Grapes of Wrath

Leaked GOP Screening Series: 10 Movies Helping Republicans Stay Bold, Agressive and Insane

Katie Halper | Posted 10.04.2011

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This is a leaked list of the ten movies the GOP is screening to make sure they stay on the offensive, as they fight for the wealthy and attack middle and working class people.

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WATCH: Retracing The Route Of 'The Grapes Of Wrath'

Posted 09.28.2011

Read More: Route 66, Joy Junction, Video, Paul Mason, Bbc, John Steinbeck, Poverty, Grapes of Wrath, Books News

John Steinbeck’s classic “The Grapes of Wrath” is the story of the Joads, a poor, working-class family from Oklahoma who are forced to abandon t...

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Return Of America's Middle-Class Underclass

BBC News | Paul Mason | Posted 09.28.2011

Read More: Underclass, John Steinbeck, Albuquerque, Unemployment Rate, Mogollon Rim, Great Recession, Subway, McDonald's, Jobless, Oklahoma, American Middle Class, Grapes of Wrath, Great Depression, Tent City, Migrant Worker, Business News

In The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck describes the harrowing journey of the Joad family - migrant workers forced to leave their home during the Grea...

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Court Rejects John Steinbeck's Son's Appeal

AP | Posted 08.13.2011

Read More: John Steinbeck Books, Blake Smyle, Supreme Court Cases, John Steinbeck, Thomas Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath, Books News

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by a son of author John Steinbeck over the publishing rights to "The Grapes of Wrath" and other...

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Live-blogging the 2011 Oscar telecast

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kathryn Bigelow, Rick Baker, Prince, Eminem, Scarlett Johansson, Lord of the Rings, Country Strong, Hugh Jackman, Zachary Levi, Marilyn Monroe, Jeff Bridges, Cate Blanchett, Halle Berry, Steven Spielberg, Jake Gyllenhaal, Mandy Moore, David Fincher, Eli Wallach, Natalie Portman, Dustin Hoffman, Arthur, David Seidler, As Time Goes By, Florence and the Machine, Morgan Freeman, Bob Hope, Smile, In a Better World, Gwyneth Paltrow, Oscar, Black Swan, Tim Burton, Lena Horne, Tangled, Francis Ford Coppola, Banksy, Russell Brand, Clint Eastwood, Marshall Fine, Toy Story 3, Celine Dion, Robert Downey Jr., Warren Beatty, Marky Mark, Hilary Swank, Inside Job, Javier Bardem, Reese Witherspoon, Oprah, Auto-Tune, Cat Stevens, Amy Adams, Justin Timberlake, Colin Firth, Biutiful, James Franco, Jack Nicholson, Charlie Sheen, Billy Crystal, Josh Brolin, Australia, A.r. Rahman, Kirk Douglas, Susanne Bier, President Obama, Trent Reznor, Dicky Eklund, Citizen Kane, Alec Baldwin, Marisa Tomei, Helen Mirren, Mila Kunis, Jean-Luc Godard, Guthrie Theater, Matthew McConaughey, Nicole Kidman, Incendies, Christian Bale, Elton John, Phil Collins, Harry Potter, Marshall Fine Commentary, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Dancing With the Stars, Geoffrey Rush, 127 Hours, The Social Network, Charles Ferguson, Sandra Bullock, Twilight, Stella Artois, Anne Hathaway, Tom Hanks, Alice in Wonderland, Jude Law, Paddy Chayefsky, Inception, Meryl Streep, Annette Bening, Aaron Sorkin, Randy Newman, Melissa Leo, Grapes of Wrath, Adrien Brody, Tom Hooper, Raging Bull, Pixar, Kevin Brownlow, Bruce Springsteen, Entertainment News

8:39PM EST Off to a good start with the hosts, James Franco and Anne Hathaway, inserted into scenes from several of the Oscar nominees, on an Incept...

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Spontaneous Combustion And Accidental Circumcision:

The Huffington Post | Zoe Triska | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, American Psycho, Charles Dickens, Shakespeare, Red Dragon, Grapes of Wrath, Cormac McCarthy, Weird Moments in Literature, Books News

There are countless weird moments to be found in literature and after reaching out to readers we're not sure which minds were weirder--the ones that w...

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Holiday Travel Anxiety?

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Travel anxiety: it ranges from being uptight about missing the plane, to being terrified of flying, from being annoyed by security checks to abhorring...

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I'm Old Enough to Remember When the Epithet 'Fascist' Had Meaning

Saul Friedman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Noam Chomsky, Dwight Eisenhower, Communist, New Deal, Mike Huckabee, Ron Paul, Fascist, Grapes of Wrath, Faux Populism, Tea Party, Fdr, Politics News

Never mind that fascists and communists are at opposite ends of the political spectrum, those who hurl these words like curses at the president diminish their value much like the overuse of the F-word diminishes its worth.

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Jakub Julian Ziolkowski's Dark and Amusing Paintings Opens at Hauser & Wirth

Marina Cashdan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Frank Zappa, John Steinbeck, Francis Picabia, Hieronymus Bosch, Woody Guthrie, Philip Guston, Hauser & Wirth, Peter Saul, Alfred Kubin, Neue Galerie, Rage Against the Machine Rnc, James Ensor, Jakub Julian Ziolkowski, Andre Masson, Grapes of Wrath, Bruce Springsteen, Arts News

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The Grapes of Wrath Revisited

Lynn Parramore | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: BP Oil Spill 2010, The Great Depression, Grapes of Wrath, Gulf Oil Spill, Corporations, Dust Bowl, Business News

It's time for a new Steinbeck. And we had better find her quickly, because what's coming if we don't find a new way of relating to ourselves and the world that we are all part of will make the Dust Bowl look like a tempest in a teapot.

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Don't Swat the Kids

Jim Miller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: California Budget, Education, Poverty, March for California's Future, New Deal, Education Reform, California Budget Crisis, Grapes of Wrath, Tea Party, Los Angeles News

In California, we're "swatting the kids" with cuts to education, cuts to health care and by closing the doors of opportunity for poor children as more and more of them are born into poverty.

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Steinbeck And Guthrie Families Now Support Google Books

The New York Times | Motoko Rich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Google, Arlo Guthrie, Google Lawsuit, Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath, Author's Guild, Alice's Restaurant, Google Settlement, Google Books, Guthrie, Books News

The families of the author John Steinbeck and the musician Woody Guthrie, which previously opposed the proposed Google Book settlement that would crea...

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Frank Rich: In Defense Of The Balloon Boy Dad

New York Times | FRANK RICH | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steinbeck, Hoax, Major Bowes Amateur Hour, Ed Wood, Balloon Boy, Obama, American Idol, Msnbc, Television, Cnbc, White House, Gary Condit, Grapes of Wrath, Plan 9 From Outer Space, Jon and Kate Plus 8, Lear, Reality TV, Wmd, War of the Worlds, Bush, Chamber of Commerce, Books, Lou Dobbs, Richard Heene, Heene Family, They Shoot Horses Dont They, Cnn, Day of the Locust, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Wolf Blitzer, Norman Lear, Media News

For a country desperate for good news, the now-deflated "balloon boy" spectacle would seem to be the perfect tonic. As Wolf Blitzer of CNN summed up t...

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Michael Moore's Grapes of Wrath

Dan Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011

With the glimmering hope of the Obama campaign behind us, Moore's film is a wake-up call to renew and expand America's democratic promise.

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Dreaming in the California Fields

Dean Florez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cesar Chavez, California, California-State-Senate, Mexico, Grapes of Wrath, California Budget Crisis, San Joaquin, Water Crisis, Politics News

This summer, I find myself wondering what my grandmother would make of this new California: 38 million residents strong; $26 billion dollars in the hole; deep cuts to education and social service programs.

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The Art of "No"

Jonathan Littman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Office, Coworkers, John Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath, Business News

All too often workers simply blow off those who inquire, its called The Non-Response. We don't advise it when dealing with co-workers, bosses or clients.

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It Is a Wonderful Life

Jamie Lee Curtis | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Jamie Lee Curtis, Eat Less Move More, 2008 Reflections, Celebrities Talk Politics, Economy, It's a Wonderful Life, Jamie Lee Curtis Book, Christmas, Grapes of Wrath, Holiday Season Commentary, Bernard Madoff, Jamie Lee Curtis It Is a Wonderful Life, Healthy Living News

What this crisis is going to do is bring us into financial alignment. Neighbors are going to meal share and carpool and child care -- less indoor gym workouts and more family outdoor time.

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Modern Joads

Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chrysler, Automaker Bailout, Gm, US Automakers, Rick Wagoner, Ford, Cars, Nardelli, Alan Mullaly, Political Cartoons, Big Three Automakers, The Big Three, Joads, Detroit Bailout, Big Three Private Jets, Detroit, Grapes of Wrath, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Business News

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Resurrecting Literature: Sustenance for the Progressive Soul

Jennifer Nix | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Corruption, Nationalism, Short Stories, Literature, To Kill a Mockingbird, Police, Chicago, Anarchist, Xenophobia, George W. Bush, George Lakoff, Progressives, Fiction, Pet Goat, Terrorist, Immigration, Democrats, Bestsellers, Politics of Fear, Politics, History, Activism, Racism, Nonfiction, Aleksandar Hemon, Grapes of Wrath, Fox News Channel, The Lazarus Project, Sarajevo, Huffpost Books, Healthy Living News

I once again see the potential and power of literature, and hope to tell new and necessary stories. As activists, we must not lose sight of art. Here are some questions I posed to Aleksandar Hemon.

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