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Big-City Newspaperman
Authors: Ellis William E.
Published: May 2018

In this chapter, Ellis describes Cobb’s difficult first year in the big city. Finding a job to support his family and learning how the New York newspapers were run proved to be a daunting task. Cobb’s big breakthrough came as a reporter for the New York Sun covering the Portsmouth Peace Conference. This led to several job offers, including one from Joseph Pulitzer’s Evening World, which Cobb accepted. Over the next six years, Cobb increased his role at this leading newspaper and honed his skills as a writer. Ellis then explores the development of Cobb’s writing as he branched out to produce a variety of columns and stories. Cobb’s success as a reporter led to his rapid rise to fame as he became one of the most popular writers in New York.
From Newspaperman to Short Story Writer
Authors: Ellis William E.
Published: May 2018

Ellis begins by describing Cobb’s successful ventures as a humorist and how his appearance played into his style. His attention to detail and offbeat subjects became a staple for Evening World readers. Cobb used his small-town Kentucky perspective to make observations about the big city in his first long-running humor series, “New York thro’ Funny Glasses.” The transplanted Kentuckian exemplified the racial attitudes of many white Americans in the early twentieth century. Eventually, Cobb’s writing found a place in the Sunday World Magazine. Cobb also tried his hand at writing short fiction. Over the next three decades, Cobb turned out an immense amount of copy for newspapers and magazines, wrote short stories and plays, dabbled in movies, and wrote novels. He never seemed to be short of ideas.
World War I
Authors: Ellis William E.
Published: May 2018

Chapter 5 picks up at the start of World War I and details the importance of the press. Cobb was shipped off to Europe to be a foreign correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post. Ellis follows Cobb’s experiences and adventures as a wartime reporter in Europe. Cobb’s reputation for observation and reporting grew while overseas. Upon his return to the United States, Cobb continued to write about his time in Europe and the war’s impact on him. The chapter concludes with a lecture tour Cobb undertook, including the honor of being celebrated in his hometown by old friends and neighbors.
Accommodation
Authors: Ellis William E.
Published: May 2018

Cobb’s fame spread in the postwar years because of his creativity and his writing successes. He returned to his passion for reporting and politics when he covered the 1920 Democratic and Republican conventions. Cobb also began to roll out numerous books during this time, quickly compiling his short stories and articles into longer publications. The Ku Klux Klan achieved a resurgence in Kentucky, and Cobb wrote about it. Though Cobb opposed the modern version of the Klan in the early 1920s, his views of race remained tied to his late-nineteenth-century southern heritage.
From Prosperity to Depression
Authors: Ellis William E.
Published: May 2018

In the late 1920s Cobb’s popularity declined, due to the changing times. Although he continued to add books to his repertoire, they failed to receive critical acclaim. Other elements of Cobb’s life were still satisfying, such as his wanderlust and his love of spending time with friends. The stock market crash and the Great Depression took a toll on the Cobb family’s finances. While Cobb’s writing career was slowing down, Buff had become an accomplished writer. Cobb delved into work in radio and ventures in Hollywood.
The Scholar’s Tale
Authors: Boggess Carol
Published: May 2018

This chapter relates Still’s experience as a graduate student in English at Vanderbilt University. He studied under well-known scholars and writers including some members of the influential Fugitive and Agrarian movements. Inspired by Walter Clyde Curry’s Chaucer class, Still wrote his thesis on Middle English Romances. Though the academic life was rigorous, Still was successful, and he found time to travel to Wilder, Tennessee, to distribute supplies to striking coal miners and to attend the 56th running of the Kentucky Derby. Still was awarded his MA on June 11, 1930.
Jolly in a Courting Mood
Authors: Boggess Carol
Published: May 2018

By the age of 35, Still had achieved success as a writer, but he had very little romance in his life. This chapter follows his friendships with several women and concentrates on the most promising one with writer Dorothy Thomas who lived in New York City. Supporting himself with a Guggenheim Fellowship, Still decided to make a train trip west with Dorothy. They met in Chicago; traveled to Nebraska and Montana where they visited Yellowstone; then made their way to Salt Lake City, and finally Denver where they suddenly and inexplicably separated..
Joining Up and Shipping Out
Authors: Boggess Carol
Published: May 2018

This chapter tells of why and how James Still entered the Army in March 1942, several months after the US entered World War II. His training began near San Antonio with the 8th Air Depot Group, which left New York six months later on a ship headed for the Gold Coast of Africa. Still carried a paperback copy of Walden and kept a diary of the crossing on the margins of the pages.
Back to Hindman
Authors: Boggess Carol
Published: May 2018

During the 1950s Still gained the reputation of being a hermit, but he established close, long-lasting friendships with nearby families, especially Monroe Amburgey and his children. And people sought him out. At the invitation of James McConkey, Still joined the staff of the Morehead State College writers workshop in summer 1952 and continued to participate even after Albert Stewart became the director in 1957. Still granted an interview to the young reporter, Gurney Norman in 1958. He also strengthened his connections with Hindman and returned there to work as a librarian.
On to Morehead
Authors: Boggess Carol
Published: May 2018

This chapter describes Still’s image as a reclusive writer who wrote to make himself happy. In fact, he also wrote to publish but had little success in the 1950s. When “The Run for the Elbertas” appeared in 1959, Albert Stewart used its success to bring Still to Morehead State College and to establish the James Still Room. This move began his transition into a public figure, but he maintained his log house in Knott County and strengthened his relationship with the Perry family there.
Then-what Days
Authors: Boggess Carol
Published: May 2018

This chapter recounts Still’s transition from teaching at Morehead to living in Knott County where problems and change were increasingly evident. President Johnson’s War on Poverty put a national focus on the region’s economy and environment. Still continued to develop his public personality during the 1970s and built connections with people like Cratis Williams, Robert Higgs, Harry Caudill, Bill Weinberg, and Mike Mullins. He was inadvertently becoming part of the emerging Appalachian Studies movement that would lead eventually to the title unofficially bestowed on him: Dean of Appalachian Literature.
Barbara La Marr
Authors: Snyder Sherri
Published: May 2018

In 1914 at age seventeen, strong-willed, infamous Reatha Watson was declared by juvenile authorities to be “too beautiful for the city” and banished from Los Angeles. She soon returned, became further mired in scandal, and was subsequently barred by the film studios from working as an actress. Reborn as Barbara La Marr, she achieved renown as a dancer in the foremost cabarets throughout the country and on Broadway, acted in headlining vaudeville skits, and became a highly paid screenwriter for the Fox Film Corporation in the same town that cast her out. Her exotic beauty, curvaceous form, and potent presence enticed film producers; she temporarily averted association with her increasingly turbulent past long enough to reign as a preeminent vamp of the silent screen in the 1920s. Through it all, her stormy private life striped the pages of newspapers and film magazines. “There was no reason to lie about Barbara La Marr,” her publicist confessed after her death at age twenty-nine in 1926. “Everything she said, everything she did was colored with news-value. A personality dangerous, vivid, attractive; a desire to live life at its maddest and fullest; a mixture of sentiment and hardness, a creature of weakness and strength—-that was Barbara La Marr.” Her life story is one of tempestuous passions and unbending perseverance in the face of inconceivable odds. It is of a woman’s fierce determination to forge her own destiny amid the constant threat of losing it all to scandal and, ultimately, death.
One
Authors: Snyder Sherri
Published: May 2018

This chapter details the ancestry of Reatha Watson (a.k.a. Barbara La Marr), born July 28, 1896, in Yakima, Washington, to William Watson and Rose (Contner) Watson. Her father and mother’s life histories, as well as her father’s noteworthy career as a newspaperman, are presented, and her brother and half-siblings, paternal and maternal grandparents, and various extended family members are discussed. The stage for Reatha’s nomadic childhood, prompted by her father’s career and inborn restlessness, is set. Factors that will give rise to and condition certain of Reatha’s predominant personality traits are established. The chapter concludes with Reatha’s birth.
Three
Authors: Snyder Sherri
Published: May 2018

A new ambition has taken hold of eight-year-old Reatha. After moving with her family to Tacoma and attending a play put on by the Allen Company, she determines to become an actress on the stage, impresses Pearl Allen, head of the Allen Company, with her appearance in an amateurs’ showcase, and joins the Allen Company. Reatha’s two-year career with Allen’s company is detailed. The remainder of the chapter involves Reatha’s move to Spokane and employment by Jessie Shirley’s stock company, as well as her brief residence and appearance as an actress in Seattle. The ways by which Reatha’s persona and ambitions are furthermore shaped by her family’s itinerant lifestyle, her social station, and the public approval and opulence she encounters as an actress are interwoven throughout the chapter.
Five
Authors: Snyder Sherri
Published: May 2018

This chapter opens with sixteen-year-old Reatha, now residing in Los Angeles with Rose and William, her parents, inexplicably vanishing from her home in January 1913. The chapter then delves extensively into the events that follow her father’s charge that she has been kidnapped. Police attempts to track Reatha down and rescue her, Reatha’s mysterious return to her mother and father, Reatha’s sensational explanation of what transpired, the ensuing, widely publicized court hearing, and the full exposure of the truth of Reatha’s disappearance are presented. Central figures in the incident (also discussed at length in the chapter) include Reatha’s half-sister, Violet, and Violet’s illicit lover, Clark Boxley—the accused kidnappers.
Ten
Authors: Snyder Sherri
Published: May 2018

An extension of the previous chapter, this chapter follows Barbara and Robert on their journey east to New York. A series of ill-fated events, occurring after their acceptance of a dancing engagement in Chicago, lands Robert in trouble with the law, renders him and Barbara destitute, and causes them to become stranded in Michigan, their hopes of reaching New York nearly destroyed. Barbara, buckling from overwork, nervous strain, and drinking to excess, becomes ill, adding to their woes. Arriving in New York at last, Barbara and Robert nonetheless take Broadway by storm—for a time. Barbara suffers a nervous breakdown and is made to enter a sanitarium.
Sixteen
Authors: Snyder Sherri
Published: May 2018

This chapter lays the foundation for the ultimate trajectory of Barbara’s career as a film actress, concurrently providing plot, production, and critical reception information for each film addressed. Following her appearance inDesperate Trails (1921), a relatively small-scale film,The Three Musketeers (1921) is released, smashing box office records worldwide and providing her with far-reaching exposure. Barbara and Ben Deely, meanwhile, permanently separate. Barbara’s typecasting as a vampire (vamp) is more firmly established after her role in Cinderella of the Hills (1921). Intensive treatment is given to the dynamics behind the emergence of the vamp stereotype into mainstream American culture and its effect upon film industry trends at the time. Barbara is cast by leading director Rex Ingram alongside Ramon Novarro in two films, The Prisoner of Zenda (1922) and Black Orchids (1922), the latter of which will have an indelible bearing upon her career, vamp typecasting, and public image.
Eighteen
Authors: Snyder Sherri
Published: May 2018

This chapter, building upon the foundation of Barbara’s vamp typecasting established in Chapter 16, involves a comprehensive exploration of a pivotal point in Barbara’s film acting career. She filmsBlack Orchids (1922) and Quincy Adams Sawyer (1922);The Prisoner of Zenda (1922) reaches theaters; producer Arthur Sawyer begins managing her career; andBlack Orchids, renamed Trifling Women, is released. Barbara’s success in the aforementioned films, principallyThe Prisoner of Zenda and Trifling Women, and their influence upon her career are delineated. Details pertaining to production, critical reception, and plot synopses accompany each film. Particular attention is given to Barbara’s work on Trifling Women, as it is the film that most strongly affects her career; furthermore, it is while making this film that Barbara is obliged to conceal her pregnancy. Her son is born in secret after her work on Trifling Women concludes.
Twenty-Two
Authors: Snyder Sherri
Published: May 2018

In this chapter, readers are again given an intimate look at Barbara’s romantic life. Most notably, her ill-fated affair with openly homosexual actor William Haines and her whirlwind marriage to action star Virgil Ashley (“Jack”) Daugherty—coming on the heels of her split from Haines—are expounded. The chapter then follows Barbara as she attempts to settle into married life and is implicated in two scandals: one involving her ex-husband Philip Ainsworth and the other involving an allegation of adulterous conduct. Film contracts Arthur Sawyer has been negotiating on her behalf are then discussed, mainly insofar as they are threatened by a third widely broadcasted incident. The chapter concludes with the disclosure of one contract that survives the hubbub: Barbara’s most extraordinary opportunity yet.
Epilogue
Authors: Snyder Sherri
Published: May 2018

The evolution of Barbara’s legacy, jointly woven by those whose lives interconnected with hers, is highlighted in this section. The ruminations of Robert Carville, Barbara’s dance partner and lover, concerning Paul Bern’s love for Barbara are disclosed, together with a revelation Carville attributes in his memoir to Barbara (spoken on her deathbed) involving the purported one love of her life. The settlement of Barbara’s estate by her father, William, is documented, and her parents’ lives after her death are touched upon. A substantial segment of the chapter is devoted to Barbara’s son, Donald Gallery (a.k.a. Sonny); his adoption at age three by actress ZaSu Pitts and her husband after Barbara’s death, overviews of his childhood and manhood, and his quest to know Barbara and learn the identity of his biological father are underscored. Never-before-released information regarding his parentage is divulged.
Prologue
Authors: Ellenberger Allan R.
Published: May 2018

One fall afternoon in 1940, stage and screen actress Miriam Hopkins opened the door to her suite at New York’s Ambassador Hotel. Standing before her was a short young man wearing thick glasses, a threadbare corduroy jacket, and muddy riding boots.

A southerner like herself, they had met once at the opening of her recent play ...
“Perfect Little Bitches”
Authors: Ellenberger Allan R.
Published: May 2018

This chapter documents the making of The Old Maid, the problems and difficulties encountered, and the deepening of the infamous Hopkins-Davis feud. When filming is completed, Hopkins flies to New York and has an affair with the German writer Carl Zuckmayer. Jack Warner casts Paul Muni in We Are Not Alone, but Muni refuses to accept Hopkins as his costar. Warner removes her from the film and a new property is brought to her attention, All This, and Heaven Too. Originally bought for Bette Davis, Hopkins wants it and threatens legal action, so Jack Warner assigns it to her. Critics call Hopkins’s performance in The Old Maid “magnetic” and the casting of Hopkins and Davis is compared to “steel striking steel.” Hopkins reads that Litvak and actress Ann Sheridan are having an affair. Despite her relationship with Carl Zuckmayer, she is furious. Hopkins flies to Reno and files for divorce. There, Hopkins reflects on Michael’s education and sends him to boarding school. In addition, her relationship with her mother is strained and her finances are low.
“If I Had to Do It Over Again”
Authors: Ellenberger Allan R.
Published: May 2018

Although in ill health, Hopkins is convinced to attend a film retrospective of Paramount’s sixtieth anniversary at New York’s Museum of Modern Art and a showing of The Story of Temple Drake. Also that month, she gives her last interview to historian and writer John Kobal. A few weeks later, she collapses in her hotel suite and is admitted to the Harkness Medical Center. Later, she returns to the Alrae Hotel, spending time with her sister, Ruby, and friend Becky Morehouse. She dies alone at the hotel, shortly before her seventieth birthday. The reactions from her friends and family are documented, recounting her funeral in New York and memorials in Bainbridge and Hollywood.
The Inconvenient War
Authors: Pardew James W.
Published: May 2018

The George H. W. Bush administration wants nothing to do with Balkan conflicts when fighting breaks out in response to independence movements in Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia in the immediate post-Soviet period. Fighting increases and a humanitarian disaster ensues as the US leaves the security responsibility to European nations and the UN. Despite campaigning to stop the crisis in Bosnia, the Clinton Administration avoids intervention in Bosnia. With no security assistance from the West, the Bosnian Muslims turn to Iran and the mujahedeen for military help. European resentment of U.S. policy in Bosnia strains relations within NATO, and Richard Holbrooke publicly agitates for US engagement in Bosnia.
High Stakes in Ohio
Authors: Pardew James W.
Published: May 2018

The Dayton proximity talks are a vast diplomatic undertaking. Holbrooke is the ringmaster of this unwieldy operation with no guarantee of success. Attendees perceive a dinner at an Air Force museum as a show of US military power. Talks happen on many levels in the first two weeks, but key issues remain unsolved. Neoconservative Richard Perle arrives to assist the Bosnian Muslim delegation. The military annex becomes a major point of negotiations between Washington and the US negotiators at Dayton. Milosevic assures Pardew’s spouse that their son, an officer in the US Army, will be safe in Bosnia.
Get an Agreement or Shut It Down
Authors: Pardew James W.
Published: May 2018

Secretary of State Christopher takes an active role in the negotiations during the third week, but progress is slow. A frustrated Christopher tells Holbrooke to get an agreement or shut down the talks. Milosevic gets the weak central government he wants in Bosnia but gives away Sarajevo and key territory at the last minute. The overall momentum of the negotiations and the concessions on territory produce a settlement that is signed in Paris in December 1995. The Dayton Agreement, at its core, is a peace deal that has serious flaws.
International Donors
Authors: Pardew James W.
Published: May 2018

Early efforts to raise money for T&E falter. An international donor conference in Ankara, sponsored by the US and Turkey, also fails to secure funding. President Clinton dispatches Presidential Advisor Mack McLarty to the Middle East in a successful effort to raise funds in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Kuwait. Pardew raises additional money from the Sultan of Brunei. The State Department sets up an elaborate financial structure to account for donor money and to reduce the potential for corruption.
Madeleine’s War
Authors: Pardew James W.
Published: May 2018

Serbian security forces expel half the Albanian population from Kosovo during the NATO air campaign. Russia remains in the Contact Group, but the cooperative relationship on the Balkans between Moscow and the West becomes seriously strained. As NATO bombs fall on Serbian forces in Kosovo and Serbia, Pardew becomes a special diplomatic channel between Washington and the Milosevic regime in Belgrade. Serbian security forces withdraw from Kosovo.
The Twilight of the Rebel Press
Authors: Craig Berry
Published: May 2018

After the August elections, in which the Union Party greatly enhanced its majorities in the Kentucky house and senate, almost all the Confederate newspapers gave up on secession and fully embraced neutrality and peace. Earlier, the rebel editors had scorned neutrality as craven. Now they saw it as their last hope to keep Kentucky from fighting against the Confederacy. The rebel press denounced the establishment of Camp Dick Robinson, but the camp stayed open and symbolized Kentucky’s growing unionism. In September, Confederate and then Union armies invaded Kentucky. The legislature, over Governor Beriah Magoffin’s veto, ordered only the Confederates to leave, thus fully embracing the Union war effort.
The Initial Investigation
Authors: Lawson Robert G.
Published: May 2018

This chapter examines the investigation of Betty Gail Brown’s murder. It details the crime scene investigators found the night Betty Gail was located, as well as the autopsy performed to determine cause of death. Within a few hours of the murder, the police department mobilized close to twenty detectives and other officers to work around the clock looking for witnesses and evidence of the crime. The usual reluctance to release information to the media and the public did not prevail, and the police release of information about the Brown murder was truly extraordinary. Two days after the police discovered Betty Gail’s body and after her photograph had appeared in local newspapers, a waitress at a restaurant regularly frequented by Transylvania students contacted police authorities to report she had information that might be important to their investigation. She told investigators that she had seen the murder victim in the restaurant where she worked at some point in time between midnight and 1 o’clock on the night of the killing. Unfortunately, after many attempts, the waitress could not identify the victim’s companion on the night of the murder, and the early lead provided by the waitress turned into a dead end.
The Trial
Authors: Lawson Robert G.
Published: May 2018

When Judge Joseph Bradley opened court on October 4, 1965, for the murder trial of Alex Arnold, he found amost unusual situation: a courtroom without a single empty seatand with an overflow crowd standing against the walls. The prosecution stated that the state’s evidence would provide details about the discovery of Betty Gail’s body in her own car on the Transylvania campus and that the evidence would leave no room to doubt that the young student had been murdered, and would attempt to prove Alex Arnold was guilty of the murder. This chapter details the witnesses, testimony, and evidence presented by the prosecution and defense. After the jury could not come to a unanimous decision, Judge Bradley dismissed the jury, declared a mistrial, and announced that the case would be put on the court’s January 1966 docket for retrial.
Cross-Cultural Leadership
Authors: Irish Kerry E.
Published: May 2018

This chapter examines the idea of cross-cultural leadership through the military career of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Eisenhower’s successful leadership as the supreme Allied commander stemmed from nearly two decades of preparation. Serving overseas during the interwar period under generals such as Fox Conner and Douglas MacArthur, Eisenhower came to appreciate both the need for truly unified allied commands and the leadership behaviors essential for their effectiveness. He recognized the importance of flexibility, accountability, humility, consultation, patience, and trust in his relationships with fellow officers and foreign leaders. During the war, Ike proved especially deft at working with political leaders like Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, with Allied military commanders like Bernard Montgomery and Charles de Gaulle, and with his senior military subordinates like George Patton.
Authentic Leadership
Authors: Jablon Howard , Matthews Jeffrey J.
Published: May 2018

David M. Shoup was the twenty-second commandant of United States Marine Corps (1960-1963). An R.O.T.C. graduate, he began his military career in 1926, and would earn the Medal of Honor for his courageous leadership at the Battle of Tarawa during the Second World War. After the war, Shoup developed a reputation as a highly effective institutional reformer, someone who skirted self-promotion and political machinations, and instead focused on mission. In the years before he became commandant, Shoup served as Inspector General of the Marine Corps. Essential to his professional success was his authentic leadership style, which led subordinates to follow him and superiors to depend on him. A critical element of his authentic nature was keen self-awareness, including an understanding of how his early life experiences in Indiana shaped his core values, of honesty, fairness, responsibility, and commitment. Equally important to his authentic leadership was an independent-mindedness and a determination to act in accordance witl1 his moral code, regardless of the consequences. Throughout his Marine Corps career and even in retirement, Shoup utilized his self-knowledge and heightened sense of integrity to govern his everyday conduct and decision-making.
A revision of the Chinese Helochares (s. str.) Mulsant, 1844 (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae)
Authors: Jia Fenglong , Tang Yu-dan
Published: May 2018

Representatives of the subgenus Helochares (s. str.) Mulsant, 1844 of China are revised. One new species, H. (s. str.) songi sp. nov., is described from Guangxi, China. All species known from China are redescribed. A diagnosis and a differential diagnosis are provided for each species. Helochares fuliginosus d’Orchymont, 1932 is recorded for the first time from China and Cambodia. Additional distribution records of H. atropiceus Régimbart, 1903 and H. pallens (MacLeay, 1825) are provided from China. The habitus and aedeagus of all species are illustrated, and a key for the identification of Chinese species of the subgenus is provided.
The Cult of Nidrā-Kālarātri, Goddess of Sleep, Swoon, Death and the Night (c. 3rd to 5th Century)
Authors: Sarkar Bihani
Published: May 2018

Assessing early Vaiṣṇava, epic, ritualistic and literary sources and iconographic evidence, this chapter discusses how an archetypical cult of an early Durgā, the form of the goddess prior to her absorption of other identities, acquired prestige from obscure origins between the 3rd and 5th centuries, while empire under the Guptas was in its heyday. Beginning in the 3rd century, the chapter examines the roots of Durgā in the black-hued, yellow-robed, ghost-encircled, liquour-loving, peacock-feather crested Vaiṣṇava goddess of Death, Time and Sleep, Nidrā-Māyā-Kālarātri-Kālī and examines her cult of averting dangers in that period. Within Vaiṣṇava thought, Kālarātri-Nidrā is Viṣṇu's yogic sleep and creative, active magical power (māyā) embodied, the great night of aeonic destruction too, while in her earthly form, she is Kṛṣṇa's savior from Kaṃsa, the intercessory salvific sister Nidrā born on the dark Navamī, who puts beings to sleep and is also responsible for their deaths at the end of their lifetimes. This goddess, who was also worshipped in Cambodia and Indonesia, her belief systems and her ritual worship with buffalo sacrifice on Navamī, the Dark Ninth of Śrāvaṇa, provided the idea-matrix—the classical archetype—for Durgā's later characterizations and ritual modifications.
The Regional Cults of Goddesses Merged with Durgā
Authors: Sarkar Bihani
Published: May 2018

This chapter shows how the cult transformed against the backdrop of upcoming lineages, such as the early Rajputs, into a symbol of particularity by absorbing other similar deities important to specific lineages. Chapter 5 encapsulates the 6th and 12th centuries, when the political map of India represented a heterogeneous order of entrepreneurial lineages. It untangles the distinctively coloured threads of smaller local figures enmeshed with Durgā in her symbolic form of this cohesive social backdrop. It presents as case studies the stories of six locally popular goddesses who were synthesized with Durgā—Bhīmā, Nana, Kaṇṭeśvarī of the Caulukyas, Māneśvarī of the Mallas, Āśāpurī of the Cāhamānas and Danteśvarī of the Nāgas and Kākatiyas of the Bastar Raj. These aid us in evaluating the intricacies of individual goddess-cults and their continuity through dynastic shifts up to the 12th century. It also recounts other tales of clan-goddesses, in which heroic Śāktism is seen as the theology sanctifying a king, assessing the tropes and motifs whereby this sanctification and its concomitant concepts of power are evoked. First it locates a period and a locus when and where Brahmanical discourse, silent on local goddesses, began to contain such deities and the heterogeneous practices many represented, and assess accordingly the genealogical part of the Sahyādrikhaṇḍa, a Purāṇic work, as an example of this containment. Next, I study the legend of Kāmateśvarī, a story that was employed by the princely state of Cooch-Behar in explaining the divine right of its rulers, assessing this in parallel with Rajput ideologies and narratives, where similar narrative structures and figurative devices centring on the goddess and the king are employed.
Weimar culture and its others
Authors: Attfield Nicholas
Published: May 2018

This introductory chapter begins with the post-1945 concept of ‘Weimar culture’, and, through a critique of an article by Michael Kater, considers the concept’s tendency to divide the era into two rigid cultural-political factions: progressive ‘sons’ and reactionary ‘fathers’, a metaphor ultimately derived from Peter Gay’s well-known Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider (1968). Having drawn attention to the distortions caused by such historiographical inflexibility, it proceeds to a description of the four studies (Chapters 2–5) that are to follow in the book, presenting these as distinct positions in the discourse of Weimar-era musical conservatisms and demonstrating that—for all their similarities—the subjects just as often took acute issue with one another. These were frictions, the chapter concludes, that continued beyond 1933 and the change of political regime in Germany.
Music and the idea of conservative revolution
Authors: Attfield Nicholas
Published: May 2018

This chapter begins by considering the numerous appearances of the term ‘conservative revolution’ in cultural writings of the 1920s and 1930s: particularly in those of Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Arnold Schoenberg, and Moeller van den Bruck. Into this emerging discourse, it weaves the capturing of the term for German historiography by Armin Mohler (1949) and the influence and controversy of Mohler’s usage in subsequent historical debates. Having argued that ‘conservative revolution’ may indeed serve as a revealing lens through which to view musical phenomena of the Weimar era, it proceeds—using the writings of Roger Griffin and Peter Osborne—to place its futural drive amidst the modernist thought with which it is usually contrasted, and thus offers a segue to the studies presented in Chapters 2–5.
The ‘Middle’ Wittgenstein (and the ‘Later’ Ramsey) on the Pragmatist Conception of Truth
Authors: Boncompagni Anna
Published: May 2018

This chapter examines some remarks Ludwig Wittgenstein expressed on pragmatism in manuscripts and lectures during the first half of the 1930s. These remarks focus principally on the Jamesian conception of truth, according to which, roughly, a belief or a proposition is true if it is useful. Wittgenstein acknowledges that this conception is able to capture some characters of ordinary language, but at the same time, he criticizes some aspects of it, and his criticism strongly resembles Frank Ramsey’s attitude towards the same topics. In this sense, it is argued that Ramsey had a role both for Wittgenstein approaching pragmatism, and for the partly negative attitude with which he came to judge it. Yet, the two thinkers’ general perspectives diverge when it comes to the place of theory in philosophical activity.
The Spirit of Pragmatism in the Quads of Oxford
Authors: Bakhurst David
Published: May 2018

This chapter discusses the influence of pragmatism in Oxford in the second half of the twentieth century. It begins by identifying five characteristic components of pragmatism: (1) a doxastic theory of truth; (2) a broadly empiricist account of meaning; (3) a fallibilist, dynamic, inquiry-centred account of knowledge; (4) a hostility to dualism; and (5) an affirmation of the primacy of practice. It then shows that each of these ideas finds expression in the writings of one of the great figures of Oxford philosophy—P. F. Strawson. Nevertheless, it argues that there are aspects of Strawson’s conception of philosophy—particularly his commitment to descriptive metaphysics—that are alien to the spirit of pragmatism in a way that reflects something deep about the style of Oxford philosophy of the period.
Tempered Pragmatism
Authors: Rumfitt Ian
Published: May 2018

This chapter assesses the prospects of a pragmatist theory of content. It begins by criticizing the theory presented in D. H. Mellor’s essay ‘Successful Semantics’, then identifies problems and lacunae in the pragmatist theory of meaning sketched in chapter 13 of Dummett’s The Logical Basis of Metaphysics. It contends that the prospects are brighter for a tempered pragmatism, in which the theory of content is permitted to draw upon irreducible notions of truth and falsity. It sketches the shape of such a theory and illustrates the role of its pragmatist elements by showing how they point towards a promising account of the truth conditions of indicative conditionals. A feature of the account is that it validates Modus Ponens whilst invalidating Modus Tollens.
From Forces’ Choice to Desert Island Discs: The BBC’s promotion of personal choice in wartime
Authors: Doctor Jenny
Published: May 2018

Up to 1939, the BBC followed a paternalistic music programming policy that sought to educate as well as to entertain, airing a high proportion of art music. When war was declared in 1939, the Corporation’s policies reversed, aiming to unite the nation and maintain morale. Shows focused on popular and light music, and the BBC developed alternative programming approaches, in particular the promotion of personal choice. Series like Forces Music Club, Forces’ Choice, and Forces’ Favourites, continuing after the war as Family Favourites and Two-Way Family Favourites, popularised a formula in which listeners requested gramophone recordings to be aired. Thus, when Roy Plomley’s Desert Island Discs launched in January 1942, it followed in a line of war-time, listener-led gramophone programmes; unusually, only this one featured musical choices of celebrated personalities. Little could anyone predict that DID’s programme formula would long outlast the policies and conditions of the BBC at war.
Personal Spin C
Authors: Wall Anthony
Published: May 2018

Roy Plomley was the calmest man I’ve ever met. Nothing rattled him. ‘Have a drink, dear boy’, he’d say, ‘I think the sun’s over the yardarm.’ He represented a certain kind of England that seems virtually to have disappeared, an England of manners and understatement where the game’s the thing and it might be more gracious to lose than to win—and possibly more interesting. He was no conformist, however. He never signed a contract with the BBC for more than two months at a time. Very quietly, he was something of a subversive. I think those famous questions he came up with, about loneliness, survival, the music, the chosen book and luxury, are impossible to answer without giving yourself away. Roy’s island provides acres of lush sandy space to present yourself as you wish the world to see you, an unlimited supply of creeper to swing adroitly from palm to palm or maybe just to hang yourself....
What does it mean to be cultured? Desert Island Discs as an ideological archive
Authors: Frith Simon
Published: May 2018

This chapter is concerned with the cultural ideology of Desert Island Discs. It argues that the way DID is organised, as an interview programme on BBC Radio 4, has a paradoxical effect. If, apparently, Desert Island Discs involves the weekly reiteration of the argument that music is at the centre of people’s lives, its ideological assumption, as a radio programme, is that music does not really matter much. This argument is illustrated by a detailed examination of the programme’s choices of records and guests, organised in terms of musical genre. Some interesting aspects of musical taste emerge, such as the absence of folk music and changing status of jazz, but, in the end, what the data show most clearly is that a programme format depending on a rather limited account of what it means to listen to music has, nevertheless, colonised the musical imagination of the British public.
Personal Spin D
Authors: Frith Uta
Published: May 2018

George Frideric Handel: Organ Concerto Opus 7 No. 1 in B flat major, Bourrée Allegro

Engelbert Humperdinck: Ein Männlein steht im Walde from Hansel and Gretel

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sonata for 4 hands in B flat major

Franz Schubert: Schubert’s String Quartet No. 13 in A Minor...
Personal Spin H
Authors: Wiseman Debbie
Published: May 2018

George Frideric Handel: The Country Dance from Handel’s Water Music

The Beatles: Eleanor Rigby

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Sonata in Bb Major

Olivier Messiaen: The Turangalîla Symphony, Finale

Buxton Orr: Caledonian Suite—Allegro Leggiera

Dave Grusin: The piano theme from the film On Golden Pond

Claude Debussy: ...
‘That such a man should be such a poet!’
Authors: Callaghan Madeleine
Published: May 2018

‘To Wordsworth’, ‘Verses Written on Receiving a Celandine in a Letter from England’, and Julian and Maddalo show Shelley responding to other poets as he shapes his discrete poetic voice. Wordsworth, who had been Shelley’s leader found, was becoming, in Shelley’s eyes, a leader lost. This chapter explores the complicated and nuanced poetry of relationship that Shelley makes out of his political disappointment in his older peer. Like Shelley’s open address to Wordsworth, Julian and Maddalo seems to speak to the relationship between Shelley and Byron. The poem seems to stage a Shelley-Byron conversation where Shelley places their ideological clash at the forefront of his dialogic poem. Yet even as Shelley seems to provide the reader with symbolic footholds, the poem resists such identifications. If Shelley, in these poems, is a poet among others, he remains carefully apart by virtue of his nuanced and mobile response to his peers.
Introduction: ‘A poem is the very image of life’
Authors: Callaghan Madeleine
Published: May 2018

A clear distinction between the poet and the man, the art and the life, is misrepresentative in the case of Shelley. Though the boundary between life and art is often a fraught question for poets and their critics, Shelley’s oeuvre is fascinated by and explorative of the ways in which the man’s life can form, to varying degrees in each work, the raw material for the poet’s art. Shelley’s poetic daring lies in troubling the distinction between poetry as aesthetic work hermetically sealed against private feeling and poetry as a record of the emotional life of the poet. The repeated slippage between the emotional and personal life of the poet and his aesthetic and eternal preoccupations is a defining yet never fully definable signature of Shelley’s work.
From Whale’s Road to Water under the Earth: Water in Anglo-Saxon Poetry
Authors: Frederick Jill A.
Published: May 2018

This chapter begins with the axiomatic premise that nature was no friend to the Anglo-Saxons: exile into the wilderness often equated with both physical and spiritual death and the power of water was equally frightening. We have only to look to the quintessential locus for the image of the Anglo-Saxons’ distrust and fear of the sea, lines 850-866 of Christ II, which presents life as a journey over difficult seas. In Beowulf, the mere of Grendel’s mother gapes as a kind of hell-mouth, while even the fragmentary description of the mysterious baths in The Ruin uses language reminiscent of the destructive flame of Beowulf’s dragon. On the face of it, Old English poetry provides no evidence of practical uses for water except as a method of transportation; nevertheless, the poetic manifestations of Anglo-Saxon antipathy towards water may well demonstrate the ways in which the figurative language can denote the physical realities of sea, mere, and river during the period.
Rivers, Wells and Springs in Anglo-Saxon England: Water in Sacred and Mystical Contexts
Authors: Hooke Della
Published: May 2018

Water has always played a major role in early religious beliefs. There is ample archaeological evidence of this influencing the siting of prehistoric monuments and the casting of votive deposits, sometimes evens sacrificial bodies, in water, or of the suggestion that water might provide a link to the underworld. That such beliefs lingered on into the early medieval period, perhaps to be bolstered by an influx of pagan Anglo-Saxons and then Danes, is in little doubt, and the Christian church had continuously to issue edicts banning what it regarded as pagan practices and especially the dedication of votive offerings to springs and other similar kinds of site, or the ‘worship’ of such sites and gatherings at them. Anglo-Saxon attitudes to bodies of water as the home of demons are also reflected in contemporary literature. Yet Christianity also saw water as a powerful symbol: heathen shrines could be purified by sprinkling on ‘holy’ water; many springs and wells were to be linked to Christian saints and water was an essential part of Christian baptism. These ways of thinking about the landscape of water will be explored in this chapter.
Reimagining Galician Cinema: Utopian Visions?
Authors: Colmeiro José
Published: May 2018

This chapter addresses the problematic situation of Galician film production, in the larger contexts of the Galician audiovisual sector, the Spanish cinema industry and the transnational currents of economic and cultural globalization affecting national and subnational cinemas. It examines the lights and shadows of Galician cinema production in the representation of Galician cultural themes, the use of different genres, and the exploration of issues of identity, gender, nation and language.
Peripheral Movidas: Cannibalizing Galicia
Authors: Colmeiro José
Published: May 2018

This chapter examines the profound industrial and cultural reconversion of Galicia during the years of the Movida galega, symbolically converted in a new Warholian “factory” of products for cultural consumption, through the internal self-cannibalization of its past and traditions, and its tense relation with the Madrid Movida. The analysis focuses on the development of the new Movida audiovisual urban culture, particularly on the avant-garde interdisciplinary performances of Rompente, the pioneering work of Bibiano Morón, Julián Hernández, Antón Reixa and Xavier Villaverde, and the creative works by the groups Siniestro Total and Os Resentidos.
O contexto histórico da implantação do Programa Nacional de Imunização (PNI) e sua importância para o Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS)
Authors: Lima Adeânio Almeida , Pinto Edenise dos Santos
Published: May 2018

O contexto histórico da vacinação foi palco de críticas e inúmeras rejeições por parte da nossa sociedade. O PNI (Programa Nacional de Imunização) surge como um instrumento de organização e implementação do calendário vacinal no Brasil, baseando-se no perfil epidemiológico de cada região, com periódica atualização. O objetivo desse estudo é discutir a importância do PNI para a saúde pública e prevenção de doenças. Trata-se de um estudo de revisão bibliográfica do tipo qualitativo, onde foram utilizados artigos com publicações num período de 1993 a 2015, pesquisados nas bases de dados SCIELO, LILACS, e na Biblioteca Virtual de Saúde, bem como nos manuais de normas e procedimentos para vacinação regidos pelo Ministério da Saúde. A partir do material encontrado, foi possível reconhecer os avanços trazidos pelo PNI, tendo a visão ampla de saúde, sendo notável o sucesso das ações de imunização na prática dos serviços de saúde. O PNI desempenha um papel importante na promoção da saúde, melhorando a qualidade de vida de grande parcela da humanidade, se encarregando pela redução da mortalidade infantil e o aumento da expectativa de vida.
Conocimiento sobre la táctica deportiva de alumnos de educación primaria
Authors: Serra-Olivares J.
Published: May 2018

El propósito de esta investigación fue analizar el conocimiento táctico de alumnos de 3º a 6º curso de Educación Primaria (156 chicos y 132 chicas). Estos completaron el Test de Conocimiento Táctico Ofensivo y el género. Se observaron diferencias significativas en función de la edad (F= 8.490, p<.01, η2=.13) y el género (F= 135.853, p<.01, η2=.32). La experiencia en horas de práctica semanal y en años de competición correlacionaron significativamente con el conocimiento táctico, (r=.46) y (r=.49). Sin embargo, los valores de estas correlaciones así como la magnitud del efecto sugirieron que estas variables no eran la causa principal de las diferencias observadas. Son necesarios más estudios que analicen la relación entre el conocimiento táctico y otros factores como la instrucción formal o el tipo de metodologías empleadas en la enseñanza de los juegos deportivos.
Evolución de la participación de los escolares en las finales de cross regional durante tres temporadas
Authors: Vílchez M. P. , Molina J. M.
Published: May 2018

El deporte escolar es una buena estrategia de promoción deportiva, que gracias a los programas de promoción de actividad física en edad escolar, está aumentando en los últimos años (CSD, 2009; Valovich et al., 2011) y, concretamente, el cross escolar de atletismo es una modalidad que por sus características puede aumentar esta participación. Para tal fin, en el presente trabajo se analiza la participación de los escolares en las finales de triatlón escolar de las temporadas 2011, 2012 y 2013 para conocer las características de esta participación escolar y poder orientar las tareas de promoción deportiva por parte de las entidades correspondientes. La muestra se compuso de 4205 participaciones del cross escolar durante las temporadas 2010-11, 2011-12 y 2012-13. Del total de la muestra, 51.4% fueron chicos y el 48.6% chicas. Para el análisis de los datos se utilizó el SPSS v.21. Según los resultados, se está realizando una gran labor de participación en las chicas, teniendo que hacer más hincapié en las categorías superiores y en los centros concertados y privados de Murcia. Además, se necesitan más estudios que analicen esta participación para seguir orientando los programas de promoción deportiva.