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ne such individual who i am pleased to say is an anta director and attended the anta luncheon which i held was honored yesterday here in our own city of washington father gilbert v hartke had only recently come back from abroad where his troupe had entertained american servicemen before his departure no less a person than the president of the united states personally bade his troupe and him farewell indicating the deep interest of our president both in the cultural entertainment of americans and of foreign peoples i am delighted that father hartke a great man of the theater an honored servant of the cloth a fine human being was so honored and so i include the brief text of tribute to him as carried in the testimonial program and a list of the devoted committee members who prepared the luncheon mr ralph e becker was general chairman of the event and mr patrick hayes was master of ceremonies from the hearst newspapers march of events section arts sell the united states way export of american culture wins friends around globe we re giving the world a good look at american cultural achievement to show we re not the mere materialists our enemies paint us and our export of united states culture is returning big dividends in good will and appreciation of the american way of life throughout the free world some samples like porgy and bess and oklahoma are uniquely american as native as corn on the cob and on a ore international level our drama ballet music and visual art match or surpass anything yet produced by russian competition it s part of the united states counteroffensive against soviet cultural propaganda and the rave reviews and enthusiastic audience response is awakening washington to the fact that exporting culture pays off before summer s end more americans will have sung danced acted and otherwise performed abroad than ever before in times of peace they re being financed in part by funds appropriated by congress last august credit is due to the american national theater and academy anta which is spearheading the state department s united states drive big artistic smash currently the big united states artistic smash in europe is salute to france a privately financed anta project which is offering parisians the new york city ballet plus top stage productions of oklahoma medea and the skin of our teeth in addition the program for france includes the touring philadelphia orchestra which has already scored a signal triumph and a visual arts exhibition organized by the museum of modern art anta s international exchange program calls for sending the new york philharmonic orchestra to europe the ballet theatre to latin america and martha graham s dancers to the orient now touring the far east for anta is the american symphony of the air the orchestra created by the now retired arturo toscanini it was a sensation in japan united states performers have made a good impression abroad have outshone closely guarded russians by mixing socially success of united states artists as good will ambassadors has pointed up the recommendation of william randolph hearst jr editor in chief of the hearst newspapers who last february 29 on his return from russia urged establishment of a national planning board to win the battle of competitive coexistence what we must do noting the stress the russians were giving to cultural propaganda outside the iron curtain hearst told the national press club in washington the lively arts are another field wherein the commissars are operating with the professed intention of proving that russian achievements surpass the west ballet theater literature all are shaped toward aiding communism s long range scheme of world domination it is not enough for us to advocate large sums for foreign military and economic aid and think we have met the challenge more recently brig gen david sarnoff of the radio corporation of america called for a competitive coexistence strategy board along similar lines united states funds now available for sending performing artists abroad are a mere 3 500 000 startling contrast with soviet expenditures is shown in figures of the institute of international education in 1950 the russians spent 150 million for cultural propaganda in france alone with 2 000 artists touring there current soviet spending is at the rate of 1 1 2 billion a year for all propaganda activities united states performers may prove our best envoys in winning friends and influencing people but this will require much more money than we ve put up so far as one cairo newspaper commented on porgy and bess if this is propaganda let s have more of it how anta got the ball rolling uncle sam s homegrown artists are carrying broadway lights around the world on a scale wider than ever before until congress stepped in with funds to help finance american groups export of united states art was carried out on a meager scale financed by the american national theater and academy out of its own pocket the current salute to france now going over big in paris is being backed by funds raised by an anta committee under robert w dowling and mrs h alwyn innes brown president of the greater new york chapter no government funds were available at the time the project was launched at the suggestion of the french ministry of fine arts last fall chartered in 1935 salute although independently financed is now an integral part of anta s international exchange under impresario robert c schnitzer aided by united states ambassador c douglas dillon most of the groups appearing in paris will now be sent on to other european capitals financed if need be by washington a private nonprofit organization anta has been operating under congressional charter since 1935 for the purpose of widening interest in the theater after a number of lean years it now has a membership of 2 000 individuals and theaters in the united states hawaii and the canal zone for the past 5 years anta has expedited the exchange of performing arts between america and foreign countries during that time it has sponsored united states participation in the berlin festivals of 1951 53 the paris festival of 1952 the denmark hamlet festival of 1949 and the ballet theater s 1950 european tour the sporting thing to do some of the best salesmen for the united states way of life have been american athletes sent abroad by the amateur athletic union in cooperation with the state department among them are two great negro track stars mal whitfield and harrison dillard who got tumultuous receptions in tours of africa and south america olympic diving champion maj sammy lee an army doctor of korean parentage was similarly hailed when he performed in the land of his ancestors still another goodwill athlete is the reverend robert richards the preacher who won the olympic pole vault title in 1952 the athletes won friendship for the united states by being free and easy mixers lecturing and coaching native youngsters wherever they went where music broke the ice a sample of how exporting our culture can assist in cementing relations with our allies was vividly demonstrated in iceland early this year since the establishment of united states bases on this key outpost of atlantic defense russia and the local communists have conducted a continuous propaganda offensive stirring hatred of american troops stationed there the soviets strengthened their campaign with a parade of artists and intellectuals who toured the island to acquaint the population with russian culture united states iceland relations were at their lowest when anta sent famed violinist isaac stern and pianist ervin laszlo on concert tours highlighting the works of american composers iceland s hearts were thawed relations have been less frigid since united states minister to iceland john j muccio announced the impact of the recitals upon the icelandic people was the greatest of any to date from the milwaukee journal of june 12 1955 united states cultural commandos abroad an american cultural counteroffensive quietly and somewhat timidly launched by the united states state department in cooperation with private groups is gathering worldwide momentum for too long many observers feel the russians have paraded their ballet troupes theatrical companies musicians and athletes over the face of the world virtually unchallenged in their claims of superiority to the culture of the decadent capitalist world recently the red chinese have elbowed into the act with the successful paris run of a peiping theatrical troupe which had never before performed outside china the communists are working hard to perpetuate the myth widespread among many otherwise sophisticated europeans and asians that the united states is a nation of gadgetmakers clever in turning out bathtubs in overdecorated automobiles but barbarians in their indifference to the finer products of the mind and spirit now at last the united states is striking back with what amounts to exploratory raids by a few cultural commandos the money so far assigned to these operations is petty cash by comparison with outlays for military and economic programs abroad but it has produced results little short of amazing in order to conduct the program through private channels insofar as possible the state department has been working with the american national theater and academy a nonprofit organization headquartered in new york the anta acts as agent selecting the best talent to send abroad and arranging the overseas bookings through its international exchange program to get the facts about the new american cultural export program milwaukee journal bureau men in washington and new york talked to state department officials and personnel of the american national theater and academy their stories appear below you can read the rest at the link uncategorized cold war history an unusual vowel contrast 1 comment posted by nydwracu on august 27 2016 geoff lindsey writes i do think that the official ipa chart is crowded with symbols which exist not so much for good acoustic or linguistic reasons as to fill the slots implied by its tongue space framework for instance i m not sure that languages ever contrast ɨ and ɯ the unrounded close non front vowel of languages like turkish and vietnamese is sometimes transcribed as ɯ and sometimes as ɨ a while ago i downloaded phoible s database since they don t have a search function on the site searching the database for inventories from the same source that contain both ɨ and ɯ i get apatani ra bora saphon kenyang ph kilba gm kod̩agu ra matses ph matsés saphon miraña saphon mishmi ra nimboran upsid sedik ph sema ra southern ute ph tangkul naga ra wayana saphon this is of course inconclusive since the databases phoible draws from are unreliable the apatani vowel inventory sourced from ra in phoible differs wildly from the more usual one given in this paper however this paywalled study claims that bora really does have this contrast sil s grammar of kenyang claims that the language contrasts all of ɨ ɯ u which is an even stronger example than nimboran the standard example of a language with such a contrast nimboran has a six vowel system with no rounded vowels as does matses uncategorized linguistics the dravidian australian connection 6 comments posted by nydwracu on august 4 2016 the indigenous languages of australia have striking similarities in their phoneme inventories most have no fricatives and none as far as i know have sibilants australian languages tend to have retroflexes one exception is bandjalang which has only 12 consonants palatals contrastive dentals and alveolars and several laterals and rhotics gasser and bowern 2013 provide a chart of a standard average australian phoneme inventory individual languages of course diverge from this pattern some have a voicing contrast in plosives although this may really be a gemination contrast gasser and bowern report that 59 of languages with a plosive voicing contrast collapse it initially cf the proto basque fortis lenis contrast in plosives this has become a voicing contrast but fortis consonants could not appear word initially and lenis consonants could not appear word finally over half have contrastive vowel length but there is much less difference across inventories in australia than in most parts of the world for example guugu yimidhirr the source of the english word kangaroo differs only in having only one lateral the apico alveolar l and a length contrast in its vowels dyirbal the language whose noun class system inspired the title of george lakoff s women fire and dangerous things is somewhat more divergent its only retroflex consonant is the flap ɽ its only lateral is the apico alveolar l and its only laminal consonant series is palatal what happens if we compare standard average australian to tamil the vowel inventory of tamil differs significantly from that of saa tamil has the mid vowels e o the diphthongs ai au and a length contrast in monophthongs but the underlying consonant inventory is almost identical the only significant differences are in the liquids the rhotics are both retroflex and tamil has fewer laterals than saa looking to modern languages to try to gain information on ancient patterns is of course untenable as serious methodology but it s at least suggestive here s proto dravidian the velar nasal present in all australian languages in gasser and bowern s sample may not have been phonemic in proto dravidian but the general similarity is clear i know of no other non australian language family that so closely follows the typical australian language pattern so although i have no suggestion as to the causal relation here no hypothetical scenario of ancient contact between india and australia that could have spread this pattern from one place to the other i suspect that one exists interestingly a ban on word initial retroflexes is common among australian languages and proto dravidian like some languages of western australia although i don t know when this restriction developed banned all apicals from word initial position uncategorized linguistics national ist security 5 comments posted by nydwracu on july 7 2016 one of the primary goals of the islamic state and other radical islamist groups is to drive a wedge between sunni muslims and the wider world to fuel alienation as a recruiting tool source there are a lot of people saying this and none of them bother to back it up but that doesn t mean it can t be radicalizing minorities is one of the most common ways of disrupting a foreign country the us with the catholics in poland the us with everyone in yugoslavia the us with chechens in russia russia with abkhazians and ossetes in georgia the us with uyghurs and tibetans in china the us with gays in russia and its allies the british empire and the us with beng um rohingya in burma lord only knows who s backing all the other ethnic separatists in burma and how did casa pound end up involved with the knla the uss...
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