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"Why do people stay in a failing city? City on the Edge deals with that very question through the lives of five people in Syracuse, New York, the quintessential rust-belt metropolis which sorely needs the brainpower, sweat, and leadership of citizens if it is to thrive again. Once a booming industrial center with a dynamic civic life and prominence on the world stage, Syracuse has been brutalized by decades of economic depression, absent-minded political leadership, crime, drugs, and population decline. Only its people remain to point toward a better day. The people in this book-a former teenage drug dealer, a refugee from Cuba, an urban farmer, a community activist, and a city elder, each of whom find a way to make life work against formidable odds-suggest there's reason for optimism in struggling cities across middle America. Michael Streissguth spent more than two years interviewing the men and women he calls the Syracuse Five as they turned their ideas, frustrations, and disadvantages into new hope for the city. He contextualizes their extended commentary and storytelling with appealing secondary characters and various episodes, such as a tragic Father's Day riot and the trial that followed, sidewalk fistfights, and a regional consolidation proposal that may slip through the city's hands. He also pays particular attention to the family of one of the Syracuse Five who arrived in town during the late 1940s Great Migration of African American people. Representing a 60-year-long thread, the family's story tracks many of the city's crucial issues: racism, urban renewal in the 1960s, drug abuse, the hope of upward mobility and, most importantly, the question over whether to leave the city or stay"--
Deindustrialization --- Syracuse (N.Y.) --- Social conditions. --- History. --- Economic conditions.
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Civil rights movements --- Football players --- College athletes --- College football players --- Collegiate athletes --- Student-athletes --- Athletes --- High school football players --- History --- Conduct of life --- Syracuse Orange (Football team) --- Syracuse University --- Syracuse Orangemen (Football team) --- Syracuse University. --- Orange (Football team) --- Orangemen (Football team) --- Genesee College --- Université de Syracuse --- History. --- Football
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This study attempts a fully contextualized reading of the praise poetry written by Pindar for Hieron of Syracuse in the 470s B.C. It argues that the songs composed by Pindar for the Sicilian tyrant were part of an extensive cultural programme that included athletic competition, coinage, architecture, sanctuary dedication, city foundation, and much more.
Greek literature --- History and criticism. --- Pindar --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Syracuse (Italy) --- Greece --- History. --- Colonies. --- Pindare --- Píndaro --- Pindaros --- Syracuse, Sicily --- Siracusa (Italy) --- Sirakuza (Italy) --- Siracuse (Italy) --- Syrakus (Italy) --- Syracuse (Sicily) --- Pindarus --- Pindaro --- Πίνδαρος
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Finalist for the 2009 ForeWord Book of the Year in the Autobiography/Memoir CategoryOnce an Engineer is a funny, tragic, garlicky chronicle of a dozen years spent growing up on the wrong side of the tracks. The tail end of the sixties finds Joe and his younger brother, Mike, living with their divorced and unemployed father in a low-income neighborhood on the edge of Syracuse, New York, a once prosperous city now down on its luck. Mike and Joe mature under their father's distinctively masculine tutelage, but their dreams of a better life are tempered by the harsh realities of public assistance.When the brothers are offered the chance to attend college, they are drawn to the engineering profession, with its seductive promise of middle-class wages and social status. At the same time, their father's trade, furniture finishing, succumbs to a new era of industrial and economic change, and as the gap between father and sons widens, they come to learn the true costs of upward mobility.Once an Engineer tells the story of three lives rooted in the moods and lore of Central New York, and the difficulty of finding meaningful work in a world gone inexorably, technologically global.
Italian Americans --- Ethnology --- Italians --- Social life and customs --- Amato, Joe, --- Amato family --- Childhood and youth --- Syracuse (N.Y.) --- Syrakuzy (N.Y.) --- City of Syracuse (N.Y.)
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Slaves --- Chariton. --- Chariton --- Criticism and interpretation. --- De Chaerea et Callirrhoe (Chariton) --- Syracuse (Italy) --- Caria --- Italy --- Turkey
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Irish Americans --- Nationalism --- Mayors --- History. --- McGuire, James K., --- Syracuse (N.Y.)
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City and town life --- City life --- Town life --- Urban life --- Sociology, Urban --- Syracuse (N.Y.) --- Syrakuzy (N.Y.) --- City of Syracuse (N.Y.) --- Social life and customs --- History, Local
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During the 1972-1973 basketball season, the Philadelphia 76ers were not just a bad team; they were fantastically awful. Doomed from the start after losing their leading scorer and rebounder, Billy Cunningham, as well as head coach Jack Ramsay, they lost twenty-one of their first twenty-three games. A Philadelphia newspaper began calling them the Seventy Sickers, and they duly lost their last thirteen games on their way to a not-yet-broken record of nine wins and seventy-three losses. Charley Rosen recaptures the futility of that season through the firsthand accounts of players, participants, a
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This volume brings together archeologists, art historians, philologists, literary scholars, political scientists, and historians to articulate the ways in which western Greek theater was distinct from that of the Greek mainland and, at the same time, to investigate how the two traditions interacted. The chapters intersect and build on each other in their pursuit of a number of shared questions and themes: the place of theater in the cultural life of Sicilian and South Italian 'colonial cities;' theater as a method of cultural self-identification; shared mythological themes in performance texts and theatrical vase-painting; and the reflection and analysis of Sicilian and South Italian theater in the work of Athenian philosophers and playwrights. Together, the essays explore central problems in the study of western Greek theater. By gathering a number of different perspectives and methods, this volume offers the first wide-ranging examination of this hitherto neglected history.
Theater --- Greek drama --- Dramatics --- Histrionics --- Professional theater --- Stage --- Theatre --- Performing arts --- Acting --- Actors --- History --- History and criticism. --- Greek Theater (Syracuse, Italy) --- Arts and Humanities
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"Coins, Artists, and Tyrants contains the first fully translated and revised text of Lauri O. Tudeer, Die Tetradrachmenprägung von Syrakus in der Periode der signierenden Künstler, as well as a biography of Tudeer, plus a completely new evaluation of signed coin dies and the artists who produced them. Over 100 years after its first publication, Wolfgang R. Fischer-Bossert completely updates the scholarship and bibliography on signed Syracusan tetradrachms, making this book the single most important source on the subject. The book includes plates, a full-color die-link chart, and three pull-outs featuring Syracusan tetradrachms and hoards."--Publisher's website.
Coins, Greek --- Coins, Ancient --- Coin dies --- Engravers --- Peloponnesian War (Greece : 431-404 B.C.) --- To 800 --- Syracuse (Italy) --- Greece --- Greece. --- Italy --- History
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