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As early as 1928, however, the Sloan style began to change.
* Avram Noam Chomsky ( born 1928 ), American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, political activist, author, lecturer, professor emeritus at < font color = 0 > MIT, known for early work in < font color = 0 > transformational grammar and < font color = 0 > A. I.
Other early synthesizers included Thaddeus Cahill's Dynamophone or Telharmononium ( before 1907 ), Jorg Mager's Spherophone ( 1924 ) and Partiturophone, the Theremin ( 1927 ), which was marketed by RCA, Taubmann's similar Electronde ( 1933 ), the Ondes Martenot ( 1928 ), Trautwein's Trautonium ( 1930 ).
This early interest in Heidegger followed Marcuse's demand for “ concrete philosophy ,” which, he declared in 1928, “ concerns itself with the truth of contemporaneous human existence .” These words were directed against the neo-Kantianism of the mainstream, and against both the revisionist and orthodox Marxist alternatives, in which the subjectivity of the individual played little role.
Karlheinz Stockhausen (; 22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007 ) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important ( Barrett 1988, 45 ; Harvey 1975b, 705 ; Hopkins 1972, 33 ; Klein 1968, 117 ) but also controversial ( Power 1990, 30 ) composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries.
In early 1928, when prominent oppositionists were deported to various remote locations within the Soviet Union, Radek was sent to Tobolsk and a few months later moved on to Tomsk.
In 1928 – 29, Harry Alexander bowled an early form of bodyline at the MCC tourists.
All through the teens and twenties, he built the Publix Theatres Corporation, a mighty chain of nearly 2, 000 screens, ran two production studios, and became an early investor in radio, taking a 50 % interest in the new Columbia Broadcasting System in 1928 ( selling it within a few years ; this would not be the last time Paramount and CBS crossed paths, as time proved ).
* Pitts Sky Car, an early ( 1928 ) attempt at vertical take-off flight by US inventor John W. Pitts.
In 1928, as one of Atatürk's Reforms in the early years of the Republic of Turkey, the Ottoman script was replaced with a Latin alphabet.
Claude Autant-Lara released a film Pour construire un feu ( To Build a Fire, 1928 ) in the early Henri Chretien widescreen process, later adapted by Twentieth Century-Fox for CinemaScope in 1952.
In early 1928, Judson sold the network to brothers Isaac and Leon Levy, owners of the network's Philadelphia affiliate WCAU, and their partner Jerome Louchenheim.
In 1928, he developed an early video recording device, which he dubbed Phonovision.
The Congress declared Opposition views incompatible with membership in the Communist Party and expelled Kamenev and dozens of leading oppositionists from the Party, which paved the way for mass expulsions of rank and file oppositionists as well as internal exile of opposition leaders in early 1928.
Their leading supporters, from Kamenev down, were expelled in December 1927 by the XVth Party Congress, which paved the way for mass expulsions of rank and file oppositionists as well as internal exile of opposition leaders in early 1928.
On April 8, 2008, the New York Times published an article suggesting Ravel may have been in the early stages of frontotemporal dementia during 1928, and this might account for the repetitive nature of Boléro.
Raeder's strong authoritarian tendencies came to the fore as soon he assumed command of the Reichsmarine in 1928 when he sent out a circular making clear that dissent would not be allowed while at the same time carrying out the " great seal hunt " of 1928-29 when Raeder forced most of the senior admirals into early retirement in order to promote men who were loyal to him.
Right from the beginning when he assumed command of the Reichsmarine in 1928, Raeder waged a skilful public relations battle highly reminiscent of and closely modelled after the campaigns of Tirpitz in the early 20th century to convince both the politicians and the German public of the importance of sea power to Germany's future greatness.
It is unknown precisely when introduction occurred ; an early specimen in the Florida Museum of Natural History, labeled an " escaped captive ", dates to 1928.
An early sign of future problems came in 1928 when she won only a narrow victory over the Labour candidate.
The only two Best Director winners to win for films which did not receive a Best Picture nomination are likewise in the early years: Lewis Milestone ( 1927 / 28 ) and Frank Lloyd ( 1928 / 29 ).
Howard Hughes promoted Milestone to director, and one of his early efforts, the 1928 film Two Arabian Knights, won him an Oscar in the first Academy Award ceremony.
* Hippolyte Isidore Dreyfus-Barney ( 1873 – 1928 ), prominent early Bahá ' í
After a loss to the Bruins in the 1928 – 29 finals and a few mediocre seasons in the early 1930s, the Rangers, led by brothers Bill and Bun Cook on the right and left wings, respectively, and Frank Boucher at center, would defeat the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 1932 – 33 best-of-five finals, three games to one, to win their second Stanley Cup, exacting revenge on the Leafs ' " Kid line " of Busher Jackson, Joe Primeau, and Charlie Conacher.
Other unconfirmed sources state Amin's year of birth from as early as 1923 to as late as 1928.

early and Chaplin
* 1972 – Actor Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since being labeled a communist during the Red Scare in the early 1950s.
" His early years were spent with his mother and brother in the London district of Kennington ; Hannah had no means of income, other than occasional nursing and dressmaking, and Chaplin Sr. provided no support for his sons.
Chaplin arrived in Los Angeles, home of the Keystone studio, in early December 1913.
One advantage Chaplin found in sound technology was the ability to record a musical score for the film ; he also took the opportunity to mock the talkies, opening City Lights with a squeaky, unintelligible speech that " burlesqued the metallic tones of early talky voices ".
Chaplin died in his sleep from the complications of a stroke in the early morning of 25 December 1977 at his home in Switzerland.
Chaplin portrayed social outcasts and the poor in a sympathetic light in his films from early on.
It was in these early years that Remi developed a love of cinema, particularly favouring Windsor McCay's pioneering animated film Gertie the Dinosaur and the films featuring Charlie Chaplin, Harry Langdon and Buster Keaton ; his later work in the comic strip medium would display an obvious influence from these early films in style and content.
As early as 1914, Sennet shifted the Keystone Cops from starring roles to background ensemble, in support of comedians like Charlie Chaplin and Fatty Arbuckle.
Building on its later popularity in the nineteenth and early twentieth-century ethnic routines of the American vaudeville house, the style was explored extensively during the " golden era " of black and white, silent movies directed by figures Mack Sennett and Hal Roach and featuring such notables as Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Brothers, the Keystone Kops, Gumball ( TV series ) the Three Stooges and El Chavo.
Famed French film director François Truffaut noted that early in the production, Chaplin said he would not play The Tramp in a sound film, and he considers the barber an entirely different character.
Filming the scene continued until February 1929 and again for ten days in early April before Chaplin put the scene aside to be filmed at a later time.
During the filming of one scene Cherrill asked Chaplin if she could leave early so that she could go to a hair appointment.
Chaplin attempted to film many of the scenes on location near Truckee, California, in early 1924.
Similarly, Esslin cites early film comedians and music hall artists such as Charlie Chaplin, The Keystone Cops and Buster Keaton as direct influences ( Keaton even starred in Beckett's Film in 1965 ).
Charlie Chaplin is recorded as performing here, in his early days, before he achieved fame in America.
The town was named for Deacon Benjamin Chaplin, an early settler.
Chaplin first began discussing his ideas for a film about a circus as early as 1920.
Set designer Danny Hall sketched out Chaplin's early ideas for the film, with Chaplin returning to one of his older films, The Vagabond ( 1916 ), and drawing upon similar story ideas and themes for The Circus.
* February 18 – The first Washington, D. C. – New York City telecast through AT & T coaxial cable, in which General Dwight Eisenhower placed a wreath at the base of the statue in the Lincoln Memorial and others made brief speeches, is termed a success by engineers and viewers, although Time magazine calls it " as blurred as an early Chaplin movie.
UA was incorporated as a joint venture on February 5, 1919, by four of the leading figures in early Hollywood: Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith.
The studio's early productions were low-budget short subjects: " Screen Snapshots ", the " Hall Room Boys " ( the vaudeville duo of Edward Flanagan and Neely Edwards ), and the Chaplin imitator Billy West.
In the early years of film, David Raksin worked as music ghostwriter and orchestrator for Charlie Chaplin ; even though Chaplin was credited as the score writer, he was considered to be a " hummer " ( pejorative film industry slang for a person who purports to be a film score composer but who in fact only gives a general idea of the melodies to a ghostwriter ).

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