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"When there isn't anything else fun to do, I go outside and play in my sandbox."
- Anon. (Age 8)
Dewey, Lippman and Bourne on Publics
(This section is being written for addition to the Public article I've been working on.)
Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) was a working journalist and political commentator. Along with Herbert Croly and Walter Weyl, he was one of the founding editors of The New Republic and a highly influential force in American journalism during the first half of the twentieth century. Among other notable contributions, he popularized use of the term "stereotype" which in his definition referred to "the pictures in our heads". In addition to his role as a journalist, Lippman was an informal advisor to several presidents from Woodrow Wilson through Lyndon Johnson.
In Public Opinion (1922) Lippmann offered the fullest statement of his elitist view of representative democracy, the general public and the process of formation of public opinion. Lippmann believed that modern industrial democracies had become too complex for the average citizen to effectively understand and government must be largely in the hands of an expert-based governing class. He saw the accuracy of news and the protection of journalistic sources as the principal problem of democracy and presented the public largely in Platonic terms as a bewildered and rather passive herd. In modern, industrial society, according to Lippmann, it was the job of the journalist to translate the actions and motives of the "governing class" of bureaucratic experts and specialists into terms that the general public could comprehend. He found the notion of actual government by the people (as opposed to their better-informed representatives) altogether implausible. Three years later, in The Phantom Public (1925), his view reached what was for him its outer limit when Lippmann recognized that members of the governing class of experts could themselves be outsiders to a particular problem, and also not possessed of sufficient accurate information and capable of effective action. (Lippmann may have been influenced in this view, some authorities believe, by the views of European Facists who were already in power in Italy and gaining strength elsewhere in Europe at the time or by advocates of technocracy.)
Article Ideas, Fragments, etc
| Title | Composer/Librettist | Location | Main Characters | Date Written |
Date Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | Oscar Hammerstein/Richard Rodgers | Oklahoma Territory | Curley McLain, Laurey Williams | 1941 | 1943 |
| State Fair | Iowa State Fair | 1948 | 1948 | 1948 | |
| Annie Get Your Gun | Annie Oakley | 1900 | 1900 | ||
| Meet Me In St. Louis | 1900 | 1900 | |||
| South Pacific | WWII in Pacific | 1900 | 1900 | ||
| Wonderful Town | NYC | 1900 | 1900 | ||
| New York, New York | 1900 | 1900 | |||
| Phantom of the Opera | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Paris Opera, Paris Sewer | 1941 | 1943 | |
| Aspects of Love | Andrew Lloyd Webber | 1948 | 1948 | 1948 | |
| Cats | 1900 | 1900 | |||
| Evita | Buenos Aires | 1900 | |||
| West Side Story | 1900 | 1900 | |||
| The Sound of Music | Austria | 1900 | 1900 | ||
| My Fair Lady | Edwardian London | 1900 | } | ||
| Private Lives | Noel Coward | 1900 | } | ||
| Kiss Me Kate | 1900 | } | |||
| The King and I | Siam | 1900 | } | ||
| Pal Joey | 1900 | } | |||
| Guys and Dolls | Broadway | 1900 | } |
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- Operetta [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Alan Furst [r]: Add brief definition or description
References
(No workgroup is going to want to claim this!)