3.1052 Notes and Queries (88)

Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca)
Wed, 14 Feb 90 20:56:45 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 1052. Wednesday, 14 Feb 1990.


(1) Date: 14 February 1990, 06:22:58 EDT (15 lines)
From: FLANNAGA at OUACCVMB
Subject: Reading aloud

(2) Date: Wed, 14 Feb 90 13:20:50 CST (19 lines)
From: ENCOPE@LSUVM
Subject: Call for Participants: International Seminar on Beckford

(3) Date: Wed, 14 Feb 90 13:27 EDT (29 lines)
From: JSCHWARTZ%desire@WSU
Subject: Holocaust Studies

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Date: 14 February 1990, 06:22:58 EDT
From: FLANNAGA at OUACCVMB
Subject: Reading aloud

For anyone with young children, certainly, reading
aloud is not dead. Everyone in my family--mother, father, sister--gets
a chance at least once a day to read a story to our almost-two-year-old.
Not Cicero yet, but stories in English, French, Italian and Spanish,
depending on the capabilities of the reader. One reading opportunity
that has been lost in most American homes, possibly for fear of thumpers
on the subject, is reading of the Bible to the family, so that the
cadences and the rich and often beautifully simple imagery (as in "The
race is not to the swift ...") will become part of a child's written and
spoken vocabulary. I hope, too, that most of us who teach read often
but not boringly to our students. Roy Flannagan
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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 90 13:20:50 CST
From: ENCOPE@LSUVM
Subject: Call for Participants: International Seminar on Beckford

My dear colleague Kenneth Graham plans to organize a plenary roundtable
on Beckford at the forthcoming International Congress on the enlightenment
(Bath/Bristol, England, last week in July, 1991). Ken would like to
receive proposals from any and all interested scholars. He must receive
them QUICKLY in order to qualify for "roundtable"status, which is something
a bit more fancy than ordinary "session" status. Ken prefers proposals
that deal with Beckford's non-Vathekian aspects--his miscellaneous and
travel writings, poems, connoisseurship, habits of collection, family,
politics, etcetera--but he'll consider anything relevant to "England's
Wealthiest Son." So the Caliph isn't out of the picture. If you're
interested, please write to Ken IMMEDIATELY: Prof. Kenneth Graham,
Department of English, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1,
CANADA. -- KLC.
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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 90 13:27 EDT
From: JSCHWARTZ%desire@WSU
Subject: Holocaust Studies

HOLOCAUST STUDIES PROJECT

This project involves a study of the fate of children during the German
occupation. All children -- Jewish and Gentile -- will constitute the
subject of the study. Representative areas to be investigated include

1. deportation to Germany for hard labor

2. Germanization of "Nordic" types

3. medical experimentation

4. terrorization and execution.

Anyone having any information about these topics, or anyone who can
provide any assistance whatsoever, please contact me through my
BITNET address

JSCHWARTZ%DESIRE@WSU.BITNET

Thanks.

Jim Schwartz