Individuals - 20th Century to Present

By Dint:

Bronislawa Wajs, Romani poet, singer, inspiration See the novel, "Zoli" for a fictionalized but roughly close (we understand) rendition of the life of Bronislawa Wajs. Gypsy (Roma) traditions.

Rabbi Shmuel ben David of "Isaac's Torah" A friend of one also caught in changing times, including the Holocaust. Concept: the Idea, vs. the later System implementing it, and becoming more focused on its own (the System's) survival than the Idea.

Susan Boyle: A Voice for the Lyrics.  The genius of this performer-come-lately is her choice of lyrics for her songs.  How she sings what she sings. The "first game" - mere competition. Easy.  More important: she epitomizes the course of the "second game" in which a woman competes.  The drive to derail her. Find a chink and wedge it open: judges, public, family.  Broaden our horizons despite them, Susan. Go ahead.

Wintley Phipps, Program on the Black American Slave Baritone, story teller, historian.

Germaine Tillion: Nazi Resistor, France WWII Political resource, intellectual.


Gene Amdahl, IBM's Propaganda Target. See IBM's successful Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) propaganda model, used against a competitor's excellent computer product. Amdahl recently died, 2009 . FUD= this has been the rule for marketing and politics to defeat someone without providing a better alternative.