Stewart Gordon
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195177435
- eISBN:
- 9780199864690
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195177435.003.15
- Subject:
- Music, Performing Practice/Studies
This chapter offers advice for performers in dealing with physical challenge, such as short-term illness, long-term infirmity, and aging. Being active for as long as possible and for as much as ...
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This chapter offers advice for performers in dealing with physical challenge, such as short-term illness, long-term infirmity, and aging. Being active for as long as possible and for as much as possible are stressed, as well as maintaining passion for whatever level of performance is possible.Less
This chapter offers advice for performers in dealing with physical challenge, such as short-term illness, long-term infirmity, and aging. Being active for as long as possible and for as much as possible are stressed, as well as maintaining passion for whatever level of performance is possible.
Joen A. Carpenter
- Published in print:
- 1999
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195129076
- eISBN:
- 9780199853274
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195129076.003.0007
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
Repeatedly, and with growing intensity, fundamentalists called for and looked longingly toward a spiritual quickening in the churches and a great religious awakening in their land. Fundamentalist ...
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Repeatedly, and with growing intensity, fundamentalists called for and looked longingly toward a spiritual quickening in the churches and a great religious awakening in their land. Fundamentalist leaders held out both hopes—of rapture and revival—with little sense of contradiction. Fundamentalists' hope for revival was an old and powerful part of their legacy as American evangelicals. Revival heirlooms from the mid-19th century abounded in the movement, especially a bountiful store of lore and literature. As these hopes began to flicker and flare during the 1930s and early 1940s, a complex and varied movement for revival began to stir within the ranks of fundamentalism. For fundamentalists, who had endured so much ridicule and seemed so intent on forecasting the imminent doom of civilization, these expressions of hope for revival were both paradoxical and a self-fulfilling prophecy.Less
Repeatedly, and with growing intensity, fundamentalists called for and looked longingly toward a spiritual quickening in the churches and a great religious awakening in their land. Fundamentalist leaders held out both hopes—of rapture and revival—with little sense of contradiction. Fundamentalists' hope for revival was an old and powerful part of their legacy as American evangelicals. Revival heirlooms from the mid-19th century abounded in the movement, especially a bountiful store of lore and literature. As these hopes began to flicker and flare during the 1930s and early 1940s, a complex and varied movement for revival began to stir within the ranks of fundamentalism. For fundamentalists, who had endured so much ridicule and seemed so intent on forecasting the imminent doom of civilization, these expressions of hope for revival were both paradoxical and a self-fulfilling prophecy.
F.H. Buckley
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300175219
- eISBN:
- 9780300195071
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300175219.003.0023
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
This chapter discusses the faults and changes sought in American private and criminal law. It discusses constitutional infirmities and the reversibility of presidential government. The chapter also ...
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This chapter discusses the faults and changes sought in American private and criminal law. It discusses constitutional infirmities and the reversibility of presidential government. The chapter also offers some recommendations on how to slow down the economic pathologies of the American legal system.Less
This chapter discusses the faults and changes sought in American private and criminal law. It discusses constitutional infirmities and the reversibility of presidential government. The chapter also offers some recommendations on how to slow down the economic pathologies of the American legal system.
Louise Ellison
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198299097
- eISBN:
- 9780191685613
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198299097.003.0005
- Subject:
- Law, Criminal Law and Criminology
This chapter examines the cross-examination of vulnerable witnesses in Great Britain. Cross-examination is lauded within the common law tradition as the definitive forensic device for exposing ...
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This chapter examines the cross-examination of vulnerable witnesses in Great Britain. Cross-examination is lauded within the common law tradition as the definitive forensic device for exposing testimonial infirmity. However, victomological study of trial proceedings has revealed the extent to which cross-examination is used as a tool to humiliate, intimidate, and confuse opposing witnesses. In addition, cross-examination is littered with linguistic devices and interrogative techniques that disadvantage those with language capacity limited by immaturity or disability.Less
This chapter examines the cross-examination of vulnerable witnesses in Great Britain. Cross-examination is lauded within the common law tradition as the definitive forensic device for exposing testimonial infirmity. However, victomological study of trial proceedings has revealed the extent to which cross-examination is used as a tool to humiliate, intimidate, and confuse opposing witnesses. In addition, cross-examination is littered with linguistic devices and interrogative techniques that disadvantage those with language capacity limited by immaturity or disability.
Michael Clarke
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781847423986
- eISBN:
- 9781447301622
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847423986.003.0007
- Subject:
- Sociology, Politics, Social Movements and Social Change
This chapter discusses the weight of vital choices in the life cycle which are often seen as the key to fulfilment and self-realisation. It notes that choices in this area are necessary, very ...
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This chapter discusses the weight of vital choices in the life cycle which are often seen as the key to fulfilment and self-realisation. It notes that choices in this area are necessary, very consequential, highly individualistic, and uncertain. These choices are demanding, it often being very difficult to be sure one has made the right choice, and they are in a good many cases not reversible: fateful choices. It explains that for the great majority, the five life cycle issues — jobs, partners, fertility, retirement, and infirmity — involve inescapable choices.Less
This chapter discusses the weight of vital choices in the life cycle which are often seen as the key to fulfilment and self-realisation. It notes that choices in this area are necessary, very consequential, highly individualistic, and uncertain. These choices are demanding, it often being very difficult to be sure one has made the right choice, and they are in a good many cases not reversible: fateful choices. It explains that for the great majority, the five life cycle issues — jobs, partners, fertility, retirement, and infirmity — involve inescapable choices.
Georges Vigarello
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231159760
- eISBN:
- 9780231535304
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231159760.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Social History
This book maps the evolution of Western ideas about fat and fat people from the Middle Ages to the present, paying particular attention to the role of science, fashion, fitness crazes, and public ...
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This book maps the evolution of Western ideas about fat and fat people from the Middle Ages to the present, paying particular attention to the role of science, fashion, fitness crazes, and public health campaigns in shaping these views. While hefty bodies were once a sign of power, today those who struggle to lose weight are considered poor in character and weak in mind. The book traces the eventual equation of fatness with infirmity and the way we have come to define ourselves and others in terms of body type. The text begins with the medieval artists and intellectuals who treated heavy bodies as symbols of force and prosperity. It then follows the shift during the Renaissance and early modern period to courtly, medical, and religious codes that increasingly favored moderation and discouraged excess. Scientific advances in the eighteenth century also brought greater knowledge of food and the body’s processes, recasting fatness as the “relaxed” antithesis of health. The body-as-mechanism metaphor intensified in the early nineteenth century, with the chemistry revolution and heightened attention to food-as-fuel, which turned the body into a kind of furnace or engine. During this period, social attitudes toward fat became conflicted, with the bourgeois male belly operating as a sign of prestige but also as a symbol of greed and exploitation, while the overweight female was admired only if she was working class. The book concludes with the fitness and body-conscious movements of the twentieth century and the proliferation of personal confessions about obesity, which tied fat more closely to notions of personality, politics, taste, and class.Less
This book maps the evolution of Western ideas about fat and fat people from the Middle Ages to the present, paying particular attention to the role of science, fashion, fitness crazes, and public health campaigns in shaping these views. While hefty bodies were once a sign of power, today those who struggle to lose weight are considered poor in character and weak in mind. The book traces the eventual equation of fatness with infirmity and the way we have come to define ourselves and others in terms of body type. The text begins with the medieval artists and intellectuals who treated heavy bodies as symbols of force and prosperity. It then follows the shift during the Renaissance and early modern period to courtly, medical, and religious codes that increasingly favored moderation and discouraged excess. Scientific advances in the eighteenth century also brought greater knowledge of food and the body’s processes, recasting fatness as the “relaxed” antithesis of health. The body-as-mechanism metaphor intensified in the early nineteenth century, with the chemistry revolution and heightened attention to food-as-fuel, which turned the body into a kind of furnace or engine. During this period, social attitudes toward fat became conflicted, with the bourgeois male belly operating as a sign of prestige but also as a symbol of greed and exploitation, while the overweight female was admired only if she was working class. The book concludes with the fitness and body-conscious movements of the twentieth century and the proliferation of personal confessions about obesity, which tied fat more closely to notions of personality, politics, taste, and class.
Paul Higgs and Chris Gilleard
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781447319054
- eISBN:
- 9781447319085
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447319054.003.0009
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gerontology and Ageing
The fourth age is realised by and within the moral imperative of care. Recognising that a person needs help in looking after themselves implies not just vulnerability but incapacity. What renders ...
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The fourth age is realised by and within the moral imperative of care. Recognising that a person needs help in looking after themselves implies not just vulnerability but incapacity. What renders this situation abject is the extent to which the person perceived as being incapable not only does not seek help but seems not to recognise themselves as being unable to look after themselves. Failing to acknowledge one’s failings becomes more abject as the gap between capacity and incapacity grows. Once the ‘protective’ shields that mask someone’s incapacities no longer serve their purpose and the call arises that ‘something be done’, so the fourth age is summoned. While it is clearly protective when caring relationships are reciprocally ‘co-constructed’, many circumstances limit or transform that relationship from one of co-construction to one defined as a relationship of one. Negotiating these transformations is difficult. Protecting infirm individuals from becoming ‘lost’ within the social imaginary of the fourth age may conflict with the desire to ensure their comfort and dignity. The moral imperative of care cannot itself determine the outcomes.Less
The fourth age is realised by and within the moral imperative of care. Recognising that a person needs help in looking after themselves implies not just vulnerability but incapacity. What renders this situation abject is the extent to which the person perceived as being incapable not only does not seek help but seems not to recognise themselves as being unable to look after themselves. Failing to acknowledge one’s failings becomes more abject as the gap between capacity and incapacity grows. Once the ‘protective’ shields that mask someone’s incapacities no longer serve their purpose and the call arises that ‘something be done’, so the fourth age is summoned. While it is clearly protective when caring relationships are reciprocally ‘co-constructed’, many circumstances limit or transform that relationship from one of co-construction to one defined as a relationship of one. Negotiating these transformations is difficult. Protecting infirm individuals from becoming ‘lost’ within the social imaginary of the fourth age may conflict with the desire to ensure their comfort and dignity. The moral imperative of care cannot itself determine the outcomes.
Anne Gillain
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- April 2022
- ISBN:
- 9780197536308
- eISBN:
- 9780197536346
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780197536308.003.0017
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
In this film, Truffaut captures the dynamics among a group of young children. The plot is structured around the complementary of two of them: a blond boy prone to love infatuations and another, ...
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In this film, Truffaut captures the dynamics among a group of young children. The plot is structured around the complementary of two of them: a blond boy prone to love infatuations and another, dark-haired, who is abused. The style of the film can be read as bilingual and accessible to both children and adult viewers. As in The Wild Child the film explores the complexities of language and a large spectrum of modes of communications. Shot-by-shot analysis: The blond boy’s silent adoration of the mother of one of his schoolmates while she served him a Rabelaisian dinner.Less
In this film, Truffaut captures the dynamics among a group of young children. The plot is structured around the complementary of two of them: a blond boy prone to love infatuations and another, dark-haired, who is abused. The style of the film can be read as bilingual and accessible to both children and adult viewers. As in The Wild Child the film explores the complexities of language and a large spectrum of modes of communications. Shot-by-shot analysis: The blond boy’s silent adoration of the mother of one of his schoolmates while she served him a Rabelaisian dinner.
Anne Gillain
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- April 2022
- ISBN:
- 9780197536308
- eISBN:
- 9780197536346
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780197536308.003.0021
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
This film is one of Truffaut’s greatest successes both critically and financially. It is the only work that reconstitutes the Paris of his childhood during the German Occupation. Starring Catherine ...
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This film is one of Truffaut’s greatest successes both critically and financially. It is the only work that reconstitutes the Paris of his childhood during the German Occupation. Starring Catherine Deneuve, it can be read as a hymn to creativity envisioned as a liturgical ceremonial. Hidden in a cave, the director of the theatre has close affinities with the hero of The Green Room. The film’s love triangle recapitulates relationships to be found in Truffaut’s previous work. Shot by shot analysis: The encounter in the cave of the three main characters at the end of the filmLess
This film is one of Truffaut’s greatest successes both critically and financially. It is the only work that reconstitutes the Paris of his childhood during the German Occupation. Starring Catherine Deneuve, it can be read as a hymn to creativity envisioned as a liturgical ceremonial. Hidden in a cave, the director of the theatre has close affinities with the hero of The Green Room. The film’s love triangle recapitulates relationships to be found in Truffaut’s previous work. Shot by shot analysis: The encounter in the cave of the three main characters at the end of the film
Miikka Ruokanen
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- June 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780192895837
- eISBN:
- 9780191916366
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780192895837.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
Luther underscores sin as unbelief which cuts off the relationship between the human being and his/her Creator resulting in the imprisonment of the human by sin, death, and transcendental evil. ...
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Luther underscores sin as unbelief which cuts off the relationship between the human being and his/her Creator resulting in the imprisonment of the human by sin, death, and transcendental evil. He/she exists in the state of infirmity, incapable of changing his/her basic orientation of life. Sin is weakness, inability to be free. Paradoxically, the enslavement of sin entered humanity when the human being was deceived by an illusion of absolute freedom, independence from the Creator: “man himself wants to be God, and does not want God to be God.” Erasmus criticized Luther for using the deterministic concept of “absolute necessity.” In fact, Luther is not a determinist, but he uses a hamartiological idea of “the necessity of immutability”: the sinner necessarily must continue to be a captive of unfaith until efficient Pneumatological grace liberates him/her. Luther’s thought does not include any notion of “the necessity of coaction.” The sinner freely enjoys sinning unless changed by God. The necessity of immutability concerns the human being’s relation to the “things above oneself,” not to those “below oneself” where natural freedom of will prevails. Luther represents no theodicy, he leaves open the question about where the ultimate origin of evil will lies. God is not the cause of evil will, but he may sometimes use it as an “instrumental cause” for his good purposes. In Luther’s treatise there is no trace of a doctrine of predestination applied to individual human beings. Any notion of double predestination is impossible in Luther’s doctrine of grace.Less
Luther underscores sin as unbelief which cuts off the relationship between the human being and his/her Creator resulting in the imprisonment of the human by sin, death, and transcendental evil. He/she exists in the state of infirmity, incapable of changing his/her basic orientation of life. Sin is weakness, inability to be free. Paradoxically, the enslavement of sin entered humanity when the human being was deceived by an illusion of absolute freedom, independence from the Creator: “man himself wants to be God, and does not want God to be God.” Erasmus criticized Luther for using the deterministic concept of “absolute necessity.” In fact, Luther is not a determinist, but he uses a hamartiological idea of “the necessity of immutability”: the sinner necessarily must continue to be a captive of unfaith until efficient Pneumatological grace liberates him/her. Luther’s thought does not include any notion of “the necessity of coaction.” The sinner freely enjoys sinning unless changed by God. The necessity of immutability concerns the human being’s relation to the “things above oneself,” not to those “below oneself” where natural freedom of will prevails. Luther represents no theodicy, he leaves open the question about where the ultimate origin of evil will lies. God is not the cause of evil will, but he may sometimes use it as an “instrumental cause” for his good purposes. In Luther’s treatise there is no trace of a doctrine of predestination applied to individual human beings. Any notion of double predestination is impossible in Luther’s doctrine of grace.
