6.0347 Qs: Lists; Ethics; Essays; References; Addresses (7/135)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Tue, 10 Nov 1992 18:13:34 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 6, No. 0347. Tuesday, 10 Nov 1992.


(1) Date: 05 Nov 1992 11:58:51 -0800 (PST) (9 lines)
From: Richard Bear <RBEAR@OREGON>
Subject: Lists

(2) Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 12:19:31 -0600 (23 lines)
From: mlove@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
Subject: arabic question

(3) Date: Fri, 06 Nov 92 13:36:07 PDT (23 lines)
From: Paul Brians <BRIANS@WSUVM1>
Subject: Queries re references in Rushdie

(4) Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 16:23:18 +0100 (22 lines)
From: jon.lanestedt@ilf.uio.no
Subject: The essay genre in science

(5) Date: Mon, 09 Nov 92 20:56:06 CST (29 lines)
From: Glenn Everett <IVAA@UTMARTN.BITNET>
Subject: Computer Ethics course

(6) Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 10:35:28 GMT (12 lines)
From: Donald A Spaeth <GKHA13@CMS.GLASGOW.AC.UK>
Subject: Query: Email address

(7) Date: 10 Nov 1992 17:40:37 -0400 (EDT) (17 lines)
From: Kurt De Belder <DEBELDER@elmer1.bobst.nyu.edu>
Subject: Address OpenText Systems?

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Date: 05 Nov 1992 11:58:51 -0800 (PST)
From: Richard Bear <RBEAR@OREGON>
Subject: Lists

On PACS-L I have seen a very useful list of lists librarians can join. I
gather there are a number of such lists in the Humanities as well, but
have only seen oblique references to them. Could we have such a list of lists
posted? I'm particulary interested in seeing what activity is going on in
English Renaissance, approx. 1500-1672.
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Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 12:19:31 -0600
From: mlove@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
Subject: arabic question

One of our faculty members is interested in knowing whether SoftPC
(Insignia Solutions) for the Mac will work with Arabic. He is also
interested in whether anyone is using MS Dos Arabic version distributed by
Mindware in the United Arab Emirates.

Sharon D. Michalove
Assistant to the Chair for Undergraduate Affairs
Department of History, UIUC
309 Gregory Hall, 810 South Wright Street
Urbana, IL 61801
217-333-4145
mlove@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu

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See the kitten on the wall/Sporting with the leaves that fall
Wht intenseness of desire/In her upward eye of fire!
William Wordsworth
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Date: Fri, 06 Nov 92 13:36:07 PDT
From: Paul Brians <BRIANS@WSUVM1>
Subject: Queries re references in Rushdie


Here are some references from The Satanic Verses which I have
been unable to track down. Can anyone help?

p. 13: We are creatures of air, Our roots in dreams And
clouds, reborn in flight. Note left behind by Gibreel, but
is it a quotation from something else?

p. 95: Arabia Odorifera During what period was this a name
for Arabia? Roman? Medieval? Renaissance?

p. 280: New Broomstick Needed to Sweep Out Witches (a 17th-
century pamphlet?)

p. 314: O but he's dead, and at the bottom of the sea. (No,
it is not from The Tempest.)

p. 422: London Bridge Which Is Of Stone (capitalized thus,
from a children's rhyme?
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Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 16:23:18 +0100
From: jon.lanestedt@ilf.uio.no
Subject: The essay genre in science

Dear HUMANISTs,
A friend of mine is planning a research project on the history and theory
of the essay as a genre of scientific writing. In this context he is trying
to locate all kinds of -- English or non-English -- materials discussing
the genre as it has developed after Francis Bacon's *Essais*. Any
suggestions will be highly appreciated and may be addressed directly to me.
Sincerely,
--jon lanestedt

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Jon Lanestedt
Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
University of Oslo Tel: +47-2-854899
P.O.Box 1102 Blindern Tel: +47-2-854348
N-0317 Oslo Fax: +47-2-856919
Norway Internet: jon.lanestedt@ilf.uio.no
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Date: Mon, 09 Nov 92 20:56:06 CST
From: Glenn Everett <IVAA@UTMARTN.BITNET>
Subject: Computer Ethics course

> Date: Tue, 3 Nov 92 21:08:12 GMT
> From: Richard Giordano <rich@cs.man.ac.uk>
> Subject: Computer Ethics Query
>
> A few months ago, someone from, I think, Southern Connecticut University
> posted a message announcing the availability of a computer ethics
> curriculum complete with videotape. I've lost that posting, and now I find
> myself charged with designing none other than a computer ethics course! If
> anyone has any details on this or other such programs, can you please email
> them to me?
>
> I know that I'm cluttering-up the Humanist with this request, but please be
> patient. There must be some of you who have had similar resposnibilities
> placed on them and know what it's like.
>
> Thanks.
>

May I request that responses be made to the list? I would be interested
to see them, and I suspect others might be as well.

Glenn Everett
English Dept.
Univ. of Tennessee at Martin
IVAA@UTMARTN.BITNET
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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 10:35:28 GMT
From: Donald A Spaeth <GKHA13@CMS.GLASGOW.AC.UK>
Subject: Query: Email address

Sorry to trouble the net with trivial queries, but ...

can anyone supply an email address for David J. Birnbaum of the
Department of Slavic Langs, U of Pittsburgh?

Thanks,
Donald Spaeth
CTICH
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Date: 10 Nov 1992 17:40:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: Kurt De Belder <DEBELDER@elmer1.bobst.nyu.edu>
Subject: Address OpenText Systems?

The address for the vendor of PAT/Lector, OpenText Systems, listed in
the _Humanities Computing Yearbook_ , seems to be unknown to the
Canadian Postal Services. The address I used was:
OpenText Systems, Inc.
Unit 622
Waterloo Town Square
Waterloo, Ontario N2J 1P2
Canada
Could someone supply me with the correct address. Many thanks.

Kurt De Belder
New York University
debelder@elmer1.bobst.nyu.edu