Mots cachés: Autobiography in Cocteau's and Poulenc's La Voix humaine

Keith Clifton

doi:10.7202/1014499ar

Mots cachés: Autobiography in Cocteau's and Poulenc's La Voix humaine

Canadian University Music Review ◽

10.7202/1014499ar ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 22 (1) ◽

pp. 68-85 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Keith Clifton

Keyword(s):

Emotional Life ◽

Tonal Language ◽

To Come ◽

Dialogues Des Carmelites

Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites has been consistently identified as the summit of his operatic works. Such an assessment has assured that his final opera, La Voix humaine, based on Cocteau's monodrama, has been overlooked, the impetus for its composition inadequately defined. Musically, La Voix humaine employs a complex tonal language unprecedented in Poulenc's compositional arsenal. Rather than advancing the interpretation that Poulenc composed Voix out of loyalty to Cocteau, I propose that the opera represents his final attempt to come to terms with his homosexuality. Numerous references in correspondence expose the opera as a mirror of Poulenc's emotional life. Poulenc and Cocteau's employment of gay camp also informs the work and provides a glimpse into possible hidden meanings. A closer examination of this neglected work reveals new insights into Poulenc's troubled and elusive personality.

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Making it normal for ‘new’ enrolments: Effect of institutional and pandemic influence on selecting an Engineering Institution under Covid-19 pandemic situation

10.21203/rs.3.rs-328945/v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Prashant Mahajan ◽

Vaishali Patil

Keyword(s):

Mental Stress ◽

Quantitative Research ◽

Institutional Characteristics ◽

Emotional Life ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Institutional Influence ◽

To Come ◽

Normal Track ◽

Selection Of

Abstract Covid-19 pandemic has enforced Indian engineering institutions (EIs) to bring their previously half-shut shades completely down. Fetching new admissions into EI campus during pandemic it has become ‘now or never’ situation for EIs. During crises situation institutions have struggled to come back on the normal track. The pandemic that has changed students’ behavior and family’s preferences drastically due to mental stress and emotional life attached with it. Consequently, it becomes prerequisite, and emergency need to examine the choice characteristics influencing selection of EI during Covid-19 pandemic situation. The purpose of this study is to critically examine institutional influence and pandemic influence due to Covid-19 that affects students’ choice about an engineering institution (EI) and consequently to explore relationships between institutional and pandemic influence. The findings of this quantitative research, conducted through a self-reported survey have revealed that institutional as well as pandemic influence have governed the EI choice under Covid-19 pandemic. Secondly, pandemic influence is positively affected by institutional influence. The study demonstrated that EIs will have to reposition themselves to normalize pandemic influence by tuning institutional characteristics that regulates situational influence and new enrollments. It can be yardstick for policy makers to attract new enrollments under pandemic situation.

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PENTINGNYA KECERDASAN EMOSIONAL DALAM PEMBELAJARAN

EQUILIBRIUM Jurnal Ilmiah Ekonomi dan Pembelajarannya ◽

10.25273/equilibrium.v2i1.601 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Kadeni Kadeni

Keyword(s):

Emotional Intelligence ◽

Social Skills ◽

Self Control ◽

Environmental Condition ◽

Emotional Life ◽

Intelligence Level ◽

The People ◽

High Intelligence ◽

To Come ◽

High Emotional Intelligence

<p>Learning not only as atransfer of knowledge alone but is an activity under taken untu teachers develop the potential of students as a whole to achieve change for the better. Teachers than intellectual understanding must also be able to understand the emotional intelligence of students. Emotional intelligence is the ability to regulate one's emotional life within telligence, emotion and disclosure of maintaining harmony throughself-awareness, self-control, self-motivation, empathy and social skills.</p><p> It must be understood if students only have high academic intelligence, they tend to have an unwarranted sense of restless, overlycritical, fussy, tend to with draw, seemed cool and less likely to express resent mentan danger appropriately if not supported with emotional intelligence, then the people is often asource of problems. Students who have high intelligence but low emotional intelligence level ittends to be seen as a hard-nosed, hard to get along, easily frustrated, do not easily trust others, not sensitive to environmental condition sand tend to despair when experiencing stress. The opposite condition, experienced by those who have the intelligence level of the average but has high emotional intelligence. There fore it is time all the teachers in the learning does not only focus on the intellectual but emotional intelligence of students should be a concern that they can achieve success in living life to come.</p>

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Investor-State Dispute Settlement under NAFTA Chapter 11: The Shape of Things to Come?

Canadian Yearbook of international Law/Annuaire canadien de droit international ◽

10.1017/s0069005800006652 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 35 ◽

pp. 263-290

Author(s):

J. Anthony VanDuzer

Keyword(s):

Free Trade Agreement ◽

Dispute Settlement ◽

Trade Agreement ◽

Minimum Standards ◽

The North ◽

State Behaviour ◽

Nafta Chapter 11 ◽

To Come ◽

The Right

SummaryRecently, there has been a proliferation of international agreements imposing minimum standards on states in respect of their treatment of foreign investors and allowing investors to initiate dispute settlement proceedings where a state violates these standards. Of greatest significance to Canada is Chapter 11 of the North American Free Trade Agreement, which provides both standards for state behaviour and the right to initiate binding arbitration. Since 1996, four cases have been brought under Chapter 11. This note describes the Chapter 11 process and suggests some of the issues that may arise as it is increasingly resorted to by investors.

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Scanning Electron Microscopy-cuticular Lesions on the Roundworm Ascaris Suum

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s042482010006756x ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 28 ◽

pp. 114-115

Author(s):

P. A. Madden ◽

W. R. Anderson

Keyword(s):

Electron Microscopy ◽

Scanning Electron Microscopy ◽

Freeze Drying ◽

Room Temperature ◽

Secondary Electron ◽

Distilled Water ◽

Freeze Dried ◽

Silver Paint ◽

To Come ◽

Scanning Electron

The intestinal roundworm of swine is pinkish in color and about the diameter of a lead pencil. Adult worms, taken from parasitized swine, frequently were observed with macroscopic lesions on their cuticule. Those possessing such lesions were rinsed in distilled water, and cylindrical segments of the affected areas were removed. Some of the segments were fixed in buffered formalin before freeze-drying; others were freeze-dried immediately. Initially, specimens were quenched in liquid freon followed by immersion in liquid nitrogen. They were then placed in ampuoles in a freezer at −45C and sublimated by vacuum until dry. After the specimens appeared dry, the freezer was allowed to come to room temperature slowly while the vacuum was maintained. The dried specimens were attached to metal pegs with conductive silver paint and placed in a vacuum evaporator on a rotating tilting stage. They were then coated by evaporating an alloy of 20% palladium and 80% gold to a thickness of approximately 300 A°. The specimens were examined by secondary electron emmission in a scanning electron microscope.

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The microstructure change of low-carbon electrical steels by residual aluminum

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100153403 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 47 ◽

pp. 286-287

Author(s):

C.K. Hou ◽

C.T. Hu ◽

Sanboh Lee

Keyword(s):

Annealing Treatment ◽

Low Carbon ◽

Electrical Steels ◽

Vacuum Degassing ◽

Spherical Inclusions ◽

Residual Aluminum ◽

Average Grain Size ◽

The Matrix ◽

Fine Size ◽

To Come

The fully processed low-carbon electrical steels are generally fabricated through vacuum degassing to reduce the carbon level and to avoid the need for any further decarburization annealing treatment. This investigation was conducted on eighteen heats of such steels with aluminum content ranging from 0.001% to 0.011% which was believed to come from the addition of ferroalloys.The sizes of all the observed grains are less than 24 μm, and gradually decrease as the content of aluminum is increased from 0.001% to 0.007%. For steels with residual aluminum greater than 0. 007%, the average grain size becomes constant and is about 8.8 μm as shown in Fig. 1. When the aluminum is increased, the observed grains are changed from the uniformly coarse and equiaxial shape to the fine size in the region near surfaces and the elongated shape in the central region. SEM and EDAX analysis of large spherical inclusions in the matrix indicate that silicate is the majority compound when the aluminum propotion is less than 0.003%, then the content of aluminum in compound inclusion increases with that in steel.

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409 The likely numbers to come: trends in hospitalisation for heart failure in the ‘sample’ town of trieste and its region

European Journal of Heart Failure Supplements ◽

10.1016/s1567-4215(03)90261-x ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 84

Author(s):

D CHERSEVANI ◽

A DILENARDA ◽

P GOLIANI ◽

M GRELLA ◽

F BRUN ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Heart Failure ◽

Its Region ◽

To Come

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Suicidal Behavior in Black South Africans

Crisis ◽

10.1027//0227-5910.24.1.24 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 24 (1) ◽

pp. 24-28 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

Lourens Schlebusch ◽

Naseema B.M. Vawda ◽

Brenda A. Bosch

Keyword(s):

South African ◽

Suicidal Behavior ◽

Health Care Facilities ◽

South African Society ◽

South Africans ◽

The Past ◽

The People ◽

Care Facilities ◽

Black South Africans ◽

To Come

Summary: In the past suicidal behavior among Black South Africans has been largely underresearched. Earlier studies among the other main ethnic groups in the country showed suicidal behavior in those groups to be a serious problem. This article briefly reviews some of the more recent research on suicidal behavior in Black South Africans. The results indicate an apparent increase in suicidal behavior in this group. Several explanations are offered for the change in suicidal behavior in the reported clinical populations. This includes past difficulties for all South Africans to access health care facilities in the Apartheid (legal racial separation) era, and present difficulties of post-Apartheid transformation the South African society is undergoing, as the people struggle to come to terms with the deleterious effects of the former South African racial policies, related socio-cultural, socio-economic, and other pressures.

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