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From the March 5, 2007, Princeton Weekly Bulletin
Honoring a legendary Russian director's unfulfilled vision for a classic tale of power and intrigue, an army of Princeton scholars and artists is working this semester to mount a world premiere production of "Boris Godunov."
Bringing this new interpretation of the famed Russian play to the stage is a creative team with dozens of members from numerous disciplines, including faculty experts in Russian music and literature, seasoned music, theater and dance professionals, and student actors, singers, dancers, musicians and architects. The production is accompanied by several academic initiatives, including courses, an international symposium and a Firestone Library exhibition (see "By the numbers").
The Princeton premiere, which runs April 12-14 at the Berlind Theatre, is inspired by a version of Alexander Pushkin's 1825 historical play that was conceived by director Vsevolod Meyerhold but abandoned in the 1930s. Though Pushkin's play about the Russian tyrant is one of his most famous works, the full text of "Godunov" never has received a first-class staging in English. The Princeton production also will feature a new translation by Antony Wood as well as an original score by composer Sergei Prokofiev that was commissioned by Meyerhold but never has been used for a live performance of "Godunov."
The project exemplifies Princeton's mission to enhance the role of the creative and performing arts on campus, which resulted last year in the establishment of the University Center for the Creative and Performing Arts. The center is the major sponsor of the production, along with several departments and offices across campus.
Tim Vasen, a lecturer in the Program in Theater and Dance who is directing "Godunov," said the scholarly and artistic collaborations are "unprecedented and completely extraordinary."
"I really don't think this kind of thing could happen anywhere but at a university like Princeton. At least in this country, there is no theater company that has these resources to offer," Vasen said. "Back when Meyerhold was creating the original idea for this production, most theaters would have had their own orchestra and a large company of actors and dancers — that was normal, but now would be almost an absurd luxury.
"For me, it's absolutely thrilling," he added. "I love collaboration, and I love learning about new areas of the world every time I do a play. This is a quantum leap in that regard, so I'm having a fantastic time."
A multifaceted effort
The "Godunov" project is managed by Simon Morrison, an associate professor of music who has tracked down lost scores and choreographies by Prokofiev and other artists, and Caryl Emerson, chair of the Slavic languages and literatures department and a leading authority on Pushkin's play (see "From dissertations to collaborations"). It is a collaboration between the University and the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art.
The play is accompanied by several initiatives in this multifaceted project. In addition to their rehearsals six times a week, student cast members are participating in a course led by Vasen and Michael Cadden, director of the Program in Theater and Dance. Emerson is teaching two courses — one for undergraduates and one for graduate students — on Pushkin, Meyerhold and Prokofiev. She and Morrison also are leading an alumni studies course focused on the production. A Firestone Library exhibition devoted to the project will open April 1. An international symposium on Pushkin, Prokofiev and Russian theater is slated for April 12-14 to coincide with the premiere.
"This is something that no members of the cast have ever experienced," said freshman Nadia Talel.
"It's a different type of theater, it's a play in which many of us get to play different genders and different roles, and it's something the University has been working on for a long time. One of the best things about this production is it's so interdepartmental," said Talel, whose roles will include the patriarch (who encourages Godunov's ascension to the Russian throne), a lady at a party, an old woman and a Polish gentleman named Sobanski.
"Professor Emerson comes every Friday to our seminar and gives us a lot of history and background," she added. "This is a culture and time period with which many of us are unfamiliar, and we get a lot of different perspectives from the people working on it."
Pushkin's play dramatizes Godunov's rise to power, his increasingly tyrannical reign as czar from 1598 to 1605 and the challenge to his throne by Dmitry the Pretender, who claimed to be a son of Ivan the Terrible. For political as well as dramatic reasons, Pushkin's play was not approved for performance until 1866 and then was adapted into an opera by composer Modest Musorgsky between 1869 and 1874.
Meyerhold, who became a seminal figure in modern theater through his innovative productions, attempted to stage "Godunov" in 1924-25 and in 1936 but abandoned his efforts in the face of Stalinist Soviet politics. He was arrested on fabricated charges of treason in 1939 and shot a year later.
Prokofiev's score was written for Meyerhold's production in 1936, when the composer "was in top form," according to Morrison. The University Orchestra, which will perform in the April production under the direction of Michael Pratt, presented the North American premiere of this score in concert in December as a preview.
"The music needs the play," Morrison said. "Prokofiev intended it as an acoustic lining and filter for Pushkin's spoken words."
Student singers from the University Glee Club, conducted by Richard Tang Yuk, will serve as the choir for the Princeton production. "The 'above and beyond the call of duty' involvement of the two conductors, Michael Pratt and Richard Tang Yuk, is crucial to this project, which comprises a true synthesis of the musical with the verbal and visual," Morrison said. "Coordination and timing are everything."
Emerson said the Princeton project benefits from the interdisciplinary partnerships and the experience of previous theatrical adaptations at the University, as well as technological advances since Pushkin wrote the play and Meyerhold planned his production a century later. Both the playwright and director also knew that their visions for the politically charged production could not be realized in their times.
"Pushkin's play features monks — and drunken monks at that — as well as the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, and Pushkin knew that the imperial censorship did not permit the portrayal of ecclesiastics on stage. He dreamed of a kind of production that technically and physically and politically couldn't have happened in his time," Emerson said. "I think Pushkin would have adored the Princeton production."
While they are working from Meyerhold's extensive notes on his concept of the production, the members of Princeton's creative team have more flexibility in exploring the historical period that led to Russia's "Time of Troubles," Emerson noted.
"The Russian audience for whom Meyerhold directed knew Pushkin by heart, so it was impossible to leave something out. Indeed, omitting lines and scenes would actually draw attention to them, since Pushkin's words are part of the inner soundscape of Russian speakers," she said. "Americans in 2007 do not carry around that equipment. These risks are marvelous ones to confront — the actors, set designers, musicians and producers really are free."
'Intellectual firepower'
Vasen said both Emerson and Morrison have been essential in "helping me to understand the artistic impulses behind the writing, the music and the direction. It is a production deeply rooted both in historical Russia and the Russia of the 1930s. I knew very little about that, and they have been fantastic guides in helping me to understand where this play came from and where the music came from and how it all goes together.
"Caryl brings history to life like nobody I've ever worked with. Everything in the play is based on detailed historical research Pushkin did. There is a back story to every character, even somebody who appears in the play for two lines, and Caryl knows that back story. That is incredibly helpful because even though the audience is not necessarily going to be able to get all of that, it will make the experience that much richer for the student actors and for all of us," he said.
Cadden, who is serving as the production's dramaturg, added, "We wanted to take advantage of the intellectual firepower we have here at Princeton. We feel fortunate to be the beneficiary of their lives' work as scholars."
These creative collaborations suffuse every aspect of the production. Because existing recordings are either incomplete or inaccurate, the Princeton team is working with the archival manuscript of Prokofiev's score. For one scene that Prokofiev did not complete, Princeton composer Peter Westergaard is providing new music. Westergaard, an emeritus professor of music, is paraphrasing authentic Russian liturgical chants to create a supernatural musical backdrop for a crucial dreamlike scene, in which the young monk Grigory Otrepiev begins his transformation into Dmitry the Pretender to challenge Godunov for Russia's throne.
Vasen said, "I'm working with a great living composer, a great composer from 100 years ago, a great writer from 200 years ago and amazing history from 400 years ago."
For the production's main dance scene, students will perform two traditional Polish pieces: a polonaise, which is a stately, procession-like dance; and a mazurka, which is a lively folk dance. Choreographer Rebecca Lazier, associate head of dance, said she is excited about trying to infuse these traditional dances with a more modern flair.
"Tim's vision for the production is really wanting to find ways to do it for today, for this audience and this time," Lazier said.
Lazier said that, similar to the 2005 Princeton production of the lost Russian ballet "Pas d'Acier," the "Godunov" project "is a true immersion into another world. That's part of the gift of it — to be able to take the time to submerge myself in the history, in the literature, in the ideas, in all the layers that go into the production. One of the challenges about this production, as it is the world premiere, is how to invigorate the aesthetic with a sense of contemporary life."
"The process will very much be with the dancers," she said. "There are prescribed steps of how a polonaise and a mazurka are defined. So it will be about taking that prescription, taking those ideas and playing with them for hours to find variations and new versions. Can I find a new version that is a lift, a jump or a turn? That's how I imagine bringing my own contemporary aesthetic to this work."
In outfitting the "Godunov" cast, Catherine Cann, costume shop manager in theater and dance, also is working to balance Meyerhold's vision with the need to appeal to a modern audience. She has consulted with Vasen, Emerson and Morrison to better understand the history of the play and Meyerhold's artistic inspiration.
"There are many different worlds in the play, and the idea is to help the audience understand why those worlds are important and how they relate to each other — especially in this case, because we're trying to do this through the eyes of Meyerhold and to bring a new perspective to historical events," Cann said. "That does come across in clothes — in how much fabric people wear or what colors they're wearing."
Cann also studied the costumes from Musorgsky's operatic version of "Godunov," which Meyerhold disliked, to determine "what bothered him about it and why he thought it was so vile."
Cann said, "In the opera, the costumes are re-enacting history to visualize the events as accurately as humanly possible. In the Pushkin play, and in our production, we are using costumes to depict character and stature so that our contemporary audience will understand the history." Emerson added that this concept "is perfect for a play about a pretender to the throne in a culture that believed in external 'signs' for everything."
Because each cast member plays several parts — some 50 costumes will have to be made — Cann is designing a "worker-like" base costume for each actor, from which they can quickly transform into aristocrats, monks, military figures, peasants or other characters. "We're actually making more costumes than we have for other theater productions, partly because of their stylized nature," she said.
The play's action — 25 scenes, each in a different location — will take place on a set designed by students as part of a graduate seminar last fall led by Jesse Reiser, an associate professor of architecture, in partnership with Vasen. Five of the seminar's 15 students are working this spring to help build the unusual set, which features some 150 pieces of surgical tubing that run vertically throughout the stage, attached to tracks in the floor. The tubes can be pulled together or apart, and actors can climb them as well.
"The set creates the most flexible, dynamic environment we could imagine for this play," Vasen said. "It's a jungle gym, with all the playfulness that implies. I think it'll also be better able to tell the story than a more realistic set — one with walls and doors that look like Russia. Even if we'd wanted to go that route, there are way too many locations to illustrate. We'll be able to project supertitles and images that will give the very concrete sense of place our audience will need to know what's going on, while staying true to Meyerhold's insights about the power of abstraction and theatricality."
Vasen said the set, like so many elements of the production, was "the result of a bunch of different people bringing ideas to the table and synthesizing them down to a few really simple, really dynamic things."
"It was kind of scary in some ways because there was a long period of time that we didn't even know if there was going to be a set because they couldn't put it all together," Vasen said. "But it does what I wanted it to do, which requires a very physical production."
Tickets can be purchased by visiting the McCarter Theatre Center box office, calling (609) 258-ARTS or visiting the McCarter website. For more information, visit the "Godunov" project website.


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3 oz pancetta
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Very nice. I have a side question, when I make minestrone and pop my leftovers in the fridge, it thickens up a huge deal. I assume, it's due to the starch from the pasta.. I hate adding water, as it un-concentrates my flavor.. Suppose I could cook the pasta in a smaller pot with only the soup I plan on eating. Any advice?
demo the boneless turkey you made!
the thanksgiving spirits demand it! :)
YES YES YES THANK YOU!!! A minimal dairy recipe! Making this (which I toooootally love not only minestrone but the kinda "wing it" inspirational recipe).
Now, more! :D One cannot live on soop alone!
I love Food Wishes!! (I'm in Berkeley, can I stalk you now?)
You put in cabbage in the video, but I don't see it in the ingredient list here. How much did you use?
@drtabo - I cook the pasta separately when I do pasta soups like this. I cook it to less then al dente in salted water, drain it, rinse it to cool, and toss it with a little olive oil to keep it from clumping up when I store it in the fridge.
And when I'm ready to make leftovers, I slowly bring some soup up to a simmer on the stove, put the leftover pasta in the bottom of my serving bowls, and ladle the hot soup over it.
I know a lot of people like to cook the pasta separately but i don't, as I think the starch is an important aspect to the soup. I enjoy the thicker "stew" the next day since it's like having another dish, or just thin it with more broth. There 's no wrong answer.
Hey Chef John, I have never, ever heard a Italian cook use "dried Italian herbs" in a recipe. What is that anyway? Oregano, flat parsley, dried basil? Sounds sketchy and probably varies dramatically from one brand to the next.
Did that sound snobbish? wasn't meant to. sorry if so.
what is a "vegetable crisper"???!!!!
i have to know!!!!!
Hey Chef John, could you roughly tell at the end of the video( i'm taking for the future videos) how much time the whole dish took to make, with preparation, chopping and cutting, from start to finish, because as a rookie cook i can assess when to start with the cooking so it will be done by 5pm as an example, if you could do that it would be great, tnx:D
I make minestrone fairly often and never the same way twice, the soup depending heavily on what is in the fridge. The one critical ingredient for me is a roughly chopped up Parmesan cheese rind (yes, of course the good stuff.) It gives a creaminess to the soup and the bits turn chewy.
Really depends, but maybe between 1.5 and 2 hours? Just a guess.
That's what they call the bottom drawers of the fridge.
glbt, i think a good cook uses both fresh and dry, as they have advantages depending on the use. For example, dried rosemary works better for a long slow braise, and has a deeper flavor, and then I use a little fresh in the sauce at the end. It's not an either/or thing. Yes, dried Italian herb blends vary (mine are listed below), but that's okay, since it's just minestrone. ;)
Hello. I love this recipe! What can I use instead of cranberry beans? I dont know what they are. :p
And if you add other ingredients(carrot etc), at what point do you add them to the pot?
Any fresh or canned beans will work! You can add any other vegetables when you add the cabbage.
This soup looks delicious!! yummy :)...Approximately how many serving does your recipe serve?
maybe 4 portions?
shuddering soupgasm.... effing awesome
Hi Chef John,
Recipe sounds awesome but I have a question about your pot, don't have anyone else I can ask, sorry. Mine has a big chip in the bottom so I've stopped using it. It's a bigger chip than yours, do you think it's ok?
I am seriously on the verge of drooling. I've always thought minestrone from the can or in a restaurant was so bland, but THIS! This looks amazing. I can't wait to try =D
It's just cast iron underneath the enamel, so I believe you can use it.
Do you eat your meals all on your own after a video or are there lucky people you share them with?
Made this tonight and it was so yummy! I added carrots, red bells, and used red kidney beans instead of cranberry beans. Thank you for the inspiration!
MMMMmmmmm I can hardly wait to try this!! I love the lesson about not insisting that a dish be prepared exactly the same way twice. It leaves room for substitutions and flashes of inspiration. For example, I've never seen cranberry beans before but would love to try them sometime. I'll have to check out my local farmers market come spring. However, in the meantime I have white kidney beans so I'll use them.
I just recommended Foodwishes to an employee at my local library this evening. I told her that your videos make me want to cook and somehow inspire confidence in my ability to make tasty food. And it doesn't end with your recipes. I came up with a tasty dish the other nite put together completely from what I already had at home. My 13yo daughter really enjoyed, which is saying something.
Yay!!!!! Foodwishes!!
Just made this with shelling beans I'd gotten from my farmer's market and frozen, kale I picked from my garden (it's been through a couple of frosts) and chorizo. Wonderful recipe.
I made this a few nights ago and it is amazing! Thank you for your blog (I went through a grill cheese "thing" after watching that video of yours).
I substituted cubed chicken breast for beans (I didn't have any beans) and it worked great.
Being vegetarian I'd leave out the bacon and also use vegetable stock instead .. To enhance flavors it would be nice to know if we vegetarians need to use another ingredient as replacement for the bacon. I liked the recipe/cooking overall!
Sorry, but there is NO vegetarian replacement for the bacon! :-)
Hey Chef John
Thank you very much for this soothing dish. It was a pleasure cooking it but nothing beats finally eating it :)
I added what I had and thus, made a few changes:
• I added Brussels sprouts and cabbage but not Swiss chard
• I only added chipotle beans
• I added some red chili paste
• I added some tomato paste
• I only added smoked bacon
I think that I will add some nice sausages next time because it was missing some meat.
Thank you for posting!
Best regards
Martin, Denmark
This video inspired me to make minestrone tonight. I love that you used chard! Too many soup recipes call for spinach but its too delicate I think. Best for soups are chard, kale, or collards. I also added little meat balls into the simmering soup. I like veggie soups to clean out the fridge but after adding a little of this and a little of that I end up with gallons of soup!
I adulation this recipe! What can I use instead of cranberry beans? I dont apperceive what they are.
any beans will work!
I made that recipe a week ago...and my family and I adore it!!! It was so delicious... thank you Chef John!!
I just made this soup and it was fantastic! I added mushrooms because I had some left in the pantry and made fresh garlic bread to go with it. Definitely a hit! THANK YOU! :)
Chef John, I made this today and it is absolutely awesome! Thanks so much for the great video recipes and congrats on the All Recipes deal!
I will NEVER buy canned Minestrone again! This recipe was so easy to make, so forgiving of varied amounts and minor substitutions, and so utterly delicious.
What ingredient can you substitute for the pancetta?
The soup is simmering as I type this. It smells great. This is the first time I have ever tried to make Minestrone. I used Kale and a can of White Kidney beans, I had all the other ingredients. I ended up adding much more broth and the soup is doubled and still thick. Would serve at least 8. I also added a few tablespoons of tomato paste as your soup is a much deeper red than mine, yours is still deeper red. Thanks from Kansas City, Missouri.
You can use bacon, ham, sausage, etc. anything!
Overall this is a good soup and I'm glad I tried it, but there are a few things I think are worth noting.
First, it's probably true that "any canned bean" will work, but don't confuse that with "any bean will work." If you have dried beans, you've got to soak them, boil them, or do whatever you need to do before throwing them in the pot. Otherwise, you might wind up simmering the soup for 4 hours as you wait for the beans to tenderize!
Second, I wonder how crucial the pancetta is to this soup. At my supermarket, that stuff is made expensive ($26 per lb!!!). Maybe I could find it for a more reasonable price at an Italian grocery store, but I feel like ham or bacon would give you more bang for your buck here.
Third, this makes a ton of soup. About 4 full-meal portions or 8 pre-meal portions. If you're a single guy like me, make sure you want to be eating this soup all week before you cook it up.
Thanks, Chef John!
I note that you have Italian Herbs listed as an ingredient in the Minestrone Soup.
How much Thyme, Oregano, Rosemary, and Basil = Italian Herbs? What is the measurement of each?
Thanks, Chef John!
No idea, it already mixed! Just use a little a each to taste.
I use anchovies instead of bacon as I don't eat any pork product
I don't eat any pork products. When a recipe calls for a base of fried bacon I use anchovies. They just
melt in and add smokiness and depth. Not a vegetarian alternative I know!
I am kosher and used imitation bacon bits instead of pancetta. I know they are junky, but they work!
Great recipe but i wanted to print it out but all you have is the ingredients and not the process in which you use them to create this amazing soup you explain so much in your video that i don't remember and you didn't write it with your ingredients. Michelle
Chef John, you've done it again. I followed your advice to not follow the recipe, and I substituted pre-made, refrigerated spinach tortellini for the ditalini pasta. Perhaps that makes me a terrible Italian, but who cares? The soup was delicious and filling, and just the right thing for an unseasonably cold Texas evening.
"Before you get the wet, fry the dry" said a famous chef (LOL).
Here however, we are adding the Italian herbs to the liquid.
what's the principle here, if any?
Thank You again, Chef John, for showing how easy it can be to make good food. I enjoy all you're videos, and your sense of humor, but 'shuddering soupgasm' is a new one on me--- I can't wait to try it.
If we want to make it for 10 people then how much ingredients we need. I have tried adding cauliflower florets in this soup.
I just made this with leftover ham from Thanksgiving and turkey bone broth. It. Was. To. Die for! Seriously. I tell everyone the I have never made a bad Chef John recipe. They are all delicious!
Hello Chef!
Have you ever cooked a ukrainian borsch?
It's quite similiar to Minestrone: beans, veggies, cabbage, tomato pulp.
I like mine Minestrone with carrot stripes and italian cabbage (or cale).
You can add pasta or potetoes :)
>I'm talking about polish version so every Ukrainian who feels offended by those beans, just calm down<
Love from Poland,
it's 2017. Your recipes are timeless. Thanks Chef John.
Thank you for this, John, as it left me unintimidated to just use up shit in my freezer, and half-boxes of pasta for Fall clean out. I always have stock on hand, and I just made some marinara. This took minutes to put together with some slice and dice. (kale, yellow squash, french green beans, farfalle and crumbled Ital sausage and carrot, celery and onion). If you want to get more veggies in your diet, this is also a good plan. Hit it with some parmesan at end. Yum.
I made this tonight. It was fantastic! Thanks very much for this recipe and for the video!
why is it that the major amount of your videos (and other cooking videos) only use salt and pepper for seasoning?


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What types of Cayuga village commercial loans can we help you with? We get that question a lot, so we made a list. Here are a few project types we've worked on that may be just what you need:
- Condos – 48MM Non Recourse construction
- Hotels – La Quinta, Marriott, Hyatt
- Commercial Building – closed with bank statements, 2 weeks ago
- Refi and save – Dry Cleaner saved 10k/month in interest
- Franchises – Wendys, Subway, Crumbl, Waffle Luv, Quick Quack
- Apartments – 163 unit refi
- Spec Home – Two weeks ago, funded over 80% of the cost
- Shopping Malls – assisted Furniture Store in purchasing a shopping mall
- Bridge Loans – 8% rate on a fix and flip single family home
- Corporate Land NNN Lease – 7-11, McDonalds, US Bank
- Fix/Flip – 50MM to buy, rehab and rent out long term housing
- Storage Units – acquisitions, startups
- Skilled Nursing Facilities – 10MM during 2008 meltdown
- Dental Practices – 1st year dentist purchased an existing practice
- Medical Equipment – X Ray, MRI, Ultrasound equipment
- Restaurant/Bars – Even during COVID
- Inventory – 2.6MM in product for Amazon Business
- Partner Buyouts – Disaster Repair Company purchased by key employees
- Book of Business – Insurance Companies buying up customers
- Semi Trucks – Tractors or trailers. Fleets or one truck
- Mining Equipment – Existing mine in production, needing more
- Working Capital – Start-up costs, inventory, payroll, rent. Car, RV, Motorsports Dealers
- Farms – 38MM Pig farm
- Churches – Bridge financing. Long term financing.
- Car Wash – Coin operated self wash, automated track washes
- Gas Station – $2MM new construction
- Private Money – fast fundings for a land deals
- Construction – for almost everything above
- Really? Antique Carousel, Fun Centers, Bridge Closing in 7 days
- and basically any other commercial financing need you can think of.
Recently Funded Commercial Financing
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The Haskell Implementors Workshop will run again this year, co-located with ICFP 2011.
Important Dates
- Friday 22nd July: Proposal Deadline
- Monday 8th August: Notification
- Friday 23rd September: Workshop
9:00-10:00 Session 1
- Improving the GHC Inliner: Smart Loop Breaker Choice (Bas den Heijer) - Slides, Video
- Faster persistent data structures through hashing (Johan Tibell) - Slides, Video
10:00-10:30: Tea Break
10:30-12:00: Session 2
- Spark Visualization in ThreadScope (Duncan Coutts) - Slides, Video
- Weaving Source Code into ThreadScope (Peter Wortmann) - Slides, Video
- First Lightning Talks Session
12:00-13:30: Lunch Break
13:30-15:00: Session 3
- GHC Status Update (Simon Peyton Jones and Simon Marlow) - Simon Peyton Jones Slides, Simon Marlow Slides, Full Video
- Reusing Thunks for Recursive Data Structures in Lazy Functional Programs (Yasunao TAKANO) - Slides, Video
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15:00-15:30: Tea Break
15:30-16:30 Session 4
- Virtualizing Real-World Objects in Functional Reactive Programming (Daniel Winograd-Cort) - Slides, Video
- A New Dependency Solver for cabal-install (Andres Löh) - Slides, Video
16:30-16:45: Short Break
16:45-17:45: Session 5
- Safe Haskell (David Terei) - Slides, Video
- Third Lightning Talks Session and Beyond Haskell Discussion
- Rebekah Leslie (Portland State University)
- Ben Lippmeier - co-chair (University of New South Wales)
- Andres Löh (Well-Typed LLP)
- Oleg Lobachev (University of Marburg)
- Neil Mitchell - co-chair (Standard Chartered)
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Oh, don't look so worried. You turned out fine.
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In our first installment, we learned something about Native American culture. Today, our topic is good manners. The lessons are taken from this tiny volume.
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Etiquette for Little Folks (part of "Susie Sunbeam's Series") was printed in Boston in 1856. It's a model of didactic mid-19th century children's literature.
The sole decoration is an engraved frontispiece showing a young girl literally taking her younger brother under her wing. Behind the kids, Mama contentedly gets on with her sewing.
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Never speak to you parents without some title of respect, as Sir, Madam, &c.
Never make faces or contortions, nor grimaces, while any one is giving you commands.
Use respectful and courteous language towards all the domestics. Never be domineering or insuting, for it is the mark of an ignorant and purse-proud child.
Sit not down until your elders are seated. It is unbecoming to take your place first.
When you are helped, be not the first to eat.
Be not selfish altogether, but kind, free, and generous to others.
Scorn not, nor laugh at any because of their infirmities; nor affix to any one vexing title of contempt and reproach; but pity such as are so visited, and be glad you are otherwise distinguished and favored.
Bow at entering, especially if the teacher be present.
Make not haste out of school, but soberly retire when your turn comes, without hurrying.
Jeer not any person whatever.
Give your superiors place to pass before you, in any narrow place where two persons cannot pass at once.
A young person ought to be able to go into a room, and address the company, without the least embarrassment.
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Nothing can atone for the want of modesty; without it, beauty if ungraceful, and wit detestable.
Observe the best and most well-bred of the French people; how agreeably they insinuate little civilities in their conversation. They think it so essential that they call an honest and civil man by the same name, of "honnete homme;" and the Romans called civility, "humanitas," as thinking it inseparable from humanity: and depend upon it, that your reputation and success will, in a great measure, depend upon the degree of good breeding of which you are master.
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