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St. Mawr: A Critical Study, David Cavitch

English Language and Literature ETDs

Style appears elusively in the flashing shape of a conception. Ideally, the way a thing is thought of becomes the style in which it is expressed. Style is not the man; it is his thought. Lawrence's style is astonishing because he conceived of things in an astonishing way: in St. Mawr the sophisticated prose techniques are the mode of Lawrence's perception, the means of his discoveries.

The Problem Of Time In The Philosophy Of William James, Teruaki Iida

Philosophy ETDs

The problem of time has continued to be a puzzle in the history of philosophy, just as "the problem of Being" has. The time which we experience in ordinary life -- not only emotionally, such as we feel, endure, anticipate or regret, but also intellectually, such as we measure and calculate -- it is not "time itself' but consists in individual, concrete movements and changes.

New Mexico Musician Vol 7 No 1 (October 1959)

New Mexico Musician

New Personnel at the Universities 1

Augusta Spratt Goes to Interlochen 1

Bender Says 3

From Carl Jacobs 3

NMMEA Minutes, June 6-7 4

Around the Horn 4

NMMEA Minutes, Sept 5 5

Financial Report 7

Orchestra Division 9

ASTA Business Meeting 9

Band Division 11

All-State Festival 11

NMEA Convention—Music Section 12

NMMTA State Convention 13

Music Workshops in New Mexico 14

Choral Division 15

Elementary Music Division 17

MENC Student Chapters 19

Regulations for All-State 22

Four Aspects Of Milton's Samson Agonistes: Imagery, Comedy, Autobiography, Tragedy, Ronald Kutny

English Language and Literature ETDs

The lengthily extended figures of speech and the many instances of recurrent synonymous modifiers must be evident even to the most casual reader of John Milton's poetic drama, Samson Agonistes. It is difficult to label, in any simple literary terminology, the technique which I shall discuss and attempt to analyze in this chapter. Therefore, I shall borrow a term from the vocabulary of music in order to indicate, with as much precision as possible, the nature of this technique -- leitmotiv.

Anarchism And The Morality Of Violence, Edward Abbey

Philosophy ETDs

The idea of anarchism is embarrassed, however, by its traditional association with illegality and violence. The word itself is sufficient to evoke visions of riot and revolution, bombings and assassinations, in the minds of many who might otherwise be willing to lend to anarchism a measured degree of sympathetic consideration. If anarchism is to regain the intellectual respectability which it deserves, two preliminary quest ions must be answered 1 (1) To what extent is the traditional association of anarchism and violence warranted? And (2), In so far as the association is a valid one, what arguments have the anarchists presented, …

An Edition Of William Dean Howells' Literary Friends And Acquaintance With An Introduction Treating Literary Reminiscence As A Genre, David Franklin Hiatt

English Language and Literature ETDs

Although the literary reminiscence is a highly specialized kind of autobiography, many of the problems encountered in autobiography are worth considering when one attempts to focus on the reminiscence. Before placing Literary Friends and Acquaintance into the broad stream of literary reminiscence that appeared in America in the latter part of the nineteenth century, I should like to consider the critical problems of the autobiographical mode and the relationship between autobiography and literary reminiscence. Then I should like to suggest an approach to the literary reminiscence and to consider several individual reminiscences using this approach.

European Immigration Restriction, 1882-1924, Frank Defina

History ETDs

This thesis is a study and evaluation on the premises and charges underlying the National Origins and related quota systems which restricted the so-called "new" immigrants from southern and eastern Europe. Nativists charged that these new immigrants were racially and culturally inferior to the "old" type immigrants from northern and western Europe--the Anglo-Saxons, Teutons or Aryans--and therefore harmful to economic, social and other factors of American culture. Concomitant with these broad premises were more specific charges or theories of harm such as "lower intelligence quotients," and "higher crime rates," which convinced Americans and their congress in the early 1920's of …

Nevada Place Names: Origin And Meaning, Helen S. Carlson

English Language and Literature ETDs

This study was initiated in 1953 with the preparation of a critical bibliography of Nevada place name materials, written as a seminar paper under the direction of Professor Charlton Laird at the University of Nevada for submission to Professor Thomas Matthews Pearce, editor of "Names and Places," Western Folklore. Subsequent investigation into names of the Comstock Lode mines, a thesis prepared at the University of Nevada, and names along the line of nineteenth-century railroads in Nevada, published in Western Folklore (April, 1956), led to this state survey of some 3,000 names, representing perhaps a tenth of the name body of …

Four Stories From The History Of Carthage, Donald W. Bozeman

English Language and Literature ETDs

As a child I remember reading in ancient history about the colorful, violent, and tragic end of a powerful city in northern Africa--Carthage. The story fired my imagination when I first encountered it but was merely committed to memory amidst the sweep of many other subjects and interests at that impressionable age. With the passage of time the name of Hannibal recurrently appeared, and I read various accounts of his crossing the Alps.

Soon after I became interested in creative writing, the dramatic story of Carthage once again struck me. I began in my leisure to study Carthaginian history--what fragments …

Faulkner In Hollywood: A Study Of His Career As A Scenarist, George Sidney

American Studies ETDs

This study explores a significant aspect of William Faulkner's life and work: his Hollywood career. For Faulkner, Hollywood served as a remunerative avocation. It provided him with a financial security which his literary public at that time did not. The money he earned as a scenarist seems to have enabled him to evade the economic necessity of writing for a commercial market, permitting him to write "for himself." But Faulkner also gave for what he got. He gave his time and creative energy, the results of which--his Hollywood writings-- reveal the mind of the artist at work. Faulkner the novelist …

Cosmopolitan Attitudes In The Works Of Emilia Pardo Bazán, Elizabeth Louise Scone

Spanish and Portuguese ETDs

The word "cosmopolitan", "citizen of the world," denotes, in its broadest sense, one whose interests are not limited to the confines of his own country and culture. But when we consider the role of the Spanish cosmopolitan in any age, we are obliged to confront the old spectre of Spain's isolation from the rest of Europe, of a Spain which gazes only into the mirror of eternity.

A Very Human Fear, Joseph Ferguson

English Language and Literature ETDs

Perhaps there are some who will agree with me when I say that the first half of the century has witnessed the greatest flourishing of English poetry in the history of our language. Yet I am forced to add, paradoxically, that never has an age been more indifferent to poetry than our own. Naturally enough, the effect has been disheartening to many of our great geniuses.

Henry Miller: A Semi-Critical Approach, Gilbert Neiman

English Language and Literature ETDs

I have often been asked, when a person learns that I have had more than a reading acquaintance with Henry Miller, why Mr. Miller uses such language and describes such scenes. I have always wanted to quote in reply a passage which I seem never to be able to quote verbatim but which I now take this opportunity of copying out word for word from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell:

I then asked Ezekial why he eat dung, & lay so long on his right & left side? he answer'd, "the desire of raising other men into …

Agitators: Long, Townsend, And Coughlin Versus The New Deal--1932 Through 1936, Richard L. Lunt

History ETDs

In the first years of the Great Depression of the 1930's there were many political agitators of a near lunatic nature whose demagogic appeal found a sympathetic ear among troubled Americans. Probably the most significant of these agitators were Huey Long, Father Charles E. Coughlin, and Dr. Francis E. Townsend. Certainly they were the only ones who succeeded in a anyway to promote their particular causes on a national scale. In addition, these three men, or their followers, attempted to unite into a Union Party in 1936.

If these men were of any political significance, they should have either aided …

The Social Individual: Social Criticism In The Writings Of James Thurber, Arthur M. Kompass

English Language and Literature ETDs

It may seem unfitting to base a polemical thesis on the writings of a humorist. Most of us read humor solely for entertainment, when we are tired of quidities and want escape from problems. We look to other forms of writing for social and philosophical critiques. Moreover, we are often reluctant to account the teller of funny stories a reliable source for information about reality. Serious writers carry with them a background of straight forward facts. They furnish their own documentation. But, a humorist, though he often finds the concrete detail the best building stone for his humor, frequently seems …

A Study Of Taos As An Art Colony And Of Representative Taos Painters, Dorothy Skousen Black

Art & Art History ETDs

This thesis is a study of Taos as an art colony, a subject about which little has been written…Consequently, the best method of research appeared to be interviews with the living painters associated with Taos.

New Mexico Musician Vol 6 No 3 (May 1959)

New Mexico Musician

Current Criticisms of Education 1

A A S A Devote Meeting to Creative Arts 1

Text Book Adoption 1

Bender Says 3

From Carl Jacobs 3

Around the Horn 4

N M M E A Meeting 4

New Head for U N M 5

N M M E A Financial Statement 5

Band Division 7

Elementary Music Division 11

New Mexico Music Teachers Association 12

Choral Division 13

M E N C Student Chapters 17

District Festivals 19

Code of Ethics 21

Oliver La Farge: The Scientist As Literary Artist, Phillip Friedman

English Language and Literature ETDs

The purpose of this paper is to show the development of a scientist into a writer and to indicate elements in his writings which display signs of having been influenced by his earlier training as an anthropologist. In the biographical section, an effort will be made to determine the major factors that helped to shape the life and art of La Farge. The anthropologist is particularly cognizant of the peculiarities of locale, and in the third chapter, "The Influence of Places," three cities that have been important to La Farge will be discussed. Theme and symbol are much of the …

Twentieth-Century Criticism Of Form In Tristram Shandy, Charles Parish

English Language and Literature ETDs

One of the critical tenets of the twentieth century emphasizes the discreetness of the artist and the work of art. Whatever the artist has to say about his creation, whatever image of the artist may be found in his work, we look upon with interest; but that interest is an irrelevant interest and we recognize it to be so. The autonomy of the work of art is essentially inviolate. Whatever the extent of the artist's involvement in his work, we cannot, in justice to him and in justice to the continuum of artistic creation, credit him with it or discredit …

New Mexico Musician Vol 6 No 2 (January 1959)

New Mexico Musician

Clinicians for All-State Clinic 1

Editorial Page 2

Bender Says 3

From Jacobs 3

Aims and Objectives NMMEA 5

All-State Auditions 7

Minutes NMMEA 8

All-State Music Clinic 10

Elementary Music Education 12

Administrators 16

ASTA State Convention 19

The Cavalry Comes Of Age: The Evolution Of Cavalry In The Army Of The Potomac; May, 1861 To June, 1863, Lessing H. Nohl Jr.

History ETDs

Numerous cavalry engagements during the first two years of the American Civil War found the mounted forces of the Army of the Potomac consistently inferior to their Southern counterparts. In frequent passages at arms the trooper in blue usually tasted not only defeat, but humiliation as well. The pages of Civil War history abound with accounts of such failure.