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Addresses Upon the American Road, 1945-1948
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This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of Hebert Hoover's addresses from 1945-1948.
Contents:
PART I: FOREIGN POLICIES
POSTWAR FOREIGN LOANS [Executives' Club, Chicago, Illinois, September17, 1945] 3
ON VIEWS ON NATIONAL POLICIES AS TO THE ATOMIC BOMB [North American Newspaper Alliance, New York City, September 27, 1945] 14
ON THE PALESTINE QUESTION [New York World-Telegram, November 19, 1945] 16
ON CONSTRUCTION OF THE ST. LAWRENCE WATERWAY [Letter to Senator Carl A. Hatch, February 12, 1946] 18
ON APPRAISAL OF THE WORLD SITUATION AND OUR POLICIES IN RELATION TO IT [Press Statement, Salt Lake City, Utah, August 12, 1946] 20
ON YUGOSLAVIAN INCIDENT [Press Statement, August 26, 1946] 22
ON FINLAND [Press Statement, New York City, October 14, 1946] 24
PART II: DOMESTIC AFFAIRS AND ECONOMICS
ECONOMIC RECOVERY FROM THE WAR [Fiftieth Anniversary of Clarkson College of Technology, Potsdam, New York, October 8, 1945] 29
MORAL AND SPIRITUAL RECOVERY FROM WAR [Seventy-fifth Anniversary of Wilson College, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, October 13, 1945] 36
AN EXTEMPORANEOUS ADDRESS CLOSING THE YAMA CONFERENCE OF 1945 [Absecon, New Jersey, November 10, 1945] 44
THE OBLIGATION OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY [Lincoln Day Dinner, National Republican Club, New York City, February 12, 1946] 49
ON CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION [Press Statement, New York City, November 5, 1946] 54
THE RIGHT TO STRIKE [This Week Magazine, December 29, 1946] 55
ADDRESS BEFORE THE HOLLAND SOCIETY OF NEW YORK [Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York City, November 20, 1947] 58
ADDRESS BEFORE THE SONS OF THE REVOLUTION [Washington's Birthday Banquet, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York City, February 23, 1948] 61
THIS CRISIS IN AMERICAN LIFE [Address before the Republican National Convention at Philadelphia, June 22, 1948] 67
THE MEANING OF AMERICA [Homecoming Address at the Reception Tendered by West Branch, Iowa, on the speaker's 74th Birthday, August 10, 1948] 74
PART III: REPARATIONS AND ECONOMIC SUPPORT TO THE WORLD
ON THE NECESSARY STEPS
ON THE NECESSARY STEPS FOR PROMOTION OF GERMAN EXPORTS, SO AS TO RELIEVE AMERICAN TAXPAYERS OF THE BURDENS OF RELIEF AND FOR ECONOMIC RECOVERY OF EUROPE [Report to the President, March 18, 1947] 83
ON JAPANESE REPARATIONS [Letter to the Honorable Robert Patterson, Secretary of War, May 7, 1947] 98
WE MUST SPEED PEACE [On Food and Relief Requirements for Germany, Japan and Korea; Letter to Congressman John Taber, May 26, 1947] 103
THE LIMITS OF AMERICAN AID TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES [Letter to Senator Styles Bridges, June 13, 1947] 109
DESTRUCTION AT OUR EXPENSE [Foreword Written for Common Cause, Inc. Magazine, December 27, 1947] 119
THE MARSHALL PLAN [Statement to Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, January 18, 1948] 120
THE MARSHALL PLAN BILL [Statement to Speaker Joseph W. Martin, House of Representatives, March 24, 1948] 131
PART IV: EDUCATIONAL, SOCIAL AND SCIENTIFIC
ON THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF RADIO [Broadcast--Columbia Broadcasting System, November 10, 1945] 141
ON THE EXCHANGE OF STUDENTS WITH FOREIGN COUNTRIES [Letter to Senator J. W. Fulbright, February 8, 1946] 146
ON SUPPORT OF NATIONAL BOYS' CLUB WEEK [Article for Boys' Clubs of America, International News Services, April 16, 1947] 149
GRIDIRON DINNER [Address, Washington, D. C., May 10, 1947] 152
IN CELEBRATION OF THE BICENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY [Address, Princeton, N. J., June 16, 1947] 156
PART V: WORLD FAMINE, 1946-1947
ON PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S APPEAL TO SAVE FOOD [Press Statement.. New York City, February 8, 1946] 163
ON WORLD FAMINE [Statement before the Famine Emergency Committee Meeting, Washington, D. C., March 11, 1946] 165
ON WORLD FAMINE [Broadcast over the National Broadcasting Company, March 14, 1946] 167
ON WORLD FAMINE [Broadcast over the American Broadcasting Company, March 16, 1946] 169
ON WORLD FAMINE CRISIS [Reply to the French Minister of Foreign Affairs at Luncheon in Paris, March 21, 1946] 172
ON THE FOOD STORY OF ITALY [Rome, March 25, 1946] 174
ON THE FOOD SITUATION IN FRANCE [Broadcast over Blue Network Radio from Paris, March 27, 1946) 176
ON FOOD CONDITIONS IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA [Prague, March 28, 1946] 179
REMARKS AT DINNER OF PRESIDENT BIERUT [Warsaw, Poland, March 29, 1946] 181
ON THE FOOD SITUATION IN POLAND [Warsaw, March 30, 1946] 183
ON FOOD ADMINISTRATION IN FINLAND [Helsinki, April 1, 1946] 185
EMERGENCY CONFERENCE ON EUROPEAN CEREAL SUPPLIES [Address, London, England, April 5, 1946] 187
ON THE WORLD FOOD CRISIS [Broadcast over Mutual Broadcasting Company from Cairo, Egypt, April 19, 1946] 193
ON THE WORLD FOOD SITUATION [Broadcast from Bombay, India, April 24, 1946] 199
ON FOOD DIFFICULTIES IN INDIA [Bangalore, April 26, 1946] 203
ON THE FOOD PROBLEM IN THE PHILIPPINES [Manila, April 29, 1946] 206
ON THE FOOD NEEDS OF CHINA [Shanghai, May 3, 1946] 207
ON THE JAPANESE FOOD SUPPLY [Tokyo, May 6, 1946] 208
ON THE EFFECTS OF THE RAILROAD STRIKE ON WORLD FAMINE [San Francisco, May 10, 1946] 209
WORLD FAMINE [Report to The President, May 13, 1946] 210
WORLD FAMINE SITUATION [Address under auspices Famine Emergency Committee, Sherman Hotel, Chicago, May 17, 1946] 221
A NEW WORLD FOOD ORGANIZATION NEEDED [Address before the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Washington, D. C., May 20, 1946] 229
ON EFFECT OF RAILROAD STRIKE ON RELIEF TO FAMINE AREAS [Press Statement, Washington, D. C., May 25, 1946] 232
THE MISSION TO DETERMINE NEEDS OF THE FAMINE AREAS [Mexico, D. F., May 28, 1946] 233
ON WORLD FAMINE [Bogota, Colombia, May 31, 1946] 235
ON THE FOOD MISSION [Quito, Ecuador, June 1, 1946] 237
ON THE WORLD FAMINE CRISIS [Address at Luncheon given by the President of Peru at Lima, June 2, 1946] 238
ON THE WORLD FOOD CRISIS [Address at Luncheon given by American Ambassador to Chile at Santiago, June .5, 1946] 245
ON THE WORLD FOOD CRISIS [Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 10, 1946] 252
ON COMMUNIST PRESS PRACTICES [Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, June 15, 1946] 254
ON THE LATIN-AMERICAN FOOD SITUATION [Press Statement, Washington, D. C., June 19, 1946] 256
REPORT ON THE WORLD FAMINE [Address broadcast over the Canadian Broadcasting Company from Ottawa, June 28, 1946] 259
ADDRESS AT A BANQUET IN HONOR OF HIS EXCELLENCY, THE PRIME MINISTER OF GREECE [New York City, December 16, 1946] 267
GERMAN AGRICULTURE AND FOOD REQUIREMENTS [Report to The President, February 26, 1947] 269
ON RELIEF ASSISTANCE TO COUNTRIES DEVASTATED BY WAR [Statement before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, February 28, 1947] 286
ON AUSTRIAN AGRICULTURE AND FOOD REQUIREMENTS -- ECONOMIC REORGANIZATION [Report to The President, March 11, 1947] 294
ON GREEK INDEPENDENCE DAY [Remarks before Greek War Relief Dinner, New York City, March 25, 1947] 303
ON THE GERMAN FOOD CRISIS [Press Statement, New York City, May 15, 1947] 305
THE WORLD FOOD SITUATION [Address at Madison Square Garden, New York City, September 21, 1947] 306
INDEX 311
A Yanqui in Patagonia
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Originally published in 1946. This is a fun read!From 1911 to 1915 the Yanqui was Consulting Geologist to the Minister of Public Works, Dr. Ezequiel Ramos-Mexia,in Argentina.
THE YANQUI is Bailey Willis himself, geologist, conservationist, keen observer of men and nature. This is his story.
Visiting Argentina in search of prehistoric man, the Yanqui became involved in a fight between a patriotic but visionary minister and the self-seeking bureaucrats, and during four years matched wits with the latter. The minister dreamed colonization. The Yanqui’s job was to explore a remote lake and mountain region in the Andes, comparable with Switzerland in beauty and resources – a region now the site of national parks and one objective of President Peron’s ambitious plans for industrialization. The practical Dr. Willis located railways, classified lands, and estimated water powers. He planned a city to order, the mythical City of the Caesars. He tells the reader how.
The book, however, is more than engineering; it is autobiography, it is the Yanqui. His comrades in the Patagonian frontier, Americans, Latins, gauchos, even his horse and dog, all are personalities. The reader rides with them and through the eyes of the Yanqui absorbs the beauty of those distant forests and glacier-fed, trout-filled streams and lakes. With him the reader laughs at the scheming bureaucrats and at the end rejoices with him that the leaven of experienced common sense is working; the great minister’s dream is coming true.
Dr.Bailey Willis, Professor of Geology, Emeritus, at the time of writing.
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Author: Bailey Willis
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ISBN: 080473593X
Magnetohydrodynamics
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MACNETOYDRODYNAMICS
The beginnings which have been made already in the new field of magnetohydrodynamics have led scientists to expect from it a rich harvest of exciting discoveries. For some time to come, scientists will be occupied with the challenging work of observing magnetohydrodynamic phenomena and developing principles that will make it possible to describe these phenomena mathematically.
Magnetohydrodynamics is the study of how magnetic fields influence and are influenced by ionized gases. A new branch of physical science, it requires the union of the sciences dealing with fluid flow and with electromagnetic fields. Outstanding physicists and astronomers who have done research and experiments in the field believe that the discoveries to be made in magnetohydrodynamics will have far-reaching technical applications.
Dr. Landshoff has selected for this volume a well-integrated set of essays to explain in considerable detail some of the typical approaches now being taken by distinguished men engaged in this research. ARTHUR KANTROWlTZ contributes a classification into domains according to the controlling physical phenomena. FRED HOYLE and WALTER M. ELSASSER describe mechanisms that may explain the nature of the magnetic field of the earth and of certain stars and nebulae. JAN
M. BURGERS contributes a theoretical paper on the effects to be expected when a shockwave passes through a conducting region of varying magnetic flux density. His paper provides insights with possible applications to laboratory experiments and to astronomical phenomena. MARSHALL ROSENBLUTH writes on the "pinch effect," the contraction produced by the force exerted on a current by the magnetic field caused by that same current.
This volume touches on both the theoretical and experimental approaches to the subject. The experimental material is introduced by an essay on the use of scaling laws (which shows how experiments under widely different conditions can be compared). A number of actual laboratory experiments are described: with the passage of shockwaves through magnetic fields, with magnetically driven shockwaves, and with instabilities of the Kruskal Schwarzschild type. Another experiment, with standing magnetohydrodynamic waves, is outlined, but it is still in the planning stage. The others are in progress, and results are presented.
This book has been edited by Dr. Rolf K. M. Landshoff, Consulting Scientist, Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, Missile Systems Division.
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Title: Magnetohydrodynamics : A Symposium 1957
Editor: Rolf K.M. Landshoff
Publisher: Stanford University Press 1957
ISBN: 080473223X
Xunzi A Translation and Study of the Complete Works Volume III Books 17-32
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Writing at the end of the great flowering of philosophical inquiry in Warring States , China, when the foundations for traditional Chinese thought were laid, Xunzi occupies in the East a place analogous to that of Aristotle in the West. The collection of works bearing his name contains not only the most systematic philosophical exposition by any early Confusian thinker but also accounts for virtually every aspect of the intellectual, cultural, and political life of his time.
This is the last of three volumes that constitute the first complete translation of the Xunzi into English. In the present volume, books 17-24 discuss problems of knowledge and logic; the fundamental nature of the world; the significance of music and ritual; and the nature of man. Books 25-32 contain Xunzi’s poetry, a miscellany of short passages collected together in one book, and several collections of sayings, comments, and exemplary anecdotes about events, personages, and ideas important to early Confusians. The first volume, Books 1-6, was published in 1988; the second volume, Books 7-16, was published in 1990.
The translation is accompanied by substantial explanatory material identifying technical terms, persons, and events; detailed introductions to each book; and extensive annotation, with characters when desirable, indicating the basis of the translations.
At the time of publication, John Knoblock was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami.
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Title Xunzi: A Translation and Study of the Complete Works/Books 17-32
Authors Xunzi, John Knoblock
Editor John Knoblock
Translated by John Knoblock
Publisher Stanford University Press, 1994
ISBN 0804722986, 9780804722988
Length 443 pages
A German Community Under American Occupation
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This is the first comprehensive attempt to study the impact of American occupation upon a German community. By examining documentary sources and personal papers from the occupation period and interviewing a great many Germans and Americans directly associated with the military and civil administration of the town of Marburg, the author has written an illuminating case study of the occupation as a whole.
The study discloses several significant paradoxes: the effect of some military government policies necessarily doomed other military government policies to failure; military government encouraged decentralization and practiced centralization; the American democratization program encouraged and produced institutions and agencies that Germans used to undermine basic occupation policies; undemocratic methods were often used to promote a democratic ideal.
Perhaps the most important failure of the occupation authorities was their refusal to identify themselves with the German liberal and moderate forces that might have aided in the reconstruction of the kind of postwar Germany that the Americans sought to establish. These forces had an important stake in the results of the occupation, but no concessions or rewards were offered to obtain their active support. Instead, the occupation authorities chose to remain positively neutral during the struggle for power and status that liberals and moderates engaged in against leftists and Communists on the one hand, and conservatives, nationalists, and ex-Nazis on the other.
The author states that "The effect of American efforts was to disillusion the occupation's most loyal supporters and to bring forth people who disagreed with Americans about the extent and intent of denazification...; people who disagree with Americans about municipal and county government codes, the nature of the civil service, the structure and purpose of education, the proper political party organization and proper electoral procedures, the extent of industrial disarmament, the value of grass-roots political activities, and many other things."
Two striking conclusions emerge from the study. One is that American occupation policies fundamentally contradicted each other and thus were impossible to apply with any degree of success. The other is that in failing to achieve their stated objectives, Americans restored German self-respect at the expense of American policy and prestige.
Mr. Gimbel is Assistant Professor of History at Humbolt State College, California.
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A German community under American occupation: Marburg, 1945-52
John Gimbel
ISBN 0804700613, 9780804700610
259 pages
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Burns: A Study of the Poems and Songs
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This brilliant book is probably the best critical study of Robert Burn's poetical works such as that has yet been written.
No previous critic of Burn's poetry has made such full use of modern critical methods, nor so fully done justice to the subtlety with which Burns exploited the possibilities of all the various kinds of Scots and English (especially as spoken in Scotland) that were actually available to him. The author is less interested in the sources of Burns' poems and songs than in the use, often novel, that Burns made of them; and through he acknowledges how much Burns owed to past Scots and English Literary tradition, his detailed and lucid analysis of the stages by which Burns became a poet not only of local but of national and even universal significance effectively exposes the inherent limitations of the view (first formulated by Angellier in 1892, and still widely taken for granted) that Burns was essentially "the culminating point of a native literature which now seems at an end".
The text is fully documented; and for those unacquainted with Scots the author has provided a detailed appendix on the phonetics of Burns' Scots and Scots-English, and a glossary containing about 1000 entries.
All serious students of either Scots or English literature will find this an indispensable book.
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Burns: A Study of the Poems and Songs
Thomas Crawford
Stanford University Press, 1960
ISBN 0804700559, 9780804700559
400 pages
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Stanford Short Stories 1960
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The unusual commercial and literary success of many of the writers to come from the Stanford Creative Writing Center makes the publication of a new collection of stories an event. Readers who enjoy good writing and the feeling of personal discovery will find in this volume the best new stories of the last two years. As in previous years, some of these stories have appeared in such magazines as The Atlantic Monthly and The Kenyon Review. Eugene Burdick, Robin White, Dan Jacobson, Dennis Murphy and Evan S Connell, Jr., to name only a few, are graduates of the Center whose names are now well known, and from this volume others may join that list.
Since 1946, the Center has brought to Stanford not only those who are perfecting their craft but, as guest lecturers, those who have mastered it: Katherine Anne Porter, Malcolm Cowley, Frank O’Conner, Hortense Calisher, and other.
The influence of such renowned writers as these has supplemented the direction and encouragement of Wallace Stegner and Richard Scowcroft, Directors of the Center, in helping to shape the stories in this volume.
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Title: Stanford Short Stories 1960
Editors: Wallace Stegner and Richard Scowcroft
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN 080373375
PREFACE Richard Scowcroft v
HARVEST Wendell E. Berry 1
MARY LOUISE Ernest J. Gaines 27
CAREER Olympia Karageorges 43
THE BASEBALL BUSINESS David McCullough 55
THE PRIDE OF SCOTLAND Robin MacDonald 66
A RED, RED COAT Robin MacDonald 73
TELL ME A RIDDLE Tillie Olsen 82
A DECISION TO WITHDRAW Joanna Ostrow 123
MARTIN FINCHER, TRIPOD MAN Nancy Huddleston Packer 135
ONE OF THESE DAY Nance Huddleston Packer 150
THE SMALL, GENTLE HOUSE OF BERTRAM CAMM John Waterhouse 168
Stanford Short Stories 1946
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Stanford Short Stories 1946
PREFACE BY WALLACE STEGNER:
The ten stories which compose the first annual volume of Stanford Short Stories have been selected by my class in advanced fiction writing as those which will best represent them and the University. Because I have no delusions that I played any serious part in their composition, I can say that they seem to me stories of quite unusual excellence. They are not amateur performances, but professional, or so nearly professional as to confuse a critic, and they are being published not as justifications of campus patriotism but as good reading.
Any writing program in a university must justify itself ultimately by its ability to produce professional writers – by which I do not mean commercial writers necessarily. A program to production professionals cannot afford to be slipshod, self-indulgent, arty, cliquish, local, or long-haired. It cannot be amateur and play-for-fun; it must try constantly to play for keeps, to maintain a standard that needs no apology. And to do this it needs a number of things which are perhaps worth a word here.
It needs prizes like the Humanities Short-Story Prize – substantial prizes and more of them.
It needs scholarships and fellowships which can be awarded on a competitive basis to young writers who have made beginnings on worthy books but can still profit from instruction and criticism and the advantages of a university environment. In any give year such fellowship students should become the professional and mature core around which writing courses could be built.
It needs, finally, avenues of publication, since every writer is a man in search of an audience. The publication usually provided on a university campus is a subsidized undergraduate literary magazine, amateur-written, amateur-edited, and amateur-read. That campus literary magazine is not good enough for the really good writers in any university; it exists by and for the immature and the second-rate, and it is forced by its periodical nature to print many things not worth printing.
As this introduction is written, Harper’s, Esquire, Collier’s, The Rocky Mountain Review, Foreground, and Pacific have published or accepted for publication six of the ten stories collected here. Six of these stories have already found an audience, and through media that mean something, that are hard-boiled and professional and carry with them a prestige no campus publication could possibly provide.
But obviously not all the good stories written by Stanford students in any year are going to be published in national magazines. Some will be too experimental, some will violate mass-circulation taboos. A university is an area of free intellectual inquiry, but a magazine with a large circulation is not. It is necessary therefore to find some other medium of publication for the really worthy but noncommercial writing if students are to have the encouragement and the sense of audience that they need.
Stanford Short Stories is that medium. It is a volume contracted for on the usual trade basis, professionally published and designed for general circulation. For its readers – may they multiply! – it should provide an extremely enjoyable tow hours. For its authors – may they thrive! – it might furnish some kind of boost through that difficult doorway, that narrow Mesa Verde crawlhole, that opens on a writing career.
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Title: Stanford Short Stories 1946
Editor: Wallace Stegner
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN 0804756449
PREFACE Wallace Stegner v
THE SHADOW OF A DREAM Oliver Lawrence 1
MONEY ON THE CEILING Jean Byers 9
A STRANGER’S FUNERAL Don Allan 21
WHO MADE THIS SUBWAY? Barbara Bellow Watson 29
REST CAMP ON MAUI Eugene Burdick 37
DOM PEDRO’S CROWN Oliver Lawrence 53
THE CAPSULE Jean Byers 61
THE REALIST Don Allen 65
HELP THOU MY UNBELIEF Barbara Bellow Watson 79
THE BLACK BOX Eugene Burdick 89
THE AUTHORS 103
A Casual View of America
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Two weeks after the execution of John Brown, Salomon de Rothschild, a younger son of the French branch of the famous banking family, wrote home his first bemused observations of America. Until his departure for France shortly after the beginning of hostilities he continued to record his views -- occasionally respectful, nearly always mocking, often perceptive -- of the United States on the brink of civil war. What the Americans do and fail to do, how they behave and misbehave -- this is what caught Rothschild's eye.
While he was greatly interested in American politics and international trade, he reserved his finest sallies for social customs -- clothes and fashions, eating habits, courtship, life among the nouveaux riches at Newport and Saratoga, the manners of the most Irish poor. As a member of the most famous Jewish family in the world, Rothschild noted with interest the position of Jews in America.
The year 1860 saw the turbulent political conventions and the election, the first international prize fight, the visit of the future Edward VII, the arrival of the first official Japanese embassy, and the maiden voyage of the Great Eastern, the largest ship that had ever been built. Rothschild's supercilious eye seemed to miss nothing of importance or interest.
Many of these letters are published for the first time, and others have previously been available only in excerpt form.
Mr. Diamond is Associate Professor of Historical Sociology at Columbia University.
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Title A casual view of America: the home letters of Salomon de Rothschild, 1859-1861
Authors Salomon de Rothschild, Sigmund Diamond
Publisher Stanford University Press, 1961
Original from the University of Michigan
Digitized Sep 16, 2008
Length 136 pages
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Stanford Short Stories 1948
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“Heart, brains, and talent” typify these stories, the work of thirteen young writers from Stanford University. This is the second volume in an annual series compiling the top stories from Stanford’s creative writing classes.
Stanford professor Wallace Stegner, editor of the volume and himself a well-known writer, has written a particularly interesting Preface introducing the stories. He discusses short-story futures and the postwar generation of writers.
The stories in this collection are vigorous and ably written, and they speak well for the instruction, criticism, and encouragement fostered by the Stanford Writing Center. Several have been published, appearing in such reputable publications as Harper’s and The Pacific Spectator. All show professional competence and great promise for the future of their youthful authors, some of whom are presently at work on first novels.
Authors: Maxwell Arnold, Richard K. Arnold, Eugene Burdick, Jean Byers, Carl Heintze, Boris Ilyin, Oliver Lawrence, Donald MacInnis, Harry Muheim, Clay Putnam, Robert Sellers, Christine Tapley, and Allen Wendt.
Stanford Short Stories 1946 put the series off, to a good start with stories by Donald Allan, Eugene Burdick, Jean Byers, Oliver Lawrence, and Barbara Bellow Watson.
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Title: Stanford Short Stories 1948
Editor: Wallace Stegner
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 080474694X
PREFACE Wallace Stegner v
NEVER HIT A CRIPPLE Maxwell Arnold 1
A PROBLEM IN CREATION Richard K. Arnold 13
TWO CAGES Eugene Burdick 23
END OF MAY Jean Byers 37
NEW MAN Carl Heintze 51
DOWN THE ROAD A PIECE Boris Ilyin 57
THE HEIRS TO THE EARTH Oliver Lawrence 63
THE GRAPEFRUIT THINKER Maxwell Arnold 73
A SMALL PARCEL OF FISH Donald MacInnis 81
TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY Harry Huheim 87
THE WHITE ROAD Clay Putman 97
MI PAIS Robert Sellers 109
THE HAUNTED RIDER Christine Tapley 121
THE PLEXIGLAS HEART Allan Wendt 137
THE AUTHORS 149
Stanford Short Stories 1949
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“….it will be clear from the quality of these stories as well as from the quality of writing coming from other colleges and universities that a great many young writers have chosen since the war to learn their art in the universities rather than in Greenwich Village or the hobo jungles.” – Wallace Stegner in the Preface
The switch from bohemianism to the classroom speaks well for the future of American literature, if these stories are any yardstick. All are written by students in the creative writing classes at Stanford University, and all show profession competence.
Wallace Stegner, editor of the two previous volumes in the series, again assumes editorship with this 1949 collection. The Stanford professor of English is an expert teacher of writing and an accomplished story teller in his own right.
He dubs these young writers the “Anxious Generation,” pointing to their awareness of world tension and insecurity. He also indicates the diminishing influence of the war.
There is a variety in these stories that should please every reader. There is humor and insight and, as the editor points out, there is an awareness of the world scene.
Several stories appeared first in such nationally recognized periodicals as Atlantic Monthly, The Pacific Spectator, and Common Ground.
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Title: Stanford Short Stories 1949
Editor: Wallace Stegner
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804747954
PREFACE Wallace Stegner v
I’LL TAKE YOU TO TENNESSEE Even Connell 1
WHAT SEEMS TO BE THE MATTER HERE? Richard K. Arnold 13
ANTHEM OF THE LOCUSTS Dean Cadle 26
THE GREAT CREATOR William George 36
THE IRON STAG John H. Kendrick 43
THE BOUNDS OF BROTHERHOOD David M. Kirk 60
THE WEDDING WARRIORS Dean Cadle 74
BEYOND THE BOUNDARY WALL Oliver Lawrence 91
BEHOLD THE PALE HORSE Rhoda LeCoq 103
THE SURGEON John Lynch 121
THE ROOM UNDER THE SEA Clay Putman 132
SOMETHING YOU NEVER FORGET William George 141
AN EXPERIMENT IN BIOLOGY Allan Wendt 146
RUSSIAN CHRISTMAS Elizabeth Wolfe 152
APPENDIX: The AUTHORS 161
Television in the Lives of Our Children
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The average North American child, from age 3 to age 16, spends one-sixth of his waking hours on television. This is as much time as he spends in school, more time than he devotes to any other activity except sleep and play. Here is a report of the first major study on the North American continent of the complicated way in which television operates in the lives of children. It represents three years of research on 6,000 children, and is also based on information obtained from 2,300 parents, teachers, and school officials.
The book begins with a consideration of the part televisions plays in the lives of children, then fills in the basic facts -- how much children use television at different ages under different conditions, what kinds of programs they watch, and what they think of them. Then it examines t he chief variables--intelligence, social backgrounds, and home and peer-group relationships--which, along with age and sex make it possible to predict generally what use a child will make of television. One interesting finding is that children in a town with television are about a year more advanced in vocabulary when they enter school than are children in a town without television. It appears, however, that the learning advantage is not maintained for more than a few years.
The book then considers the chief effects which have been ascribed to television, such as delinquency and debasement of taste, and tests the validity of these claims. It sums up everything so far discovered by research concerning the effects of television on children, and the conclusions that can now safely be drawn. An interesting feature is a detailed analysis of a typical week (five weekdays) of the television fare seen in a major city during the period from 4:00 to 9:00 P.M., the so-called "children's hour." The results showed that more than half the 100 hours monitored was given to programs in which extreme violence (murders, stranglings, suicides, etc.) played an important part.
In conclusion, t he authors suggest some things that parents, schools, and broadcasters can do to keep televisions from possibly having a harmful effect on children.
An eminent professor of psychiatry, Dr. Lawrence Z. Freedman, has contributed a paper giving a psychiatric view of the problem. Detailed statistics and tabulations are given tin the Appendixes, which also contain information about related topics (such as children's use of other mass media).
Mr. Schramm is Director of the Institute for Communication Research, Stanford University. Mr. Lyle is Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Los Angeles. Mr. Parker is Assistant Professor in the Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois.
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Title Televisión in the lives of our children
Authors Wilbur Lang Schramm, Jack Lyle, Edwin B. Parker, Lawrence Z. Freedman
Publisher Stanford University Press, 1961
ISBN 0804700621, 9780804700627
Length 324 pages
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Stanford Short Stories 1950
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“…It is a considerable triumph in 1950 for a young writer to be himself without affectation, to follow his own way without trying to be an ‘original.’ There is very little affectation in this book, but there is much sharp observation, much very real and cleanly communicated feeling, some humor, some bitterness, and a persistent honesty.
“Those are enough to justify both admiration for the present accomplishment of these writers on the brink of their careers, and optimism about those careers in future.” – Wallace Stegner in the Preface
These eighteen stories are written by students in the creative writing classes at Stanford University. The authors, men and women “on the brink of their careers,” are of different ages and varying experience. Their short-story techniques are equally diverse, and the thirteen stories which have been previously published appeared in everything from Harper’s and The Pacific Spectator to Seventeen.
Wallace Stegner, editor of the three preceding volumes in the series, again assumes editorship with this 1950 anthology. The Stanford professor of English is an expert teacher of writing and an accomplished storyteller in his own right.
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Title: Stanford Short Stories 1950
Editor: Wallace Stegner
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN 0804745870
PREFACE Wallace Stegner v
THE WOUNDED Clay Putman 1
THE LADY Donald Justice 16
A WARM HAND N.V.M. Gonzalez 33
THE CANNIBAL POT Maxwell Arnold 44
EL CONQUISTADOR Thomas Doyle 65
THE MORNING STAR N.V.M. Gonzalez 77
A START IN LIFE Robert G. Kelly 86
BIG CHLORINDA, HAPPY CHLORINDA P.H. Lowrey 97
THE FIELDS OF WHEAT John A. Lynch 118
THE BIG GREY PICNIC Harry Muheim 125
THE FLIMSY WALLS C.W. Parker 144
THE LADY WALKS Jean Powell 152
THE OLD ACROBAT AND THE RUINED CITY Clay Putman 176
THE GRASS ON THE OTHER SIDE Leslie Smith 193
NO MEADOW LARK SONG Elizabeth Thompson 207
THE YELLOW TURTLE-NECK SWEATER Milton White 215
THE THING IN THEIR HEARTS Elizabeth Wolfe 222
THE LONG HOT DAY Patricia Farrell Zelver 230
Stanford Short Stories 1951
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A barker at the beach…a decayed patio with cobwebbed furniture…an unhappy boy of “drooping appearance” – these are the images that prompted the writing of thress of the twelve stories encountered within.
Warren Chapman (Where TeeTee Wood Lies cold and Dead) pondered a year
on whether a withdrawn, unhappy boy, “incapable of objective thinking,” might cut the ropes in his school’s bell tower as an act of pure deviltry.
Susan Kuehn (The Searches) revised her story twelve times before she found the eyes and a voice to represent the masses of people who turn out to search fro a lost child.
Jack Morrison’s Patchouly, grew from a liking for the sound of the word “patchouly” – an almost-forgotten perfume which finally provides the vital link in his stoyy of a small-town adolescent’s sexual awakening.
Clay Putman, represented now for the fourth time in Stanford Short Stories, found three people he met on a holiday train trip – a man, a woman, and a grave little boy – a mystery to him. In musing on their relationship, he developed, Young Man of His Time.
Sue Davidson (The Rivals), touched by a scene in “Madame Bovary,” took its theme of human indifference and created a maid-drudge in a fifth-class hotel as its mouthpiece.
“I would detest you if you remained,” said a Polynesian woman to her American lover, about to depart for armed service in World War II. Ward Tanzer witnessed the little scene, sensed her inner protest and conflict, conceived the story, My Tiare, Good-bye.
The Editors say: “The writing of any story is an individual process, and no set of rules o principles applies to all stories. For the general reader, and more particularly for teachers and students of writing, each of the authors in this volume has tried to indicate the experience and thinking which led to this story and to discuss some fo the major problems which he encountered.”
Wallace Stegner and Richard Scowcroft, editor s of Stanford Short Stories,1951, thus describe the new feature, contained in the Appendix, which “gives insight into the creative process.” Each of the eleven authors explains the way, how, and where of his story. “The student of writing will find illumination of his problems of transforming a particular experience or thought into a story of general human significance; the teacher of writing will find room for a good deal of amplification of the problems raised and helpful evidence for illustrating the evolution of general idea into concrete, dramatic presentation.”
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Title: Stanford Short Stories 1951
Editors: Wallace Stegner and Richard Scowcroft
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804745625
PREFACE Richard Scowcroft v
WHERE TEETEE WOOD LIES COLD AND DEAD Warren Chapmen 1
THE TIDE Mary Ellen Alabaster 17
THE CITY OF THE ANGLES Sue Davidson 29
THE RIVALS Sue Davidson 58
THE BITTER WALL John R. Ferrone 69
TIPTOE ALL THE WAY Robert Glynn Kelly 86
THE SEARCHERS Susan Kuehn 114
PATCHOULY Jack Morrison 130
YOUNG MAN OF HIS TIME Clay Putman 147
MY TIARE, GOOD-BYE Ward Tanzer 165
…THE MEN FROM THE BOYS Edward Wilson 181
SOMETHING FOR DECEMBER EIGHTH Al Zelver 195
APPENDIX; ON THE WRITING OF A STORY 213
The First Russian Revolution 1825
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The First Russian Revolution 1825
Anatole G. Mazour
A reissue. "The Russian Revolution is a process which started probably with Peter the Great and which has not yet been concluded. It is the effort of the transformation of a backward and oppressive form of society into a more progressive one which would assure more justice and more liberty to the peoples of Russia. In this long process there are two outstanding events which mark turning points. The second and much better known is the Revolution of 1917 and its rapid transition from February to October. The first, much less know, is the so-called decembrist Movement which led to the first revolutionary explosion in Russia in December 1825, ninety-two years before Lenin inaugurated a new stage of the Russian Revolution. The revolution of December 14, 1825, was a very short-lived affair, quickly suppressed, without any outward significance. But inwardly, this first attempt on the part of Russia intellectuals, members of the aristocracy, to liberalize and humanize the Russian regime was of utmost significance. It was the start of all the later revolutionary movements of the Russian intelligentsia. It was the source of inspiration to the succeeding generations.
"Notwithstanding the importance o f the Decembrist Movement, there did not exist until now a detailed treatise on its origins, development, and significance. The present book by Dr. Mazour tries to fill the gap, and it does it so well, at least for some time to come, it can be regarded not only as the first but also the definitive book on its subject...The author not only presents us with the history of the Decembrist Movement, but traces it background back to about 1800 and practically covers the ground of a history of the liberal and revolutionary movements in Russia from 1800 to 1825. He gives us a detailed story of t he rise and development of both branches of the revolutionary movement then, then Northern Society and the Southern Society, their program discussions, their preparations for the revolt, their defeat and their trial, and ends with a description of their life in exile in Siberia." -- The Annals.
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The first Russian revolution, 1825: the Decembrist movement, its origins, development, and significance
Anatole Gregory Mazour
Stanford University Press, 1937
ISBN 0804700818, 9780804700818
324 pages
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“As many know, one of the most active and best known of the college and university creative writing centers is the one at Stanford, conducted by Wallace Stegner and Richard Scowcroft. It’s a non-nonsense affair where there is a minimum of Greenwich villager and a maximum of hard work, and it draws the kind of student who is seriously interested in serious writing…”
In this way Joseph Henry Jackson, literary editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, describes the Stanford Creative Writing Center. Stanford Short Stories, 1952 is the sixth annual volume of stories written by students at the Center – more of the honest, aware, mature work that Mr. Jackson commends so highly.
“Each story (is) accompanied by the author’s notes on how the came to write the story, what difficulties arose in developing it, and so on. A book of this kind is eagerly seized upon by many who are themselves trying to write, and for such readers the author’s own analysis of his story and its problem is, or can be, of considerable interest and perhaps value.
“…this collection and those that have preceded it, and the records of those who have gone out from Stanford’s center and have moved steadily ahead as writers, provide the best evidence that writing centers conducted as Stanford’s has been since it’s beginning do have a place and a firmly justified one in the scheme of things. And the old argument about whether writing can be taught falls off its own weight when it comes up against accomplishment of this quality.”
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Title: Stanford Short Stories 1952
Editor: Wallace Stegner and Richard Scowcroft
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804745722
PREFACE Richard Scowcroft v
THE BOATS Constance Crawford 1
THE DEATH OF PIERCE Sarah Fay 16
ABOUT MY SONS John Ferrone 27
HER OWN PEOPLE John Ferrone 40
THE EGG FARM Umphrey Lee, JR. 53
HARVEST Jack Morrison 67
BILLIE'S FIRE Helen Prentice 87
IT'S SUCH A NICE DAY - SUNDAY Robert E. Thompson 100
SYDNEY AND THE GREEN ANGEL J.D. Warnock 112
LOVE AFFAIR Stanford Whitmore 127
APPENDIX; ON THE WRITING OF A STORY 143
Stability of Motion
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This rigorous analysis extends the fundamental work of Lyapunov and applies his direct method to a variety of problems. Lyapunov's theorems on asymptotic stability and instability are generalized; the problems of mth-order stability and persistent disturbances and related questions are also explored. Extremely general results are established for differential systems with and without delay. Complete proofs of the main results are given; the weakest possible known hypotheses under which the theorems remain valid are indicated. Special emphasis is placed on theorems which have valid converses. The existence of Lyapunov functions which are periodic and very smooth is demonstrated.
Lyapunov functions are applied to systems having the particular trajectory as a parameter, and to differential systems involving a set of parameters.
One section deals with the theory and applications of the second method to differential equations with delay. By applying the general theory of semigroups to the family of trajectories, the author has been able to use a powerful method and obtain a well-rounded theory.
When the Russian edition (1959) was published, Mathematical Reviews commented, "Highly interesting and valuable...The author is indeed one of the major and most original contributors to this general theory. The problems are constantly elucidated with clarity, the definitions are given in full, and most proofs are dealt with completely unless they are standard and readily accessible."
Mr. Krasovskii is Professor of Mathematics at the S.M. Kirov Ural Polytechnical Institute, Sverdlovsk, R.F.S.F.R. Mr. Brenner is a Senior Mathematician at Stanford Research Institute.
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Stability of motion: applications of Lyapunov's second method to differential systems and equations with delay
N. N. Krasovskii, J L Brenner
Stanford U.P., 1963
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The Story of Fabian Socialism
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The Fabian Society has been one of the most famous and successful agents of social reform in our history. Founded nearly eighty years ago, its policy and organization continue to evolve. It is the more surprising that no history of this unique and influential movement has been published since 1916. Margaret Cole, whose new book fills the gap, is particularly qualified to write it. Her connection with the Fabian Society goes back many years. She was its Secretary from 1939 to 1953, at a time when her husband, G.D.H. Cole, was its Chairman and later its President.
This book, however, is not merely a history of the Society, but of 'Fabian Socialism'; it thus takes in its stride the various 'outside' movements, Guild Socialism, the Labour Research Department, the Socialist League and the New Fabian Research Bureau, most of which have never been chronicled at all. Written in a vivid style by someone who was an intimate friend of so many of the great personalities concerned -- the Webbs, Shaw, Wells, Pease, Stafford Cripps and Lord Attlee, to name only a few -- it will be found not merely very readable, but indispensable for anyone who wants to know about the genesis of modern Britain and the Welfare Society.
The illustration on the cover is reproduced from The Sketch of July, 1895. It shows, from left to right, Graham Wallas, Sidney Webb, Beatrice Webb and Bernard Shaw.
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The story of Fabian socialism
Author
Margaret Cole
Edition
illustrated
Publisher
Stanford University Press, 1961
ISBN
0804700915, 9780804700917
Length
366 pages
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Social Aims in a Changing World
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This book is a carefully considered attempt to picture the changing social life and to reveal and to emphasize the basic purposes or aims which should guide community and social action. The author holds that the recreation of oneness of community life in spirit and in essence involves a change of emphasis from individual privilege to personal obligation -- that the issue is ultimately moral. It is in part the nature of this obligation that he seeks here to establish.
Professor Beach has given us an indictment of the machine age as it has thus far developed, and of the so-called "triumph of the individual." No critic of the machine per se, he flays the purely selfish ends to which our machine-released energies have been directed. No idol smashing destructionist, he makes cogent suggestions for the building of a modern social order, based on mutual understanding and helpfulness, and making use of our present superlative existing and potential resources of knowledge. According to Beach, today's world has lost the excuse of ignorance with respect to such problems as sickness, immigrant maladjustment, child labor, and war. The tools are at hand with which to eliminate almost every social ill to which the world is heir. The ends of living, both individual and community, must be made to conform to a larger and more intelligently pattern ideal.
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Author Social Aims in a Changing World
Publisher Stanford University Press
ISBN 0804701512, 9780804701518
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Stanford Short Stories 1953 is the seventh volume in this series of collected short stories by students at the Stanford University Creative Writing Center. Once more, the percentage of stories already published is high – a clear indication that the learning writer can produce work of a most readable quality.
Locales range from the Philippines to Italy to California; characters include a homesick Jewish child, displaced in Switzerland, and an old musician, dying in the backwash of Chicago. But though the situations deal with circumstances where individuals are set apart from the sources of their happiness, the moods are not despairing, as Wallace Stegner points out in his Preface. There is hope and humor here, and there is a healthy willingness to face reality.
As is Stanford Short Stories of 1951 and 1952, the authors are given the opportunity to tell where they received the idea for their stories and how they worked out problems of plot and characterization. Leonard Casper transformed an ex-Marine friend into a girl heroine of “Deep Country Part”; Joseph Stockwell met a bombed out shoemaker in Alsace who wouldn’t speak French out of principle, and put him in “In the Borderland”; Stanford Whitmore “saw Bontemps’ death bubble in the mouth of a woman who collapsed on a Palo Alto street two winters ago.” Each commentary gives a new kind of insight into the aims and viewpoint of each author, in addition to providing significant guideposts for other working writers.
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Title Stanford Short Stories 1953
Editor Wallace Stegner and Richard Scowcroft
Publisher Stanford University Press
ISBN 0804761701, 9780804761703
PREFACE Wallace Stegner v
DEEP COUNTRY PART Leonard Casper 1
WEDDING DANCE Amador T.Daguio 13
BLOSSOM ON THE YEW Mary Lacile Dawkins 22
THE RISE OF LORENZO VILLARI John Ferrone 36
THE DAY OF THE DANCE Norma Crawford Kiley 51
THE SAND FORT Mary K. Miles 62
OUR FELIX Edgar Rosenberg 75
BACK AGAIN William Schuyler 107
IN THE BORDERLAND Joseph Stockwell 120
KIDDISH Bernard Taper 129
BONTEMPS Stanford Whitmore 139
APPENDIX: On the Writing of a Story 149
Stanford Short Stories 1956
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Each year the students at the Stanford University Creative Writing Center, under the leadership of Wallace Stegner and Richard Scowcroft, select the best of the year’s output for inclusion in the annual volume of Stanford
court in the winter of 1950. It is also a working newspaperman’s critique of his own profession. “The news business somehow makes its practitioners the guiltiest characters in town, because they usually know better, “ says the author.
Denise James’s story, “A Kind of Faith,” involves the conflict between a girl’s desire to find a hidden and painless life – in a convent – and her father’s wish to send her to Europe. The resolution of the situation reflects a familiar stage in the business of becoming an adult.
Another kind of father-daughter problem is the theme of “Equinox” by Helen Prentice. Here the daughter of a famous professor must bridge the gulf between his public and his private self. The gulf is bridges, but at the cost of sacrifice of illusion. In “Arrest,” by Luis Harss, the parents of three children are arrested. The author takes this event ot show how children are able to reconstruct their torn-apart world in a strange and wonderful manner.
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Title Stanford Short Stories 1956
Editor Wallace Stegner and Richard Scowcroft
Publisher Stanford University Press
ISBN 0804760764, 9780804760768
PREFACE Richard Scowcroft v
AMELIA Ebe S. Seidenberg 1
THE JOURNEY TO BRENTWOOD Eugene Ziller 19
HELP HER TO BELIEVE Tillie Olsen 34
A THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS Richard Kraus 43
A KIND OF FAITH Denise James 58
LEAD ME HOME Hilary Fonger 74
A WRY ANECDOTE Hughes Rudd 83
EQUINOX Helen Prentice 97
ARREST Luis Harss 113
APPENDIX: On the Writing of a Story 129
Fujiwara Teika's Superior Poems of Our Time
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Fujiwara Teika's
Superior Poems of Our Time
A Thirteenth-Century Poetic Treatise and Sequence
Translated and with an Introduction by Robert H. Brower and Earl Miner
This is a complete translation of an important document of traditional Japanese poetics: the Kindai Shuka of Fuiwara Teika (1162-1241), one of the greatest of Japanese poets and critics. The work consists of a short critical essay by Teika and a carefully arranged sequence of eighty-three poems by other hands. His essay discusses the state of poetry in the early thirteenth century and offers advice and standards for aspiring poets: the sequence of poems teaches the same standards by example.
Despite the title, the poems are taken from the full range of Japanese poetry to Teika's time, with emphasis on the preceding three centuries. Perhaps the most striking characteristic of the sequence is its unique construction. As the translators demonstrate in their Introduction and commentary, the poems are linked by subtle techniques of association and progression into a unified whole that can be read as a single long poem of more than 400 lines.
The poems are given in romanization and in translation, and are fully annotated.
Robert H. Brower is Professor of Japanese at the University of Michigan, and Earl Miner is Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. They are the authors of Japanese Court Poetry.
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Authors Sadaie Fujiwara, Fujiwara Teika, Robert H. Brower, Earl Miner
Editor Sadaie Fujiwara
Translated by Robert H. Brower, Earl Miner
Compiled by Sadaie Fujiwara
Publisher Stanford University Press, 1967
ISBN 0804701717, 9780804701716
Length 148 pages
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“An extraordinary and rich and persistent variety” characterizes Stanford Short Stores 1954, as Wallace Stegner points out in his Introduction. Of these student authors, he says: “To each saint his candle; these are nine young authors, each in his way charming, forceful, compassionate, angry, or wise…in this volume they make a group, as they did in class, but any reader will find that the group breaks p into individual pieces of very different flavors.” Not only the stories themselves, but the authors’ goals, methods, and reasons for choice of theme, as revealed in their own statements, are markedly individual.
To Constance Crawford, kinship is important. She remembered the feeling that grew between herself and an Englishwoman that she met in Oxford – a person more interesting to her than the historic sights on her itinerary – and recaptured it in “The Silver Spoons.”
An Iranian Fulbright scholar has a stirring credo: “Isn’t it one function of a writer to help the people of his poverty-stricken country to rise? Isn’t it his responsibility to show these people how they could improve their lives, by reflecting their lots and misfortunes in the pages of a novel just as in a mirrors? I hope to be a writer. I have always wished to be one; a friend for the poor people of my country.”
Illusion is the theme of Miriam Merritt’s two stories. “Till Gabriel Blows His Horn” is a compelling story of a man who was idolized by his townspeople until he was ruined by a scandal, yet remained to torment their consciences thereafter. In “Death of a Kangaroo,” she skillfully relates the common fancy of children about a beloved though imaginary animal companion to the them of “a man who had fooled himself into thinking he was something that he was not.”
The nature of reality interests another of the group, Nancy Leonard, “Rich” is her story of a man who never grew up. She chose this character to illustrate her conviction that “compassion and kindness are not fantasy even against overwhelming odds but remain the unchanging reality under every war or every idiocy or under every whatever-you-may-find.”
Though several authors chose children as their main characters, the treatment varies considerably. Jean Byers tells the story of “Night on Octavia Street” from an adult’s recollection viewpoint, demonstrating how a sleepless night can be delightful, “if you don’t take it lying down.” In “Pop the Blue Balloon,” Mary Lucile Dawkins shows how an old and despised man was a source of wonder to his small grandson. An adolescent American girl’s dreams and fantasies are the theme of “The Grey Bird” by Hannah Green – curiously contrasted with those of Bernard Taper’s “Inge,” whose dreams were concerned with Hitler and the glories of Nazism.
Marvin Schiller’s child was himself, and this was his problem. As he says in his analysis: “The trouble is that when I write a story about myself as in ‘Now Is the Time,’ I work up inaccurate sympathies for the main character (me).” He describes how he rescued the story from a bog of autobiographical detail.
These and other problems encountered on the way to the successful story are described in analyses by each of the authors. The frank approach to them and the free and constructive discussion of possible solutions provide a valuable source of encouragement and inspiration to others working with the story technique.
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Publisher Stanford University Press
ISBN 0804744467, 9780804744461
PREFACE Wallace Stegner v
NIGHT ON OCTAVIA STREET Jean Byers 1
THE SILVER SPOONS Constance Crawford 11
A LETTER HOME Simin Daneshvar 25
POP THE BLUE BALLOON Mary Lucile Dawkins 32
THE GREY BIRD Hannah Green 43
RICH Nancy H Leonard 56
DEATH OF A KANGAROO Miriam Merritt 64
NOW IS THE TIME Marvin Schiller 83
INGE Bernard Taper 99
NARGES Simin Daneshvar 113
TILL GABRIEL BLOWS HIS HORN Miriam Merritt 126
APPENDIX: On the Writing of a Story 155
Studies in Mathematical Psychology
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Fourteen papers present the most recent developments in the analysis of mathematical models and their applications to psychological data. Emphasis has been placed upon theoretical work and theoretically oriented experimental studies. The extensive selection of material in this book makes it essential for research-oriented psychologists, mathematicians, and behavioral scientists interested in the application of mathematics to psychological phenomena.
Papers included deal with such topics as concept identification, simple learning processes, perception, psychophysics, choice behavior, learning theory, and continuous-response systems.
Contributors: Gordon H. Bower, C. J. Burke, Robert R. Bush, M. Cole, E. J. Crothers, W. K. Estes, Raymond W. Frankmann, M. P. Friedman, L. Keller, R. A. Kinchla, Willard D. Larkin, Michael Levine, R. Duncan Luce, R. B. Millward, Donald A. Norman, M. Frank Norman, Franke Restl, Richard M. Rose, Henry Rouanet, Elizabeth F. Shipley, Patrick Suppes, John Theios, and Thomas R. Trabasso.
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Title Studies in mathematical psychology
Author Richard C. Atkinson
Editor Richard C. Atkinson
Publisher Stanford University Press, 1964
ISBN 0804701814, 9780804701815
Length 414 pages
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“I wanted the observer to be someone within German society, because I was fed up with the usual narrator in such stories, who is generally a perceptive America, conscious of his superiority, who narrates his story out of smug pride in the superiority of American’s destiny over Germany’s.”
“Few daughters ever see their fathers as persons, but Margaret does, I think.”
“For some reason I knew that this man’s sons would cheat.”
“I have for a long time felt that the painter has much to teach the writer.”
These are a few of the comments that the authors of Stanford Short Stories 1955 have made about their own stories. Here are writers, talking about their characters (people they enjoy, people who baffle them, people to remember), their plots, their technical snarls, and their frequent rewritings. The stories were written in classes at the Stanford University Creative Writing Center, taught by Wallace Stegner and Walter van Tilburg Clark (substituting for Richard Scowcroft, on sabbatical leave in 1954). They were selected by vote of the students and opinion of the editors.
Some of the stories have been published in magazines such as The Pacific Spectator and The Southwest Review. One author has published two novels, one is completing a novel under contract with Harper’s. For others, this is the first time in print.
Plots were derived from a remembered experience in a D.P. Camp overseas, from the sight of a war orphan on a plane, from the “mental Kodachrome slide” of a man at some sailing races. Children – their relationship to their parents and their contemporaries – are a favorite theme. The author often places a child in a crisis situation and watches the reaction. Satire is used in a storey about the chagrin of an ex-Nazi sculptor who never gets “recognized” by the denazification trials. Fantasy and humor are their in “Lady Luck and the Guardian Angel, “ a tall tale of the Florida turpentine camps.
Each story, as the comments by the authors indicate, has had its share of reworking. Endings have been torn up, points of view changed, symbolism reshaped. As a result, they emerge – not as a record of the collegiate mind at work, but as stories (as Richard Scowcroft ways) of “disinterested merit” – excellent in their right and satisfying to the reader, as they were to the critical judgment of fellow-students and teachers.
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Title Stanford Short Stories 1955
Editors Wallace Stegner and Richard Scowcroft
Publisher Stanford University Press
ISBN 080474257X, 9780804742573
PREFACE Richard Scowcroft v
A PAIR OF LOVERS Mary Fassett Hunt 1
NO GAME FOR CHILDREN Miriam Merritt 19
SENSE OF DESTINY Bernard Taper 32
JUDGES STAND Constance Crawford 43
THE DEVILS PLAIN Hughes Rudd 69
LADY LUCK AND THE GUARDIAN ANGEL Wesley Ford Davis 85
THE HERO'S CHILDREN Edith Cory 98
THE UNDERTOW Wesley Ford Davis 108
PERMISSION FOR AFRICA Marvin D. Schiller 122
KOLYA Hannah Green 138
APPENDIX: On the Writing of a Story 153
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