650 research outputs found
The Neighbourhood of Infinity
No full textFanzine dedicated to the work of Mark E Smith and The Fall. Collaboration between myself and artists, Inge Marleen and David Powell. Sole author of text:
“And then I heard a voice say, ‘Hey, you’re lost in music.’
George B. Inge papers, MSS.0728
No full textAbstract: Research material for the book, The Herndon and Inge Families: Genealogical, Historical, Biographical.Scope and Content Note: This collection contains research material for the book, The Herndon and Inge Families: Genealogical, Historical, Biographical, written by Inge and published by the Gregath Company of Cullman, Alabama, in 1977. The papers include correspondence regarding the book, correspondence from Inge family members, note cards, handwritten notes, newspaper clippings, excerpts from books containing genealogical information, and drafts of the manuscripts.Biographical/Historical Note: Colonel George B. Inge was born and raised in Mobile, Alabama. Inge served in the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Reserve during World War II and worked for many years in the United States Civil Service prior to his retirement in 1962. He has been honored with numerous military medals and ribbons and has been a member and leader in many civic organizations in Mobile. In addition to The Herndon and Inge Families: Genealogical, Historical, Biographical, Inge is also the author of Our Book of State, a history of the Order of Myths, Mobile's oldest parading Mardi Gras society. He is married to Marie Bishop Inge. Information obtained from The Herndon and Inge Families: Genealogical, Historical, Biographical
Uncloseting Drama: Tennessee Williams, William Inge, and Gay Identity in Terry Teachout's Billy and Me
No full textThis paper was presented at the 39th Annual William Inge Theater Festival & Conference hosted by the William Inge Center for the Arts in April 2022.Terry Teachout’s 2017 play, Billy and Me, imagines two fictional encounters between Tennessee Williams and William Inge: first, in a bar in Chicago in 1944 immediately following a pre-Broadway tryout of The Glass Menagerie, then in New York in 1959 following the premiere of Inge’s A Loss of Roses. Through fictional dialogue, Teachout builds upon the historical relationship between these two playwrights to imagine the conversations that must have connected them as two midcentury gay playwrights in America: success and failure, sexual conquests, relationships, and addiction. In this way, Teachout’s play attempts to “uncloset” the issues that were at the heart of Williams’ and Inge’s life and work. Through a comparative analysis of specific characters and situations in their plays, this paper explores how the representation of white, gay male identity varies from the closet dramas of Williams and Inge to the uncloseted and celebrated representation of sexual identity in the theatre of today.
Teachout was the lead drama critic for The Wall Street Journal, playwright of Satchmo at the Waldorf, and author or editor of nearly eight books until his untimely death in 2022. His passion and respect for the writing and craft of America’s midcentury playwrights is apparent in the text of Billy and Me, which has had three productions up until now, providing an interesting study in how this work revivifies its historical subjects through both content as well as form
Compression of women's reproductive spans in Andhra Pradesh, India
No full textContext: the total fertility rate in Andhra Pradesh, India, has recently decreased to near-replacement level; however, the reasons for the fertility decline are unknown.Methods: data from the second round of the National Family Health Survey were used to examine the reproductive span—the duration between first marriage and menopause or sterilization—among 4,032 ever-married women aged 15-49 living in Andhra Pradesh in 1998-1999.Results: between 1992-1993 and 1998-1999, the median age at which women married remained at 15.1, whereas the age at which they adopted sterilization decreased from 24.5 to 23.6. In life-table analyses, reproductive spans of successive cohorts of women decreased—from 22 years among those who married during the 1960s to 15 years among those who married in the 1970s, 10 years among those who married in the 1980s and five years among those who married in 1990-1996. Proportional hazards regression analyses that controlled for demographic and social characteristics, as well as reproductive attitudes, confirmed this cohort effect (hazard ratios, 1.5-2.6).Conclusions: these findings suggest that women are making the decision to end childbearing faster than older generations did. The gradual compression in reproductive spans is attributable mainly to sterilization acceptance among younger women
Does early childbearing and a sterilization-focused family planning programme in India fuel population growth?
No full textRecent stagnation in the reduction of infant mortality in India can arguably be attributed to early child bearing practices and the lack of progress in lengthening birth intervals. Meanwhile, family planning efforts have been particularly successful in the southern states such as Andhra Pradesh, although family limitation is almost exclusively by means of sterilisation at increasingly younger ages. This paper examines the population impact of the unprecedented convergence of early childbearing trajectories in India and quantifies the potential implications stemming from the neglect of strategies that encourage delaying and spacing of births. The effects of adopting a ‘later, longer and fewer’ family planning strategy are compared with the continuation of fertility concentrated in the younger age groups. Results from the cohort component population projections suggest that a policy encouraging later marriage and birth spacing would achieve a future total population which is about 52 million less in 2050 than if the current early fertility trajectory is continue
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