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Mah Little Tater Blossom
No full textThe score for Mah Little Tater Blossom by Mary Wall Spring and Alice Mayfield. Arranged for medium voice and piano. From Two Songs from the South. Dedicated to Rutherford Olliphant.https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/aa_sheet_music/1261/thumbnail.jp
Vatican II and the liturgy: revisiting lost traditions
No full textThe purpose of this thesis is to evaluate the changes that occurred in the Catholic liturgy either by the council fathers or by over-zealous liturgists who ignored the decree of Vatican II and chose to interpret the Vatican’s directives in their own way. I will examine the various parts of the mass before and after Vatican II. I will visit a traditional mass (pre-Vatican II) to determine its usefulness in today’s world. I will look at past traditions swept aside post Vatican II and determine if these traditions still hold value to Catholic’s today.Includes bibliographical referencesM.A.L.S.by Mary L. Zimmerma
‘Governing in hard times’: the Heath government and civil emergencies – the 1972 and the 1974 miners’ strikes.
No full textPhDThis thesis examines how the government of Edward Heath (Prime Minister 1970-74) managed the two most significant domestic political and economic crises which determined both its fate and its long term reputation; first, the 1972 miners’ strike and secondly, the 1973-4 miners’ dispute and the three-day week.
Its defeat by the miners in 1972 was an enormous humiliation from which the Heath government never fully recovered. The violent mass picketing which accompanied the strike shook both the government’s and the public’s confidence in the ability of the state to maintain law and order. Their victory boosted the miners’ confidence to take industrial action again in the autumn of 1973 when their position was strengthened by the oil price rise in the wake of the Yom Kippur war. This led to the imposition of a three-day week on industry which ended in the general election of February 1974 and the fall of the Heath Government.
This thesis uses the new material in the National Archives to examine the interplay between these events and the government machinery for handling civil emergencies. It reveals the manner in which Heath’s first attempt to reform the system was defeated by Whitehall resistance. The incompetent handling of the 1972 miners strike then strengthened the case for reform and led to the thorough overhaul of contingency planning which laid the foundations for the system which exists to the present day.
It examines the factors which influenced the handling of the crises, including the relationship between the Prime Minister and his colleagues, between ministers and officials, the problems posed by external events and the cumulative exhaustion which placed ministers and officials as well as the machinery of government under increasing strain
The yagé aesthetic of William Burroughs: the publication and development of his work 1953-1965
No full textPhDMy concern in this thesis is to show that a reconstruction of the publishing history of
the work of William Burroughs offers a new, critical perspective on his experiments
with psychoactive substances and their connection to his developing practice.
I begin with an exploration of the publication of The Yage Letters (1963) and Naked
Lunch (1959), and reveal how the complexities of their publishing histories shaped
their critical reception. I examine the legal defence of Naked Lunch as it developed
from the Big Table Post Office hearing through to the 1965 Boston trial and
demonstrate the degree to which censorship came to define the published text. The
legal defence of Naked Lunch, as it was incorporated into the Grove publication,
emphasised the issue of opiate addiction. The way in which Burroughs’ 1953 letters to
Allen Ginsberg were reworked as The Yage Letters did much to conceal the
significance of yagé for Burroughs’ later work. Together, these publishing histories
have obscured the relationship between his use of psychoactive substances and his
evolving aesthetic.
At the same time many of Burroughs’ most experimental - and important - works
appeared only in small, ephemeral magazines. His adoption of avant-garde strategies
such as collaboration and collage and his dedication to multimedia experimentation
with the non-chemical alteration of consciousness made conventional book
publication problematic or unsuitable. These experiments in aesthetic production, I
argue, are central to our understanding of Burroughs. His main published writings
must be re-evaluated as one element in this collage of multimedia activities.
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I argue that Burroughs’ experiences with yagé, mescaline and dimethyltryptamine
exerted an influence on his shift to experimentalism in the early 1960s, which sought
to replicate the experience of these altered states of consciousness. That this is so is
evident from a study of two collections of correspondence - Burroughs’ letters to
Ginsberg held at Columbia University Library and his letters to Brion Gysin in the
William S. Burroughs Papers held at the New York Public Library. My reading of
these letters forms an important component of my argument, working to reveal what
the conventional ‘published’ Burroughs serves to conceal.Arts and Humanities research Board.
Queen Mary University of London English Department
funding naked Lunch @ 50 conference in Pari
The mistletoe bough, it hung on the wall,
No full textvoiceColl. by
Mary Jo Davis
For M. C. Parler
Sung by H. W. Weare
DeValls Bluff, Arkansas
June 14, 1954
Reel 192
Item 4
The Mistletoe Bough
The mistletoe bough, it hung on the wall,
The holly branch swayed on the old oak wall,
The Baron's retainers were blithe and gay,
Keeping their Christmas holiday.
The Baron he viewed with a father's pride,
His beautiful daughter, Lord Lovell's bride,
And she with her bright eyes seemed to be,
The star of the evening's company.
I'm tired of dancing, at last she cried,
Come tarry a moment, I'll hide, I'll hide,
And you, Lord Lovell, be first to trace,
The clue to my secret hiding place.
Away she ran and they all began,
Each tower to search and each nook to scan,
The highest, the lowest, the lowliest spot,
Lord Lovell searched wildly, but found her not.
Oh, where doth thou hide, Lord Lovell cried,
I'm weary without thee, my own fair bride,
They sought her that night, and they sought her next day,
They sought her in vain, 'til months passed away,
The highest, the lowest, the lowliest spot,
Lord Lovell searched wildly but found her not.
The years went by and his grief at last was told,
The sorrowful tale long past,
And children passing by would say,
See, the old man seeks for his long lost bride.
An old casket, that'd long been hid,
Was found in the castle, they raised the lid,
A skeleton form, lay mouldering there,
In the bridal robes of that lady fair.
Oh how sad was her fate, in sportive jest,
She hid from her lord, in the old oak chest,
It closed with a spring and a dreadful boom,
The lady lay clasped in her living tomb.
Oh the mistletoe, bough,
The mistletoe bough it hangs on the wall,
Oh the mistletoe bough.Funding for digitization provided by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Happy Hollow Foundation
Spring Dance Concert 1998 Playbill
No full textProvidence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film
\u2764 Hall Slavin Center
Spring Dance Concert 1998
Saturday & Sunday, March 21 & 22, 1998
Choreography: Marty Sprague, Kim Marcoccio, Wendy Oliver, Michelle Brien, Jennifer Wiley, Gretchen Hummrich, Elizabeth J. Ramos, Danielle Wall, Sally Mayo, Deirdre Morris, Leanne Deneault
Dancers: Carla Arena, Michelle Brien, Leanne Deneault, Gretchen Hummrich, Elizabeth J. Ramos, Nicole Pelaggi-Dyer, Sarah Wade, Sara Beaverstock, Christie Jacobs, Elizabeth Judge, Kim Marcoccio, Kara McNamara, Monique Ouimette, Karen Skoog, Mary Teresa Soltis, Jennifer Wiley, Kimberly Errato, Laura Haberkorn, Monique Plourde, Brooke Sullivan, Danielle Wall, Corey Delaney, Deirdre Morrishttps://digitalcommons.providence.edu/sdc_1998_pubs/1004/thumbnail.jp
Virginity matters: power and ambiguity in the attraction of the Virgin Mary
No full textThis thesis seeks to account for virginity as the source of Mary's power to attract. The point of departure is the syncretistic culture of the classical world. Here, patristic use of Old Testament typology recognises the distinctive work of grace in Mary's virginity, thus allowing it to become the determining quality by which her experience is subsequently perceived and universalised. The thesis divides its exploration into the three categories by which Mary is portrayed in the gospels - woman, spouse, mother - concluding its investigation with the end of the nineteenth century and its new understanding of human identity in gender and sexuality. In each category the thesis attempts to identify ways in which the attraction of virginity has functioned through ambiguity (Mary as virgin and mother, mother and spouse of her son) as a positive quality of potency and freedom, rather than as a strictly biological human condition with negative association in contemporary culture. In order to assess the extent of Mary's attraction in periods that lacked the modern forms of articulating self-awareness, the thesis has considered the fabric of devotional practice in religious texts, art, drama and ritual, seeking to allow the perceptions of earlier periods of history (a medium in itself) to challenge our own. As expressions of attraction to Mary, these media have yielded an insight into the power of virginity as a statement of paradisal, heavenly life accessed by grace through male and female human experience. They have also shown virginity to be a source of power that can be exploited for political ends. Finally, the thesis suggests that the power of Mary's virginity has been subversive and liberating in Church and society, thus indicating its neglected significance as a statement about the ambiguity of our nature as human, gendered, and sexual beings
Spring Dance Concert 1998 Playbill
No full textProvidence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film
\u2764 Hall Slavin Center
Spring Dance Concert 1998
Saturday & Sunday, March 21 & 22, 1998
Choreography: Marty Sprague, Kim Marcoccio, Wendy Oliver, Michelle Brien, Jennifer Wiley, Gretchen Hummrich, Elizabeth J. Ramos, Danielle Wall, Sally Mayo, Deirdre Morris, Leanne Deneault
Dancers: Carla Arena, Michelle Brien, Leanne Deneault, Gretchen Hummrich, Elizabeth J. Ramos, Nicole Pelaggi-Dyer, Sarah Wade, Sara Beaverstock, Christie Jacobs, Elizabeth Judge, Kim Marcoccio, Kara McNamara, Monique Ouimette, Karen Skoog, Mary Teresa Soltis, Jennifer Wiley, Kimberly Errato, Laura Haberkorn, Monique Plourde, Brooke Sullivan, Danielle Wall, Corey Delaney, Deirdre Morrishttps://digitalcommons.providence.edu/sdc_1998_pubs/1004/thumbnail.jp
Revising European Safeguards and Antidumping Provisions in Light of the Chinese WTO Accession
No full textPhDIn November 2001, the WTO members allowed the People's Republic of China, a formerly
planned economy that is going through different stages of domestic economic and related legal
restructuring, to accede to the WTO. This accession is believed to be necessary for the WTO to
become a truly international organisation in the post-Cold War era, along side of the IMF and the
World Bank, and for China to become an integrated member of the international economic
community. Although the end of the Cold War has changed European trade policy profoundly,
the European Community (EC)" has maintained a traditionally bifurcated trade policy, in which
planned economies, also referred to as "non-market economies", are given treatment different
from market economies in trade policy instruments, such as the EC emergency safeguards
provisions and EC anti-dumping regulation.
The EC perceives the Chinese domestic legal and economic reforms as unfinished; and, although
the treatment of Chinese products under the EC import and anti-dumping regulations has been
liberalised in recent years, China is still generally considered to be a non-market economy. It is
questionable whether in light of China's WTO accession such a non-market approach vis-ä-vis
China, as approved in the Chinese Protocol of Accession, is justified. This thesis argues that the
non-market approach for China, as it stands today, should be adjusted for two basic reasons. First,
this approach does not allow China to benefit fully from its WTO accession for a number of years
to come. Second, as long as the period allowing non-market economy treatment continues, the
danger exists that the non-market economy trade policy, especially as far as anti-dumping is
concerned, may tend to be abused for protectionist purposes by the EC.
Protectionist abuse would be harmful for China because its export-oriented growth is necessary to
advance the country's domestic legal and economic reforms. Protectionism, equally, would be
harmful for the EC because it prevents the Community industry from adjusting itself to face the
challenge of increased Chinese competition. Because there is no satisfactory methodological
solution to deal with the new variant of non-market economies, and because it is impossible for
China - despite all good intentions - to implement fully the WTO accession requirements by the
time they must phase in, the suggested approach is for the EC to show restraint in employing
these trade policy instruments against China. As far as emergency safeguards are concerned, this
restraint is already a fact. Nonetheless, some holdovers from the Cold War should be put up for
change. Such adjustments will also be required for the EC anti-dumping regulation
Tidal Oscillations and their Effects on Groundwater Table of James River Fort, Jamestown Virginia
No full textThe objective of this study was to measure tidal oscillations and their effects on the groundwater table of James Fort, Jamestown Virginia. This study took place from the spring of 1999 to spring of 2000. The determination of the geomorphic setting, stratigraphic framework, and groundwater setting of today were integral parts of figuring the historical context of the James Fort area at Church Point. The defining topographic features of the Coastal Plain are terraces. Jamestown Island consists of the equivalent of the Hampton Flat. The surficial unit of Church Point is the Tabb Formation. it is underlain by the Eastover Formation. The James River at Jamestown Island is brackish in nature. The use of drinking water wells by the settlers of James Fort in 1607 would have altered the appearance of the groundwater table. Piezometers were hand augered or drilled within the confines of the fort wall boundaries. Some of these were nested wells to measure varying characteristics throughout the groundwater aquifer. Measurements of salinity and conductivity were recorded for water quality evaluation. The wells were outfitted with a transducer and data logger to measure tidal oscillations. The data collected from the wells was compared to the data collected at the Glass House in the late 1980s and early 1990s by College of William and Mary students. This study shows tidal oscillations and evidence of tidal pumping. The situation may be analogous to the conditions of James Fort 400 years ago. The conclusion of this study is that the seawall constructed at the turn of the century to stop shoreline erosion is an effective impediment to tidal pumping in the groundwater table of James Fort, Jamestown, Virginia.Geolog
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