><span>http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/fsa1997002872/PP/</span></a></span></div>
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<span> <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">John Vachon. </span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Untitled photo, possibly related to: Men at the wharves, Annapolis, Maryland. November 1937. <span>FSA-OWI Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. </span><br /><a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/fsa1997002873/PP/"><span>http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/fsa1997002873/PP/</span></a></span></div>
<span><br /></span>Tom Bensonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10187000395048731857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197941448636710023.post-25491730446127991582016-02-06T11:05:00.000-05:002016-02-06T11:05:27.716-05:00Breakfast with hawk.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A hawk was sitting on our back fence this morning, showing a keen interest in some squirrels who were darting about among the trees. I think the hawk left without breakfasting on any of the squirrels.<br />
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<br />Tom Bensonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10187000395048731857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197941448636710023.post-52723774149207539132016-02-05T17:16:00.002-05:002016-02-05T17:18:01.873-05:00On to New Hampshire<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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