Noble Tradition Research Articles

New developments in age discrimination

Reasons for Age Discrimination During the course of history, one of the most used methods in teaching a younger worker a new skill was to match him or her up with a veteran worker who was quite competent in that skill. The young worker learned by observing, assisting, and practicing in the skill. The “student” spent many hours with the “master” for little or no pay. In time the student learned to become as capable as his teacher. In some societies the passing along of such skills from mentor to student was considered a noble tradition. The actions of corporate America within the past few years run quite contrary to such traditional teaching methods. The restructuring of companies has lead to an increasing perception that older workers are less necessary to corporate success. This trend began in the late 1980s and has continued through the present.

A Noble Tradition: Creative Writing at UNCG

A Noble Tradition: Creative Writing at UNCG

Tall Cows and Tapestries: A Perspective on the English-Canadian Canon

There is a long and (depending on theoretical disposition) noble tradition in Canadian literary studies of pursuing patterns or syndromes. But in keeping with the aquatic psychology of so many writers in our too frozen land, the preference here is to record currents, strong currents in the fiction that eddy around origins, in family and social group, in the evolutionary home, in the historical past. Since the focus of this paper is the centrality of origins for many of the canonical writers this century — Ross, Watson, Davies, Laurence, Richler, Atwood, Ondaatje, among others — an initial notation about my own sense of origin with the literature is appropriate. My sharpest recollection is not of a particular work or constellation of works, but of a cbc public affairs program on which Morley Callaghan would regularly appear and would discuss issues such as nato, national economic policy, occasionally even a question about art.My dismay became more concentrated when, soon after, I read Hugh MacLennan, who, for all his skill, had taken on the role of recording secretary to the emerging nation. Both instances seemed obscurely unnerving and decidedly unhealthy expressions of the compulsion to see literature as a mutated species of moral instruction, the writer a purveyor of public knowledge, a voice of communal understanding. Later, Northrop Frye's remark about `the obvious and unquenchable desire of the Canadian cultural public to identify itself through its literature' (823) and, one should add, its literary figures arrived with a luminous `shock of recognition.'

New Developments in Age Discrimination

Reasons for Age Discrimination During the course of history, one of the most used methods in teaching a younger worker a new skill was to match him or her up with a veteran worker who was quite competent in that skill. The young worker learned by observing, assisting, and practicing in the skill. The “student” spent many hours with the “master” for little or no pay. In time the student learned to become as capable as his teacher. In some societies the passing along of such skills from mentor to student was considered a noble tradition. The actions of corporate America within the past few years run quite contrary to such traditional teaching methods. The restructuring of companies has lead to an increasing perception that older workers are less necessary to corporate success. This trend began in the late 1980s and has continued through the present.

Book reviews and book received

Abstract The inside story Danny Danziger: The Noble Tradition: Interviews with the Medical Profession. London: Viking, 1990. £14.99. Social analysis Barry Richards (ed.): Crises of the Self: Further Essays on Psychoanalysis and Politics. London: Free Association Books, 1989.

Book Reviews

Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Noble Tradition. Interviews with the Medical Profession. D Danziger. (224 pages, £14.99 Viking, 1990. ISBN 0-670-81961-1. CHARLES CHUBB CHARLES CHUBB Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Family Practice, Volume 7, Issue 4, December 1990, Pages 347–348, https://doi.org/10.1093/fampra/7.4.347-b Published: 01 December 1990

Public Utility Finance and Pricing: A Reply

The issues that Bernard and Cairns raise in their paper deal primarily with the importance of using marginal cost pricing to improve efficiency in the consumption of electricity and ultimately in its production. While their policy recommendations have had a long and noble tradition in the economics literature, marginal cost pricing cannot be separated from the question of what is, the appropriate cost of capital for public electric utilities to use to determine the correct mix of generation and transmission investments that will minimize their long run marginal cost. (This abstract was borrowed from another version of this item.)

The Hebrew Paraphrase of Saadiah Gaon'sKitĀb al-AmĀnĀt wa'l-I'tiqĀdĀt

Saadiah Gaon (882–942) was a prolific and pioneering teacher, sage, and communal leader who pursued his wide-ranging studies with a singleminded commitment. His was the first Rabbanite translation of the Hebrew Bible into Arabic; his was one of the first Hebrew dictionaries; hisSiddurmarked one of the first attempts to regularize the liturgy. HisKitāb al-Amānāt wa l-I'tiqādā(Book of Beliefs and Opinions)was the first major work of medieval Jewish philosophy. Written during his renowned forced retirement in the year 932 C.E., theKitāb al-Amānātrepresents the beginning of a long and noble tradition of Judeo-Arabic philosophy.

"Synaesthesia" in Emily Dickinson's Poetry

In his New Laocoon, Irving Babbitt attacked what has since come to be known as Seeing it as a symptom of a general confusion in the arts perpetrated by the Romantic movement, he concluded: We are living in an age that has gone mad on the powers of suggestion in everything from its arts to its therapeutics (1910:84). Critics of the next generation, finding perhaps that they were living in quite a different age, sought to defend literary synaesthesia. To do so, they adopted two main strategies: they carefully distinguished literary from the clinical kind, that psychological aberration known variously as audition coloree, Farbenhoren, and chromesthesia; and they demonstrated that there was a long and noble tradition of in literature, a tradition which included many major figures and stretched back at least as far as Homer. The process of rehabilitation was impressively initiated by Erika von Erhardt-Siebold in her thesis, Syndisthesien in der englischen Dichtung des 19. Jahrhunderts; it was triumphantly concluded by Stephen Ullmann, most particularly in his formulation of panchronistic tendencies in literary synaesthesia in Principles of Semantics (1957:266-289). During the three decades that elapsed between the works of Siebold and Ullmann mentioned above, Emily Dickinson's poetry was either too little known or too little accessible to be taken into consideration by those engaged in the debate about synaesthesia. Moreover, now that the debate has been wound up with the complete vindication of literary as an ancient and honorable technique, there has perhaps been little incentive for critics to examine Dickinson's use of this technique in any great detail.' This

The Primacy of Justice in Moral Theology

It should warm the self-righteous cockles of Catholic hearts to read Protestant theologian Emil Brunner's remark that “while the Catholic Church, drawing on centuries of tradition, possesses an impressive systematic theory of justice, Protestant Christianity has had none for some three hundred years past.” The cockles, however, are in for a chilling with the realization of how little we have done, particularly in the United States, to give this noble tradition salience and application in Catholic thought, or to give it voice and currency in national and international political discourse. With such an in-house treasure as Brunner noted, why were we content to live as misers responding so little to the poverty in justice theory that scars our national setting? There were some notable exceptions, but they never became mainstreamed in American Catholic life. Why?The principal reasons, I submit, are these: Catholic thought was (I) prone to conflate the just and the juridical; (II) distracted by charity to the neglect of justice; (III) insufficiently nourished by the justice preoccupations of the Bible; (IV) inattentive to the need to clarify and develop the theories underlying our social justice tradition.

Kyōshi: Japanese “Wild Poetry”

AbstractIn Japan between 1770 and 1790, the craze for witty, comic verse forms such askyōkaandsenryū,infected the ancient and noble tradition of poetry written in Chinese to producekyōshi,“wild Chinese poetry.” Written in both Edo and Kyoto by poets of the lower samurai and educated townsmen classes,kyōshiranged from silly puns and parodies of long-petrified Chinese verse forms to serious poems that used new subjects, language, and perceptions to revive the old genre,kanshi.Of the major poets, Ōta Nampo (Shokusanjin) of Edo, well-known as a master ofkyōka,was equally famous for collections of wittykyōshi,while Hatanaka Tanomo (Dōmyaku Sensii) revived the Chinese “folk song style ballad” as a vehicle for descriptions of daily life in and around Kyoto. Becausekyōshiwas the product of a unique conjunction of literary, social, and political factors, it was almost forgotten by the beginning of the nineteenth century.

The contribution of the physical sciences to psychological medicine.

The honour which the R.M.P.A. has bestowed on me fills me with a mixture of pride and apprehension; pride that I occupy the Chair where have sat so many distinguished psychiatrists and apprehension lest I might be unequal to the task of upholding the noble traditions of my predecessors. In offering you my thanks and appreciation I wish to express my most devout hope that I will prove worthy of the mantle you have placed on my shoulders and pass it on to my successors untarnished. It is pleasant to think that the Irish Division of the R.M.P.A. has held such a long and happy relationship with its Royal parent and that in the field of psychological medicine there has been no cleavage between the Sassenach and the Gael. I am proud to be the figurehead which expresses that unity today.

Commencement at the Large University

T HE staging of proper commencement ceremonies has become a matter of deep concern to university administrators. Such ceremonies are important because they have great sentimental and inspirational value for the graduating Senior; they are the focal point for alumni rallies and reunions; they are the largest academic functions open to parents, friends, and the general public; and they provide the one occasion of the year when the whole university dons its colorful ceremonial dress, recalls its noble traditions, and reminds the public of its ancient, honorable, and international heritage. Such ceremonies can be a vital means of rekindling loyalty to the high ideals of scholarship and learning; they can also be an important means of winning friends-and possibly donors-for an institution. As university enrollments have risen to the unprecedented figures of ten, fifteen, and twenty thousand, the staging of the traditional commencement ceremony has become increasingly difficult. Handling masses of students and spectators requires a large and highly trained staff; providing physical facilities, decorations, tickets, degree lists, and diplomas costs thousands of dollars; presenting a complicated and impressive program demands expert organization and masterful stage management; and, finally, limiting the ceremony to a reasonable time and yet retaining the personal touch despite the great number of students involved pose difficulties which are almost insuperable. As chairman of the Committee on Public Ceremonies at the University of California, Berkeley, I am acutely aware of the problems involved in ceremonies of this kind. During the past month I have visited five other leading educational institutions-Cornell, Yale, Harvard, Columbia, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-to investigate how they have met similar problems. At each institution I discovered a keen awareness of the difficulties involved and a sincere eagerness to exchange information and to learn the best procedures and practices. I believe that the information I gathered at these institutions, plus my own experience at California, can be of great value to other universities wrestling with the same problems. Administrative organizations for staging commencements differ from institution to institution. Usually, the secretary of the university is in

The Oldest Midrash: Pre-rabbinic Ideals and Teachings in the Passover Haggadah

The researches of the last three decades have conclusively shown that toward the end of the third century B.C. a profound change occurred in the spiritual life of the Jews. Literary prophecy, which had been declining since the time of Haggai and Zechariah (ca. 518 B.C.), now definitely came to an end. The noble tradition had been in its death throes for no less than three centuries. In vain did the Joels, the Obadiahs, and the Deutero-Zechariahs seek to save it from complete eclipse. Its hour had passed. In the meantime, new forces were arising to contend for its place in the spiritual leadership of Israel.

The Psychology of Mathematical Ability

Both terms in the title of this paper are probably suspect. The mathematician, versed in a subject with hundreds of years of noble tradition, tends to be suspicious of a paper on psychology; the teacher of mathematics, immersed daily in psychological relationships with ordinary children, tends to be suspicious of a paper on mathematical ability. The discussion promises to be unsatisfactory, to the one because psychology lacks mathematical precision, to the other because mathematical ability seems to present no urgent psychological problems. The teacher-mathematician may then be pardoned if he reacts sceptically to our title with the petition, “Psychology, if there be a science of psychology, help me to cope with mathematical disability.” But these suspicions are not well founded. Not only is psychology, as we shall see, becoming increasingly mathematical, but also, if we interpret our terms as mathematicians should, disability is seen to be merely the negative aspect of ability. As such, it will not be excluded from our discussion.