...William L. Van Deburg Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 No Mere Mortals: Blaek Slaves and Black Power in American Literature, 1967-80 William L. Van Deburg During the last half of the 1960s a vital segment of Black America be­ came totally disillusioned with the integrationist...

... me control over what happens to my body and what people make of it; gives me more freedom than they have to choose what my body/mind does in the world; makes me get younger instead of older. Like me, watercolor has its own opinion and illumination. Like me, it is mortal. When I use ink...

... information exists on the population of that country. Moreover the word demog­ raphy, for the purpose of this book, is restricted to a study of fertility, mortality, age-structure, nuptiality, and population growth, and does not extend to a consideration of migration and urbanization. The importance...

... science conquered the contagions that were the leading causes of death in developed coun- tries until the early twentieth century. However, epidemiological evidence shows that major increases in life expectancy and declines in infectious dis- ease mortality in western Europe and the United States...

... of the Tractarian Movement had waned, and the Evan­ gelicals and Anglo-Catholics had become locked in mortal combat with the new Germanism. The battlegrounds were the printed word, the pulpit, and the essay societies. Scholarly attention has been given to the writings of Jowett and the sermons of Pusey...

... population, and, with rather less certainty, the crude death rate is estimated at twenty-six deaths per thousand population, corresponding to an expectation of life at birth of just under forty years. Except for rural-urban differences, there ap­ pears to be rather little regional variation in mortality...

... of Achilles wrath is that it was something more than mortal [daimoni isos3 distorted and distorting, consuming finally to Greeks and Trojans alike, more than human and thus distinctly out of balance. By con­ trast, the whole point of Odysseus s character is no more and no less than his manliness. Odysseus...

... . Marx beyond Marx: Lessons on the Grundrisse . Translated by Cleaver Harry Ryan Michael Viano Maurizio . Edited by Fleming Jim . Brooklyn, NY : Autonomedia . Nijdam Edwin . 2004 . “ Factors Influencing Bruises and Mortality of Broilers during Catching, Transport...

... of im­ mortality, as he says in Song of Myself : Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die, and I know it. I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash d babe . . . This is not sentimental bravado but the egocentric faith of one who...

... it? Georgiana has overcome her dread and has come to conceive of herself, at least in part, as a sacrifice. The end is the secular salvation of mortal man. The cup has been given by Aylmer. The language-pattern of the story indicates that in the religion of science Aylmer is less priest than God. The votaries...

..., as early as 1850, to adopt the now common procedure of calcu­ lating losses by illness in terms of dollars and cents. It was claimed at that time, for example, that the cost of disease and death in New Orleans alone totaled about $45,000,000 annu­ ally, an average expense of $105 per capita. The mortality...

... Tribune, Dec. 16, 1850. 298 The South Atlantic Quarterly hygiene. Sudden freedom threatened the blacks, literally, with death and destruction. Mortality records preserved in the city of Savannah show that, from about 1820 to 1862, the death rate there among Negroes was invariably lower than that among...

... its effectiveness in the succeeding fiction. Of all the specifics indicating these stories as a point of transition, none is more significant than the permeation of the tales with the concept of mortality. Not that Beckett has not been obsessed with mortality before: both Belacqua and Murphy...

..., alas, to abrupt termination. Achilles, always Achilles. She has no fear of him, faces him bravely, as a daughter of the war god should. No mortal man begot me, but Ares, insatiate of the war-cry; therefore, is my spirit loftier than even that of heroes! The spirit, perhaps, but not the flesh. Her...

... from a useful chapter by Demeny on the Sudan and a short chapter on Nigeria, which unavoidably concludes that little reliable information exists on the population of that country. Moreover the word demog­ raphy, for the purpose of this book, is restricted to a study of fertility, mortality, age...

... for the Propagation of the Gospel. Calculations made by the author lead to the conclusion that the excessive mortality among the newly arrived mis­ sionaries was probably true of other arrivals. But, more important, he thinks that their mortality rate is probably an accurate index for the colonists as a whole...

... more and more within the intellectual hegemony of Hegel. I have space to mention only a few of those which come under Mr. Beebe s scrutiny: the mortality of man and the im­ mortality of art; the metaphysical disorientation of modem society and the modern artist s instinct for order; illusion...

... to live more and more within the intellectual hegemony of Hegel. I have space to mention only a few of those which come under Mr. Beebe s scrutiny: the mortality of man and the im­ mortality of art; the metaphysical disorientation of modem society and the modern artist s instinct for order; illusion...

... transferred to that obscene, monstrous body that was swelling as though to engulf the world, (p. 135) A strikingly similar experience is recorded in Richard Selzer s collection of essays on the human body and his life as a surgeon, Mortal Lessons (1976). Again, an encounter with a parasite generates physical...

..., but it is not a question which will open up the possibilities, onion-layered and each quite exciting, of meaning. Another fre­ quently made comparison, with Goethe s Faust, based on the fact that certain scenes in both poems take place in regions beyond mortal ken, is temporarily arresting, but ultimately fortuitous...