6.0247 Qs: S/W Requests; Posters; Ushers; Computer Literacy 5/83

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Wed, 23 Sep 1992 01:16:38 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 6, No. 0247. Wednesday, 23 Sep 1992.


(1) Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 12:36:10 PDT (15 lines)
From: cbf@athena.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber)
Subject: Indexing software

(2) Date: Tue, 01 Sep 92 14:29:22 EDT (18 lines)
From: Mark Wollaeger <MWOLLAE@YALEVM>
Subject: posters in modern literature

(3) Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 08:40:06 -0400 (22 lines)
From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty)
Subject: recommendations needed

(4) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 92 15:43:33 PDT (14 lines)
From: Paul Brians <BRIANS@WSUVM1>
Subject: Seeking Vintage Photo of Movie Usher

(5) Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 09:41:55 -0400 (14 lines)
From: jdg@oz.plymouth.edu (Dr. Joel Goldfield)
Subject: The new computer literacy

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Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 12:36:10 PDT
From: cbf@athena.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber)
Subject: Indexing software

The time is fast approaching when we shall have to produce an
index for vols. 25-50 of _Romance Philology_, which focuses on
the history of the Romance languages and the medieval Romance
literatures. Are there any off-the-shelf packages that we should
be looking at? We would prefer not to use one of the standard
DBMS's if there is something which already exists.

Thanks,

Charles Faulhaber
UC Berkeley
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Date: Tue, 01 Sep 92 14:29:22 EDT
From: Mark Wollaeger <MWOLLAE@YALEVM>
Subject: posters in modern literature

For a project I'm doing on posters, poster art, and modern British literature,
I'd be grateful for any references in primary texts that Humanist subscribers
might be able to send my way. I'm interested in citations ranging from the
literal -- an allusion to a poster in a poem or novel; a character looking at
poster -- to various levels of metaphoricity -- a character in Wyndham Lewis's
_Tarr_ looms in another's "distended eyes" as "a great terrifying poster"; the
opening paragraph of Conrad's _Lord Jim_ reads almost as the description of a
poster. (I began this project with Joyce, so I've pretty much canvassed that
area.) Non-British sources would be appreciated too, though they're not as
directly useful. Thanks in advance for any help.

Mark Wollaeger
Yale University
MWOLLAE@YALEVM
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Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 08:40:06 -0400
From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty)
Subject: recommendations needed

Would someone be able and willing kindly to recommend a relational dbms
and a bibliographic manager for MS-DOS that are in the public domain or
distributed as shareware? In the course of teaching basic
applications of humanities computing to graduate students and faculty,
I like to give them software of each kind. I've not been very
successful so far in locating a relational dbms that both covers the
basics and is sufficiently forgiving to be handled by an intelligent
beginner. (SSQL, for example, is interesting but VERY unforgiving.)
Public-domain bibliographic managers in my experience tend
to be far too limited; specifically, the ones I have seen don't allow
parts of each entry to be defined.

Programs accessible by the Internet will be most convenient to me.

Thanks very much.

Willard McCarty

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Date: Mon, 21 Sep 92 15:43:33 PDT
From: Paul Brians <BRIANS@WSUVM1>
Subject: Seeking Vintage Photo of Movie Usher

This is stretching the parameters of Humanist, but I'm desperate.
I'm doing a multimedia presentation illustrating the lyrics of Cole
Porter's song, "You're the Top." I have all the pictures I need except
"the pants of a Roxy usher." I've looked in lots of books on film,
but they rarely have anything but stills from films or publicity shots.
Books on movie palaces have empty buildings, no ushers. We don't have
much of a collection of books on film, however; and I'm sure I'm
missing something. Can somebody direct me to a vintage photograph,
either in a book or popular magazine, showing a movie usher in a
sharp-looking uniform?
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Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 09:41:55 -0400
From: jdg@oz.plymouth.edu (Dr. Joel Goldfield)
Subject: The new computer literacy

Dear HUMANIST colleagues,
A foreign language colleague and an administrator have asked me
to define "computer literacy" for the language & literature teacher/scholar
of the 1990's. I thought this might be a matter for consensus rather
than one individual's absolute definition (which I don't propose to have
right now). Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

Sincerely,
Joel Goldfield
Plymouth State College