The new documentary “Johnny Cash: At Folsom Prison,” directed by Bestor Cram and written by Le Moyne professor Michael Streissguth, was selected for inclusion in the New York Times 2008 Holiday Gift Guide under “Best of Pop and Jazz Boxed Sets.” Following is the review by Jon Caramanica: A good tribute celebrates a myth, a great one unravels it. And so it is with this 40th-anniversary revisiting of Johnny Cash’s “At Folsom Prison,” which reveals the original album, one of the most visceral country recordings ever, to have been as slickly orchestrated as any studio project. There’s the announcer dishing out instructions to the inmates on when to cheer. There’s Cash cursing and inciting the crowd by ragging on the authorities. And there’s a whole second show from the same day that was, relatively speaking, listless; only a couple of songs made it onto the original release. There are also things no record could ever capture. A significant part of the accompanying documentary is given over to the tale of Glen Sherley, the inmate who wrote “Greystone Chapel,” the surprisingly light song about jailhouse redemption with which Cash closed both of his Folsom sets. Cash, with others, lobbied for Mr. Sherley’s release, and then took him on the road, an act of extraordinary goodwill and naïveté. Unable to adjust to his new life outside the walls, Mr. Sherley retreated to bad habits and eventually took his own life. His children provide moving testimony about their father here, especially about his admiration for Cash, whom they say they don’t hold responsible for their father’s fate. Still, it’s a vivid and courageous reminder that seamlessness is always just an illusion. (Columbia/Legacy, two CDs and one DVD, $39.98.) For more information, visit the Web site listed below.
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Barron Boyd, director of the Center for Peace and Global Studies, was recently elected to the board of the Central New York Fulbright Association. The Fulbright Association is the membership organization of Fulbright alumni and supporters committed to fostering international awareness and understanding through * Advocating increased worldwide support for Fulbright exchanges; * Enriching the Fulbright experience; and * Facilitating lifelong interaction among alumni and current participants.
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James H. Dahlinger, S.J., of the department of foreign languages and literatures hosted the annual meeting of the American Association of Teachers of French Saturday, Nov. 1, on the Le Moyne campus. Members shared their research with French-Jewish survivors of the Nazi concentration camps of World War II. The previous weekend, Dahlinger attended the annual Sixteenth Centiru Studies Conference, in Saint Louis, Mo. He read his paper: Constructing the Idealized Self-Portrait for Emulation in Etienne and Nicolas Pasquier, Montaigne and Marie de Gournay. He also recently published two book reviews in the Sixteenth Century Journal: Spring 2008: Joachim Du Bellay, A Bilingual Edition by Richard Helgerson; also, in Fall, 2008: Centuriae Latinae II: Cent une figures humanistes de la Renaissance et des Lumières.
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