Bevan G. Morris (born 3 March 1949^{[citation needed]} in Adelaide, Australia^{[citation needed]}) is the president of Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, Prime Minister of the Global Country of World Peace, President of Maharishi Vedic Education Development Corporation, Prime Minister of the United States Peace Government, President of the Maharishi World Peace Fund, and a founder of the Natural Law Party.^[1][2]

Early life[link]

Morris learned Transcendental Meditation (TM) from Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at age 19, in Australia. He attended a TM Teacher Training at Maharishi's Academy at Rishikesh where he lived for two years from 1969-1971.^[3]

Education[link]

Morris received his B.A. and M.A. in psychology and philosophy from Gonville and Caius College of Cambridge University, England. He earned a Masters degree and a Ph.D. in the Science of Creative Intelligence from Maharishi European Research University (MERU) in Vlodrop, Netherlands. He also holds a Doctorate of World Peace from MERU in Switzerland.^[4]

Career[link]

From 1975 to 1979, Morris was the international coordinator for MERU.^{[5][clarification needed]}

Maharishi University of Management[link]

In September, 1980 Morris was appointed President and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Maharishi International University, which was renamed Maharishi University of Management (MUM) in 1995. During his tenure, there was expansion of the university campus, and accreditation through the Ph.D. level.^[6] In the 1990s, he was reported to be the lowest-paid college president in Iowa, receiving an annual salary of $9,000 in 1994.^[7]

In 1984, Morris toured the United States seeking practitioners of the TM-Sidhi program to form a group in Fairfield, Iowa that would create "super radiance" for the country.^[8] In July 1987, he was part of a team that demonstrated Yogic Flying to a group of 125 in a House office building in Washington D.C. He called on Congress to "seriously" examine this program to create peace.^[9] In 1990, he sought a $90 million annual expenditure from the U.S. government to fund a group of 10,000 professional meditators whose activities would result in peace and prosperity for the nation. He made the request in an open letter, printed in an advertisement in the Washington Post, to President George H. W. Bush. In a subsequent press conference, he suggested that the president learn Transcendental Meditation.^[10]

In 1994, Morris wrote the Foreword to the Maharishi's book "Science of Being and Art of Living." The 2001 edition, published by Plume (a division of Penguin), contains this Foreword. In it, Morris lays out a historical account of the Maharishi's contribution in the field of knowledge and the technologies for the development of human consciousness.^[11]

Natural Law Party[link]

Morris was a founder and national chairman of the U.S. Natural Law Party (NLP),^[1] which was described by a spokesman as "the TM party".^[12] He took a leave of absence from the MUM to oversee John Hagelin's first campaign for U.S. President, in 1992,^[13] and serve as the US National party chairman.^[14] During the 1992 presidential campaign, Morris suggested that John Hagelin had "the most highly coherent brain".^[15]

Morris was also described, in 1992, as the party's spokesman on education.^[16] In 1993, he campaigned for a seat in the Australian House of Representatives on the NLP ticket, from an electorate in suburban Adelaide.^[17] In 1997, Morris was the leader of the Australia's NLP.^[18]

Other[link]

Morris was appointed Chairman of the Maharishi Council of Supreme Intelligence of Age of Enlightenment in 1987.^[5] Morris is the International President of Maharishi Vedic Universities, a network of institutions in Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America.^[19] He is also on the board of trustees of the Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment. He was appointed Minister of Enlightenment of the Global Country of World Peace in 2000 and is now its Prime Minister.^[2] He was appointed President of the Maharishi World Peace Fund in 2003.^[3] He is also Prime Minister of the United States Peace Government, of which John Hagelin is president.

In 2009, Morris was living in Adelaide, Australia and reportedly spent a only few weeks a year in the Fairfield area.^[20] Morris became the Emeritus Chairman of the Board of Trustees of MUM in 2009 after having served as chairman for 30 years. He continues to serve as its president.^[21]

In March 2012, Morris, toured 14 African countries, including Kenya to promote Consciousness Based Education.^[22]

References[link]

Edmondo De Amicis
Born	(1846-10-21)21 October 1846 Oneglia, Italy1
Died	11 March 1908(1908-03-11) (aged 61) Bordighera, Italy
Occupation	novelist, journalist, short-story writer, poet
Genres	children's literature

Edmondo De Amicis (21 October 1846 – 11 March 1908) was an Italian novelist, journalist, poet and short-story writer. His best-known book is the children's novel Heart.

Early career[link]

Born in Oneglia (today part of the city of Imperia), he went to military school in Modena, and became an Army officer in the new Kingdom of Italy. De Amicis fought in the battle of Custoza during the Third Independence War, a defeat of Savoy forces against the Austrian Empire; the spectacle left him disappointed, and contributed to his later decision to leave military life.

In Florence, he wrote his first sketches dealing with his frontline experience, collected as La vita militare ("Military Life", 1868), and first published by the journal of the Ministry of Defense, L'Italia Militare. In 1870, he joined the staff of the journal La Nazione in Rome, and his correspondence at the time later served as base for his travel writings: Spagna (1873), Olanda (1874), Ricordi di Londra (1874), Marocco (1876), Costantinopoli (1878), Ricordi di Parigi (1879). A new edition of Costantinopoli, considered by many his masterpiece and the best description of the city in the 19th century, was published in 2005, with a foreword by Umberto Eco.

[edit] Heart success

Heart was issued by Treves on 17 October 1886, the first day of school in Italy. Its success was immense: in a few months it was printed in 40 Italian editions and translated into dozens of languages. Its praise for the creation of Italy in the previous decade contributed to its reception, but also made it draw criticism from some Roman Catholic politicians for failing to depict the nature of the Holy See's opposition to the annexation of Rome.

Later years[link]

The nationalist message visible in De Amicis' works was soon fused with a commitment to socialism (a trend visible within Heart). In 1896, he adhered to the Italian Socialist Party. He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1901.^[1]

His later works include: Sull'oceano (1889), dealing with the plight of Italian emigrants overseas, Il romanzo di un maestro (1890), Amore e ginnastica (1892), Maestrina degli operai (1895), La carrozza di tutti (1899), L'idioma gentile (1905), and Nuovi ritratti letterari e artistici (1908). At the same time, he contributed to the Turin-based Il Grido del Popolo - his articles were collected as Questione sociale ("Social Issues", 1894).

De Amicis died in Bordighera. His last years were marked by tragedy and spent in reclusion; he was marked by his mothers' death, and the frequent conflicts with his wife - ultimately, these were the source of an even greater emotional shock for De Amicis, as they led to his son Furio's suicide (as schoolchildren, Furio and his brother Ugo had served as inspiration for Heart).

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikisource has original works written by or about: Edmondo De Amicis

• Edmondo de Amicis, A Visit to Jules Verne and Victorien Sardou
• De Amicis' works: text with concordances and frequency list
• De Amicis: the full text of Cuore

Tony Bevan (born 1951) is a British painter.

Biography[link]

Bevan was born in Bradford, Yorkshire. He studied at Bradford School of Art from 1968 to 1971, followed by Goldsmiths' College, London from 1971 to 1974, and the Slade School of Fine Art from 1974 to 1976. He was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in London as an Academician in 2007.

Bevan came to prominence as an artist in the 1980s, taking part in the ICA show Before it hits the floor in 1982,^[1] Problems of Picturing, curated by Sarah Kent and held at the Serpentine Gallery in London in 1982-83,^[2] and The British Art Show, a touring exhibition of contemporary art, in 1984.^[3] This was followed by exhibitions mainly in the USA and Germany, including the LA Louver Gallery, California, in 1989, 1992 and 1995, and Kunsthalle, Kiel, in 1988, Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst Haus der Kunst, Munich, in 1989, and Galerie Wittenbrink, in Munich, during the 1990s.^[4]

In 2006 Bevan was invited to explore the printmaking technique of monoprints, a technique he had not previously tried, at the Scuola de Grafica in Venice. This resulted in over 80 images which were subsequently shown at Marlborough Fine Art in London, and marked the beginning of an interest in printmaking Bevan retains to this day.^[5]

Bevan has work in many major art collections around the world, including Arts Council England, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, the British Museum, the Louisiana Museum in Denmark, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Tate. He is represented by Marlborough Fine Art, L.A. Louver and Ben Brown Fine Arts, London.

Style and influences[link]

Bevan's subject matter focuses predominantly on the human figure. In doing so he uses a distressed linear style, which has been described as graphic and even deliberately crude.^[6] In the estimation of the art critic Sarah Kent, writing in 1985, this quality is a reflection of the social times in which Bevan finds himself, with the highly charged political climate of the mid-1980s in Britain, under the government of Margaret Thatcher, provoking artists like Bevan to 'roll over and play dead, to escape into fantasy, or to stand and fight'. The implication of Kent's analysis was that Bevan chose to stand and fight.^[7]

What this meant in practical terms was that Bevan produced psychologically charged images of people at the edge of respectable society, in a style that drew influence from sources ranging from early twentieth century New Objectivity artists, to Frances Bacon and the painters of the School of London, and the ephemera of street graffiti and popular culture. Indeed, commenting on Bevan's entry in the Whitechapel Open exhibition in 1992 art critic David Cohen described, as a compliment, one of Bevan's self portraits as looking like 'a cross between Lucian Freud and Dennis the Menace... arousing associations of delinquency and social unrest.'^[8]

In addition to his 'rough, jagged lines', Bevan's work is characterised by a limitation placed on his colour palette, and his addition of grit or sand to the acrylic paint he uses.^[9] Although this handling has led some critics to associate Bevan with the School of London,^[10] this connection has been disputed, most notably by Grace Glueck in The New York Times.^[11] So it is possibly more accurate to link Bevan to artists like Steven Campbell, Ken Currie and Peter Howson, who also came to prominence in the 1980s, and like Bevan worked under a noticeable influence from 'expressionistic' forms of German art. Bevan himself wrote his thesis at art school on the highly expressive German eighteenth-century sculptor, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, and acknowledged Messerschmidt's influence on his own work. In an interview in 2011 Bevan stated: 'I've used elements [of Messerschmidt] in the past, but recently I decided to work specifically through these sculptures. So I used formal elements from the sculptures to make self-portraits because it's believed that a lot of these sculptures were self-portraits. So I used the formal elements of his to work through my own self-portraits.'^[12]

As with the Scottish artists Campbell, Currie and Howson, there is a clear interest in attempting to represent an internal or psychological reality in Bevan's paintings by finding visual equivalents to a subject's state of mind. It is also notable that Bevan's most frequent subject in his paintings is himself, which again adds weight to the argument he is seeking to create 'psychological portraits'. Indeed, this is a quality Bevan himself notes, admitting that he was heavily influenced as a student by a book called Psychoanalytic Approaches to Art (unidentified).^[12]

Paradoxically, despite being described as having a 'graphic style', it was not until relatively recently that Bevan began making prints. This followed a two week professional workshop at the Scuola de Grafica in Venice with the printmakers Simon Marsh and Mike Taylor in 2006. Writing in the catalogue for the exhibition of these prints in London in 2007 Marco Livingstone noted they possessed many of the same physical and psychological qualities of Bevan's paintings, writing that they `reveal as much in their materiality as in the imaginative and emotional dimension of their imagery.’^[5]

References[link]

1. ^ Sandy Nairne, Before it hits the floor (London: Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1982)
2. ^ Sarah Kent, Problems of Picturing (London: Serpentine Gallery, 1982)
3. ^ Thomson et al, The British Art Show: Old Allegiances and New Directions, 1979-1984 (London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1984)
4. ^ Marco Livingstone, Tony Bevan (Venice, CA: LA Louvre, 1998)
5. ^ ^{a b} Marco Livingstone, Tony Bevan: Monotypes (London: Marlborough Fine Art, 2007)
6. ^ Micky Donnelly, 'Review: Tony Bevan, Orchard Gallery Derry 31 March - 26 April 1988' in Circa, no. 40, June/July 1988, pp.40-41
7. ^ Sarah Kent, 'Critical Images', in Flash Art March 1985
8. ^ David Cohen, 'Review: Recent Exhibitions of British Figurative Painting, London' in The Burlington Magazine, vol. 134, no 1075, October 1992, pp.679-80
9. ^ Alfred Hickling, 'Tony Bevan: Abbot Hall Gallery, Kendal,' in The Guardian (London newspaper), 21 April 2003
10. ^ David Cohen, 'Review: Recent Exhibitions of British Figurative Painting, London' in The Burlington Magazine, vol. 134, no 1075, October 1992, pp.679-80; also Richard Kendall, 'Review: The School of London, New Haven', in The Burlington Magazine, vol. 143, no. 1174, January 2001
11. ^ Grace Glueck, 'A Catchall School, Devoted to Human Forms, Has a Show', in The New York Times, 30 March 2001.
12. ^ ^{a b} Doretta Lau, 'Tony Bevan and His Self-Portraits', in The Wall Street Journal', 3 March 2011

Further reading[link]

• de Baranano, Kosme, Tony Bevan [1] (London: Lund Humphries, 978-0853319511, 2006).

• Livingstone, Marco, Tony Bevan: Monotypes [2] (London: Marlborough Fine Art, 2007)

External links[link]

• A head of his time. Alfred Hickling on the obsessive self-portraits of Tony Bevan
• Tony Bevan at Abbot Hall Gallery, Kendal
• Tony Bevan personal site
• Tony Bevan on Artcyclopedia

Dominic Lash is an Oxford based double bassist and a central figure in the musicians' collective Oxford Improvisers.^[1] Important long-term musical collaborators include Angharad Davies, Bruno Guastalla, Alexander Hawkins, Tim Hill, Steve Noble, Samantha Rebello, Pat Thomas, Philipp Wachsmann and Alex Ward. He has also performed with saxophonists John Butcher and Evan Parker and violinist Tony Conrad. Recent work includes a UK tour with US guitarist Joe Morris, Australian drummer Tony Buck (of The Necks) and saxophonist Tony Bevan. Festival appearances have included the Manchester Jazz Festival (with the Grew Quartet), Akbank Jazz Festival (Istanbul) and Tampere Jazz Happening.

He is the only child of Nicholas Lash and Janet Lash, and hence first cousin to Ralph Fiennes, Joseph Fiennes and Sophie Fiennes.^[2]

Discography[link]

• Grazing - Bruno Guastalla, Dominic Lash (PIE, 2006)^[3]
• Live in Oxford - Taylor Ho Bynum, Alexander Hawkins, Dominic Lash, Harris Eisenstadt (FMR, 2007)^[4]
• Imaginary Trio - Bruno Guastalla, Dominic Lash, Philipp Wachsmann (Bead, 2007)^[5]
• Barkingside – Alex Ward, Alexander Hawkins, Dominic Lash, Paul May (Emanem, 2008)^[6]
• Separately and together - London Improvisers Orchestra and Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra (Emanem, 2008)^[7]
• Monster Club - Tony Bevan, Chris Corsano, Dominic Lash (Foghorn, 2008)^[8]
• No Now Is So - Alexander Hawkins Ensemble (FMR, 2009)^[9]

References[link]

1. ^ "Oxford Improvisers". http://www.oxfordimprovisers.com. Retrieved 2008-11-26. 
2. ^ "Ralph Fiennes Corner". http://ralph-fiennes.net/index.php?id=12. Retrieved 2008-03-10. 
3. ^ "PIE 001: GRAZING". http://efi.group.shef.ac.uk/labels/pie/pie001.html. Retrieved 2008-11-26. 
4. ^ "FMRCD223-0307: LIVE IN OXFORD". http://www.fmr-records.com/pdffiles/FMRCD223-0307.pdf. Retrieved 2008-11-26. 
5. ^ "BEAD CD08SP: IMAGINARY TRIO". http://www.beadrecordssp.com/cd%20imaginary%20trio.html. Retrieved 2008-11-26. 
6. ^ "EMANEM 4147: BARKINGSIDE". http://www.emanemdisc.com/E4147.html. Retrieved 2008-03-10. 
7. ^ "EMANEM 4219: LONDON & GLASGOW IMPROVISERS ORCHESTRAS". http://www.emanemdisc.com/E4219.html. Retrieved 2008-11-26. 
8. ^ "FOGCD010: MONSTER CLUB". http://www.foghornrecords.co.uk/monsterclub.html. Retrieved 2008-11-26. 
9. ^ "FMRCD270-0209: NO NOW IS SO". http://www.fmr-records.com/pdffiles/FMRCD270-0209.pdf. Retrieved 2009-11-04. 

External links[link]

• http://www.dominiclash.co.uk
• http://www.oxfordimprovisers.com/

Morris Albert (born Maurício Alberto Kaisermann, 7 September 1951, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil^[1]) is a Brazilian singer and songwriter, famous for his 1975 hit single "Feelings".

Career[link]

In 1973 Produces alone, a single, Feel the Sunshine that, in three weeks time, becomes a success. Signs his first contract with Copacabana Records, in Brazil, as an artist, composer and producer.

1974 Records his first album, and with Feelings becomes number one in Brazil remaining in the charts for six months, consecutively. Feelings, goes number one in South America, Mexico, Central America, South Africa and Europe. First Gold Record – Mexico

1975 Feelings, rises the American, Canadian, Japanese and Australian charts. Leaves Brazil and moves to California.

1976 Receives four Nominations for the Grammy Awards. Make appearances in American, British and European television shows. International guest star, at the Italian Festival of San Remo. Wins the Grand Prize at the International Song Festival of Palma de Mallorca, with the song, So Nice. Finishes the year with a world tour.

1977 Continues his world tour. Feelings, is still in the charts of 52 countries and his new album is already among the first ten in the American charts. Ascap: the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, recognizes Feelings the successor of White Christmas, as the most recorded song in music's history. Wins the Grand Prize at the Tokyo International Song Festival with his song, Someone, Somehow, a cut from his album, Love And Life. Concert Tour in Japan. Concerts in South America and some of them in double billing with the singer Dionne Warwick.

1978 TV Special at London's BBC, together with Shirley Bassey. Receives worldwide recognition, by almost every recording association in the world. Signs contracts for many concerts around the world, as main attraction.

1979 Another song, Gonna Love You More, recorded by George Benson in his album In Flight, gets a Grammy nomination, and gives Morris another Gold Record, in America.

1980 Releases a new album in over 50 countries. Starts to write scripts and soundtracks for movies and television. Acquires knowledge as a director in films, and television fields.

1981 Becomes a member of W.G.A. (Writers Guild Of America) and of the American Film Institute. Records a new album in Rio, with international release, promoting it in South America with a tour of concerts in Brazil and in other South American capitals.

1982 A guest in the Philippines for the first Cecil Awards, decides to stay and study the Asian musical industry.

1983-1984-1985 Builds a state of the art recording studio, the first of a kind in the nation. Arranges, directs and produces several artists for the local and international markets.

1986 In California, starts to write for a new album. Composes the soundtracks for two Italian movies: “Un Amore Di Donna”, by Risi and “Colour Fume”'. Also writes the soundtrack for the Sitcom “Good Times” for European television and records a new album in Europe.

1987 Promotes the new record on television and on a European promotional tour.

1988-1989 While in Rio, writes a song for Mina, known Italian performer, called Che Nome Avrà.

1990-1991 Divides his time, between Rio, where he continues to write, the States and Italy.

1992-1993 Builds his own recording studio and dedicates his time to the preparations of new songs.

1994-1995-1996 Receives a proposal to write the soundtracks of two films, for Columbia - TriStar: Emma, and The Greatest Shepherd Story Ever Told, accepts it, goes to Canada under contract, to finish these projects. Returns to stage with a new show called, Feelings Revival, where, aside from Feelings and other of his own songs, performs a mix of international hits. Spends a great part of his time between Italy, the States and Canada, where he records a new album.

1996-1997 Goes on with his show, Feelings Revival. Records one of his dates, and prepares a CD Live.

1998-1999 Returns to Italy. Writes original songs for a new project. Works on a production for a new show. Writes a song called, “Madre Bambina” for the 42nd Zecchino d'Oro.

2000 Writes a song called “È Gol Do Zè” that represents Brazil in the 43rd Zecchino d'Oro. Also for the Antoniano of Bologna, writes another song called “Inno alla Vita” for the production of the CD, that celebrates the Jubilee. Feelings is picked up, after 25 years, as a theme of a new Brazilian Soap. And is also, the climbing song of a CD titled “Hits Again”, released in may in South America, where will arrive at the top of the charts, with over three million records sold.

2001-2002 Records a new CD of original songs that will be released worldwide. One of the songs will be chosen to be part of a new Soap Opera in Brazil. Prepares for a tour, promotions and for a return to the stage.

2003 It’s the year of the release of his new CD, “Moods”. Performs in theatres and Night Clubs in Europe and South America.

2004 Participates at the Festival of San Remo - A new CD released in Italy and Brazil - Tour in Brazil

2005 Starts to prepare an important recording project titled “Anniversary” to commemorate the 30 years of success of Feelings, worldwide. World Tour.

2006 Continues his writing and research for the pre-production of the Anniversary project. Concert at the Colony Theatre, in Los Angeles. Performs in various TV Shows in Europe and at the Donizetti Opera Theatre of Bergamo, Italy, for the Christmas Charity Evening, in December. Starts the pre-production of a new coming Italian singer, Dilè, as a producer and arranger of her first and new CD.

2007 Spends half of the year producing in studio, and preparing for the release of Dilè’s new CD. Prepares arrangements and musicians, rehearsing for a new tour, a new CD and DVD.. …soon to come…

2008 Recording a new CD for the 50 years of Bossa Nova to be released worldwide. TV appearances in Europe and USA. Preparing for new concerts, worldwide. Preparing also for his new CD and DVD with his original songs, to be released by Christmas 2008.

Discography[link]

Singles[link]

• "Feelings" (1975) - U.S. #6; U.S. Adult Contemporary #2; UK #4
• "Sweet Loving Man" (1976) - U.S. #93

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Albums[link]

• Feelings (1975) - U.S. #37
• Morris Albert (1976) - U.S. #135

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See also[link]

• One-hit wonders in the UK
• List of 1970s one-hit wonders in the United States
• Lounge music
• List of performers on Top of the Pops
• List of best-selling singles worldwide
• I Love the '70s (U.S. TV series)
• List of Shrek songs

References[link]

• Dicionário Cravo Albin de Música Popular Brasileira: Morris Albert

External links[link]

• Official Web Site