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The Etymology of Tinker , with a Note on Tinker's Dam
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English Language Notes (2001) 39 (2): 10–12.
Published: 01 December 2001
... Plato, 95 [211a-212c]. 18 P lato . 19Plato, 107 [218d-219e], THE ETYMOLOGY OF TINKER, WITH A NOTE ON TINKER S DAM The OED states th at the origin o f tinker is uncertain, b u t re produces Dr. J o h n so n s assertion that the term derives from the verb tinkle, descriptive o f the sound m ade during...
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Selfless Love: Reading the Woman in Plato's Symposium 's Ideal Man
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English Language Notes (2001) 39 (2): 1–10.
Published: 01 December 2001
..., 54 [186a-187c], 13Plato, 57 [187c-188e]. 14Plato, 58 [188e-190b], 15 Plato, 65 [192e-193e], 10 Plato, 72 [197d-198d]. 17 Plato, 95 [211a-212c]. 18 P lato . 19Plato, 107 [218d-219e], THE ETYMOLOGY OF TINKER, WITH A NOTE ON TINKER S DAM The OED states th at the origin o f tinker is uncertain, b u t re...
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American Indians Encounter the Bible: Reception, Resistance, and Reinterpretation
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 145–157.
Published: 01 April 2020
... Clara Sue , Noley Homer , George E. “ Tink ” Tinker [and Jace Weaver]. A Native American Theology . Maryknoll, NY : Orbis , 2006 . Kopenkoskey Paul R. “ Religion: American Indian and Christian Beliefs Blend at Michigan Church .” Huffington Post , May 25 , 2011...
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English Language Notes (2009) 47 (2): 1–9.
Published: 01 September 2009
... function, delivers an account of her Humbert Humbert-like desire for a young Turkish Cypriot boy as a scientific report in which, she insists, nothing has been fudged or tinkered w ith. The narrator's own history, however, is one o f nothing but fudging and tinkering: approaching her life like...
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“You May Have Changed My Life”
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English Language Notes (2009) 47 (1): 159–165.
Published: 01 March 2009
... rather than tinker with or abandon it in written assignments. But for an in-class, group version of Erasmus's exercise, a free-for-all approach, in which students call out versions of the whole sentence recast in different registers, can be extremely effective and entertaining. 21 Lawrence D. Green...
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Matthew Arnold's “Rugby Chapel” and Thomas Arnold's Travel Journals
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English Language Notes (2003) 40 (4): 61–73.
Published: 01 June 2003
..., b u t as a cosm opolitan, E uropean power, located in a space m ore suggestive of a terrain associated with universal vision and revelation since the Rom antics.14 T he biographical readings of DNB, Tinker and Lowry, and the Allotts, even if correctly located, were also incom plete...
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The Journalist and the Exorcist: Perils of Writing from the Margins
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English Language Notes (2009) 47 (2): 167–180.
Published: 01 September 2009
..., introduced to America during the same anxious decade and also preoccupied w ith "scientific proof" and "advanced technologies," King's Aetherius Society held some appeal for a nation ofYankee pragmatists and inspired tinkerers. Several branch offices sprang up in the United States, w ith sm aller groups...
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Utopia and Thomas Carlyle's “Ancient Monk”
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English Language Notes (2013) 51 (1): 211–222.
Published: 01 March 2013
... forwarding of b o th "29 the ideal and the real, a very Victorian argument, Carlyle illustrates in "The Ancient M onk" that social change is not to be achieved through progressive reform (a very un-Victorian argument), tinkering w ith laws and regulations, favoring rather holistic change. That form of change...
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Crisis Management and the LatinX Child
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (2): 8–24.
Published: 01 October 2018
..., “it’s impossible not to feel that the world has become a much more fucked-up place than anyone could have ever imagined.” 41 These children’s stigmatized bodies are a mismatch. They cannot, on the face of it, afford quality things and habitually tinker with the self through smart technological...
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Fort Da: A Report
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English Language Notes (2009) 47 (2): 149–166.
Published: 01 September 2009
... ill not fudge or tinker. Of course it is pos sible that good intentions w ill be conquered by neuroanatomy, by the ancient megaliths of the mamm alian brain that sit at the foundation of consciousness. For we know that at this stage in evolution, the amygdala has a greater influence on the cortex...
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Remaking the Drunkard in Early Stuart England
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 16–38.
Published: 01 April 2022
... historical processes. 63 For Harris, as we have seen, their root cause was agrarian capitalism and the breakdown of manorialism: while “heretofore it was a strange sight to see a drunken man, now it is no news; heretofore it was the sin of Tinkers, Ostlers, Beggars, etc, now of Farmers, Esquires, Knights...
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Digital Humanities and Academic Change
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English Language Notes (2009) 47 (1): 17–35.
Published: 01 March 2009
... because it marked a mental tipping point in my career as a hum an ist. In the decade before that date, the "strong tinker toys" model of the digital humanities I described above i.e., building strong nodes in departments to enable strong linkages w ith nodes in other departm ents had led to increasing...
