Framed as a heartfelt response to a love letter delivered some twenty years late, Always Straight Ahead presents the odyssey of the musician and artist Alma Neuman. In this unforgettable memoir Neuman recounts her rich and varied life, often in subtle counterpoint to her fond reflections on her marriage to the brilliant American writer James Agee. With the sure instincts of a natural storyteller, Neuman brings alive her lonely childhood in upstate New York and her memories of growing up Jewish in a world of Anglo-American gentility. It is in an enclave of WASP high culture that she first meets Agee, a Harvard senior already acclaimed a genius, and soon thereafter they fall in love. Neuman recalls this near-mythic romance with a novelist's eye for scene: a mad week-long journey through the South, with a visit to the Tingle family, the Alabama sharecroppers whose lives would be immortalized in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men; a Godiva-like drive through the New Jersey night; a visit - with two goats - to the apartment of the fastidious Walker Evans. For a while the two enjoy an idyll, enlivened by visits from such talents as the novelist Thornton Wilder, the photographer Helen Levitt, and the poets Muriel Rukeyser and Delmore Schwartz. But the magic does not last. After Agee falls in love with another woman during Neuman's first pregnancy, the couple separate. In 1941 Neuman and her son, Joel, move to Mexico; there she meets a German exile, the Communist writer Bodo Uhse, who is to become her second husband and the father of another son. Neuman recounts in sharp detail these exciting years at the heart of the artistic and expatriate community: the encounters with the muralist Diego Riveraand the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, the lavish parties, the revolutionary politics, and the first stirrings of the Cold War. With the fall of the Nazis, Neuman, Uhse, and the two children can move to East Germany. They find a bleak, war-ravaged land; there are shortages and censorship, but for a state-approved writer and his family also the comparative privilege that allows Neuman to become a shrewd observer of her surroundings. Ultimately disillusioned with life in the East, she returns to the United States, where she discovers a society very different from the one she had known in the thirties. Neuman learns to make a living, and she enters into her third - and last - marriage. She struggles to make the life of her schizophrenic younger son, Stefan Uhse, bearable to him, but in the end she must come to terms with his death at the age of twenty-seven. Neuman's book and the intimate glimpse it provides into the personality and imagination of James Agee will of course be a treasure for literary scholars; more than that, though, Always Straight Ahead is a memoir that recounts with eloquence and breathtaking candor the life of a remarkable woman of rare and adventuresome spirit.
Framed as a heartfelt response to a love letter delivered some twenty years late, Always Straight Ahead presents the odyssey of the musician and artist Alma Neuman. In this unforgettable memoir Neuman recounts her rich and varied life, often in subtle counterpoint to her fond reflections on her marriage to the brilliant American writer James Agee. With the sure instincts of a natural storyteller, Neuman brings alive her lonely childhood in upstate New York and her memories of growing up Jewish in a world of Anglo-American gentility. It is in an enclave of WASP high culture that she first meets Agee, a Harvard senior already acclaimed a genius, and soon thereafter they fall in love. Neuman recalls this near-mythic romance with a novelist's eye for scene: a mad week-long journey through the South, with a visit to the Tingle family, the Alabama sharecroppers whose lives would be immortalized in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men; a Godiva-like drive through the New Jersey night; a visit - with two goats - to the apartment of the fastidious Walker Evans. For a while the two enjoy an idyll, enlivened by visits from such talents as the novelist Thornton Wilder, the photographer Helen Levitt, and the poets Muriel Rukeyser and Delmore Schwartz. But the magic does not last. After Agee falls in love with another woman during Neuman's first pregnancy, the couple separate. In 1941 Neuman and her son, Joel, move to Mexico; there she meets a German exile, the Communist writer Bodo Uhse, who is to become her second husband and the father of another son. Neuman recounts in sharp detail these exciting years at the heart of the artistic and expatriate community: the encounters with the muralist Diego Riveraand the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, the lavish parties, the revolutionary politics, and the first stirrings of the Cold War. With the fall of the Nazis, Neuman, Uhse, and the two children can move to East Germany. They find a bleak, war-ravaged land; there are shortages and censorship, but for a state-approved writer and his family also the comparative privilege that allows Neuman to become a shrewd observer of her surroundings. Ultimately disillusioned with life in the East, she returns to the United States, where she discovers a society very different from the one she had known in the thirties. Neuman learns to make a living, and she enters into her third - and last - marriage. She struggles to make the life of her schizophrenic younger son, Stefan Uhse, bearable to him, but in the end she must come to terms with his death at the age of twenty-seven. Neuman's book and the intimate glimpse it provides into the personality and imagination of James Agee will of course be a treasure for literary scholars; more than that, though, Always Straight Ahead is a memoir that recounts with eloquence and breathtaking candor the life of a remarkable woman of rare and adventuresome spirit.
The book offers an insight on artificial neural networks for giving a robot a high level of autonomous tasks, such as navigation, cost mapping, object recognition, intelligent control of ground and aerial robots, and clustering, with real-time implementations. The reader will learn various methodologies that can be used to solve each stage on autonomous navigation for robots, from object recognition, clustering of obstacles, cost mapping of environments, path planning, and vision to low level control. These methodologies include real-life scenarios to implement a wide range of artificial neural network architectures. Includes real-time examples for various robotic platforms. Discusses real-time implementation for land and aerial robots. Presents solutions for problems encountered in autonomous navigation. Explores the mathematical preliminaries needed to understand the proposed methodologies. Integrates computing, communications, control, sensing, planning, and other techniques by means of artificial neural networks for robotics.
Academic Libraries and Toxic Leadership examines a phenomenon that has yet to be seriously explored. While other so-called feminized professions, such as nursing, have been studied for their tendency to create toxic leadership environments, thus far academic librarianship has not. This book focuses on how to identify a toxic leader in an academic library setting, how to address toxic leadership, and how to work toward eradicating it from the organization. In addition, it discusses which steps can be used to prevent libraries from hiring toxic leaders. Presents original research based on a two-phase study about toxic leadership in academic libraries Demonstrates how to identify toxic leadership in libraries Shows how toxic leadership can manifest itself, providing the reader with steps to eradicate it
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