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Let Me Take You Down in a Cyn Sandwich: The Profoundly Paradoxical Mind of John Lennon Part I: Eight books on John Lennon reviewed by Brian Murphy

Murphy, Brian (Oakland University, 2006-10-01)

The first of a two-part series of reviews of books on the subject of John Lennon.

Let Me Take You Down in a Cyn Sandwich: The Profoundly Paradoxical Mind of John Lennon Part II

Murphy, Brian (Oakland University, 2007-01-01)

The second of a two-part series of reviews of books on the subject of John Lennon, and his albums with Yoko Ono.

Letter to the Editor: A Dismal Response

Brieger, Gottfried (Oakland University, 2006-01-01)

A response to an article by Sherman T. Folland.

Liberal Education-The Foundation

Russi, Gary D. (Oakland University, 2007-10-01)

Today, the liberal arts are the foundation of any degree conferred by Oakland University; this is still the bedrock educational principle that guides our mission. An Oakland University graduate may have a degree in electrical ...

Living with a Bibliophile

(Oakland University, 2003-10-01)

A memoir of a long life together, written by Gertrude White in remembrance of her husband,

Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Presidential Politics in 2008 and 2009

Dulio, David A.; Trumbore, Peter F. (Oakland University, 2009-01-01)

In this article, as the title suggests, we will take a brief look back at the 2008 election and consider why it turned out the way it did, and look ahead to 2009 and beyond to consider the prospects for the new Obama ...

The Looting of the Baghdad Museum

Wood, Susan E. (Oakland University, 2003-10-01)

On April 9, Baghdad fell to American-led coalition forces. Over the following two days, the social order in the city broke down, as typically happens after the overthrow of a government, and uncontrollable mobs rioted in ...

Lost sight of

Hightower, Kenneth R. (Oakland University, 2000-04-01)

Poetry

Louis Betts, Portrait Painter of High Society: The Meadow Brook Hall Portraits of Alfred G. Wilson, Matilda R. Wilson, Danny and Frances Dodge, and John F. Dodge

Morgante, Karen A, (Oakland University, 2000-04-01)

The artist Louis Betts was commissioned to paint the portraits of Matilda and Alfred Wilson, John Dodge, and Frances and Danny Dodge for Meadow Brook Hall.

Lucky Fish

Plantus, Doris (Oakland University, 2012-01-01)

Making The ‘Invisible Hand’ Visible: The Case for Dialogue About Academic Capitalism

Awbrey, Susan M. (Oakland University, 2002-10-01)

The erosion of public funding that has led to academic capitalism implies a shift not merely in funding sources but also in the deeper values that underlie education’s role in society. This is ground for very serious ...

Man, Metal and Metaphor: Metal in Early Medieval Warrior Culture and in Beowulf

Walsh, Susan (Oakland University, 2011-10-01)

In the Iron Age culture of 500 AD, man made the metals. And metals also made the man. The importance of metallurgy to the early medieval Germanic culture of Northwestern Europe is captured in the old English poem Beowulf ...

The Matilda Wilson College Proposal of December 1956: The First Curricular Source for Oakland University

Tomboulian, Paul; Tomboulian, Alice (Oakland University, 2003-10-01)

In November 1956, Matilda Dodge Wilson and Alfred Wilson decided to donate their Meadow Brook Farms estate and $2 million to the state of Michigan for the purpose of founding an educational institution. One month later, ...

Matthew Stanley’s Practical Mystic: Religion, Science, and A. S. Eddington: Valence Values and the Late Victorian Science-Religion Interface/Divide- A Review Essay

Garfinkle, David; Nixon, Jude V. (Oakland University, 2009-01-01)

The relationship of science to religion and literature continues to be an issue of vexation, especially here in the U.S. A logical way, perhaps, to begin this review essay on a late Victorian, early-modern work integrating ...

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