The Candid Candidate is a 1937 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop and Grampy. Betty Boop campaigns for Grampy for Mayor, and
wins by one vote (despite the fact the town's paper says it's a
landslide). However, he later finds out
the job isn't as glamorous as he thought.
Nonetheless, he helps solve some of the city's issues, such as building
a free bridge on the river, creating a public automatic root beer stand, etc.,
and the townspeople love him. Link to
The Candid Candidate on YouTube at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Candid_Candidate
Candid is from the Latin term candidum,
which means not only “sincere” and “upright” but also “white” and “pure.”
Candidatus, the Latin predecessor of candidate, means “white robed,” and alludes to the
fact that those campaigning for public office in ancient Rome wore white. Candid also
means “blunt” or “frank” but also came, by extension, to mean “spontaneous,” as
in referring to someone photographed in a candid pose rather than a prepared
one. Meanwhile, candidate now can also refer to an applicant for
any position, whether in a political context or otherwise, or to someone vying
for an award or one who meets, or is on track to meet, all the requirements for
something. Campaigner, which
refers to someone who embarks on a political campaign to seek office, derives
ultimately from the Latin term campania, meaning
“level ground” and referring to the type of terrain most easily traversed by an
army on the march; campaign originally
referred to a series of battles waged to produce a desired strategic
outcome. Contender, meanwhile, refers to
someone who tries to win something, especially someone with a strong
possibility of victory; the root word, contend, stems from
the Latin verb contendere, meaning “stretch with”
in the sense of a competitor who physically strives to win. Nominee, from the
Latin verb nominare, meaning “name,” pertains
to someone who has been chosen to represent a political party for a specific
office or someone who is being considered for a position. Prospect denotes someone likely to win or be
chosen; the word, from the Latin verb prospicere, meaning
“look forward,” also refers in general to anticipation or possibility, or to a
lookout or a scene or a survey.
Candide, ou
l'Optimisme, is a French satire first published in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment.
The novella has been
widely translated, with English versions titled Candide: or, All for
the Best (1759); Candide: or, The Optimist (1762);
and Candide: Optimism (1947). It begins with a young man, Candide,
who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated
with Leibnizian optimism by
his mentor, Professor Pangloss. The work
describes the abrupt cessation of this lifestyle, followed by Candide's slow
and painful disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences great hardships in
the world. Candide is
characterized by its tone as well as by its erratic, fantastical, and
fast-moving plot. A picaresque novel with a story similar to
that of a more serious coming-of-age narrative (Bildungsroman), it parodies many adventure
and romance clichés, the struggles of which are caricatured in a tone that is
bitter and matter-of-fact. Still, the
events discussed are often based on historical happenings, such as the Seven Years' War and the 1755 Lisbon
earthquake. As philosophers of Voltaire's day contended with
the problem of evil,
so does Candide in this short novel, albeit more directly and humorously. Candide has enjoyed both great
success and great scandal. Immediately
after its secretive publication, the book was widely banned to the public
because it contained religious blasphemy, political sedition, and intellectual hostility
hidden under a thin veil of naïveté. However, with its sharp wit and
insightful portrayal of the human condition, the novel has since inspired many
later authors and artists to mimic and adapt it. It is among the most frequently taught works
of French literature.
The British poet and literary critic Martin Seymour-Smith listed Candide as
one of the 100
most influential books ever written.
Read much more and see graphics at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candide
Pangloss, fictional character, the pedantic and
unfailingly optimistic tutor of Candide, the
protagonist of Voltaire’s novel Candide (1759), a satire on philosophical
optimism. The name Pangloss—from the
Greek elements pan-, “all,” and glōssa, “tongue”—suggests glibness and
garrulousness. A barbed caricature of
the German philosopher and mathematician G.W. Leibniz and
his followers, Pangloss has become a symbol of foolhardy optimism. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Pangloss
Gargantua and
Pantagruel, collective title
of five comic novels by François Rabelais, published between 1532 and 1564. The novels present the comic and satiric
story of the giant Gargantua and his son Pantagruel, and various companions,
whose travels and adventures are a vehicle for ridicule of the follies and
superstitions of the times. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Gargantua-and-Pantagruel
The Bat is a three-act play by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood that was first produced by
Lincoln Wagenhals and Collin Kemper in 1920.
The story combines elements of mystery and comedy as Cornelia Van Gorder and guests
at her rented summer home spend a stormy night searching for stolen money they
believe is hidden in the house, while they are stalked by a masked criminal
known as "the Bat". The Bat's
identity is revealed at the end of the final act. The play originated as an adaptation of
Rinehart's 1908 mystery novel The Circular
Staircase. Rinehart and
Hopwood altered the story to prepare it for Broadway, including adding the
titular antagonist. The connection to the novel led to a legal
dispute over film rights with the Selig Polyscope
Company, producers of a 1915 film adaptation of the novel, also
titled The Circular
Staircase. After previewing under the title A
Thief in the Night, the play opened as The Bat at
the Morosco Theatre on Broadway on August 23, 1920. The Bat was a critical and
commercial success. It ran for 867
performances in New York and 327 performances in London; several road companies
took the show to other areas. The play
was revived twice on Broadway, in 1937 and 1953. It had several adaptations, including a
1926 novelization credited
to Rinehart and Hopwood but ghostwritten by Stephen Vincent Benét. Three film adaptations were produced: The Bat (1926), The Bat Whispers (1930), and The Bat (1959). The play and its adaptations inspired other
comedy-mysteries with similar settings, and influenced the creation of the
comic-book superhero Batman. Read much more and see graphics at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bat_(play)
Tarte flambée is an Alsatian/Palatine/Alemannic German dish,
speciality of the Alsace, Baden-Württemberg and Rheinland-Pfalz region. (northeast
France, south Germany), composed of bread dough rolled out very thinly in the
shape of a rectangle (traditionally) or circle, which is covered with fromage blanc or crème fraîche,
thinly sliced onions and lardons. It is one of the most famous specialties of
the region. Depending on the region,
this dish can be called Flammekueche, Flàmmeküeche, Flàmmaküacha or Flammekuechle in Alsatian, Flammkuche in Lorraine Franconian, Flammkuchen in German, which means "flame cake", or
in French tarte flambée, which translates as
"pie baked in the flames."
Contrary to what the direct translation would suggest, tarte
flambée may or may not be usually flambéed, but cooked in a wood-fire oven. In fact, the
tarte flambée was originally a homemade dish which did not make its urban
restaurant debut until the "pizza craze" of the 1960s. A tarte flambée would be
used to test the heat of their wood-fired ovens. At the peak
of its temperature, the oven would also have the ideal conditions in which to
bake a tarte flambée. The embers would be pushed aside to
make room for the tarte in the middle of the oven, and the
intense heat would be able to bake it in 1 or 2 minutes. The crust that forms the border of the tarte
flambée would be nearly burned by the flames. The result resembles a
thin pizza. There are many variations of the original recipe, in terms of
the garniture. The standard variations
are: Gratinée: with added gruyère cheese;
Forestière: with added mushrooms; Munster: with added munster cheese; Sweet: dessert version with apples and cinnamon, or
blueberries, and flambéed with Calvados or another sweet liqueur. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarte_flamb%C3%A9e Find recipe for flammkuchen, a pizza-like flatbread topped with cream, onions,
and bacon, at https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/259111/flammkuchen-tarte-flambee/
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September 17, 2018 Constitution Day (or Citizenship
Day) is an American federal observance that
recognizes the adoption of the United States
Constitution and those who have become U.S. citizens. It is normally observed on September 17, the
day in 1787 that delegates to the Constitutional
Convention signed the document in Philadelphia.
When Constitution Day falls on a weekend or on another holiday, schools
and other institutions observe the holiday on an adjacent weekday. The law establishing the present holiday was
created in 2004 with the passage of an amendment by Senator Robert Byrd to the Omnibus spending bill of
2004. Before this law was enacted, the holiday was known as
"Citizenship Day". In addition
to renaming the holiday "Constitution Day and Citizenship Day," the
act mandates that all publicly funded educational institutions, and all federal
agencies, provide educational programming on the history of the American
Constitution on that day. In May 2005, the United
States Department of Education announced the enactment of this
law and that it would apply to any school receiving federal funds of any kind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_Day_(United_States)
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