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Telegram re: Texas Centennial Commission
No full textTelegram from Cullen F. Thomas to Amon Carter urging his attendance at a meeting of the Centennial Commissio
Telegram and handwritten note re: Texas Centennial Committee
No full textHandwritten note by Amon Carter reminding himself to send telegram included from Carter to Cullen F. Thomas expressing his inability to visit the State Fair and a meeting of the committe
Telegram and correction notice re: Texas Centennial Committee
No full textTelegram from Cullen F. Thomas to Amon Carter requesting his attendance with the Committee to the State Fair on October 13 and a meeting of the full board (Correction notice also included
Food and eating in fiction since 1950 with particular reference to the writing of Angela Carter, Doris Lessing, Michele Roberts and Alice Thomas Ellis.
No full textPhDEating is a fundamental activity. What people eat, how and with whom, what
they feel about food, what they do or do not want to eat and why - even who
they eat - are of crucial significance in any reading of human behaviour.
In this thesis, I consider the diverse and complex uses of food and eating
in fiction since 1950, especially that written by women. I argue both that food
and eating carry much of the meaning of a novel or story and that the acts of
cooking, feeding and eating depicted are inseparable from issues of power and
control: individually, interpersonally, culturally, politically.
My discussion centres on the writing of Angela Carter, Doris Lessing,
Michele Roberts and Alice Thomas Ellis. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory,
sociology, anthropology, Foucault, Bakhtin and others, the thesis aims to
construct an interdisciplinary perspective which both resists reductive
interpretations and emphasises the centrality, complexity and diversity of food
and eating in literature in our culture.
I begin with an examination of the ambiguities of maternal feeding and
nurturing, moving on to explore the links between appetite, eating and sexuality.
I explore cannibalism and vampirism as manifestations of oppression, but also as
indicating insatiable emptiness and transgressive appetite. The body itself is
crucial, and my argument considers the paradox of not eating as
control/enslavement, also tracing self-starvation as a positive route towards
wholeness and connection. The last part of my argument focuses on social
eating, examining conventions, rituals and food itself in connection with power
relations, and finally considers how we might truly speak of food and eating in
the context of society as a whole
On Running and Becoming Human: An Anthropological Perspective
No full textHow does the simple act of running make us human? As a form of enskilled movement that shapes how we perceive our surroundings, running enacts a mindful bodily engagement with the world, an engagement that generates our very minds through perceptual learning. Thomas F. Carter examines the interrelated aspects of a runner's being-mind, body, and environs-to illustrate that the skillful act of locomotion is one of principle ways that we as human beings become integral parts of the larger world. Synthesizing recent developments in neuroscience, anthropology, and philosophy of mind, On Running proves there is more to running than merely clocking up the miles
Stochastic Mortality, Macroeconomic Risks, and Life Insurer Solvency
No full textMotivated by a recent demographic study establishing a link between macroeconomic fluctuations and the mortality index kt in the Lee-Carter model, we assess the impact of macroeconomic fluctuations on the solvency of a life insurance company. Liabilities in our stochastic simulation framework are driven by a GDP-linked variant of the Lee-Carter mortality model. Furthermore, interest rates and stock prices are allowed to react to changes in GDP, which itself is modeled as a stochastic process. Our results show that insolvency probabilities are significantly higher when the reaction of mortality rates to changes in GDP is incorporated.Life insurance, asset-liability management, stochastic mortality, Lee-Carter model, business cycle
Letter re: invitation
No full textLetter from F. T. Lundquist, secretary to chairman of the board of the National Dairy Products Corporation Thomas H. McInnerney, to Amon Carter regarding an invitation to an unveiling of a statue of Will Rogers
Manifestations of the grotesque in Angela Carter's love and wise children
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e ExpressãoEsta dissertação tem como objetivo investigar o emprego do grotesco, segundo as teorias de Wolfgang Kayser e Mikhail Bakhtin, em dois romances de Angela Carter: Love (1971) e Wise Children (1991). O primeiro capítulo caracteriza o "grotesco trágico", de acordo com a definição proposta por Wolfgang Kayser, bem como o "grotesco cômico", a partir do estudo de Mikhail Bakhtin. A seguir, analisa-se Love, tendo como foco de análise a trágica perspectiva de vida da protagonista do romance, a partir da descrição detalhada de seu comportamento. Neste capítulo, fica claro que o tipo de grotesco utilizado prioriza o grotesco romântico, ou trágico, assim descrito por Kayser, através da paródia do tema do amor romântico/trágico que está comprometido com o texto autenticamente "Romântico" de Edgar A. Poe. No terceiro capítulo apresenta-se a análise de Wise Children identificando-se o tom cômico empregado pelo narrador com o "grotesco cômico", assim descrito por Bakthin, focalizando-se basicamente em dois aspectos: o riso, e a velhice. A partir daí, sugere-se que houve uma modificação no emprego do grotesco cômico, ou seja, em Carter o uso do grotesco cômico reflete a ambigüidade inerente ao seu tempo, e não mais a certeza de transformação presente na interpretação Bakhtiniana do grotesco. Na conclusão, chama-se atenção para o fato de que uso dos dois tipos de grotesco identificados por Kayser e Bakhtin sofrem modificações, em Carter, que servem para demonstrar as mudancas sofridas pelo emprego contemporâneo do grotesco na narrativa
Tudor Hart, Julian & Thomas, Mary: transcript of an audio interview (14-Jun-2000)
No full textInterview with Dr Julian Tudor Hart and Ms Mary Thomas, conducted by Dr Andy Ness, for the History of Twentieth Century Medicine Research Group, UCL, 14 June 2000. Transcribed by Mrs Jaqui Carter, and edited by Professor Tilli Tansey and Dr Hugh Thomas. Dr Julian Tudor Hart (b. 1927) was an epidemiologist working in the Epidemiology Research Unit in 1960, before moving to general practice in 1961 until 1988. See also Mullan F. (1995) Interview with Julian Tudor Hart, February 1995. Primary Care Oral History Project, 1995–98. Modern Manuscripts Collection, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, USA. Dr Tudor Hart’s practice records from 1965 to 1992 are held as GP/13 in the Wellcome Library, London (for confidentiality, access to these records is subject to embargo).
Ms Mary Thomas (Mrs Hart) (b. 1940) was a fieldworker at the Medical Research Council Pneumoconiosis Research Unit from 1960 to 1962, and later for the MRC Medical Epidemiology and Medical Care Unit.The History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group is funded by the Wellcome Trust, which is a registered charity (no. 210183). The current interview was funded by a Wellcome Trust grant (059533; 1999-2001; awarded to Professor G Davey-Smith, Dr A R Ness and Dr E M Tansey), and its publication by a Wellcome Trust Strategic Award entitled “Makers of modern biomedicine: testimonies and legacy” (2012-2017; awarded to Professor Tilli Tansey)
Letter re: prisoner of war
No full textLetter from T./Sgt. Thomas F. Morrissey to Amon Carter thanking Carter for sending him a subscription to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and giving best wishes for Amon, Jr. as a prisoner of war.Dear Mr. Carter: Frist of all I want to thank you for the arrangement you have made so I can get the Fort Worth Star Telegram. My folks get the paper and then take it down to you office and girls send it to me up here. I ma not the only me who enjoys it. Several friends and boys as my crew here at the ase and our outposts enjoy the news. My dad wrote somet ime ago that Amon Jr. was a war prisoner in Germany. I was sorry to hear that bad news. I used to work for the Star Telegram when attending Central Hiigh School. If you will recall back in 1935 I was in the freshman footbal team at TCU and some loyal supporters of TCU sent the freshamn team down to New Oleans to the Sugar Bowl game in 1936, January 1st I will never forget this wonderufl trip and am team won 3 to 2. See I have plent to thank you for. Someday when this war is over and I get bck to the good old USA I want to visit with you as I am not finishing my education here by mail though Texas Tech then I will be ready to start out for myself. the last two years attended TCU I operated the college Service Station for the Continental Oil Company. I only lacked twelve hours finishing at TCU in August 1941 I joined the army. When you write Amon Jr. Tell him I wish him all the luck in the World. He will recall my sister, Catherine Morrisey as they went to school together at Texas Univiersity and both belonged to the Fort Worth Club at Austin. Catherine's name is Mrs. HD Christner now . Her husband is a Lieutentant in the Navy. They are stationed in Nevada at persent. With loads of good luck to ou and best regards to the good folks in Fort Worth and thanking ou again for you kindess in making it possible for the boys and myself to have your wonderful paper and hoping that this conflict will be over soon and we will all be bak with you loved ones soon, I beg to remain, Sincerely, Thomas F Morrisse
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