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Paul Robeson was the most famous alumnus in the history of Rutgers College, but by the 1960s, four decades after his graduation, his name had been effectively erased from the school's public memory, a victim of Cold War nationalism. Despite efforts by student activists in the 1960s to restore his legacy, and official recognitions that followed, Robeson's reputation remained obscure. Taking a new look into the Rutgers Archives through the lens of public memory theory, this article argues that for Robeson, and for controversial figures more generally, commemorations reached through concession and compromise can serve to contain public memories more than proclaim them.

The influence of film technique on John Dos Passos's Manhattan Transfer is well established. However, there is another aspect of silent era cinema that is highly present in the novel yet largely overlooked: slapstick. As much as any other contemporaneous film genre, slapstick shared with Dos Passos a skepticism about the controlling nature of modern urban society. A close comparison of the novel and the films of Harold Lloyd and Charlie Chaplin, the era's two most popular film stars, furthers our understanding of how Dos Passos sought inspiration in popular entertainment to make his critique of modernity, while also revealing a comic sensibility at work in a novel more frequently viewed through the lens of tragedy.

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Interesting how history too often repeats itself (Bad News Bear - Dec. 29).

Among the best examples is recent work for M&Ms. Parent Masterbrands developed TV spots that parodied the final, black & white scene from The Wizard of Oz. Dorothy wakes up in her room, surrounded by Aunt Em and the rest of the farm's crew, returned from Oz to her Kansas home. In the parody, the cast is replaced by the familiar M&M characters, and they too are in black & white. Dorothy tells them that she was just in a land where they were all in color. Many \"There, there, Dorothy\" comments from the concerned M&Ms follow. The spot is tagged: \"Help us find our colors.\" Sure enough, the M&M product at retail had been replaced with black & white packages filled with all black & white M&Ms. Much the same thing has been going on with Apple Jacks - you know, the cereal that neither tastes like apples nor features anything resembling jacks. And that is precisely the anti-equity the brand leveraged in several plot-line promotions. In an initial spot, kids are told the \"good news\" that Apple Jacks is finally going to taste more like apples. Aghast, the kids in the commercial begin a petition to stop Kelloggs from making such a mistake. Young consumers, of course, could join the drive and become part of the action.