![]() ![]() He has found himself doing a job I which he has no real interest and forced into the social orbit of the Welches, who he loathes. ![]() Much of the humour of Lucky Jim comes from Jim’s haphazard attempts to do what he needs to do to hang on to things he doesn’t really like. He spends too much time at the pub, when he should be working on his lectures, he gets off on the wrong foot with Welsh’s son Bertrand and he is extricated in a romantic relationship with Margaret, a fragile and needy woman who is adept at emotional blackmail and just happens to be convalescing with the Welsh’s following a suicide attempt. In all of these endeavours, Jim is failing miserably. To this end, he is trying to get an article published in a new history journal, is cajoling students to sign up to the new course he has yet to devise and is attempting to keep Welsh and his family sweet on a personal level. When the novel opens, Jim’s primary concern is convincing his head of department Professor Welsh, not to end his contract at the end of term. Jim is an amiable and flippant protagonist and Amis guides the reader through a rogue’s gallery of lecturers, fraudulent arty types and academic bores as Jim ties to hold on to his university position and straighten out his love-life, preferably with as little effort as possible.ĭoing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do. ![]()
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![]() ![]() We also summarize the central research themes and types of stimuli that have been studied in relation to the meta-accuracy of first impressions. Following a definitions-and-methodology-focused overview of the historical development of the topic, we present comparative synthesis and analysis of the key conceptualization and measurement methods used to study the meta-accuracy of first impressions. In order to reduce conceptual and methodological overwhelm, facilitate understanding of the topic, and stimulate future work in the field, we conducted a brief introductory literature review on the meta-accuracy of first impressions. The meta-accuracy of first impressions (i.e., how accurately one understands others’ perception of oneself) can be conceptualized and measured in various ways. Department of Psychology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Population and Human Studies, Sofia, Bulgaria. ![]() ![]() ![]() Turner is a lecturer in the music and honors departments at North Carolina State University. Although the problem is too complex for easy answers, Ewell ends the book with some strategies to begin to subvert music’s white racial frame and make “music more welcoming for everyone.” ![]() ![]() Ewell reminds readers that there is a difference between diversity work and antiracism, and how important it is to recognize when “solutions” are actually supporting the very racial injustices they purport to reform. Ultimately, the book brings attention to the myriad ways that people are excluded, denigrated, and marginalized by deeply entrenched beliefs, analytical methods, and systems in music theory. He shows how the power traditionally wielded by white, cisgender men in academia is supported by the methodologies, the pedagogy, and the very music that most music specialists study, perform, and teach, and how this white racial frame makes it difficult for anyone else to feel comfortable, much less succeed in the field. Using meticulous research and his own experiences, Ewell documents the results of music theory’s white racial frame. ![]() On Music Theory and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone (University of Michigan Press, 2023) by Philip Ewell is an unflinching look at white supremacy and the academy, specifically in the discipline of music theory, although Ewell’s insights and arguments can apply just as well to all music studies and most, if not all, other academic fields. ![]() ![]() ![]() But after frantically scanning the plant floor below, he was unable to spot him. “Honorable intentions can lead to horrifying consequences.”Ī large dose of adrenaline hit Charlie’s bloodstream as he jumped to his feet and looked below him to try and find McCormick. To make matters worse, the killer has programmed the depot to self-destruct unless Charlie can figure out some way to stop it. ![]() Charlie needs to stop the carnage and vows to protect Linda, his loving wife. Charlie operates the spacecraft refueling station, and the hydrogen fuel condenser facility, while Linda’s role is to lovingly provide her guests with a friendly smile, a couple good meals and then get them on their way.īut, their peaceful existence is terminated when people onboard are savagely murdered. Passengers and cargo are sniffed for traces of the disease before they are allowed to proceed on their journey.Ĭharlie and Linda Kennedy live a quiet life on Decontamination Depot, D.D. To ensure that no infected are allowed to reach Mars, a network of decontamination depots has been placed in space, half way between the two planets. ![]() The plan is to relocate humans that have not been contaminated by the disease to the red planet and leave the crazies back on Earth. The only way to save humanity and propagate the species is to restart civilization someplace else. “Evil doesn’t have a problem finding the middle of nowhere.”Įarth is ravaged by a Vermiculira epidemic which threatens every human life on the planet. ![]() ![]() The Suzuki Elders have worked together on various salons and other educational outreach events over the past several years. ![]() How can a person with a limited touch of truth turn that into the one and only version of all reality?Īmerican poet John Godfrey Saxe (1816-1887) immortalized the fable in his famous eponymous poem. The underlying truth is that our sensory perceptions and life experiences can lead to limited access and overreaching misinterpretations. The parable is used today as a warning for people who promote absolute truth or exclusive religious claims. In turn, each blind man creates his own version of reality from that limited experience and perspective. The Blind Men and the Elephant is a famous Indian fable that tells the story of six blind sojourners that come across different parts of an elephant in their life journeys. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The judges praised the “precise and unwavering” story of “a good man and his ordinary life” and how the decision he makes “unlocks major, present questions about social care, women’s lives and collective morality.” He was joined by writer, translator and lecturer Dennis Duncan, writer and editor Sana Goyal and Costa book award winner Monique Roffey. Keegan, who lives in County Wexford, Ireland, was chosen as the winner by a panel chaired by novelist and professor Adam Roberts. Small Things Like These is set in an Irish town in the weeks leading up to Christmas 1985, and focuses on Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant confronted with an ethical dilemma. However, because of their “wit, elegance and compassion”, both books “also help us think about the choices we make, and how to make the future better”, she added. ![]() Jean Seaton, director of the Orwell Foundation, said the winners have, “in very different ways, written gripping stories about things that should alarm us: there are awful truths right at the heart of our societies and systems”. ![]() ![]() Financing his own team of scientists and artists, Banks battled high seas, hailstorms, treacherous coral reefs and hostile locals to expand the world's knowledge of life on distant shores. In 1768, as a galivanting young playboy, he joined Captain James Cook's Endeavour expedition to the South Pacific. A fearless adventurer, his fascination with beautiful women was only trumped by his obsession with the natural world and his lust for scientific knowledge.įabulously wealthy, Banks was the driving force behind monumental voyages and scientific discoveries in Australia, New Zealand, the South Pacific, Europe, North America, South America, Asia, Africa and the Arctic. Sir Joseph Banks was a man of passion whose influence spanned the globe. ![]() ![]() Lust, science, adventure - Joseph Banks and his voyages of discovery ![]() ![]() ![]() Alix Wilber The Last Picture Show is one of Larry McMurtry's most powerful, memorable novels - the basis for the enormously popular movie of the same name. No epiphanies here, just a lot of hard-won experience that leaves none of his protagonists particularly wiser, though they're all a little sadder by the end. Yet it is out of these small-town experiences-a nude swimming party in Wichita, a failed sexual encounter during a senior trip, a botched elopement, an enlistment-that McMurtry builds his tale and reveals his characters' hearts. ![]() This is not a novel of big ideas or defining moments over the course of a year Duane and Jacy make up and break up, Sonny begins an affair with his high-school football coach's wife, and the only movie house in town closes its doors forever. Duane wants nothing more than to marry Jacy Sonny wants what Duane has and Jacy wants to get the hell out of Thalia any way she can. This first volume of the trilogy drops the reader into the one-stoplight town of Thalia, Texas, where Duane Moore, his buddy Sonny, and his girlfriend Jacy are all stumbling along the rocky road to adulthood. In The Last Picture Show Larry McMurtry introduced characters who would show up again in later novels, Texasville and Duane's Depressed. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Gideon and Harrow are both mixed Māori, and many of the supporting cast are people of color as well! LGBTQ+ Representation: After this blog post was written, Tamsyn Muir wrote a Tumblr post elaborating on how she imagined the characters while she was writing them. *Edit: This blog post was posted on the date of Gideon the Ninth's release and was solely based on the physical descriptions of the characters in the Advance Reader Copy of the book. I found his character intriguing, and I will say that Jeannemary was my favorite character after Gideon and Harrow. A white man leeching a POC of their life force was disturbing, but it is at least portrayed as a huge taboo, and Colum gets his comeuppance. The “mayonnaise uncle” is Colum’s uncle, and he is a soul siphoner who quite literally drains Colum’s essence to enhance his own power. She should be on the cover of the second book in the series, so I suppose we'll see! Given the size of the cast, I was disappointed that it was so white - although I did find the phrase “Why do you have such a baby uncle, one the color of mayonnaise?” hilarious. She has black hair and her naked skin is tinted grey most likely she's white, but she could be fantasy East Asian. Gideon is white*, and Harrow's race is ambiguous, especially given that she is covered in face paint for the vast majority of the book. Out of 25 characters, only two are explicitly portrayed as people of color – Jeannemary Chatur and Colum Asht. ![]() ![]() ![]() A documentary based on the book, Surviving Disaster with Amanda Ripley, aired on PBS in 2012. The Unthinkable was published in 15 countries including the United States, the UK, Brazil and China. In this inspiring mix of narrative, science and participatory journalism, award-winning Time Magazine writer Amanda Ripley reveals how human fear circuits and crowd dynamics work, why our instincts sometimes misfire in modern calamities, and how we can do much, much better. Why do we freeze in the middle of a fire? How can we override this instinct? Why do our senses of sight and hearing change during a terrorist attack? Why are most heroes men? But very few of us know what to expect until it is too late.īy combining the stories of survivors with research into how the brain works under extreme duress, The Unthinkable tries to bring light into civilization’s darkest moments. In big disasters, regular people are the first and most important rescuers on the scene. Half of Americans have been affected by a disaster of some kind. ![]() |