By Ronald Reagan
In the course of his phrases because the 40th president of the us, Ronald Reagan stored a regular diary within which he recorded, by means of hand, his innermost options and observations at the notable, the historical, and the regimen daily occurrences of his presidency. Now, approximately 20 years after he left workplace, this outstanding record—the simply day-by-day presidential diary in American history—is to be had for the 1st time.
introduced jointly in a single quantity and edited by way of historian Douglas Brinkley, The Reagan Diaries presents a extraordinary perception into one in all this nation's most vital presidencies and sheds new gentle at the personality of a real American chief. even if he was once in his White condominium place of dwelling examine or aboard Air strength One, every one evening Reagan wrote in regards to the occasions of his day, which frequently incorporated his relationships with different global leaders Mikhail Gorbachev, Pope John Paul II, Mohammar al-Qaddafi, and Margaret Thatcher, between others, and the unforgettable moments that outlined the era—from his first inauguration to the tip of the chilly conflict, the Iran hostage predicament to John Hinckley Jr.'s assassination test.
The Reagan Diaries unearths greater than simply Reagan's political stories: many entries are fascinated by the president's deepest techniques and feelings—his love and devotion for Nancy Reagan and their kin, his trust in God and the facility of prayer. Seldom ahead of has the yankee public been given entry to the unfiltered reviews and reviews of a president in his personal phrases, from Reagan's description of near-drowning on the domestic of Hollywood buddy Claudette Colbert to his decision to struggle Fidel Castro at each flip and retain the Caribbean Sea from turning into a "Red Lake."
To learn those diaries—filled with Reagan's trademark wit, sharp intelligence, and humor—is to achieve a special knowing of 1 of the main cherished occupants of the Oval place of work in our nation's background.
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CONCLUSION By these speculative experiments, in which we have followed a communicative perspective in order to analyse the impact and effect of a performance inside and outside a festival structure, we have found good reasons to expect differences in interpretation, emotional response and evaluation between these two different settings. The degree of the differences, we postulate, is very much dependent on the questions: (a) whether the festival structure is a condensed one; and (b) to what degree a festival participant is involved in the different activities of a festival.
Stalls, performances, eating drinking and promenading), over the years it has become a means of reconciliation, a festival shared by all the community, including the immigrant communities and the worker communities from the farms, etc. Festivals as eventifying systems 41 FESTIVALS AS (POLY-)SYSTEMS There are a number of ‘myths’ that appear to govern so much of our idealism for arts and culture in South Africa? A key one is the myth of one culture for all (not the rather antiquated idea that there is some kind of ‘universal’ norm of what constitutes art and culture across the globe, but the notion that there can be a single cultural system in a country).
We propose therefore the following hypothesis: – The more spectators are involved in the different activities of a festival, the more their need for affiliation will be gratified. 3. Evaluation In dealing with festivals, two levels of evaluation can be distinguished: (a) the evaluation related to makers of the single performance, and (b) the evaluation related to the organisers of the festival. Under ‘interpretation’, we have already indicated some consequences in the dimension of evaluation, when a theatrical event is perceived within a festival structure.