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Molinari, Jack: Moscone and Milk
No full textJack Molinari: I think it’s unfortunate in the history of our city that the assassinations, when they occurred, in a way have been forgotten. There was a mayor who was assassinated, and there was a supervisor who was assassinated. When you look around, you go online, you see the movie “Milk”, even though it was about him; you see there was a supervisor who was assassinated, and by the way the mayor was also assassinated. I think that’s a disservice to his legacy, and I think that they were both good public servants, and both need the same respect and memory
Molinari, Jack: Mo Bernstein
No full textJack Molinari: The night that George Moscone was elected Mayor, we were sitting in a suite in the Whitcomb Hotel on Market Street. Mo Bernstein was there along with others, and as it started to get close, it looked like Barbagelata might win, all of a sudden Mo was gone. We didn’t know what happened? We were watching the television and a little while later who walks into Barbagelata headquarters but Mo Bernstein. Well that really steamed George off. George was really angry. And so Mo of course was one of the three Jewish leaders who always had to be on a commission, so George didn’t put him on a commission. When he first went in Mo literally sat out in front of that outer office for months trying to see George, and finally somebody else put it together and I guess George did appoint him to the fire commission or something at that time. But there was a period there where Mo Bernstein was out
Molinari, Jack: Moscone negotiation and Alioto
No full textJack Molinari: Night and day from Alioto (talking about George Moscone). Alioto… The Board was something over there that you had to deal with. It was like a pesky fly that was flying around. It was over there and you had to deal with it. I remember one time he sent us a message saying, “If you pass this legislation I’m going to veto it.” We passed the legislation. He walked into our chambers – the gavel had not come down three seconds – picked the bill up off the clerk’s desk, wrote veto across it, signed it, threw it back down and walked out. That was Joe Alioto. George had been legislator. George had been on the board. George had been the majority leader in the Senate. He knew what it took to deal with a legislature. He knew you didn’t get 100% all the time. He knew you had to make compromises. And George treated everybody, even those who were opposed to him, with respect at all times. He would sit down and talk to you. You didn’t go to George’s office; he came to your office. Jon Rubin: Would you say that he was smart? That he was clever? That he was a good practitioner of the art of politics. Jack Molinari: Yes, he was a master at it because he knew how to deal with people. I think he had honed that in the legislature. I mean, you imagine up there when you’re the majority leader all of the points of view and the egos that you have to deal with. Well you come down to this microcosm and the Board of Supervisors is not a whole lot different, and he knew how to deal with each one of us. He knew how to deal with me. If he wanted to get something, he’d come over. But he wouldn’t come over and say, “I gotta have this.” He’d come over and say, “Okay, look, what are you thinking? What do you need? Do you need in this legislation?” He was always open. But what a contrast to Alioto. Alioto, when the mayor wanted to see you, you went to the mayor. George would come to our office. Sit in our office, and talk to us one-on-one; which was a whole different kind of individual
Molinari, Jack: Moscone\u27s legacy
No full textJack Molinari: I think George’s legacy is that he probably was mayor at the most difficult time in the city’s political history because it didn’t know what it was. Remember, District Elections passed. District Elections was in affect for, what, three years? Then we went back to city-wide elections. The city didn’t know what it wanted, and he was caught up in this whole transition of liberal vs conservative and gay rights, and all of this was happening. And he had started out helping. This “Mayor of the People”. Driving his own car, and all of a sudden everybody was not responding to this well. In fact, people were criticizing him. Finally he got the limousine. He should have gotten the limousine from the first day. I never really understood what he was trying to prove. When we went through the Craft Strike, he was in his office playing cards with Corey Busch and others. There was a lot of symbolic stuff that probably didn’t redound too well, but he had a difficult time over a very difficult political period. We went through strikes. We went through all sorts of things, and he was a glue. I never saw George lose his temper in public. I never saw him, in fact the only time I ever saw him lose his temper was that night with Joe Mazzola out at the Big Rig Playground. And he tried, I think, in his own way to bring people together. Some people you can never bring along. You’re never gonna bring a Dan White along, you’re never gonna bring a Barbagelata along. But he did have a way of… I think even at the end, begrudgingly, Quentin respected him
Molinari, Jack: Moscone as a campaigner
No full textJack Molinari: George, other than the time he had been elected state supervisor, he had been elected state senator from probably a little less than half the city at that time. I think some of it went down the peninsula in his later terms. But he was out there hustling all the time. I mean he was on street corners. The rest of them were not street corner kind of people. George was a street corner person. I remember when he ran for supervisor the first time, he was one of the early guys out there on the street corners and bus stops in the morning. The rest of these people who had pretty easier runs didn’t have to do that. George was out there hustling every minute. We used to have a joke, “If there were three fleas meeting out in the Bayview District, George would be there.” And that’s the way he was. Milton was pretty good at that himself, but George was tireless. Just tireless, and took nothing for granted
A Conversation about Aliens, AIs and Jack Benny
No full textPresented on March 14, 2019 at 11:00 a.m. in the Crosland Tower, 7th floor reading room.Jack McDevitt is a former English teacher, naval officer, Philadelphia taxi driver, customs officer and motivational trainer. His work has been on the final ballot for the Nebula Awards for 12 of the past 13 years, and he holds 16 nominations in total. His first novel, The Hercules Text, was published in the celebrated Ace Specials series and won the Philip K. Dick Special Award. In 1991, McDevitt won the first $10,000 UPC International Prize for his novella, "Ships in the Night." The Engines of God was a finalist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and his novella, "Time Travelers Never Die," was nominated for both the Hugo and the Nebula awards.Runtime: 60:59 minutesThe Georgia Tech Library is proud to host Nebula Award-winning author Jack McDevitt in the Seventh Floor Reading Room Thursday, March 14 for “A Conversation about Aliens, AIs and Jack Benny with Sci-Fi Author Jack McDevitt
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1902-1907
No full textIn this second volume of Author Under Sail Jay Williams investigates the life of Jack London as a professional writer at the turn of the 1900s, as his publications spanned The Call of the Wild to The Iron Heel and The Road. While documenting key life events, especially his rising fame, this biography explores London's necessity to illustrate the inner workings of his own vast imagination through his socialist essays and fiction.Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Howl, O Heav'nly Muse! -- 2. Jesus in the Theater of Socialism -- 3. Jack London's Place in American Literature -- 4. Theater of War, Theater at Home -- 5. Revolution, Evolution, and the Scene of Writing -- 6. The Jack London Show Goes on the Road -- 7. Red Atavisms and Revolution -- 8. Earthquake Apocalypse and Building the City, Boat, and House Beautiful -- 9. The Future of Socialism and the Death of the Individual -- 10. The Road Never Ends -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexIn this second volume of Author Under Sail Jay Williams investigates the life of Jack London as a professional writer at the turn of the 1900s, as his publications spanned The Call of the Wild to The Iron Heel and The Road. While documenting key life events, especially his rising fame, this biography explores London's necessity to illustrate the inner workings of his own vast imagination through his socialist essays and fiction.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Stephanie Mathson interviews poet and author Jack Ridl
No full textPoet and author Jack Ridl explains how he began writing, the writer series at Hope College, his coach poems, his chapbook "Against elegies," how working and living in Michigan shapes his work, and works in progress. Ridl is interviewed by Stephanie Mathson of the Michigan State University Libraries. Part of the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series
Dr. Ernesto Molinari visits Pittsburg State
No full textDr. Ernesto Molinari, seated right, general council of education and director general of elementary schools in Cordoba Province, Argentina, talks with Dr. Elbert Overholt, left seated, principal of Horace Mann laboratory school, during a recent visit to the campus of Kansas State College of Pittsburg. A participant in the Foreign Leaders Program, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State, Washington, Dr. Molinari is chief administrative officer for his province\u27s 1.500 elementary schools and their total student population of 125,000. Seated between Dr. Overholt and Dr. Molinari is Paul J. Armand, Department of State interpreter. Stand, from left, are Dr. Molinari\u27s son Danial, a law student at the University of Cordoba, and Jack Tought, who furnished transportation from El Dorado Springs, Mo. ----KSC Photographic Services Photo. [Info from the Office of Public Information, Kansas State College of Pittbsurg]https://digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/unihistoryphotos/1196/thumbnail.jp
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