Oakland Journal Number 01: Spring 2000
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Item Contributors(Oakland University, 2000-04-01) Brieger, GottfriedOakland Journal Issue 1 contributors listItem Item The Oakland University Chronicles(Oakland University, 2000-04-01) Tomboulian, Paul; Tomboulian, Alice; Brieger, GottfriedThe Oakland University Chronicles are a set of oral histories about the beginnings of Oakland University. The Chronicles focus mainly on the years 1957–1963, before the graduation of the first class.Item Historical and Cultural Preservation of Resources In Oakland County(Oakland University, 2000-04-01) Stamps, Richard B.; Brieger, GottfriedThe Oakland County Historical and Cultural Resources Inventory Map displays the key archaeological, architectural and historical sites that can be found in Oakland County, Michigan.Item The Moral Career of a New Religious Movement(Oakland University, 2000-04-01) Shepherd, Gordon; Shepherd, Gary; Brieger, GottfriedThe Family’s emphasis on the Bible and its attempt to reinstate such early Christian practices as “sharing all things in common” and full-time dedication to evangelize the world for Jesus “without purse or script,” taking “no thought for the morrow,” are sectarian Christian themes. At the same time, its radical sexual teachings and practices, its origins in the prophetic claims of David Berg, and its continuing dependency on direct revelatory guidance from Jesus (as well as Dad’s departed spirit) clearly mark The Family as a new religious “cult movement” in the sociological sense.Item 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(Oakland University, 2000-04-01) Morgante, Karen A,; Brieger, GottfriedThe 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.Item The Vital Role of Nitric Oxide(Oakland University, 2000-04-01) Malinski, Tadeusz; Brieger, GottfriedThe role of nitric oxide in cardiovascular, nervous, and immune systems, and the pathology of nitric oxide release.Item Thoughts on the American Dream and Its Future(Oakland University, 2000-04-01) Maines, David R.; Brieger, GottfriedThe American Dream is an “ideograph”—a master symbol that fuses ideology and rhetoric and that, in the hands of authorities, mobilizes collective action, sentiment, and motive.Item On the Value of Excess(Oakland University, 2000-04-01) Liboff, Abraham R.; Brieger, GottfriedThe effects of efficiency studies on architecture, politics, and society.Item Cultural Influences on End-of-Life Decision Making(Oakland University, 2000-04-01) Jackson, Frances C.; Schim, Stephanie; Duffy, Sonia; Brieger, GottfriedAdvice on end-of-life decision-making is largely influenced by the culture of the recipient of care, the culture of the provider of care, and the culture of the institution where the care is being received.Item Item Is This Art? Do You Appreciate It?(Oakland University, 2000-04-01) Goody, Dick; Brieger, GottfriedThoughts on the appreciation of modern art, and a review of a video by Phillip Singer titled "Museum Security Guards as Art Connoisseurs".Item A Reply to Professor Liboff(Oakland University, 2000-04-01) Folland, Sherman T.; Brieger, GottfriedA reply to Abraham Liboff's article "On the Value of Excess".Item A Century of Dickinson Scholarship: Reflections of an Encyclopedist(Oakland University, 2000-04-01) Eberwein, Jane Donahue; Brieger, GottfriedComments on editing an encyclopedia of more than a century’s worth of scholarship since Poems by Emily Dickinson first appeared in 1890, four years after the poet’s death.Item