query: Hamlet (1990 film) was directed by Tim Burton.

pos: Hamlet (1990 film) Hamlet is a 1990 drama film based on the Shakespearean tragedy of the same name , directed by Franco Zeffirelli and starring Mel Gibson as the eponymous character . The film also features Glenn Close , Alan Bates , Paul Scofield , Ian Holm , Helena Bonham Carter , Stephen Dillane , and Nathaniel Parker . An international co-production between the United States , the United Kingdom , and France , the film is notable for being the first film produced by Icon Productions , a company co-founded by Gibson .

neg: Macbeth (1979 film) Macbeth is a 1979 videotaped version of Trevor Nunn 's Royal Shakespeare Company production of the play by William Shakespeare . Produced by Thames Television , it features Ian McKellen as Macbeth and Judi Dench as Lady Macbeth . The TV version was directed by Philip Casson .   The original stage production was performed at The Other Place , the RSC 's small studio theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon . It had been performed in the round before small audiences , with a bare stage and simple costuming . The recording preserves this style : the actors perform on a circular set and with a mostly black background ; changes of setting are indicated only by lighting changes .

neg: Three Days (of Hamlet) Three Days ( of Hamlet ) is an American documentary film from independent production company TMG , The Martindale Group , based in Los Angeles , California . TMG previously produced `` Pursuit of Happiness '' in 2000 starring Frank Whaley and Annabeth Gish .   Three Days ( of Hamlet ) covers a troupe of actors , and others , who gather to rehearse and perform a staged-reading of William Shakespeare 's Tragedy of Hamlet at the Matrix Theatre in West Hollywood , California during three days in July 2010 . Reality intrudes .   Alex Rotaru , Director of the documentary film Shakespeare High , in a personal message to the film 's creator , actor/director Alex Hyde-White , says about Three Days ( of Hamlet ) ' ... jaw-droppingly ambitious and often brilliant ... It was such an exquisite pleasure to learn something new about the play of all plays through your eyes . The pressure cooker in which you put yourself and your fellow actors was truly an ultimate test - I felt butterflies in my stomach just watching it . If Hamlet urges his actors to `` hold a mirror up to nature '' , you hold a mirror up to the mirror itself , doing what the French call ` mise en abime ' , or loosely : ` looking into the abyss of infinite reflections '   The film builds on its main structure of on-stage happenings by juxtaposing stories from the players , including actors Richard Chamberlain ( Polonius ) , Stefanie Powers ( Gertrude ) , Tom Badal ( Claudius ) , Peter Woodward ( Laertes/Player King ) and Joseph Culp ( Himself ) . The lead actor/manager Alex Hyde-White weaves his own personal dramatic narrative about `` Fathers and Sons '' as he recalls stories from his childhood as the son of the well-known British actor Wilfrid Hyde-White . At times , particularly when the character of Hamlet experiences the visitations from his father 's ghost , King Hamlet , the line of what is theatre and what is real life is purposely `` deconstructed '' and what happens onstage is commented on offstage resulting in a self-reflective dynamic of sometimes very powerful and moving proportions . Later , as the Son becomes the Father , a clear line of succession emerges in a profound , archetypal , way .

neg: Timeline of Shakespeare criticism Timeline of Shakespeare criticism is an informal term that presents a chronological collection of critical quotations about William Shakespeare and his works , which illustrate the article Shakespeare 's reputation .   Shakespeare enjoyed recognition in his own time , but in the 17th century , poets and authors began to consider him as the supreme dramatist and poet of all times of the English language . In fact , even today , no other dramatist has been performed even remotely as often on the British ( and later the world ) stage as Shakespeare   Since then , several editors and critics of theater began to focus on the dramatic text and the language of Shakespeare , creating a study that focused on extracting all the power of his literary texts , being used in studies on the printed page rather than in the theater . This attitude reached a high point with the Romantics , which saw his figure as a genius , prophet , and Bard -- and continued important in the last century , receiving analysis not only by poets and authors , but also by psychoanalysts , psychologists and philosophers .

neg: Philip Burton Jr. Philip Burton Jr. ( December 9 , 1934December 24 , 2010 ) was a documentary filmmaker whose subjects included African-Americans and American government .

neg: Art film An art film is typically a serious , independent film aimed at a niche market rather than a mass market audience . An art film is `` intended to be a serious artistic work , often experimental and not designed for mass appeal '' ; they are `` made primarily for aesthetic reasons rather than commercial profit '' , and they contain `` unconventional or highly symbolic content '' .   Film critics and film studies scholars typically define an art film as possessing `` formal qualities that mark them as different from mainstream Hollywood films '' , which can include , among other elements , a sense of social realism ; an emphasis on the authorial expressiveness of the director ; and a focus on the thoughts , dreams , or motivations of characters , as opposed to the unfolding of a clear , goal-driven story . Film scholar David Bordwell describes art cinema as `` a film genre , with its own distinct conventions '' .   Art film producers usually present their films at specialty theatres ( repertory cinemas , or , in the U.S. , `` arthouse cinemas '' ) and film festivals . The term art film is much more widely used in the United States , the UK and Australia than in Europe , where the term is more associated with `` auteur '' films and `` national cinema '' ( e.g. , German national cinema ) . Because they are aimed at small niche market audiences , they can rarely get the financial backing that will permit large production budgets , expensive special effects , costly celebrity actors , or huge advertising campaigns , as are used in widely released mainstream blockbuster films . Art film directors make up for these constraints by creating a different type of film , which typically uses lesser-known film actors ( or even amateur actors ) and modest sets to make films that focus much more on developing ideas or exploring new narrative techniques or film-making conventions .   A certain degree of experience and knowledge are required to fully understand or appreciate such films . One mid-1990s art film was called `` largely a cerebral experience '' that one enjoys `` because of what you know about film '' . This contrasts sharply with mainstream `` blockbuster '' films , which are geared more towards escapism and pure entertainment . For promotion , art films rely on the publicity generated from film critics ' reviews , discussion of their film by arts columnists , commentators and bloggers , and `` word-of-mouth '' promotion by audience members . Since art films have small initial investment costs , they only need to appeal to a small portion of the mainstream viewing audiences to become financially viable .

neg: Stratford Shakespeare Festival production history This page describes the production history of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival .   The Stratford Shakespeare Festival ( formerly known as the Stratford Shakespearean Festival and the Stratford Festival of Canada ) is a summer-long celebration of theatre held each year in Stratford , Ontario . Theatre-goers , actors , and playwrights flock to Stratford to take part -- many of the greatest Canadian , American and British actors have played roles at Stratford . It was one of the first and is still one of the most prominent arts festivals in Canada .   The Festival 's primary mandate is to present productions of Shakespeare 's plays , but it also produces a wide variety of theatre from Greek tragedy to Broadway musicals to contemporary works . By 2017 , only three of the 14 productions were based on Shakespeare 's works . The following is a chronological list of the productions that have been staged as part of the Stratford Festival since its inception .   On February 17 , 2015 , AP News reported that the Stratford Shakespeare Festival plans to film all of Shakespeare 's plays .

neg: Edward Scissorhands Edward Scissorhands is a 1990 American romantic dark fantasy film directed by Tim Burton , produced by Denise Di Novi and Tim Burton , and written by Caroline Thompson from a story by Tim Burton and Caroline Thompson , starring Johnny Depp as an artificial man named Edward , an unfinished creation who has scissor blades instead of hands . The young man is taken in by a suburban family and falls in love with their teenage daughter Kim ( Winona Ryder ) . Additional roles were played by Dianne Wiest , Anthony Michael Hall , Kathy Baker , Vincent Price and Alan Arkin .   Burton conceived Edward Scissorhands from his childhood upbringing in suburban Burbank , California . During pre-production of Beetlejuice , Caroline Thompson was hired to adapt Burton 's story into a screenplay , and the film began development at 20th Century Fox , after Warner Bros. declined . Edward Scissorhands was then fast track after Burton 's critical and financial success with Batman . The majority of filming took place in Lakeland , Florida between March 10 and June 10 , 1990 . The film also marks the fourth collaboration between Burton and film score composer Danny Elfman . The leading role of Edward had been connected to several actors prior to Depp 's casting : a meeting between Burton and the preferred choice of the studio , Tom Cruise , was not fruitful , and Gary Oldman and Tom Hanks turned down the part . The character of The Inventor was devised specifically for Vincent Price , and would be his last major role . Edward 's scissor hands were created and designed by Stan Winston .   Edward Scissorhands was released to positive feedback from critics , and was a financial success . The film received numerous nominations at the Academy Awards , British Academy Film Awards , and the Saturn Awards , as well as winning the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation . Both Burton and Elfman consider Edward Scissorhands their most personal and favorite work .

neg: A Midsummer Night's Dream (1959 film) A Midsummer Night 's Dream ( Sen noci svatojánské ) is a 1959 Czechoslovak animated puppet film directed by Jiří Trnka . It is based on the Shakespeare play of the same name . It was entered into the 1959 Cannes Film Festival . An English-language dubbed version was made with narration by Richard Burton .   The film won several awards including the Prize of the Technical Committee in Cannes and an Honourable Medal at the Venice Film Festival .

neg: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? is a 1962 play by Edward Albee . It examines the breakdown of the marriage of a middle-aged couple , Martha and George . Late one evening , after a university faculty party , they receive an unwitting younger couple , Nick and Honey , as guests , and draw them into their bitter and frustrated relationship .   The play is in three acts , normally taking a little less than three hours to perform , with two 10-minute intermissions . The title is a pun on the song `` Who 's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf ? '' from Walt Disney 's Three Little Pigs ( 1933 ) , substituting the name of the celebrated English author Virginia Woolf . Martha and George repeatedly sing this version of the song throughout the play .   Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? won both the 1963 Tony Award for Best Play and the 1962 -- 63 New York Drama Critics ' Circle Award for Best Play . It is frequently revived on the modern stage . The film adaptation was released in 1966 , written by Ernest Lehman , directed by Mike Nichols , and starring Richard Burton , Elizabeth Taylor , George Segal and Sandy Dennis .

neg: Hamlet (disambiguation) Hamlet is a tragic play by William Shakespeare .   Hamlet may also refer to :

neg: Macbeth (1971 film) Macbeth ( or The Tragedy of Macbeth ) is a 1971 British-American historical drama film directed by Roman Polanski and co-written by Polanski and Kenneth Tynan . A film adaptation of William Shakespeare 's tragedy of the same name , it retells the story of the Highland lord who becomes King of Scotland through treachery and murder . The film stars Jon Finch as the title character and Francesca Annis as Lady Macbeth , noted for their relative youth as actors . Themes of historic recurrence , greater pessimism and internal ugliness in physically beautiful characters are added to Shakespeare 's story of moral decline , which is presented in a more realistic style .   The production , funded by Playboy Enterprises , was troubled by poor weather around the British Isles , and the film was a box office bomb . Polanski 's Macbeth was screened out of competition at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival . It was somewhat controversial for its depictions of graphic violence and nudity , but has also received positive attention , and was named Best Film by the National Board of Review .

neg: List of frequent Tim Burton collaborators Tim Burton ( born August 25 , 1958 ) is an American film director , film producer , writer and artist who often works with certain actors and crew members in multiple feature film directing projects .   The actors who collaborated with Burton the most frequently are Johnny Depp , Helena Bonham Carter and Christopher Lee , who all appeared in eight , seven and six films , respectively .   Film composer Danny Elfman composed the music for all of Burton 's feature films with the exception of Ed Wood ( 1994 ) , Sweeney Todd : The Demon Barber of Fleet Street ( 2007 ) and Miss Peregrine 's Home for Peculiar Children ( 2016 ) . He also composed the music for The Nightmare Before Christmas ( 1993 ) , a stop-motion animated film Burton co-wrote and produced .   Other actors that Burton has worked with include Danny DeVito , Conchata Ferrell , Albert Finney , Carmen Filpi , Michael Gough , Eva Green , Pat Hingle , Jan Hooks , Rance Howard , Jeffrey Jones , O-Lan Jones , Michael Keaton , Martin Landau , Lisa Marie , Catherine O'Hara , Michelle Pfeiffer , Missi Pyle , Paul Reubens , Alan Rickman , Deep Roy , Winona Ryder , Diane Salinger , Glenn Shadix , Martin Short , Timothy Spall , Sylvia Sidney , Christopher Walken , Frank Welker , Terence Stamp and Paul Whitehouse .   Catherine O'Hara , Paul Reubens , and Glenn Shadix also starred in The Nightmare Before Christmas .   Actor Jason Hervey appeared in the short film Frankenweenie ( 1984 ) , before appearing in Burton 's feature film directing debut Pee-wee 's Big Adventure ( 1985 ) .   Actor Vincent Price worked with Burton on three projects , hosting the television film Hansel and Gretel ( 1982 ) , narrating the short film Vincent ( 1982 ) and appearing in the feature film Edward Scissorhands ( 1990 ) .   Actresses Ada and Arlene Tai worked with Burton as extras in Ed Wood before going on to be cast in Big Fish ( 2003 ) .   In addition to starring in Beetlejuice , Edward Scissorhands and Frankenweenie , Winona Ryder appeared in the Burton-directed music video for The Killers ' `` Here with Me '' .

neg: Film director A film director is a person who directs the making of a film . Generally , a film director controls a film 's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay ( or script ) while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of that vision . The director has a key role in choosing the cast members , production design , and the creative aspects of filmmaking . Under European Union law , the director is viewed as the author of the film .   The film director gives direction to the cast and crew and creates an overall vision through which a film eventually becomes realized , or noticed . Directors need to be able to mediate differences in creative visions and stay within the boundaries of the film 's budget . There are many pathways to becoming a film director . Some film directors started as screenwriters , cinematographers , film editors or actors . Other film directors have attended a film school . Directors use different approaches . Some outline a general plotline and let the actors improvise dialogue , while others control every aspect , and demand that the actors and crew follow instructions precisely . Some directors also write their own screenplays or collaborate on screenplays with long-standing writing partners . Some directors edit or appear in their films , or compose the music score for their films .

neg: Macbeth (1982 film) Macbeth is a 1982 Hungarian dramatic experimental independent underground art television film directed by Béla Tarr . György Cserhalmi plays Macbeth while Erzsébet Kútvölgyi plays Lady Macbeth . The film is composed of only two shots : The first shot ( before the main title ) is five minutes long , the second 57 minutes long . The film has been screened during a retrospective held in honor of director Béla Tarr at the 33rd Moscow International Film Festival .

neg: Troilus and Cressida Troilus and Cressida ( -LSB- ˈtrɔɪləs_ən_ˈkrɛsᵻdə -RSB- ) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare , believed to have been written in 1602 . It was described by Frederick S. Boas as one of Shakespeare 's problem plays . The play ends on a very bleak note with the death of the noble Trojan Hector and destruction of the love between Troilus and Cressida . The work has in recent years `` stimulated exceptionally lively critical debate '' . Throughout the play , the tone lurches wildly between bawdy comedy and tragic gloom , and readers and theatre-goers have frequently found it difficult to understand how one is meant to respond to the characters . However , several characteristic elements of the play ( the most notable being its constant questioning of intrinsic values such as hierarchy , honour and love ) have often been viewed as distinctly `` modern , '' as in the following remarks on the play by author and literary scholar Joyce Carol Oates :   Troilus and Cressida , that most vexing and ambiguous of Shakespeare 's plays , strikes the modern reader as a contemporary document -- its investigation of numerous infidelities , its criticism of tragic pretensions , above all , its implicit debate between what is essential in human life and what is only existential are themes of the twentieth century . ... This is tragedy of a special sort -- the `` tragedy '' the basis of which is the impossibility of conventional tragedy .

neg: An Englishman Abroad An Englishman Abroad is a 1983 BBC television drama film , based on the true story of a chance meeting of actress Coral Browne , with Guy Burgess ( Alan Bates ) , a member of the Cambridge spy ring who spied for the Soviet Union while an officer at MI6 . The production was written by Alan Bennett and directed by John Schlesinger ; Browne stars as herself .   The film is set is Moscow in 1958 , after Burgess had defected to the Soviet Union in 1951 with Donald Maclean when it became apparent that Maclean was about to be investigated by British intelligence . Burgess barges into Browne 's dressing room in the interval of a touring Shakespeare Memorial Theatre ( which became one of the bases of the Royal Shakespeare Company ) production of Hamlet , in which she portrayed Gertrude , and charms her . Later on she is invited to his Moscow flat , finding it with some difficulty , to measure him for a suit that he would like ordered from his London tailor .   Several plot changes were made from the true story told by Browne to Bennett . Burgess in fact threw up in the dressing room of Michael Redgrave , who asked for Browne 's help . Redgrave documented the incident in his biography . The play also contained scenes in Moscow 's British Embassy and in London shops where Browne encountered resistance to helping Burgess , none of which happened in reality .   Rather than film in the Soviet Union , Schlesinger used several locations in Scotland . The Caird Hall and Whitehall Theatre in Dundee stood in for the Moscow theatre , and the grand marble staircase of Glasgow City Chambers played the part of the British Embassy . Additional filming was done at Glasgow 's St. Andrew 's Suspension Bridge ( `` luckily , in a snowstorm '' Bennett later wrote ) and the Moss Heights flats in Cardonald , which represented Burgess ' Moscow apartment .   Both Browne and Bates were winners of the BAFTA awards for acting for their roles in this production .   Bennett gives the date of Browne 's meeting with Burgess as 1958 in the introduction to his Single Spies , which contains the text of An Englishman Abroad in the stage play version and the text of A Question of Attribution about Anthony Blunt .   The play was also adapted for radio on the BBC World Service in 1994 starring Michael Gambon as Burgess and Penelope Wilton as Coral Browne . It was subsequently re-broadcast on BBC Radio 7 and BBC Radio 4 Extra , most recently in 2013 as part of BBC Radio 4 Extra 's Cambridge Spies season .   On the BFI TV 100 , a list compiled in 2000 by the British Film Institute ( BFI ) , chosen by a poll of industry professionals , to determine what were the greatest British television programmes of any genre ever to have been screened , An Englishman Abroad was listed at no. 30 on the list .

neg: The History of King Lear The History of King Lear is an adaptation by Nahum Tate of William Shakespeare 's King Lear . It first appeared in 1681 , some seventy-five years after Shakespeare 's version , and is believed to have replaced Shakespeare 's version on the English stage in whole or in part until 1838 .   Unlike Shakespeare 's tragedy , Tate 's play has a happy ending , with Lear regaining his throne , Cordelia marrying Edgar , and Edgar joyfully declaring that `` truth and virtue shall at last succeed . '' Regarded as a tragicomedy , the play has five acts , as does Shakespeare 's , although the number of scenes is different , and the text is about eight hundred lines shorter than Shakespeare 's . Many of Shakespeare 's original lines are retained , or modified only slightly , but a significant portion of the text is entirely new , and much is omitted . The character of the Fool , for example , is absent .   Although many critics -- including Joseph Addison , August Wilhelm Schlegel , Charles Lamb , William Hazlitt , and Anna Jameson -- condemned Tate 's adaptation for what they saw as its cheap sentimentality , it was popular with theatregoers , and was approved by Samuel Johnson , who regarded Cordelia 's death in Shakespeare 's play as unbearable . Shakespeare 's version continued to appear in printed editions of his works , but , according to numerous scholars , including A.C. Bradley and Stanley Wells , did not appear on the English stage for over a hundred and fifty years from the date of the first performance of Tate 's play . Actors such as Thomas Betterton , David Garrick , and John Philip Kemble , who were famous for the role of Lear , were portraying Tate 's Lear , not Shakespeare 's .   The tragic ending was briefly restored by Edmund Kean in 1823 . In 1838 , William Charles Macready purged the text entirely of Tate , in favour of a shortened version of Shakespeare 's original . Finally , Samuel Phelps returned to the complete Shakespeare text in 1845 .

neg: Hrid Majharey Hrid Majharey ( Live in my Heart ) is a critically acclaimed 2014 India-Bengali cult love tragedy film written and directed by debutant Bengali filmmaker Ranjan Ghosh . Inspired by Othello and incorporating elements from Macbeth and Julius Caesar , this was the first film in the Bengali language based on the works of William Shakespeare and is internationally considered as one of the top five World Adaptations of Othello . It was first presented as a tribute on his 450th Birth Anniversary in 2014 . Critics consider it among the top ten adaptations of Shakespeare in Indian cinema , since 1949 .   The movie achieved cult status by having the unique honour of surviving a crucial two-year journey , from its launch in July 2014 celebrating Shakespeare 's 450th birth-anniversary , to being showcased at a British Conference on the Bard held in London in April 2016 to mark 400 years of his death .   The prestigious Oxford , Cambridge and RSA Examinations Board enlisted Hrid Majharey in ` Additional Resources - World/International Adaptations of Othello ' for their ' A Level Drama and Theatre ' course with the theme ` Heroes and Villains - Othello ' . Earlier in 2015 , the movie was screened at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts , and was included in their PhD in Cinema Studies ( ` Shakespeare and Indian Cinema ' ) .   Still earlier in its year of release in 2014 , it had earned a rare recommendation from Film London in its list of world cinema based on Shakespearean plays . In another major achievement , the film and its screenplay were included in the UGC Literature Archive through the ` Shakespeare in Bengal ' project conducted by Jadavpur University .   Hrid Majharey had already created history by becoming the first Bengali film to be shot in the Andaman & Nicobar Islands after a gap of more than three decades . It was shot in 2013 in the Archipelagos . The last time was in 1979 when veteran filmmaker Tapan Sinha partly shot his children 's adventure film Sabuj Dwiper Raja in Port Blair .   Matinee idols Abir Chatterjee and Raima Sen debuted together in a romantic pairing for the very first time in this modern revisiting of William Shakespeare .

neg: Dead Poets Society Dead Poets Society is a 1989 American drama film directed by Peter Weir , written by Tom Schulman , and starring Robin Williams . Set in 1959 at the fictional elite conservative Vermont boarding school Welton Academy , it tells the story of an English teacher who inspires his students through his teaching of poetry .   The film received critical acclaim and was a box office success . It won the BAFTA Award for Best Film , and César Award and David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Film . Schulman received an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his work .

neg: English Shakespeare Company The English Shakespeare Company was an English theatre company founded in 1986 by Michael Bogdanov and Michael Pennington to present and promote the works of William Shakespeare on both a national and an international level .   Its inaugural production ( 1986 ) was an anthology entitled The Henrys ( Henry IV , Part 1 , Henry IV , Part 2 , and Henry V ) which opened at the Theatre Royal , Plymouth in December 1986 . A year later , several more plays ( Richard II , Henry VI : House of Lancaster , Henry VI : House of York and Richard III ) were added to the original productions and were presented as a complete history cycle under the title of The Wars of the Roses . The production toured for two years in seventeen venues in the UK including the Old Vic in London , as well as appearing at several international venues , including the Hong Kong Festival , opening the new Tokyo Globe Theatre , being the centrepiece of The World Theatre Festival of Chicago , and touring to Stamford , Connecticut , the Spoleto Festival , Melbourne , the Adelaide Festival , Brisbane , The Netherlands , Hamburg , Berlin and Frankfurt .   In addition to The Wars of the Roses , productions of many individual Shakespeare plays were also presented . They included Twelfth Night , Macbeth , The Tempest , Romeo & Juliet , Antony and Cleopatra and As You Like It .   The last production of ROMEO AND JULIET . indeed the closing production ended in Plymouth after touring the world .


query: Helen Keller had membership with the Socialist Party of America.

pos: Helen Keller Helen Adams Keller ( June 27 , 1880 -- June 1 , 1968 ) was an American author , political activist , and lecturer . She was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree . The story of how Keller 's teacher , Anne Sullivan , broke through the isolation imposed by a near complete lack of language , allowing the girl to blossom as she learned to communicate , has become widely known through the dramatic depictions of the play and film The Miracle Worker . Her birthplace in West Tuscumbia , Alabama , is now a museum and sponsors an annual `` Helen Keller Day '' . Her birthday on June 27 is commemorated as Helen Keller Day in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and was authorized at the federal level by presidential proclamation by President Jimmy Carter in 1980 , the 100th anniversary of her birth .   A prolific author , Keller was well-traveled and outspoken in her convictions . A member of the Socialist Party of America and the Industrial Workers of the World , she campaigned for women 's suffrage , labor rights , socialism , antimilitarism , and other similar causes . She was inducted into the Alabama Women 's Hall of Fame in 1971 and was one of twelve inaugural inductees to the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame on June 8 , 2015 . Helen proved to the world that deaf people could all learn to communicate and that they could survive in the hearing world . She also taught that deaf people are capable of doing things that hearing people can do . She is one of the most famous deaf people in history and she is an idol to many deaf people in the world .

neg: The Frost King `` The Frost King '' was a short story about King Jack Frost written by 11-year-old Helen Keller . Keller 's teacher , Anne Sullivan , had mentioned that the autumn leaves were `` painted ruby , emerald , gold , crimson , and brown , '' and Keller , by her own account , imagined fairies doing the work . Keller wrote a story about how a cask of jewels , being transported by fairy servants , had melted in the sun and covered the leaves . As a birthday gift , Keller sent the story to Michael Anagnos , head of the Perkins School for the Blind , who published the story in The Mentor , the Perkins alumni magazine . It was picked up by The Goodson Gazette , a journal on deaf-blind education , based in Virginia .

neg: Albert Parsons Albert Richard Parsons ( 1848 -- 1887 ) was a pioneer American socialist and later anarchist newspaper editor , orator , and labor activist . As a teenager , he served in the military force of the Confederate States of America in Texas , during the American Civil War . After the war , he settled in Texas , and became an activist for the rights of former slaves , and later a Republican official during reconstruction . With his wife Lucy Parsons , he then moved to Chicago in 1873 and worked in newspapers . There he became interested in the rights of workers . In 1884 , he began editing The Alarm newspaper . Parsons was one of four Chicago radical leaders controversially convicted of conspiracy and hanged following a bomb attack on police remembered as the Haymarket affair .

neg: Socialist Labour Party (UK, 1903) The Socialist Labour Party was a socialist political party in the United Kingdom . It was established in 1903 as a splinter from the Social Democratic Federation ( SDF ) by James Connolly , Neil Maclean and SDF members impressed with the politics of the American socialist Daniel De Leon , a Marxist theoretician and leading figure of the Socialist Labor Party of America . After decades of existence as a tiny organisation , the group was finally terminated in 1980 .

neg: Sergei Shevitch Sergei Egorovich Shevitch ( spelled variously , c. 1847-1911 ) ( Russian : Сергей Егорович Шевич ) was a Russian newspaper editor and socialist political activist who achieved his greatest fame in the United States of America . As editor of the New Yorker Volkszeitung ( New York People 's News ) from 1879 to 1890 , Shevitch emerged as arguably the most important leader of the Socialist Labor Party of America . In 1889 , Shevitch was the leader of a split of the Socialist Labor Party of America , emerging victorious and serving for a short while as the National Secretary of the organization .   Shevitch and his wife , the former Helene von Racowitza , returned to Russia in 1890 to avoid loss of his estate lands to the crown owing to emigration . Following several years on his estate , Shevitch emigrated again , this time to Germany , where he would die by his own hand in 1911 .

neg: Mary Barr Clay Mary Barr Clay ( October 2 , 1839 -- October 12 , 1924 ) was a leader of the American women 's suffrage movement . She also was known as Mary B. Clay and Mrs. J. Frank Herrick .   The elder daughter of Cassius Marcellus Clay and his wife Mary Jane Warfield , Mary Barr Clay was born on October 2 , 1839 , in Lexington , Kentucky . Clay married John Francis `` Frank '' Herrick , of Cleveland , Ohio , on October 3 , 1866 . The couple had three sons : Cassius Clay Herrick ( July 17 , 1867 - March 1935 ) ; Francis Warfield ( February 9 , 1869 - May 16 , 1919 ) ; and , Green ( August 11 , 1872 - 1948 ? ) . They divorced in 1872 . She then dropped the Herrick name and took back her surname of Clay ; she changed the last names of her two youngest children to Clay also .   In 1878 , Clay 's parents also divorced , leaving her mother Mary Jane Clay homeless after she had managed White Hall , the family estate , for 45 years . This inequality galvanized Clay into joining the women 's rights movement , and she soon brought her three younger sisters with her . Laura Clay , the youngest , also became very active in the movement .   In May 1879 , Mary B. Clay went to St. Louis , Missouri to attend the tenth anniversary of the National Woman Suffrage Association . She soon became a Kentucky delegate for that organization , serving as a vice-president . She was already a Vice President for the American Woman Suffrage Association . There she met Susan B. Anthony and arranged for the suffrage leader to speak in Richmond , Kentucky . Returning home she organized the Fayette County Equal Suffrage Association in 1879 . The next year , she created the Madison County Equal Rights Association . While living in Ann Arbor , Michigan , to educate her two younger sons , she organized a suffrage club there . She became president pro tem of the convention in Flint for the Michigan State Suffrage Association.She also edited a column in the Ann Arbor `` Register and spoke before the senior law class of the University of Michigan on the `` Constitutional Right of Women to Vote . '' She submitted the Kentucky report in Volume 3 of the History of Woman Suffrage : 1876-1885 .   Clay became the first Kentuckian to hold the office of president in a national woman 's organization when she was elected president of the American Woman Suffrage Association in 1883 . Mary B. Clay was also the first Kentucky woman to speak publicly on women 's rights .   She corresponded with Susan B. Anthony , Lucy Stone , Alice Stone Blackwell and other leading suffragists . She is credited with drawing her younger sister Laura Clay into the women 's rights movement . The younger Clay became better known in history as a women 's rights advocate .   Her public life pretty much ended in 1902 , as she dealt with ill health and family obligations . Clay died on October 12 , 1924 , and she is interred at Lexington Cemetery .

neg: Young People's Socialist League (1907) The Young People 's Socialist League ( YPSL ) , founded in 1907 , was the official youth arm of the Socialist Party of America . Its political activities tend to concentrate on increasing the voter turnout of young democratic socialists and affecting the issues impacting that demographic group .

neg: National Party (United States) The National Party was an early-20th-century national political organization in the United States founded by pro-war defectors from the Socialist Party of America in 1917 . These adherents of the SPA Right first formed a non-partisan national society to propagandize the socialist idea called the Social Democratic League of America . Many of these individuals were eager for the formation of an alternative political organization to both the so-called `` old '' parties and the anti-war Socialist Party of America and eagerly latched on to a burgeoning movement for a new party that sprouted in 1917 .

neg: Susan B. Anthony Susan Brownell Anthony ( February 15 , 1820 -- March 13 , 1906 ) was an American social reformer and women 's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women 's suffrage movement . Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality , she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17 . In 1856 , she became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society .   In 1851 , she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton , who became her lifelong friend and co-worker in social reform activities , primarily in the field of women 's rights . In 1852 , they founded the New York Women 's State Temperance Society after Anthony was prevented from speaking at a temperance conference because she was female . In 1863 , they founded the Women 's Loyal National League , which conducted the largest petition drive in United States history up to that time , collecting nearly 400,000 signatures in support of the abolition of slavery . In 1866 , they initiated the American Equal Rights Association , which campaigned for equal rights for both women and African Americans . In 1868 , they began publishing a women 's rights newspaper called The Revolution . In 1869 , they founded the National Woman Suffrage Association as part of a split in the women 's movement . In 1890 , the split was formally healed when their organization merged with the rival American Woman Suffrage Association to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association , with Anthony as its key force . In 1876 , Anthony and Stanton began working with Matilda Joslyn Gage on what eventually grew into the six-volume History of Woman Suffrage . The interests of Anthony and Stanton diverged somewhat in later years , but the two remained close friends .   In 1872 , Anthony was arrested for voting in her hometown of Rochester , New York , and convicted in a widely publicized trial . Although she refused to pay the fine , the authorities declined to take further action . In 1878 , Anthony and Stanton arranged for Congress to be presented with an amendment giving women the right to vote . Popularly known as the Anthony Amendment and introduced by Sen. Aaron A. Sargent ( R-CA ) , it became the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920 .   Anthony traveled extensively in support of women 's suffrage , giving as many as 75 to 100 speeches per year and working on many state campaigns . She worked internationally for women 's rights , playing a key role in creating the International Council of Women , which is still active . She also helped to bring about the World 's Congress of Representative Women at the World 's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 .   When she first began campaigning for women 's rights , Anthony was harshly ridiculed and accused of trying to destroy the institution of marriage . Public perception of her changed radically during her lifetime , however . Her 80th birthday was celebrated in the White House at the invitation of President William McKinley . She became the first actual woman to be depicted on U.S. coinage when her portrait appeared on the 1979 dollar coin .

neg: Socialist Appeal (US, 1935) Socialist Appeal was the name of a newspaper published by American Trotskyists from 1935 to 1941 . It was started by supporters of the Trotskyist Workers Party of the United States in Chicago who had entered the Socialist Party of America in 1935 and was edited by Albert Goldman . In 1936 , when the Workers Party formerly dissolved and entered en masse into the SPA and in August 1937 the publication moved to New York City and was re-launched as the organ of the `` Left Wing Branches of the Socialist Party '' but was effectively controlled by the unofficial Trotskyist faction within the SPA . The `` Socialist Appeal tendency '' split from the Socialist Party to form the Socialist Workers Party in 1938 . The publication became the official organ of the SWP and continued as Socialist Appeal until 1941 when it was renamed The Militant , reverting to the name of the original ( 1928-1934 ) Communist League of America publication .

neg: Yugoslav Socialist Association The Yugoslav Socialist Federation ( Jugoslovanska Socialistična Zveza ) was a socialist migrant organization in the United States of America , 1905 to 1952 , founded in Chicago , IL .   The Jugoslav Socialist Federation was established in Chicago , Illinois , in 1905 . The founders were Slovenian , Croatian , and Serbian representatives of several independent socialist and liberal organizations . They represented , in education , socioeconomic class and philosophy , the broad range of South Slavic immigrant America . Although not all Marxist , they were unified in opposition to industrial capitalism and the intrusion of organized religion into economic and political spheres . They also believed in the importance of ethnic awareness and inter-ethnic cooperation among workers . These people established a myriad of organizations in America between 1900 and 1918 , among them the Slovenska Narodna Podporna Jednota , the South Slavic cooperative movement , and the Yugoslav Republican Alliance .   From 1905 until 1914 , the Jugoslav Socialist Federation was the primary political organization among South Slav immigrants , dedicated to advancing socialist causes and to enriching the cultural life of its members . From 1912-1917 , the Federation was affiliated with the Socialist Party of America ; it favored entry of the United States into World War I . In 1919 , it was expelled from the Socialist Party and most of its Serbian and Croatian members joined the Communist movement . Most of the Slovenian membership remained independent , but sympathetic to the Bolshevik Revolution . In 1922 , the Federation reaffiliated with the Socialist Party and remained so until 1940 . From 1940 until it ceased to exist in 1952 , it functioned as an independent socialist and cultural organization composed mostly of Slovenians . The Federation published two newspapers , Proletarec ( Slovenian ) and Radnička Straza ( Serbo-Croatian ) as well as an annual , Ameriški Družinski Koledar . Majski Glas was the May 1st issue of Proletarec , which became a separate publication .

neg: Frank Lovell Frank Lovell ( July 24 , 1913 -- May 1 , 1998 ) was an American communist politician .   Lovell was born in Ipava , a town situated in the farming district of Illinois . Lovell studied psychology at the University of California in Berkeley . After he had left the campus , Lovell earned his living as a seaman , chiefly on the West Coast of the United States .   In the 1930s , Lovell came into contact with Trotskyist movement led by James P. Cannon and he became one of the first members of the Socialist Workers Party , and in 1942 he was elected to its National Committee .   As a seaman , Lovell was active in the Sailors Union of the Pacific and the leader of many strikes . In 1943 , during World War II , serving in the U.S. merchant marine , Lovell barely survived the blow up of his ship by a German mine off the coast of Iceland as the ship came off the Murmansk run .   In the 1950s , Lovell was one of the SWP 's prominent members who had to move to Detroit the rebuild the party 's branch there after the SWP had had to expel a lot of members part of the Bert Cochran faction group . Lovell run for Governor of Michigan on the SWP ticket in 1954 , 1958 and 1964 , and as candidate for Mayor of Detroit in 1953 amidst an atmosphere of McCarthyism .   In the early 1980s , Lovell , and several other members of the SWP , got into a sharp conflict with the new , younger party leadership under Jack Barnes . Eventually , Lovell and many other members of the party were expelled ; some of these , Lovell included , went on to establish the Fourth Internationalist Tendency .   On May 1 , 1998 at the age of 84 , Lovell died of a heart attack in his Manhattan apartment .

neg: Politics (magazine 1944–1949) politics was a journal founded and edited by Dwight Macdonald from 1944 to 1949 .   Macdonald had previously been editor at Partisan Review from 1937 to 1943 , but after falling out with its publishers , quit to start politics as a rival publication , first on a monthly basis and then as a quarterly .   politics published essays on politics and culture and included among its contributors James Agee , John Berryman , Bruno Bettelheim , Paul Goodman , C. Wright Mills , Mary McCarthy , Marianne Moore , Irving Howe , Daniel Bell , Hannah Arendt .   The journal reflected Macdonald 's interest in European culture . He used politics to introduce US readers to the thinking of the French philosopher Simone Weil , publishing several articles by her , including `` A Poem of Force '' , her reflections on the Iliad . He also printed work by Albert Camus . Another European , the Italian political and literary critic Nicola Chiaromonte , was also given space in the journal .   politics was also Macdonald 's vehicle for his repeated and energetic attacks against Henry Wallace and his Progressive Party campaign for President .   In a letter to Philip Rahv at the end of December 1943 , George Orwell mentioned that Macdonald had written asking him to contribute to his forthcoming journal . Orwell had replied telling him he might `` do something ` cultural ' '' but not ` political ' as he was already writing his `` London Letters '' to Partisan Review .   In his `` As I Please '' article for the 16 June 1944 issue of Tribune , George Orwell recommended politics . He stated that he disagreed with its policy but admired `` its combination of highbrow political analysis with intelligent literary criticism . '' He went on to add that there were no monthly or quarterly magazines in England `` to come up to '' the American ones , of which there were several .   Macdonald , in an editorial comment for the November 1944 issue of politics referred to a letter from Orwell which cast interesting light on the ` russification ' of English political thought over the last two years . Orwell had read the May issue 's review of Harold Laski 's Faith , Reason and Civilisation and mentioned that the Manchester Evening News , the evening edition of the Manchester Guardian , had refused to print his own review because of its anti-Stalin implications . Despite considering the book `` pernicious tripe '' , Orwell had praised the author for being `` aware that the USSR is the real dynamo of the Socialist movement in this country and everywhere else . '' , but criticized him for shutting his eyes to `` purges , liquidations '' , etc. . Macdonald pointed out that the fact that such a review should be considered `` too hot '' shows how much the feats of the Red Army had misled the English public opinion about Russia . He added that the `` English liberal press had been far more honest about the Moscow Trials than our own liberal journals '' and that Trotsky had been able to write in the Guardian .

neg: Eugene V. Debs Eugene Victor `` Gene '' Debs ( November 5 , 1855 -- October 20 , 1926 ) was an American union leader , one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW or the Wobblies ) , and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States . Through his presidential candidacies , as well as his work with labor movements , Debs eventually became one of the best-known socialists living in the United States .   Early in his political career , Debs was a member of the Democratic Party . He was elected as a Democrat to the Indiana General Assembly in 1884 . After working with several smaller unions , including the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen , Debs was instrumental in the founding of the American Railway Union ( ARU ) , one of the nation 's first industrial unions . After workers at the Pullman Palace Car Company organized a wildcat strike over pay cuts in the summer of 1894 , Debs signed many into the ARU . He called a boycott of the ARU against handling trains with Pullman cars , in what became the nationwide Pullman Strike , affecting most lines west of Detroit , and more than 250,000 workers in 27 states . To keep the mail running , President Grover Cleveland used the United States Army to break the strike . As a leader of the ARU , Debs was convicted of federal charges for defying a court injunction against the strike and served six months in prison .   In jail , Debs read various works of socialist theory and emerged six months later as a committed adherent of the international socialist movement . Debs was a founding member of the Social Democracy of America ( 1897 ) , the Social Democratic Party of America ( 1898 ) , and the Socialist Party of America ( 1901 ) .   Debs ran as a Socialist candidate for President of the United States five times , including 1900 ( earning 0.63 % of the popular vote ) , 1904 ( 2.98 % ) , 1908 ( 2.83 % ) , 1912 ( 5.99 % ) , and 1920 ( 3.41 % ) , the last time from a prison cell . He was also a candidate for United States Congress from his native state Indiana in 1916 .   Debs was noted for his oratory , and his speech denouncing American participation in World War I led to his second arrest in 1918 . He was convicted under the Sedition Act of 1918 and sentenced to a term of 10 years . President Warren G. Harding commuted his sentence in December 1921 . Debs died in 1926 , not long after being admitted to a sanatorium due to cardiovascular problems that developed during his time in prison . He has since been cited as the inspiration for numerous politicians .

neg: Edwin C. Fairchild Edwin Charles Fairchild ( 1874 -- 1955 ) was a socialist activist and conscientious objector during the First World War .   A long-term member of the Social Democratic Federation ( SDF ) , Fairchild was a member of its radical Central Hackney branch , alongside Zelda Kahan and Theodore Rothstein . As early as 1909 , he was a signatory to a resolution denouncing party leader H. M. Hyndman 's anti-German rhetoric . He supported closer links with the Independent Labour Party and other socialists , and worked with Alf Purcell and Victor Grayson on the Provisional Committee for the Promotion of Common Ground Among the Socialists . This was opposed by the right-wing of the SDF , but proved successful , as it constituted the British Socialist Party ( BSP ) , and the SDF merged itself into the new party .   Fairchild was elected to the BSP 's first standing orders committee , alongside Duncan Carmichael , Peter Petroff and C. T. Douthwaite . The four worked together to ensure voices in the party opposing British rearmament were heard . He was also elected to the party 's executive , representing the party 's left-wing .   At the London County Council election , 1913 , Fairchild stood for the BSP in Bow and Bromley . He took 1,609 votes , but was not elected . In 1915 , the party selected him as its delegate to the Zimmerwald Conference , but he was refused a passport and could not attend . During this period , Fairchild was close to John Maclean . When Maclean 's newspaper , Vanguard , was suppressed , Fairchild launched The Call as a replacement .   The BSP was divided over British entry to World War I ; although the majority of the party opposed it , much of the leadership was in favour . Fairchild was an opponent of the war , although he was considered a centrist within the party , as he also argued against action which would endanger `` national defence '' . The party 's right-wing were defeated at its conference in 1916 and walked out ; following this , Fairchild was elected as the party 's chairman , and The Call became the party 's official newspaper . The BSP affiliated to the Labour Party , and Fairchild was selected by the Rochdale Trades and Labour Council as the party 's candidate for Rochdale the 1918 UK general election . However , a dispute over his support for conscientious objection during World War I led to his replacement by R. H. Tawney .   Like the majority of his party , Fairchild welcomed the February Revolution in Russia , and he spoke at the launch of the Council of Workers ' and Soldiers ' Delegates in Leeds . However , he remained committed to parliamentary democracy even when many in his party preferred setting up workers ' councils . He and Henry Alexander resigned from the BSP in 1919 , after it voted to seek affiliation to the Third International .

neg: Hollywood blacklist The Hollywood blacklist -- as the broader entertainment industry blacklist is generally known -- was the practice of denying employment to screenwriters , actors , directors , musicians , and other American entertainment professionals during the mid-20th century because they were accused of having Communist ties or sympathies . Artists were barred from work on the basis of their alleged membership in or sympathy with the Communist Party USA or refusal to assist investigations into the party 's activities . Even during the period of its strictest enforcement , the late 1940s through the late 1950s , the blacklist was rarely made explicit or verifiable , but it directly damaged the careers of scores of individuals working in the film industry .   The first systematic Hollywood blacklist was instituted on November 25 , 1947 , the day after ten writers and directors were cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to testify to the House Un-American Activities Committee . A group of studio executives , acting under the aegis of the Association of Motion Picture Producers , fired the artists -- the so-called Hollywood Ten -- and made what has become known as the Waldorf Statement .   On June 22 , 1950 , a pamphlet entitled Red Channels was published . Focused on the field of broadcasting , it identified 151 entertainment industry professionals in the context of `` Red Fascists and their sympathizers . '' Soon , most of those named , along with a host of other artists , were barred from employment in most of the entertainment field .   The blacklist lasted until 1960 , when Dalton Trumbo , a Communist Party member from 1943 to 1948  and member of the Hollywood Ten , was credited as the screenwriter of the highly successful film Exodus , and later publicly acknowledged by actor Kirk Douglas for writing the screenplay for the movie Spartacus . A number of those blacklisted , however , were still barred from work in their professions for years afterward .

neg: Troy Porter Troy Porter was a plumber , politician , and civil rights leader in Paris , Illinois .   Troy Porter was born in Fayette County , Kentucky April 15 , 1855 . His parents were Winnie Porter , who had been born a slave , and a man whose name may have been Troy or John Porter . The elder Porter enlisted in the Union Army during the American Civil War ( 1861-1865 ) and died at the Battle of Perryville . Winnie escaped to Camp Nelson in Kentucky , and then to Ripley , Ohio . In 1865 , through the influence of Rev. Granville Moody ( a Union Army officer ) , they moved to Paris , Illinois . At the age of eleven he began to learn the trade of plumbing , gas and steam fitting . On November 21 , 1876 , he began to work for himself . He became an important member of the local Republican Party and in 1882 he was appointed superintendent of the Paris Water Works . In 1885 he was elected town clerk of the township and was reelected to the position in 1887 .   He was a prominent member of a number of social societies . He joined the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in 1877 and was district secretary from 1881 until August 1886 . In 1895 , Porter was a leader in a Illinois branch of the National Afro-American League which organized to improve the condition and support the civil rights of blacks . It was particularly concerned with black miners who were victims of the 1895 Spring Valley , Illinois race riots . Porter was a member of the executive committee . Porter remained involved with civil rights and was a member of the Afro-American State Protective League of Illinois and was a delegate to the 1898 convention of African Americans coincident with the 1898 World 's Fair in Omaha , Nebraska . In July 1914 , Porter was a delegate to the Negro National Education congress in Oklahoma City .   Winnie Porter , Troy 's mother , died at a reported age of 101 in 1909 . Porter married a woman named Cora and died August 25 , 1929 in Terre Haute , Indiana .

neg: Henry W. Lee Henry W. Lee , often known as H. W. Lee ( 10 July 1865 -- 5 March 1932 ) was a prominent British socialist .   Born in London , Lee worked in the printing industry , then joined the Social Democratic Federation ( SDF ) soon after its foundation . He became the full-time Assistant Secretary of the party in 1885 and soon after became its General Secretary . He held this position until the organisation dissolved itself into the new British Socialist Party . Again appointed the Secretary , he held the post for only two years , in 1913 taking over from Harry Quelch as editor of Justice .   Lee supported British involvement World War I , alongside such prominent party members as H. M. Hyndman and Will Thorne . However , this proved to be a minority position in the party , and Lee was a member of the right-wing split of 1916 which founded the National Socialist Party . This group opposed the October Revolution , and Lee wrote a pamphlet entitled `` Bolshevism : A Curse and Danger to the Workers '' .   Lee stepped down from his editorial post in 1923 , but remained on the national executive of the associated group , now again known as the `` Social Democratic Federation '' . He spent his last years working at the headquarters of the Trades Union Congress .   In 1935 , Lee 's Social-Democracy in Britain , a history of the movement to date , was published .

neg: Socialist Party of Illinois The Socialist Party of Illinois ( SPIL ) is a political party in the state of Illinois . It was affiliated with the Socialist Party of America . It was founded in September 1901 , though the grouping met in 1900 at a convention in Chicago and supported Eugene V. Debs for president in 1900 . It was the successor to the Social Democratic Party of America .   In 1915 , the party had 6,004 members . 44 party members held public office in that year , including one mayor , 18 aldermen and 2 members of the Illinois House of Representatives among others . The Chicago Socialist was the newspaper of the Socialist Party of Illinois .   The Chicago Socialist Party was the most active local in the SPIL and one of the most active in the United States . It is now an affiliate of the Socialist Party USA .

neg: League of American Writers The League of American Writers was an association of American novelists , playwrights , poets , journalists , and literary critics launched by the Communist Party USA ( CPUSA ) in 1935 . The group included Communist Party members , and so-called `` fellow travelers '' who closely followed the Communist Party 's political line without being formal party members , as well as individuals sympathetic to specific policies being advocated by the organization .   The League 's policy objectives changed over time in accord with the shifting party line of the CPUSA . Beginning as an anti-fascist organization in 1935 , the League turned to an anti-war position following the signing of the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939 and to a pro-war position after the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 . The organization was prominent in the defense of Republican Spain during the Spanish Civil War and in providing financial and moral support to writers in need in the United States and internationally .   The organization was terminated in January 1943 .

neg: Winifred Horrabin Winifred Horrabin , née Batho ( 1887-1971 ) , was a British socialist activist and journalist .   She was born in Sheffield , South Yorkshire , on 9 August 1887 , daughter of Arthur John Batho , a postal telegraph clerk , and his wife Lilian , née Outram . She was the fourth of six children , three of whom died in infancy . The family were members of The Wicker Congregational Church . Her father died in May 1891 , in Graaff-Reinet , South Africa , where he was seeking treatment for his tuberculosis .   Winifred began attending the Sheffield School of Art in 1907 , where she met her future husband , the political activist , cartographer and cartoonist Frank Horrabin . She had a political awakening while a student , influenced by the South African socialist and feminist Olive Schreiner . She joined the Women 's Social and Political Union , a militant group campaigning for women 's suffrage led by Emmeline Pankhurst , and in 1909 disrupted a speech by Winston Churchill with the suffragette cry `` Votes for women ! ''   She and Horrabin married on 11 August 1911 , and they moved to London the same year . In 1912 she delivered a paper , `` Is Woman 's Place the Home ? '' , to the Fabian Society , arguing that the liberation of women from economic slavery depended on the destruction of private property . She and her husband were involved in the Central Labour College , and in 1913 Winifred set up a Women 's League to focus on the education of female workers . In 1915 , inspired by the art of William Morris , she became a guild socialist . She was honorary secretary of The Plebs ' League , and contributed to The Plebs , the League 's journal , which her husband edited . She became a founder member of the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1920 . She and her husband collaborated on a book , Working Class Education , published in 1924 .   In 1926 she travelled to the Soviet Union , where she met N. K. Krupskaya and visited Lenin 's tomb . Her trip appears to have been organised by the Society for Cultural Relations with the USSR . She also visited Poland and witnessed a mass trial of political dissidents .   In 1932 her brother Harold died from wounds sustained in the First World War , and she made an anti-war speech to the National Conference of Labour Women , arguing that the working classes should reject employment in munitions factories , even if it meant starvation . The Horrabins were involved in setting up the Socialist League , a left-wing faction within the Labour Party led by Stafford Cripps , in 1932 , and it was Winifred who named it , after the original Socialist League , founded by William Morris . It took anti-war , anti-fascist and pro-nationalisation positions , but only lasted until 1937 , when the Labour Party declared that membership was incompatible with membership of the Party . She began reviewing books and films for Tribune in 1937 , continuing to do so until 1948 . She also wrote for the political magazine Time and Tide and had a weekly column in the Manchester Evening News from 1944 under the pseudonym Freda Wynne .   In 1938 her mother died , and she was diagnosed with an ovarian cyst , undergoing a hysterectomy the following year . Her husband , who had been having a long-term affair with his secretary , Margaret McWilliams , asked for a separation in 1942 and they divorced in 1947 . In her later years she compiled a collection of autobiographical essays , The Summer of a Dormouse , and wrote a novel , After Which War ? , but did not publish them . Other unpublished works included a play , Victorian Love Story : Beloved Good , about Thomas Carlyle and his wife Jane , and a biography of Olive Schreiner . She died at her home in Dorking , Surrey , on 24 June 1971 , and was cremated at Randall 's Park crematorium , Leatherhead , on 30 June . Her papers are held by the University of Hull .


query: 24 aired 192 episodes over 8 seasons.

pos: 24 (TV series) 24 is an American crime thriller television series produced for the Fox network , created by Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran , and starring Kiefer Sutherland as counter-terrorist agent Jack Bauer . Each season , comprising 24 episodes , covers 24 hours in Bauer 's life using the real time method of narration . Premiering on November 6 , 2001 , the show spanned 192 episodes over eight seasons ; the series finale broadcast on May 24 , 2010 . In addition , a television film , 24 : Redemption , was broadcast between seasons six and seven , on November 23 , 2008 . 24 returned as a 12-episode series titled 24 : Live Another Day , which aired from May 5 to July 14 , 2014 . 24 : Legacy , a spin-off series featuring new characters , premiered on February 5 , 2017 , after Super Bowl LI .   The series begins with Bauer working for the Los Angeles -- based Counter Terrorist Unit , in which he is a highly proficient agent with an `` ends justify the means '' approach , regardless of the perceived morality of some of his actions . Throughout the series most of the main plot elements unfold like a political thriller . A typical plot has Bauer racing against the clock as he attempts to thwart multiple terrorist plots , including presidential assassination attempts , weapons of mass destruction detonations , bioterrorism , cyber attacks , as well as conspiracies that deal with government and corporate corruption .24 garnered critical acclaim , winning numerous awards over its eight seasons , including Best Drama Series at the 2003 Golden Globe Awards and Outstanding Drama Series at the 2006 Primetime Emmy Awards . At the conclusion of its eighth season , 24 became the longest-running U.S. espionage/counterterrorism-themed television drama ever , surpassing both Mission : Impossible and The Avengers '' .

neg: Saturday Night Live (season 24) The twenty-fourth season of Saturday Night Live , an American sketch comedy series , originally aired in the United States on NBC between September 26 , 1998 , and May 15 , 1999 .

neg: List of ER episodes ER is an American medical drama television series created by novelist Michael Crichton that aired on NBC from September 19 , 1994 , to April 2 , 2009 . It was produced by Constant c Productions and Amblin Entertainment , in association with Warner Bros. . Television . ER follows the inner life of the emergency room ( ER ) of fictional County General Hospital in Chicago , Illinois , and various critical issues faced by the room 's physicians and staff . Over the course of the series , 331 episodes aired .

neg: Procedural drama A procedural drama is a genre of television programming which focuses on how crimes are solved or some other aspect of a law enforcement agency , legislative body , or court of law . Some dramas include a lab or conference room with high-tech or state-of-the-art equipment where the main characters meet to work out the problem . Shows usually have an episodic format that does not require the viewer to have seen previous episodes . Episodes typically have a self-contained , also referred to as stand-alone , plot that is introduced and resolved within the same episode .   The procedural format is popular around the world . In 2011 , the director of a TV consultancy said , `` The continuing trend is for procedurals because they use a predictable structure . '' Due to their stand-alone episodic nature , they are more accessible to new viewers than serials . Self-contained episodes also make it easier for viewers to return to a show if they have missed some episodes . In general , procedural dramas can usually be re-run with little concern for episode order .   Procedurals are often criticized for being formulaic . Procedurals are also generally less character-driven than serialized shows . However , some procedurals have more character emphasis than is typical of the format . Some may occasionally feature a storyline stretching over several episodes .   A popular variant is the police procedural .

neg: Monk (season 4) The fourth season of Monk originally aired in the United States on USA Network from July 8 , 2005 , to March 17 , 2006 . It consisted of 16 episodes . Tony Shalhoub , Traylor Howard , Ted Levine , and Jason Gray-Stanford reprised their roles as the main characters . A DVD of the season was released on June 27 , 2006 .

neg: L.A. Law L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC , from September 15 , 1986 , to May 19 , 1994 .   Created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher , it contained many of Bochco 's trademark features including an ensemble cast , large number of parallel storylines , social drama , and off-the-wall humor . It reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s , and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot-topic issues such as capital punishment , abortion , racism , gay rights , homophobia , sexual harassment , AIDS , and domestic violence . The series often also reflected social tensions between the wealthy senior lawyer protagonists and their less well-paid junior staff .   In addition to its main cast , L.A. Law was also well known for featuring then relatively unknown actors and actresses in guest starring roles , who later went on to greater success in film and television including : Don Cheadle , Jeffrey Tambor , Kathy Bates , David Schwimmer , Jay O. Sanders , James Avery , Gates McFadden , Bryan Cranston , C.C.H. Pounder , Kevin Spacey , Richard Schiff , Carrie-Anne Moss , William H. Macy , Stephen Root , Christian Slater , and Lucy Liu . Several episodes of the show also included celebrities such as Vanna White , Buddy Hackett and Mamie Van Doren appearing as themselves in cameo roles .   The show was popular with audiences and critics , and won 15 Emmy Awards throughout its run , four of which were for Outstanding Drama Series .

neg: Sunshine Days `` Sunshine Days '' is the eighteenth and penultimate episode of the ninth season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files , and the series ' 200th episode overall . It originally aired on the Fox network on May 12 , 2002 . The entry was written and directed by executive producer Vince Gilligan . The episode is a `` monster-of-the-week '' episode , a stand-alone plot which is unconnected to the mythology , or overarching fictional history , of The X-Files . `` Sunshine Days '' earned a Nielsen household rating of 6.2 , was viewed by 6.5 million households , and 10.4 million viewers in its initial broadcast . It received mixed reviews from television critics .   The show centers on FBI special agents who work on cases linked to the paranormal , called X-Files ; this season focuses on the investigations of John Doggett ( Robert Patrick ) , Monica Reyes ( Annabeth Gish ) , and Dana Scully ( Gillian Anderson ) . In this episode , Doggett , Reyes , Walter Skinner ( Mitch Pileggi ) and Scully stumble on to a bizarre murder case where the main suspect is a man with an unusual obsession for The Brady Bunch . Despite their initial differences -- both in investigative style and love of The Brady Bunch -- the four of them soon learn that the man 's telekinetic ability is the ultimate , undeniable proof of an X-File .   The episode marked Gilligan 's second directorial effort , after season seven 's `` Je Souhaite '' . The Brady Bunch house set featured in the episode was completely rebuilt . According to Anderson , people came `` from all over Los Angeles '' to get their pictures taken on the set . In addition , it contained several elaborate effects . `` Sunshine Days '' was the final `` monster-of-the-week '' entry in the series ; the series finale , `` The Truth '' would deal with the series ' overarching alien colonization mythology .

neg: Grey's Anatomy (season 4) The fourth season of the American television medical drama Grey 's Anatomy , commenced airing in the United States on September 27 , 2007 and concluded on May 22 , 2008 . The season continues the story of a group of surgeons and their mentors in the fictional Seattle Grace Hospital , describing their professional lives and the way they affect the personal background of each character . Season four had twelve series regulars with ten of them returning from the previous season , out of which eight are part of the original cast from the first season . The season aired in the Thursday night timeslot at 9:00 EST. . In addition to the regular seventeen episodes , a clip-show narrated by the editors of People recapped previous events of the show and made the transition from Grey 's Anatomy to Private Practice , a spin-off focusing of Dr. Addison Montgomery and aired on September 19 , 2007 , before the season premiere . The season was officially released on DVD as a five-disc boxset under the title of Grey 's Anatomy : Season Four -- Expanded on September 9 , 2008 by Buena Vista Home Entertainment .   For the first time in the show 's history , many cast changes occur , seeing the first departure of two main cast members . Despite garnering several awards and nominations for the cast members and the production team , the season received a mixed response from critics and fans . Show creator Shonda Rhimes heavily contributed to the production of the season , writing five out of the seventeen episodes . The highest-rated episode was the season premiere , which was watched by 20.93 million viewers . The season was interrupted by the 2007 -- 2008 Writers Guild of America strike , which resulted in the production of only seventeen episodes , instead of twenty-three originally planned .

neg: Teen drama A teen drama is a genre or type of drama series with a major focus on teenage and young adult characters . It came into prominence in the early 1990s , especially with the popularity of the Fox series Beverly Hills , 90210 . After 90210 became a success , television writers and producers realized the potential for this new genre to reach out to a previously ignored demographic . In the past , most series that maintained a focus on teenagers had been sitcoms , while adolescents in drama series were usually part of a larger ensemble that included adults and children .   More often than not , teen dramas have soap opera elements , incorporating one or more ongoing story arcs spanning several episodes . The young characters must deal with the dramatic ups and downs of their friendships and romances while facing an array of issues thought to be typical of adolescence . There have also been many successful teen-based series with major science fiction , fantasy and action/adventure themes .

neg: CSI: NY (season 8) The eighth season of CSI : NY originally aired on CBS between September 2011 and May 2012 . It consisted of 18 episodes . Its regular time slot continued on Fridays at 9pm/8c .   CSI : NY The Eighth Season was released on DVD in the U.S. on September 25 , 2012 .

neg: Mercy Point Mercy Point is an American science fiction medical drama , created by Trey Callaway , David Simkins , and Milo Frank , which originally aired for one season on United Paramount Network ( UPN ) from October 6 , 1998 , to July 15 , 1999 . With an ensemble cast led by : Joe Morton , Maria del Mar , Alexandra Wilson , Brian McNamara , Salli Richardson , Julia Pennington , Gay Thomas , Jordan Lund , and Joe Spano , the series takes place in a 23rd-century hospital space station located in deep space and revolves around its doctors and nurses . The series was produced by Mandalay Television and Columbia TriStar Television ; the executive producers were Trey Callaway , Michael Katleman , Lee David Zlotoff , Joe Voci , and Scott Sanders .   Callaway developed Mercy Point from Frank 's script , `` Nightingale One '' , as a concept for a feature film under the working title of the same name . Even though it was picked up by Mandalay Television , the concept was eventually revised as a television project and renamed Mercy Point due to the disappointing commercial performance of the 1997 film Starship Troopers . The show was part of a $ 3 million deal between Mandalay Television and Columbia TriStar Television to produce 200 hours of material . It was filmed in Vancouver to reduce production costs , with the hospital sets constructed on a series of sound stages . Director Joe Napolitano had praised the show for its use of a complete set to allow for more intricate directing . Despite being envisioned as a companion to Star Trek : Voyager , it was paired with Moesha and Clueless as its lead-in on Tuesday nights . Initially focused on ethical and medical cases , the show 's storylines gradually shifted toward relating the characters ' personal relationships to better fit UPN 's primarily teen demographic .   Mercy Point was placed on hiatus after only two episodes were aired , and was replaced by the reality television series America 's Greatest Pets and the sitcom Reunited . The show suffered from low viewership , with an average of two million viewers . The final four episodes of the series were broadcast in two , two-hour blocks on Thursday nights in July 1999 . It was never released on DVD or Blu-ray . Critical response to Mercy Point was mixed ; some television critics praised its characterization and use of science-fiction elements , while others found it to be uninteresting and unoriginal . Several media commentators negatively compared the show to other television programs . Callaway has stated that he had the potential story arcs for the full first season already planned before the show 's cancellation .

neg: Star Trek: The Next Generation (season 4) The fourth season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek : The Next Generation commenced airing in broadcast syndication in the United States on September 24 , 1990 and concluded on June 17 , 1991 after airing 26 episodes . Set in the 24th century , the series follows the adventures of the crew of the Starfleet starship Enterprise-D .   This season saw the show embracing the notion of serialized storylines . A recurring theme throughout the season is the notion of a brewing Duras-Romulan plot against the Federation , coupled with Worf 's effort to reclaim his family honor . Both storylines were introduced in Season 3 's . Worf 's discommendation is a major theme in and , while his dishonor and the Duras-Romulan plot take center stage in the episodes , , and .   A second recurring storyline in the season is the growth of Miles O'Brien as a character . His first and middle name are revealed in `` Family '' , he marries in , his past is revealed in , and his marriage is explored in .   Season 4 featured many family-themes episodes . The first episode following deals with Picard and Worf 's family , and the second with Data 's . Worf 's son Alexander appears later in the season , as does Tasha Yar 's sister , and the Enterprise '' encounters an infant alien space entity .

neg: List of A Different World characters A Different World is a spin-off from the American television sitcom The Cosby Show . It aired on NBC for six seasons , from 1987 to 1993 .

neg: Twelve Horny Women `` Twelve Horny Women '' is the eighth episode of the eighth season of the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother , and the 168th episode overall .

neg: List of George Lopez episodes George Lopez is an American television sitcom that ran on the American Broadcasting Company ( ABC ) from March 27 , 2002 , to May 8 , 2007 , with a total of 120 episodes produced over the course of 6 seasons .

neg: Frasier (season 9) The ninth season of Frasier was a 24 episode season , that ran from September 2001 to May 2002 , beginning on 25 September 2001 . The opening title screen color was changed to orange .

neg: Emergency Vets Emergency Vets is a reality television series that airs on the U.S. cable network Animal Planet . First aired in 1998 , it depicts the working and outside lives of the veterinarians at Alameda East Veterinary Hospital in Denver , Colorado , USA , plus the animals that they treat . At its peak of popularity , Emergency Vets alternated with The Crocodile Hunter as Animal Planet 's most popular show .   The show stopped first-run production in 2002 because Alameda East was occupied with building and eventually moving into a new facility in Denver . In 2004 , a new documentary called E-Vets : The Cutting Edge aired on Animal Planet , showing the changes in Alameda East Veterinary Hospital since the show 's final episode . The documentary scored good ratings and has been rerun several times as part of the Whoa ! Sunday umbrella anthology show on Animal Planet , as well as inspiring a follow-up episode first aired in 2005 that took viewers on a tour of the new Alameda East facility while showing cases of animals receiving cutting-edge treatment at the new hospital . Another documentary , Emergency Vets 20 Most Unusual Cases , aired on Whoa ! Sunday in 2006 , featuring 20 cases from the series including follow-ups with the families and interviews with the doctors involved .   In 2007 , Animal Planet announced that the real-life drama at Alameda East would return to prime-time airwaves under a new title , E-Vet Interns . The new series features six new veterinary interns during their first year of residency practice at the new Alameda East hospital , as well as familiar faces Dr. Robert Taylor , Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald , Dr. Preston Stubbs , and Dr. Holly Knor . In preparation for the new show 's debut on January 22 , 2007 , Animal Planet aired a new E-Vets special , E-Vets : Things Pets Swallow , featuring memorable cases from the Emergency Vets years dealing with dramatic objects that animals have ingested .

neg: Packed to the Rafters (season 4) The fourth season of Packed to the Rafters '' , an Australian drama television series , began on 8 February 2011 on the Seven Network . The season concluded on 20 March 2012 after 22 episodes .   Season four traces the family 's fortunes as they attempt to rebuild their lives in the aftermath of Melissa 's death . Strong family bonds ensure that traumatised Ben receives warm support as he takes his first steps back into the work-force . Slowly he learns to smile again , embracing a newfound interest in gardening and a growing friendship with his boss 's daughter Emma , which might hold the promise of something more . There are further love issues in the Karandonis household , with Carbo and Retta choosing to elope rather than face the comic extravagance of a Karandonis wedding . Julie and Dave , meanwhile , are forced to deal with the consequences for Rachel and Jake of a dangerous accusation flung at him by a drunken woman on a rugby weekend away . Rachel 's feelings for Jake are tested to the limit , especially when her boss throws into the confusing mix the chance of a lifetime to work in New York . The Rafters also wrestle with the unexpected arrival of new family members , not the least being the release from prison of Dave 's father , Tom . Tom 's never quite predictable manipulations ultimately force Dave to take a heart-breaking stand , and cause him to initially misjudge the intentions of his half-brother , Matt . Julie meanwhile finds a new best friend in Donna , though their initial exchanges are hilariously unpromising . Meanwhile , Nathan is searching for new direction in his life and his desire to travel forces Julie and Dave to undertake some soul-searching of their own . Ted is also keen to find a greater purpose , mentoring a troubled twelve-year-old boy .

neg: Aaron Pierce (24 character) Aaron Pierce is a fictional character on the television series 24 , played by actor Glenn Morshower . Pierce is a Special Agent with the U.S. Secret Service , tasked with leading the teams guarding , at various times , David Palmer and Charles Logan . Pierce has one son , who , when last he was mentioned , was serving in the U.S. Navy . Aside from Jack Bauer , Pierce is the only character to have appeared in each of the first seven seasons of 24 , and is also one of the few long standing characters to survive his tenure in the show .

neg: Real World: Ex-Plosion Real World : Ex-Plosion is the twenty-ninth season of MTV 's reality television series Real World , which focuses on a group of diverse strangers living together for several months in a different city each season , as cameras follow their lives and interpersonal relationships . It is the eighth season of Real World to be filmed in the Pacific States region of the United States , specifically in California after The Real World : San Diego in 2011 .   The season featured a total of twelve cast members over the course of the season . It is the seventh season to take place in a city that had hosted a previous season , as the show 's third season was set in San Francisco in 1994 . It is also the sixth season to be located in California . San Francisco , California was first reported as the location for the twenty-ninth season in an August 2013 article on the website Vevmo . Production began from late August until October 21 , 2013 , and the season later premiered on January 8 , 2014 , consisting of 12 episodes .   After 21 years , this season marks the first big change in the show 's format . The cast narration `` This is the true story ... of seven strangers ... '' that was used during the previous 28 seasons was eliminated from the opening title sequence and replaced with a new introduction . The roommates move into their San Francisco home , make relationships with one another and also with the San Francisco locals . A month into the show , the cast goes on an off-the-grid vacation . When they return , they come to discover that many of their exes have moved in as additional roommates . The Exes were each misled by producers to believing that he or she would be a replacement roommate , unaware the other Exes would be moving in as well until move-in day .