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Something Judicious This Way Comes... The Use Of Foreshadowing As A Persuasive Device In Judicial Narrative, Michael J. Higdon
Something Judicious This Way Comes... The Use Of Foreshadowing As A Persuasive Device In Judicial Narrative, Michael J. Higdon
Scholarly Works
With the recent publication of Judge Richard Posner’s book “How Judges Think” and the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayer to the United States Supreme Court, there has been much discussion about the way in which judges decide cases. Although certainly an interesting (and important) discussion, what has so far gone largely ignored is the question of how judges, once they reach a decision, convince the legal audience that the decision is in fact correct. Thus, in my article, entitled Something Judicious This Way Comes . . ., I focus not on how judges think, but how they write. More specifically, …
Body Satisfaction And Sex Differences In Exercise Motivations, Emma Carroll, Stephanie Lanza
Body Satisfaction And Sex Differences In Exercise Motivations, Emma Carroll, Stephanie Lanza
Perspectives
In this study we investigated body satisfaction and sex differences in exercise motivations. We used a questionnaire that assessed the exercise motivations: stress/anxiety, health/fitness level, mood/enjoyment, and appearance/body shape. We had 198 undergraduate participants, 114 females and 84 males between the ages of 18-23 from the University of New Hampshire, Durham campus. Self-objectification is relevant in this topic because males and females feel pressures from society to obtain the “ideal body type”. We found that health/fitness goals are the primary motivators for both males and females. There were statistically significant differences between male and female exercisers desire to lose, gain …
Front Cover And Publication Information
Front Cover And Publication Information
Word Ways
Front cover and publication information for this issue, including the table of contents.
A Riddle, Al Seckel
A Riddle, Al Seckel
Word Ways
Starting with a common NINE letter word in the English language, what word continues to be a commonly used word in the English language each time you remove a single letter?
Howard Bergerson, A. Ross Eckler
Howard Bergerson, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
Howard Bergerson was born in Minneapolis on July 29, 1922 to Margaret Jeske, who six years later married Ludvick (or Louie) Bergerson. Howard served in World War II, and moved in 1951 to a small house in Sweet Home, Oregon, down the block from a shingle mill where he was employed for over 40 years.
Punk Whiz 10, A. Anil
Punk Whiz 10, A. Anil
Word Ways
Yet another misdefinition pun quiz. Numbers in parentheses are the letters in the answer; (4|4) is a charade, an eight letter word that splits into a four plus four letter pun. My answers are out back.
The Governor, Or The Devil, Jim Puder
The Governor, Or The Devil, Jim Puder
Word Ways
When either intentional or accidental occult "messages" are discovered in the body of some prominent text, they are of potential interest to logology. Here is the story of one such "message" of recent occurrence whose true nature -- accidental or artificial -- is a subject of dispute. All of the particular facts cited herein were taken from a front page article in the October 28, 2009 San Francisco Chronicle, which article may be examined in its entirety at the Chronicle's website, sfgate.com.
More Charades And Mondegreens, Solomon W. Golomb
More Charades And Mondegreens, Solomon W. Golomb
Word Ways
Here is an assortment of my own charades. Children who learn to recite patriotic songs, religious hymns, etc., that they haven't ever read create remarkable mondegreens. Here are some dandies.
Palindrome Palindromes, A. Anil
Palindrome Palindromes, A. Anil
Word Ways
Palindroming is such an unnatural occupation that it is extremely hard to make an intelligible pal of length, or even a short one involving diphthongs, especially if H is involved. (No, no, the letter, not the drug. But I imagine heroin would make it totally impossible, if not uninteresting.) Hence most pals require and ideally requite explanation, as few make easy reading, unlike anagrams which are much easier. With that excuse, I present some more or less identical palls that include and define the word palindrome itself in a new way, so far as I know.
Kickshaws, Dave Morice
Working Week, Sir Jeremy Morse
Magic Spells -- Round Two, Jeremiah Farrell
Magic Spells -- Round Two, Jeremiah Farrell
Word Ways
In February's "Magic Spells" article an ostensibly new spelling magic effect was offered. At the 9th Gather for Gardner in Atlanta last March magician Mark Setteducati recalled a Bob Hummer trick that was similar.
A 2152-Point Scrabble Move, Jeff Grant
A 2152-Point Scrabble Move, Jeff Grant
Word Ways
In the November 1979 issue of Word Ways we exhibited a 2064-point single-move Scrabble score using open sources. This was an improvement on an earlier 2037-point effort devised by Josefa Heifetz, better known as Josefa Heifetz Byrne, compiler of the famous Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words (1974). Both moves are based on the elusive term SESQUIOXIDIZING, which is not specifically indicated in any dictionary. The closest approach is the past participle SESQUIOXIDIZED, which appears in OED.
Unaccidental Transcendental, Mike Keith
Unaccidental Transcendental, Mike Keith
Word Ways
The crossword puzzle below has deliberately tough clues, because one can use a special property of the puzzle, which is described below, to help determine the words and/or verify their correctness. The unusual numbering of the words is also a result of this feature.
Smarmy Homeowners And Licked Wounds, Don Hauptman
Smarmy Homeowners And Licked Wounds, Don Hauptman
Word Ways
One of my favorite singers in Karen Akers. On October 5, 2009, The New York Observer, a weekly newspaper, published a rave review of her new cabaret show. The critic opined that "even seasoned performers twice Ms. Akers' age are reluctant to try" certain challenging songs. On October 13, a week after the article was published, she turned 64. Reading the article, I wondered: Where are all those 128-year-old-singers?
Here's a new batch of media errors and anomalies, each followed, as usual, by a witty or snarky riposte.
Alaska Opens New Civic Center -- The Palindrome, J. James Mancuso
Alaska Opens New Civic Center -- The Palindrome, J. James Mancuso
Word Ways
After six years, work was completed today on the latest in state capital convention centers. The brainchild of Alaska governor Sarah Palin, the new center will be a key asset in Juneau's bid to become a destination for associations holding conventions in popular tourist destinations. This sparkling new civic center, known as the Palindrome, lies in the heart of downtown Juneau on Kayak Street across from the headquarters of Snow Bank.
Around The World In 80 Limericks, W. E. Brandt
Around The World In 80 Limericks, W. E. Brandt
Word Ways
A collection of limericks about geographic regions and locations.
It's Elementary, Steve Kahan
It's Elementary, Steve Kahan
Word Ways
The periodic table provides the backdrop for the thirty examples presented below. Each word in the list is the result of replacing a single letter in the name of a chemical element with another and permuting the ensuing collection.
Vanilla Vaginas: Strange Bedfellows, A. Anil
Vanilla Vaginas: Strange Bedfellows, A. Anil
Word Ways
It's often surprising, even amusing, when unlikely words turn out to be related etymologically, such as vanilla and vagina (pod, sheath). Some of those here seem so unlikely you're unlikely to believe me and will wan to look them up yourself for confirmation or details. Admittedly many pairings are of composite words that share a common root in only part of the word(s). But the two halves of the hyphenated words listed here count separately.
Organization, Steve Kahan
Organization, Steve Kahan
Word Ways
General practitioners are virtually things of the past. When something ails us today, we invariably consult with a specialist whose area of expertise is a particular part of the human anatomy. The twenty words that follow represent close facsimiles of some bodily organs in need of reconstructive surgery. In fact, substituting a new letter for another in each given word will expose such an organ after appropriate rearrangement is performed. To illustrate, TAROT would be transformed into AORTA after a "T" is removed and replaced by an "A".
A Word Of Difference, J. James Mancuso
A Word Of Difference, J. James Mancuso
Word Ways
A selection of neologisms starting with the letters A & B.
Instructions To Authors
Word Ways
Instructions to authors wishing to contribute to the publication.
The Essential E, Richard Lederer
The Essential E, Richard Lederer
Word Ways
About the letter E I am enthusiastic, enchanted, ecstatic, exhilarated, ecstatic, exuberant, ebullient, and effervescent. Ah, those wonderful words that begin with E: In their early lives, enthusiastic meant "possessed by a god," enchanted "singing a magic song," ecstatic "in a trance, exhilarated "made thoroughly cheerful," exhuberant, and ebullient and effervescent, "overflowing, boiling over, spouting out." E is truly a godlike letter that magically entrances, cheers our spirits, and bubbles over.
Counting, Sir Jeremy Morse
The Violences Of Capitalism: Privatization And Land Tenure In Uganda, Minnesota, And Mexico, Nicole S. Kligerman
The Violences Of Capitalism: Privatization And Land Tenure In Uganda, Minnesota, And Mexico, Nicole S. Kligerman
Latin American Studies Honors Projects
This project analyzes the relationship between land privatization and violence in societies that previously employed non-capitalist land tenure systems. Exploring the cases of the Dakota in Minnesota, the Acholi in Northern Uganda, and indigenous communities in southern Mexico, I examine how the state forcibly incorporated collective land systems into capitalism through a combination of physical, structural, and intra-community violences. This results in the disintegration of previous means of agricultural production and the accompanying community-based cultural systems. Communities resist this process, however, as they battle for natural resource sovereignty and sustainable peace in their homelands.
Focused Multi-Document Summarization: Human Summarization Activity Vs. Automated Systems Techniques, Quinsulon L. Israel, Hyoil Han, Il-Yeol Song
Focused Multi-Document Summarization: Human Summarization Activity Vs. Automated Systems Techniques, Quinsulon L. Israel, Hyoil Han, Il-Yeol Song
Computer Sciences and Electrical Engineering Faculty Research
Focused Multi-Document Summarization (MDS) is concerned with summarizing documents in a collection with a concentration toward a particular external request (i.e. query, question, topic, etc.), or focus. Although the current state-of-the-art provides somewhat decent performance for DUC/TAC-like evaluations (i.e. government and news concerns), other considerations need to be explored. This paper not only briefly explores the state-of-the-art in automatic systems techniques, but also a comparison with human summarization activity.
Communism With Its Clothes Off: Eastern European Film Comedy And The Grotesque, Lilla Toke
Communism With Its Clothes Off: Eastern European Film Comedy And The Grotesque, Lilla Toke
Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)
The dissertation examines the legacies of grotesque comedy in the cinemas of Eastern Europe. The absolute non-seriousness that characterized grotesque realism became a successful and relatively safe way to talk about the absurdities and the failures of the communist system. This modality, however, was not exclusive to the communist era but stretched back to the Austro-Hungarian era and forward into the Postcommunist times. The analysis explores how film comedy provided a second, carnivalesque world that mirrored official culture in a grotesque way and ridiculed it, and as such these comedies indicated the failure of the Grand Narrative of Communism. The …
Authority And Force: Investigating Authority In The Works Of Thomas Hobbes And In J.M. Coetzee's Diary Of A Bad Year, Ciahnan Quinn Darrell
Authority And Force: Investigating Authority In The Works Of Thomas Hobbes And In J.M. Coetzee's Diary Of A Bad Year, Ciahnan Quinn Darrell
Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)
`Authority' is said to govern force; it is a word one is born into, a word that shapes what one knows, and even what he is able to see, but it is also a word that conceals its precise meaning and which refuses to divulge its origins. The relationship between force and authority is dynamic, intimate, and infinitely complex; authority and force are often conflated, or differentiated only by the thinnest and most porous of tissue. As force and authority commingle, articulating the difference between the two becomes increasingly problematic, and the most profound consequence of this inability to distinguish …