52 research outputs found
Housing a learned honorary society, a study of and a proposal for offices and meeting rooms of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
No full textThesis (M.Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1957.ACCOMPANYING drawings held by MIT Museum.Includes bibliographical references (leaf 37).by Richard Proctor Swallow.M.Arch
Mary Proctor: An astronomical popularizer in the shadows
No full textThe popularizer of astronomy Mary Proctor was well known in her days but has been little remembered since. A prominent lecturer and author, Proctor was trained in the craft of science writing by her father, Richard Proctor. She ‘held the very first place in the profession as a woman’ and promoted the role of women in science throughout her career. Her life illuminates many themes. Mary Proctor spanned the period between entrepreneurial science popularizers and professional science communicators. I suggest that one of her most important legacies is as an early pioneer of the practices of science journalism in the early twentieth century when the relations between science and society were in flux. Yet her legacy has been largely overlooked. A study of Proctor's life reveals multiple interests, diverse opportunities and the way that people are differently remembered
An edition of the cartulary of St. Mary's Collegiate Church, Warwick.
No full textIn 2 volsAvailable from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:DXN034790 / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreSIGLEGBUnited Kingdo
Deserted Parks and Empty Swings: absent children and hybridity in Scandi-horror.
No full textThis chapter describes the ways missing, murdered and abused children have become integral to the Nordic-noir crime genre in literature and their adaptations in television, theatre and film. The absent child and ruined childhood are often the lenses through which the genre’s stock themes of urban crime, political corruption and dis-functional relationships are explored. In this sense, almost all Nordic-noir texts contain a horror narrative within them, and the damaged childhoods of central characters cast long shadows: in the genre’s 1992 antecedent, Miss Smilla’s Feelings for Snow, the eponymous hero searches for a missing child; Forbrydelsen’s (The Killing) Sarah Lund investigates the murder of the teenage Nana Birk Larsen; Saga Norén negotiates a confusing adult world while dealing with her own child abuse and death of her twin sister in Broen/Bron (The Bridge), while similarly the The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’s Lisbeth Salander seeks out her absent twin sister and takes revenge on their childhood abusers while solving the disappearance of a teenage girl. As Nordic-noir texts gained in popularity, many were remade in other English-language media, becoming something of a transnational genre. The US remake of Forbrydelsen, (The Killing) shifted the context of the narrative to Seattle but retained the murdered teenager (here renamed Rosie Larson). Broen/Bron’s UK/French remake, The Tunnel, developed further the childhood horror of the central character (now called Elise Wassermann) in ways, which would later directly influence its progenitor text. Stylistically, David Fincher’s 2011 version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo differed markedly from the Swedish television adaptation, but Lisbeth Salander’s ruined childhood was kept intact. So, while the adaptations of Nordic-noir texts inevitably brought about alternative creative decisions, the central trope of ruined childhood almost always remained. This chapter will argue that it this particular framing of childhood, which has most endured, as the visual expression of Nordic-noir meets, influences and merges with other genres. Examples of this will include David Lagercrantz’s further examination of Lisbeth Salander’s childhood in his anthology novel, The Girl in the Spider’s Web - in ways only hinted at by original author, the late Steig Larsson. Similarly, the Nordic-noir influenced French TV series Les Revenants (The Returned) deals explicitly with mass child abduction, while the British crime series Broadchurch (and its US remake Gracepoint) is a direct appropriation of Nordic-noir tropes (including the death of a child) set in a different national and political context. Finally, novels from an emerging Scandi-horror genre, namely John Ajvide Lindqvist’s Let the Right One In and Stefan Spjut’s Stallo, return to the deserted parks and empty swings of Northern Europe, but with a supernatural element which effectively meshes Nordic-noir with the horror genre’s fear of children. This hybrid genre serves to reconfigure childhood completely; children may now be present, but shifting relationship between childhood and the adult world becomes elusive, abstract, and horrifying. The narrative power of Let the Right One In and Stallo comes from directly confronting childhood in ways, until now, the Nordic-noir genre has only hinted at
The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 1 No. 1
No full textin this issue. . .
Even before Vice President Richard M. Nixon had announced his mission to Russia, the editors of THE MIDWEST QUARTERLY had been fortunate in securing the manuscript of the lead article in this issue. With interest in the U.S. S. R. as high as it currently is, this rather charming autobiographical report of the life and hard times of a Russian peasant seems extremely appropriate for publication. In plain, unvarnished language it gives a painfully detailed picture of the grim problems its author encountered as his country passed from revolution to world war and into the far more thorough-going revolution out of which present-day Russia has come.
The story of how the article came to be written has interest of itself. In the summer of 1934, Professor (emeritus) and Mrs. EDGAR N. MENDENHALL toured the U.S. S. R. They arrived in Moscow in the middle of June and enrolled in the School for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries along with a group of fifty other American tourists. There they studied European literature for a month in the classes of Professor Alexander Mirsky. While atending this school, Professor Mendenhall became acquainted with one of the workers in the school building, a Russian who could speak some English, largely self-educated, and unsympathetic to the Communist Party. Always possessed of a strong intellectual curiosity, Professor Mendenhall asked him for detailed information about his life in Russia. A few days later this son of illiterate peasants gave Professor Mendenhall a fascinating sketch of his life written in English in his own handwriting. The editors are grateful to Professor Mendenhall for making the manuscript available to them. Readers will note a peculiarly Russian flavor to the article reminiscent of the works of Dostoevski and Pasternak, although the curious English of the author, unchanged by any editorial pen, rather defies easy analysis and identification.
Humanists have long been interested in the cultural ties existing among men and ideas of disparate geographical and ideological groupings. The literature of the world is rich in examples of these international or supra-national connections; one thinks immediately of Henry David Thoreau\u27s borrowings from Oriental philosophy and the subsequent application of his ideas on civil disobedience by the late Mahatma M. K. Gandhi in India\u27s struggle for national independence from British imperialism. East is east, and west is west, but the twain do meet more often than the careless reader of Rudyard Kipling\u27s ballads may suppose. The second article in this issue is a case in point. It is concerned with the close philosophical ties betwen a modern German novelist, Hermann Hesse, and the Sacred Books of the East, most especially the Bhagavad-Gita.
HANS BEERMAN, the author of this analysis, joined the faculty of Kansas State College of Pittsburg in September, 1958, as assistant professor of literature. He was born in Berlin and traveled extensively in Siberia and northern India before coming to the United States as a student in 1940. He earned his bachelors degree at the University of Illinois and his masters and doctor of philosophy degrees at Iowa State University. An accomplished linguist, Professor Beerman is familiar with Danish, French, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish, in addition to his native German and adopted English. It would be difficult to find a man better qualified to write the article here published.
One does not immediately associate western Kansas with the subject of Indian nationalism, but scholarship in recent years has shown a disposition to become more and more international, thanks in no small part to the imagination of Senator J. W. Fulbright of Arkansas. KATHARINE F. NUTT, professor of history at Fort Hays Kansas State College, was granted a Fulbright lectureship to teach at Isabella Thoburn College in Lucknow, India, in 1957-58. Her article on Indian nationalism and new interpretations of the Sepoy mutiny of 1857 is one result of her experience in the East. Miss Nutt received her bachelors degree from Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia and her masters and doctors degrees from the University of New Mexico. She joined the faculty of Fort Hays State in 1952 and this fall leaves the full-time teaching of history to become bibliography and acquisitions librarian at the college\u27s Forsyth Library. Professor Nutt prepared this article originally as a paper to be read at the 1959 meeting of the Kansas Association of Teachers of History and Related Fields at St. Benedict\u27s College, Atchison, last March.
While large events are in preparation in the area of Russo-American relations, and Indian historians revise their interpretations of past events, all is not static here in the Sunflower state. In November of 1957 Governor George Docking appointed ALVIN H. PROCTOR, then chairman of the Department of Social Science and professor of political science here, a member of the Committee on Constitutional Revision. Professor Proctor, now Dean of Graduate Studies at Kansas State College of Pittsburg, attacked the problem with characteristic energy and thoroughness. He has actively participated in many a committee session and become thoroughly acquainted with the complex problems of constitutional revision. One by-product of this experience is the article he has contributed to this issue of THE MIDWEST QUARTERLY.
Professor Proctor received his bachelors and masters degrees here and, after Pacific duty in the U. S. Navy during World War II, earned the doctor of philosophy degree in history at the University of Wisconsin in 1948. His interests in constitutional revision began at Madison; his doctoral dissertation was on William E. Gladstone and the British Constitution. A member of the Faculty since September of 1948, Professor Proctor has been an active participant in the Citizenship Clearinghouse, an organization designed to encourage college students to take an interest in both state and national politics. The article published here was originally prepared for and read at the April, 1959; meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association on the campus of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.
With the centennial of the most American war just around the corner, interest in the intersectional con:8.ict of 1861-65 has never been higher. Books and articles, movies, radio and television shows on a variety of Civil War subjects are well-nigh a glut on the market. But, curiously, the market refuses to be glutted. When the editors discovered that CLYDE C. WALTON had read a paper, Recent Writing about the Civil War, at the annual meeting of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association in Denver last April, they were quick to invite him to send them that paper. Examination of it disclosed an interesting, critical, and somewhat unorthodox attitude which recommended publication. Clyde Walton, Illinois State Historian, is in a position to speak with some authority on the subject of Civil War writing: he has been editor of Civil War History since its inception in March of 1957, and under his direction that quarterly journal has achieved considerable stature among students of the Civil War, both professional and amateur. Far from accepting the :8.ood of Civil War material with unstinting praise, he raises a quizzical eyebrow and asks questions which should disturb and stimulate historians-perhaps even to the point where they will compose a rebuttal or two.
Since Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse in April of 1865, the state\u27s rights cause has fought a discouraging rearguard action. With the growth of interstate commerce and national organizations of every kind and description, state boundaries have persisted almost in spite of the political and economic facts of American life. The question of the relationship of the states to the nation has occasioned argument, comment, and discussion among political scientists since before the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787. RICHARD C. WELTY, associate professor of political science here, is far from unique in his concern over this question, but his discussion of the subject has a style and quality all its own. In view of the current state of cold war between Washington and sundry state capitals, not the least of which is Little Rock, Professor Welty\u27 s analysis is timely and valuable.
Well-known on the Pittsburg campus as a stimulating classroom personality and an articulate argufier on a variety of subjects, Professor Welty brings to his discussion a wealth of information and preparation. After having completed his bachelor of arts degree at Fort Hays Kansas State College, he earned his master of arts and doctor of philosophy degrees in political science at the University of Colorado. He joined the Faculty here after a year\u27s teaching at Hamline University, Minnesota. His article was originally prepared as the first of the 1958-59 series of Great Issues Lectures sponsored by the Department of Social Science
Truth and reconciliation at the grassroots : community truth processes in the Southern United States
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 94-98).Truth commissions are implemented in order to "deal with the past" in the context of a transition in government from authoritarian to democratic rule. At the center of a truth commission is a truth process that attempts to establish the experience of gross human rights abuse at the hands of the state, and does so in a way which places the victims of such abuse at the center of the process, through valuing victim testimony as "truth." It is done with the assumption in mind, that in order for a society, or community, to have healthy relations in the future, violent past experiences must be faced and dealt with. Communities at a local level have imitated the structure, goals and procedures of truth commissions in projects that have been termed "Unofficial Truth Projects." This thesis compares three case studies of unofficial truth projects which have taken place in the Southern United States in the past few years: The Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Greensboro, North Carolina, which sought to establish a community reconciliation process 25 years after what has come to be known as the "Greensboro Massacre"; and two civil-society based truth processes, the Katrina National Justice Commission and the International Tribunal on Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, which seek to establish truth and gain reparations for human rights abuses which have taken place in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. The author considers various projects in a comparative manner, and through examining their histories, structures and ideological make-up, analyzes the processes in terms how these factors affect the ability for the project to: gain legitimacy as a truth process, generate resources and support, acknowledge victims' experiences, and engage the community in reconciliation efforts. The author also echoes the calls for a shift in paradigm in reconciliation and transitional justice literature, which would allow for a space to exist for truth processes that may be unofficial and fall outside a context of a formal transition. Such processes could still greatly benefit communities living in post-conflict contexts and with histories of racial and political violence, such as many communities in the Southern United States
Developing a Dual-Medium Virtual Environment for Geoscience Education Research and Teaching
No full textabstract: This project produced a dual-medium (traditional screen & virtual reality) virtual environment of Barnhardt Canyon, in Payson, Arizona. The project showcases two different approaches to developing a virtual environment with both being centered by 360 degree content. The virtual environment allows a user to explore the area in a much more immersive way than offered by traditional media. Future uses of the project could include research on the educational efficacy of virtual reality content, or the project could be used as a teaching tool in geoscience classes
"A Symbol of the New African": Drum magazine, popular culture and the formation of black urban subjectivity in 1950s South Africa.
No full textPhDThis thesis examines the emergence of black urban subjectivity in South Africa
during the 1950s, focussing on the ways in which popular American genres were
utilised in the construction of black urban identities that served as a means of
resistance to apartheid. At the centre of this process was Drum magazine:
founded in South Africa in 1951 , it became the largest selling magazine on the
African continent in 1956. Drum's success was due to the way in which it
enabled the relocation of black identity from the "traditional" towards the
"modern'. The 1940s gave rise to widespread migration of black South Africans
from rural to urban areas and this newly urbanised community was seeking
models of black urban identity. Yet the Nationalist government was attempting
to curtail the emergence of a black urban proletariat, which posed a threat to
white political supremacy. Through apartheid legislation black identity was
constructed as essentially tribal and rural. As a means of resisting this, urbanised
black South Africans turned to, and appropriated, readily available forms of
American culture. Drum published Americanised images and stories: gangsters,
black detectives, black comic heroes, and pulp romances. This popular material
appeared alongside some of the finest investigative journalism ever published.
While Drum magazine is widely acknowledged as having provided a platform
for the emergence of black South African writing in English, its popular content
has been dismissed by critics as apolitical escapism, imitation and capitulation to
American culture. This thesis challenges the dismissal of the popular that has
dominated analyses of Drum since the 1960s, arguing that such a position denies
the agency of local writers and audiences. My analysis reveals that American
forms were adopted in critically discerning ways and chosen for their ability to
convey local meaning and create positions from which to resist aparthei
The theory of eucharistic presence in the early Caroline divines, examined in its European theological setting
No full textThe question of Christ's presence in the eucharist was an issue
which caused great controversy in the Reformation period, and which
continued to evoke dispute during the seventeenth century. Various
interpretations of the Caroline divines' teaching on the eucharistic
presence have been offered, but often they seem either to indicate the
theological position of the writer rather than that of the theologians
considered, or to ignore the broader context of eucharistic doctrine.
The purpose of this study, therefore, was 1. to investigate the
theology of eucharistic presence in the thinking of several seventeenth-century
Anglican divines, and 2. to examine their teaching in relation
to the sixteenth-century Anglican heritage and the various continental
sacramental doctrines, Reformed, Lutheran, Roman Catholic and Eastern
Orthodox.
To accomplish this goal, eight theologians were chosen for examination:
Adrianus Saravia, Lancelot Andrewes, John Cosin, Richard
Montague, William Forbes, William Laud, Jeremy Taylor and Herbert
Thorndike. When available, nineteenth-century editions of their works
were used; otherwise, seventeenth-century texts were employed.
Similarly, modern editions of Roman, Orthodox, Lutheran and Reformed
writings were utilized when possible. Thy examination of eucharistic
teaching included seven major points: 1. the sacrament as mystery,
2. eucharistic change, 3. the relationship between Christ's body and
the bread, 4. eucharistic communion, 5. the nature of Christ's body in
the sacrament, 6. consecration, and 7. adoration in the eucharist.
This study has shown that there was great diversity in the
thinking of the Caroline divines (although they did not treat the
subject of eucharistic presence with equal detail or depth); no
unified understanding of sacramental presence was expressed. Reformed
ideas inherited from the previous century remained strong, but new
tendencies toward other understandings of the eucharist can be
discerned. The period, therefore, can be seen to represent a new
stage in the history of Anglican eucharistic doctrine
New attempts at Electronic Documents in Transport. Bolero - the end of the experiment, the beginning of the future?
No full textIn this thesis the author examines a 'revolution' taking place in the shipping industry brought on by the development of computerisation, electronic commerce and the change from paper documentation to electronic documentation in the carriage of goods by sea. The focus of the paper is on Bolero, a project of the European Community beginning in the early 1990s and which has been used commercially since September 1999. In this paper the author follows the Bolero project from its inception as an experiment through to its commercial application. The question is asked to what extent Bolero has become an alternative to, or in fact replaced paper documentation in the carriage of goods by sea. As an introduction the author looks at the paper bill of lading and other forms of sea transport documentation with a focus on their advantages and disadvantages. He then examines the development of EDI and paperless sea transport documentation, in particular Bolero and the history of its development. Following this is an in depth investigation of the Bolero system in its current form, the contractual relations involved and the position of Bolero in the surrounding legal framework in a South African and international context. Finally the author looks at the future of Bolero as a commercial enterprise
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