Category Archives: Social / Political / Cultural

Jeffrey Barron #312 SOC 1996.002 The stories in A Century Past were written because the stories needed to be told. They were not written for profit nor for some economic necessity. If you enjoy reading Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, and … Continue reading →

Bent Stidsen #311 SOC 1996.001 The aim of Communication Relations is no less than a mapping of the territory for which the term “communication” may serve as a title. Our key contention is that communication is a life function. And … Continue reading →

James Addison #300 SOC 1994.001 Seek and Go Hide is a fictional tragic romance, composed in a literary narrative style, set in contemporaneous surroundings. The story involves a central character named Jacob Sommersveldt, his long-time girlfriend Gwendolyn, and her new … Continue reading →

Joseph Gormley #280 SOC 1993.003 Contemptology: An Essay on Contempt, Respect, and Tolerance speculates about the evolutionary origins of the mental attitudes of contempt, respect, and tolerance. It describes the single subconscious mental process that produces those conscious attitudes. It … Continue reading →

S. Lanahan #277 SOC 1993.002 Good-Looking People concerns a young woman who becomes a successful interior decorator in New York City. She marries a mobster who is killed soon thereafter. She manages to survive in an environment where no one’s … Continue reading →

Kathleen Parley #271 SOC 1993.001 Life in the grass is perilous when you are 3 1/2″ tall, particularly so when the tall men bring out the mower. Warned by his elfin intuition that the mower is going to come through … Continue reading →

John Roberts #268 SOC 1992.004 You Shall Be Heard is a series of brief essays, some dealing with philosophy in a very rudimentary manner and degree, developing a theory of law as procedural due process exclusively.

Sandra Morin #256 SOC 1992.003 In the beginning, a statue remains in the mind with intrigue. How could anyone create the most exquisite face out of a cold, hard, rough stone? Many observations of photographs at the public library lead … Continue reading →

Lorraine Smith (Ann McDonald / Toles) #251 SOC 1992.002 Miracle Play is an autobiography about the dissolution of a professional nursing career and the so-called “burn-out” that accompanied the downward descent. Written in an alternative, anecdotal, iconoclastic manner, it reads … Continue reading →

Ronny Kaye #249 SOC 1992.001 White Man’s Disease is a condemnatory cinema-novel, a condemnation of Authority systems, most particularly those of the White West. The narrative devices of “reels” rather than chapters, and of songs, poems, and quotations as transitional … Continue reading →