Philoctetes and the fall of Troy; plays, documents, inconography, interpretations. Including versions by Sophocles, Andre Gide, Oscar Mandel, and Heiner Muller.

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Reinventions: four plays by Oscar Mandel, after Homer, Cervantes, Calderon and Marivaux

The plays in this volume are: Sigismund, Prince of Poland; Agamemnon Triumphant; The Fall of Numantia; Prince Poupon Needs a Wife

Collected plays: Vol. 1 and Vol. 2

Vol. 1 contains these plays: General Audax; Honest Urubamba; Living Room with 6 Oppressions; A Splitting Headache; The Virgin and the Unicorn; Island. Vol. 2 contains these plays: The Monk Who Wouldn't; The Fatal French Dentist; Professor Snaffle's Polypon; The Sensible Man of Jerusalem; Adam Adamson; Of Angels and Eskimos

The Virgin and the Unicorn: four plays

This volume contains the plays: The Virgin and the Unicorn; Water from an Italian Pump; And the Lord God Planted a Garden; A beautiful Investmen

Where is the light? Poems 1955 - 2005

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Interview with Oscar Mandel

An interview in three sessions, in October and November 1994, with Oscar Mandel, professor of literature in the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences. Dr. Mandel received his BA from New York University (1947), his MA from Columbia (1948), and his PhD from Ohio State University (1951). He came to Caltech as a visiting associate professor from the University of Nebraska in 1961, joined the faculty the following year, and became a full professor in 1980 (emeritus, 2003). He recalls his childhood in Antwerp, where his father was a diamond dealer; family’s escape to New York after Germans invaded Begium; his subsequent education at Forest Hills High School, New York University, and Columbia. Recalls his army service 1953-55; five years at University of Nebraska; Fulbright to Netherlands, 1960. Marriage; recruitment to Caltech. Joins faculty after a year as a visitor, 1962. Recollections of Humanities Division in 1960s, chaired by Hallett Smith, and of his colleagues. Interest in foreign-language programs. Changes in the division wrought by Robert Huttenback; Huttenback’s attempts to deny tenure to Jenijoy La Belle. Recalls his establishment of Spectrum Productions and enlistment of Shirley Marneus as director of plays in Ramo Auditorium with professional casts, 1971-1978. Comments on current inadequacy of literature department; his establishment of programs in art history, music, and creative writing, taught by lecturers; his sense that Caltech undergraduates are shortchanged by high degree of specialization in the humanities. He concludes the interview by describing his recent research on Italian painter Alessandro Magnasco and Dutch 17th-century art

The Case Against Template Informed Consent Procedures in Biomedical Research: Heterogeneity in health Literacy in Chile

Indexación: Web of Science; ScieloSe examinó el alfabetismo en salud en Chile con el fin de determinar si se pueden usar procedimientos de consentimiento informado estándares en esta población. Se evaluó el alfabetismo en salud con la versión abreviada de la prueba SAHLSA. Los resultados se expresaron como el porcentaje de respuestas correctas en cada prueba. El promedio global de respuestas correctas fue 85.4 ± 13.5 % (media aritmética ± desviación estándar, n=762). Hubo diferencias importantes entre los subgrupos examinados. El nivel más bajo de alfabetismo en salud se detectó en pescadores artesanales y sus familias y en estudiantes de liceos públicos, y el más alto en estudiantes universitarios y madres pobladoras atendidas en el sistema público de salud. Los resultados muestran la necesidad que los procedimientos de consentimiento informado tomen en cuenta la heterogeneidad del alfabetismo en salud de la población chilena.Health literacy was examined in Chile to assess whether it is homogenous enough to allow the use of "templates" for informed consent, and to identity subgroups that may need special consideration when recruited for research because of their low health literacy abbreviated SAHLSA test of health literacy was used. Results were expressed as percent of correct answers out of the 50 items of the SAHLSA test. There was high health literacy with 85.4 ± 13.5 % (arithmetic mean ± standard deviation, «=762) of correct answers. There were important differences between groups, with lower scores in artisanal fishermen families and high-school students attending public schools, and higher scores in university students and mothers attending the public health system. Results show that a case by case approach is probably more appropriate when seeking informed consent in this population because of the variability of health literacy.http://ref.scielo.org/nb426

Jimmie

Peter Stuy vesant came from Holland and ruled Manhattan a while.Then the bally old Duke of YorkTook the jolly old isle!But today the town is owned by quite a different sort.She\u27s just a slip of a Tomboy kid,And they call her Jimmie for short. REFRAINJimmie, just Jimmie. She\u27s a chip of old New YorkVagrant and whimmy, A dear little bluffin\u27 Ragamuffin One smile from JimmieAnd a host of glooms departThere\u27s a Paradise In those laughing eyes of Jimmie, just JimmieShe\u27ll haunt your heart. heart. I have tried to think of other thingsSome diversion to find.But I\u27m sorry I must confess.I\u27ve a single tracked mind.My poor heart a hopeless prisoner. That will never be free.The smiling face of a Tomboy kid,Is all I ever can see