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1.
Rocking the Boat: Union Women's Voices, 1915-1975
Contributors:
Publisher:
Rutgers University Press 1996
Subjects:
Women Labor Union Members--United States--History--20th Century--Sources
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...words in the context of the times they aredescribing.Rocking the Boat is not a comprehensive historical study and analysis...past eight decades?Connecting ThemesThe women in Rocking the Boat are connected by the themes that emerge fromtheir...
2.
Rocking the Boat
Contributors:
Publisher:
Little, Brown 1962
Subjects:
Vidal, Gore, 1925---Political and Social Views
United States--Intellectual Life
United States--Politics and Government
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...applicable to a world where kingsand commoners occupy the same sinking boat.Those of our writers who might yet enjoy the adjec­tive...who tend to devote them­selves to the dramas within the boat, the encompassingcold sea ignored in the passions of the human...
3.
Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical
Contributors:
Publisher:
Oxford University Press 2013
Subjects:
Kern, Jerome, 1885-1945. Show Boat
Hammerstein, Oscar, II, 1895-1960. Show Boat
Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968. Show Boat
African Americans in Musical Theater
Music and Race
Musical Theater--History--20th Century
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...Harlem Renaissance. When Edna Ferber sat down to write Show Boat,African American music and musicians—especially male...atthe Sherman [House in Chicago], Magnolia, seated in a rocking chair withKim in her arms, had stopped suddenly in her song...
4.
Enchanted Evenings: The Broadway Musical from Show Boat to Sondheim
Contributors:
Publisher:
Oxford University Press 1997
Subjects:
Musicals--New York (State)--New York--History And Criticism
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...In director Prince Hal revival of Show Boat in 1994 (the first Broadwayproduction...version, shows the birth of Kim and Parthy rocking her,the effect of this change is enormous...that appeared in Modern Music during Show Boat's initial NewYork run, Robert Simon...
5.
The Boat of Quiet Hours: Poems
Contributors:
Publisher:
Graywolf Press 1986
Subjects:
Poetry
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Photograph of a Child on a Vermont HillsideBeside the rocking horse, for whichshe has grown too large,and the shirts that hang still on the line,she looks down.The face is dour and palewith...
6.
Rockin' the Boat: Mass Music and Mass Movements
Contributors:
Publisher:
South End Press 1992
Subjects:
Rock Music--History And Criticism
Protest Songs--History And Criticism
Music--Social Aspects
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...61Ebun Clark andHerbert Ogunde, The Making of Nigerian Theatre. Oxford:Oxford University Press, 1979.62Fred Zindi, Roots Rocking in Zimbabwe. Harare: Mambo Press, 1985.63Waterman, 1986. p. 4.64Roberts, 1974. p. 254.65Ranger, 1975. p...
7.
The Social Life of Children in a Changing Society
Contributors:
Publisher:
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 1982
Subjects:
Socialization
Social Change
Children And Adults
Children--Language
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...up a ramp, sideby side.The rocking boat is enjoyed by normal young children...sitting and being rocked in the boat by his friend. Childrenwith...maneuver themselves to sit in the boat and canthen enjoy rocking with another child. Also, a...
8.
Africa on Six Wheels: A Semester on Safari
Contributors:
Publisher:
University of Nebraska Press 2007
Subjects:
Africa--Description and Travel
Levitov, Betty--Travel--Africa
College Teachers--Nebraska--Biography
College Students--Nebraska--Biography
College Students--Travel--Africa
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...00ADziness I already feel from the rocking boat. At first the motion waspleasant...When they finally reach the boat, I'm angry. Their explanationis...precisely, I feel the motion of the rocking boat. The motionreminds me of the fear...
9.
Keaton's Silent Shorts: Beyond the Laughter
Contributors:
Publisher:
Southern Illinois University Press 1996
Subjects:
Keaton, Buster, 1895-1966--Criticism and Interpretation
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...persever­ance.The titles in The Boat are compact and few; most are sardonic...thisfilm has many parallels). The Boat begins with a title, an unusual formatfor...istossed about the cabin of a violently rocking boat. Keaton has dispensedwith traditional...
10.
The Transnational History of a Chinese Family: Immigrant Letters, Family Business, and Reverse Migration
Contributors:
Publisher:
Rutgers University Press 2005
Subjects:
Chinese Americans--California--Biography
California--Emigration And Immigration--History
China--Emigration And Immigration--History
Chang Family
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...iron. Because it looked like a boat, with a cylinder inthe middle and...s family referred to it as the[rocking boat.] Grinding was arduous work that...low-heeled shoes to work the [rocking boat.] Theground powder was poured...
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