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Creighton University Magazine Winter 1999
No full textCREIGHTON STUDY SHEDS LIGHT ON INTERCHURCH MARRIAGES / INTERCHURCH MARRIAGES:
A Creighton study finds that sharing religious activities and managing religious differences play a vital role in marital success. Page 8.
GAMELAN: THE SOUND MOONLIGHT / THE SOUND OF MOONLIGHT:
Creighton's Lied Education Center for the Arts is home to a 71-piece Javanese gamelan. Page 12.
AT THE END OF A MISSION: MICHAEL G. MORRISON, S.J. / AT THE END OF A MISSION:
The Rev. Michael G. Morrison, S.J., tells writer Bob Reilly that life as Creighton's 22nd president has been more than a job - it's been a mission. Fr. Morrison has announced he will step down as the University's chief executive on or before June 30, 2000. Now in his 19th year, Creighton's longest-serving president will leave behind a legacy of accomplishments. Page 14.
ETCHED IN STONE? TWO TABLETS, 10 COMMANDMENTS, A MULTITUDE OF MEANINGS / EXPLORING THE TEN COMMANDMENTS:
Are the Ten Commandments etched in stone? Biblical scholar Leonard Greenspoon, Ph.D., Creighton's Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization, provides insights into how changes in cultural, social and historical circumstances have shaped one of the most recognizable of Old Testament doctrines. Page 22.
THE MILLENNIUM IN WESTERN SOCIETY:
History professor Eileen Dugan, Ph.D., investigates how people have viewed the millennium and the end of time. She writes that while millennialism has its roots in the Judeo-Christian anticipation of a Messiah, it has evolved over time to a more secular celebration. Page 30.
SILAS HAS CHARLOTTE BUZZING / HOOP DREAMS:
The NBAs Charlotte Hornets name Creighton alumnus Paul Silas, BSBA64, as the franchises fifth head coach. Page 36.
ORGAN DONORS:
Creighton alumnus Robert Metzger, MD'64, serves on two national committees within the transplant field. Article Not Included.
A VOICE FOR THE HILLS:
CU alumna Janice Marcantonio, BSN'83, works to preserve a unique land formation shaped by the runoff from ancient glaciers. Article Not Included.
LETTERS REVEAL THE OTHER SIDE OF HENRY JAMES / THE OTHER SIDE OF HENRY JAMES:
Usually depicted as an ultra-proper, uptight, reclusive and elitist writer, renowned American author Henry James reveals a warm, tender, informal side in his personal letters. Page 51
Paravertebral Blockade of the Brachial Plexus in Dogs
No full textKip A. Lemke, Catherine M. Creighto
Creighton Law Review
No full textINTRODUCTION|On December 17, 2008, President-Elect Barack Obama announced that he had invited Reverend Rick Warren, author of the best-selling book The Purpose Driven Life, to deliver the invocation at his inauguration. This selection drew some criticism from members of the homosexual community on the basis of Reverend Warren's support for California's Proposition 8. Surprisingly, one of the most pointed criticisms directed at President Obama for selecting Reverend Warren concerned the fact that the Reverend was likely to "say the Jword" during his invocation. The "J-word," of course, refers to the name of "Jesus." Reverend Kirbyjon Caldwell, former spiritual adviser to President George W. Bush, forewarned that "[i]f Rick Warren doesn't pray in Jesus' name, some folks are going to be very disappointed...2009-20101434
Division logistics - the armored division G-4.
No full textA manual for the G-4 of an armored division, outlining duties, procedures and operations of an armored division G-4 section. Also looks at the duties, functions and procedures of division G-4s during World War II and pertinent doctrines
"Public Responsibility of Theology," America and the Future of Theology
No full textThis audio recording consists of three different speakers discussing one major topic, the public responsibility of theology. The main speaker is Roger L. Shinn argues that theologians have a tendency to avoid speaking on important injustices such as segregation and violence. He goes on to call on theologians to stop giving the public a reason to resent theological participation. The next two speakers, Father Bernardin Patterson and Creighton Lacy follow Shinns lecture by giving criticism and analyzing his speech. Father Patterson takes the ministerial perspective while Lacy gives the academic side of the critique
Buddhist Animal Wisdom Stories
No full textThis is a lovely presentation of forty-four Jataka tales. As the publisher's online advertisement says Author and painter Mark McGinnis has collected over forty of these hallowed popular tales and retold them in vividly poetic yet accessible language, their original Buddhist messages firmly intact. Each story is accompanied with a beautifully rendered full-color painting, making this an equally attractive book for children and adults, whether Buddhist or not, who love fine stories about their fellow wise (and foolish) creatures. I like particularly the lively contemporary style of the texts. The very first tale gives a good example. The drunken dung-beetle challenges the elephant to a duel, and the elephant agrees, chooses his weapon, and defecates on the beetle (9)! The art is simple but expressive. A good example is the self-sacrificing Banyan deer who puts his own head on the sacrificial block (56). There is of course a great deal of classic wisdom here, as in The Fish and the Tortoise (31). Two similar fish come to a tortoise for a judgment on their relative beauty. He describes beauty then in terms of tortoise-beauty. They give up on their argument and go their separate ways. Some classic tales are told differently here, like The Three Fish (66). All three fish are swimming downstream toward the trapping fishermen. Thoughtful cautions that they should turn back. Thoughtless plunges ahead. Over-Thoughtful cannot make up his mind and so follows him. Thoughtful has to play a trick of making both sides of the net appear torn to rescue the two when they are caught by fishermen. The Jackal and the Crow (40) is different from the traditional FC fable. Here both are insufferable flatterers. The wise owl finds their interaction sickening enough to drive her to another part of the forest.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)This book has a dust jacket (book cover)Illustrated and Retold by Mark W. McGinni
New Aesop Fables for Children, Volume 1
No full textThis book follows up on three others by the author: "Giga: New Aesopian Fables for the 21st Century" (2004); "The Buddha's Journey Home: New Buddhist Fables" (2005); and "New Aesop Fables" (2005). The present book offers 45 traditional fables turned, in a friendlier way than Bierce did, towards surprising results. The donkey asks the crickets where they get their great singing. "We eat only the morning dew." "Crazy," responds the donkey. "I'll just eat my corn and oatmeal, because I like them." Three men see some luscious grapes but disagree vehemently over their best use, and the owner chases them away. The rats lure the cat into a mousetrap and then tie a bell around its neck. A dog puts his steak down on a bridge and admires himself in the water. His self-admiration wakes another dog who picks up the steak and races off with it. The grasshopper makes it through winter singing and dancing in the warm homes of his friends. Many of the fables are illustrated with part-page or full-page illustrations. FM (37) may be the best of the illustrations. 7⅜" x 9⅝". By the "Volume I" on the cover, I think we can expect further installments.Robert W. Lon
Portraits and sketches /
Full text linkPreface.--Swinburne.--Philip James Bailey.--"Irion" Horne.--Aubrey De Vere.--A first sight of Tennyson.--A visit to Whittier.--The author of "John Inglesant.--Mandell Creighton.--Andrew Lang.--Wolcott Balestier.--Carl Snoilsky.--Eugène Melchior de Vogüé.--André Gide.--Index.Mode of access: Internet
New Aesop Fables
No full textThis book follows up on the author's 2004 book, "Giga: New Aesopian Fables for the 21st Century." The present oversized (8½" x 11") book offers 100 fables with frequent black-and-white illustrations taken from earlier Japanese artists. As was true in the earlier work, the illustrations are not particularly well rendered. I read the first five fables and liked them. "The Woodcutter and the Pig" aptly moralizes "You will be possessed by your possessions if you can not find happiness within yourself" (11)." Grandmother's advice about how to be a great leader only leads to three clowns inviting the advisee to join them (12)! A wife returns after several days away to find the house a mess. She is ready to scold when she learns that it was the needs of her own mother and brother that led to the mess (15-16). Two pitchers argue about their merits but then find themselves sitting on the shelf and getting covered with dust while the woman of the house uses an old metal jug (16-17). The author, who has long lived in Japan, has a lively sense of the wisdom people need!Robert W. Lon
Fables de La Fontaine
No full textSee the English version of the presumably Italian original of this book under The Fables of Aesop and La Fontaine (1958). Surprisingly, it took Fabbri three years after the English version to get to this French version. Notice also that the English title speaks of both Aesop and La Fontaine, while the French speaks only of La Fontaine--though the fables covered are exactly the same. The texts here are La Fontaine's poetry verbatim. Many of the illustrations are even richer in color than those I already praised for their color in the English version: compare the title-page's colors, for example. The T of C here is at the back rather than in the front. The order of the nineteen fables changes somewhat. MM and The Wise Lark switch positions (on 8 and 23). One reason for the switch lies in the overly long version of La Fontaine's L'Alouette et ses Petits; the English saves a whole page of text. Similarly, the English adds a whole page to MM. Le Chat, la Belette et le Petit Lapin takes an extra page in the French, as does Les Deux Chevres. AD and Les Frelons et les Mouches a Miel switch places, with the latter taking an extra page. In all, the fable texts and illustrations run through 56 in the French and 55 in the English. The FS pictures (21-22) are here again in reverse chronological order. Though La Fontaine's text of FG (30) says nothing about it, we still have here the laughing rabbit holding ripe grapes. The cover and its dust-jacket are beautiful. The transparent dust-jacket overlays gold on the title of the front cover and adds a golden spider's web around the back cover's man holding balloons illustrating animals. A delightful book!This is a hardbound book (hard cover)This book has a dust jacket (book cover)Language note: FrenchLa Fontain
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