Any 'real Beaujolais' being made?

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
This class hasn't even started yet and I'm ready to flunk all of your for bad attitude. By the way, if you aren't reading in an edition with Thackeray's illustrations, you need another one.
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Aww, I have a feeling you'll turn this rag-tag band of misfits around and in the end we will all learn a little something about ourselves and each other. I'm already inspired! I've even added Vanity Fair to my Netflix queue. Or at least I have every intention of doing so. Wait, maybe I can find it on YouTube . . .
 
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
This class hasn't even started yet and I'm ready to flunk all of your for bad attitude. By the way, if you aren't reading in an edition with Thackeray's illustrations, you need another one.
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Hey! I have an idea. While we're about it, why not reproduce the second season of Masterpiece Theatre as a reading list? From memory, that would include not only VF, but The Moonstone, The Golden Bowl and Tom Brown's School Days. If we toss in season 1, we could add Pre Goriot. Maybe we could get SFJoe to do his famous Alistair Cooke impersonation to assist with the illusion?

Can I TA for you, Prof? I haz gud reeding skillz.

Mark Lipton
 
originally posted by MLipton:
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
This class hasn't even started yet and I'm ready to flunk all of your for bad attitude. By the way, if you aren't reading in an edition with Thackeray's illustrations, you need another one.
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Hey! I have an idea. While we're about it, why not reproduce the second season of Masterpiece Theatre as a reading list? From memory, that would include not only VF, but The Moonstone, The Golden Bowl and Tom Brown's School Days. If we toss in season 1, we could add Pre Goriot. Maybe we could get SFJoe to do his famous Alistair Cooke impersonation to assist with the illusion?

Can I TA for you, Prof? I haz gud reeding skillz.

Mark Lipton
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I have such fond memories of that season. It was my first year in grad school and my then roommate and I would watch it every Sunday evening (he's now chair of Irvine's English department). One great version of a novel after another. The Vanity Fair--with Susan Hampshire I think as Becky--is the best version made. Don't accept Reese Witherspoon knockoffs. The Tom Brown's School Days is actually better than the novel, not really a hard trick (although the novel did introduce Flashman to the world).

I teach Pre Goriot in another course.
 
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:

I have such fond memories of that season. It was my first year in grad school and my then roommate and I would watch it every Sunday evening (he's now chair of Irvine's English department). One great version of a novel after another. The Vanity Fair--with Susan Hampshire I think as Becky--is the best version made. Don't accept Reese Witherspoon knockoffs. The Tom Brown's School Days is actually better than the novel, not really a hard trick (although the novel did introduce Flashman to the world).

I teach Pre Goriot in another course.
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I too have fond memories of those early seasons, before it descended into secondhand BBC melodrama. I saw perhaps the first 5 or 6 seasons before I decamped for TV-less life in college and those first two were the best, by far. After that, it was Ian Carmichael's Lord Peter Wimsey as a lone beacon among the Upstairs, Downstairs and Poldark potboilers.

Mark Lipton
 
I already read Vanity Fair on the flight last weekend. This is going to be an easy class. Sweet!

Fair points, Rahsaan. Different sorts of mythmaking for different cultures and as an American I am more sensitive to mythmaking here. I can only imagine the complex web that exists in somewhat older cultures. And as an American Francophile, I've always found certain French myths about the glories of the peasant farmer past very appealing. And it's no doubt easier to believe in Manifest Destiny or some other form of exceptionalism or triumphalism if you are living in the 'burbs in the US (and perhaps possess a limited education and historical perspective) than if you are living in Somalia.

"Theism" is about as far as you can get from the current strains of fundamentalism without declaring yourself an atheist, right?

I refuse to sit in the chair in front of vlm in this class.

Brun's L'Ancien was going to be my pick as the wine closest to Kermit's description, and it is also the red wine that I drink more frequently than any other red wine. Brun's Beaujolais Nouveau - which is even lower acohol, isn't it? - doesn't lag far behind. Damned Dressner beat me to the answer.

I am NOT going to be reading The Golden Bowl. I will be using Google/Wikipedia to finish my homework on that assignment. I just want to be clear on that.

I am a heathen.
 
It's OK. I won't teach The Golden Bowl. I have only read it once. I appreciate late James, but I use the word appreciate with an edge. I'm still working on this failure of mine. I much prefer Portrait of a Lady.
 
Single digit with fizz is the stuff the Swiss bought by the barrel, que no?, then stirred up to serve together with its leas? I thought Kermit's ideal was a titch more polished than that extreme.

We've been drinking some 2005 Roilette Fleurie - no, not Coudert, another guy named Jean-Marc Lafont. I think the abv is at or near 13%, but it is delightfully tangy, almost sour, even, and goes with lots of different food. In Kermit's metaphor, a wine for fooling around, but not necessarily one you'd want to raise a family with. (Sorry, did that sound juvenile? Trite?).

I'm buying some Clos Roche Blanche Gamay and hope it will share some of the same characteristics.
 
originally posted by VLM:
I'm hurtNo one wants a Structural Equations Modeling course?
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Actually, I've been trying to teach myself how to run these models via Google (seriously) so if you wouldn't mind popping over to DC for some tutoring I can pour some delicious Filtered Water and maybe even some Wine.
 
originally posted by Rahsaan:
originally posted by VLM:
I'm hurtNo one wants a Structural Equations Modeling course?
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Actually, I've been trying to teach myself how to run these models via Google (seriously) so if you wouldn't mind popping over to DC for some tutoring I can pour some delicious Filtered Water and maybe even some Wine.
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Seriously? Pretty ambitious for PoliSci.

The bible is Structural Equations with Latent Variables by Ken Bollen, who also happened to be on my dissertation committee. Definitely worth having.
 
originally posted by VLM:
Seriously? Pretty ambitious for PoliSci.
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Not really. It's pretty standard in some corners of the discipline.

The bible is Structural Equations with Latent Variables by Ken Bollen, who also happened to be on my dissertation committee. Definitely worth having.
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Thanks. I'll look for that in the library, it should be more exhaustive than the GLLAMM manual which is my current bible (I'm a Stata guy).
 
originally posted by Rahsaan:
originally posted by VLM:
Seriously? Pretty ambitious for PoliSci.
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Not really. It's pretty standard in some corners of the discipline.
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But fiercely resisted by others.

The bible is Structural Equations with Latent Variables by Ken Bollen, who also happened to be on my dissertation committee. Definitely worth having.
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Thanks. I'll look for that in the library, it should be more exhaustive than the GLLAMM manual which is my current bible (I'm a Stata guy).
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It will give you a good ground up approach on to it. For more modern methods, you'll need to look to the literature, but this is the basis and I've been in the house that this book built. Not bad for an academic tome.

I know the GLAMM people. I don't tend to think of GLAMM as SEM, per se, but OK. I tend to use MPlus for my SEM analyses, but am mainly a SAS guy, although I will use STATA for certain things.

You also might wan to look into the improved capabilities of R.
 
originally posted by VLM:
You also might wan to look into the improved capabilities of R.
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Yes, I know this is where I should be heading but I started with Stata so I mostly follow the path of least resistance and stay with it when I can.
 
originally posted by VLM:
I'm hurtNo one wants a Structural Equations Modeling course?
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This course is already being offered by the WLDG. Just search "real Chianti" and you'll find it.

And there's Life Drawing 1 available over at Strat's Place, if that's your thing.
 
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
originally posted by MLipton:

Prof L: Don't you think that present-day Christian Fundamentalism would be as alien to the Protestant Nonconformists of 18th Century America as Scientology? (well, maybe that's a bit hyperbolic) Those early Protestant "Fundamentalists" were largely Presbyterian and other Congregationalists, along with the splinter groups such as the Quakers, Shakers and Amish. Today's Fundamentalism I see as an outgrowth of Pentacostalism, which really didn't exist in the US until the late 19th Century.

Mark Lipton
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The roots of our fundamentalism go back at least to the first half of the nineteenth century. Farther if one considers those roots not merely with Nonconformism but with the belief of American Nonconformists to have gotten back to a purer, more basic religion. The anti-intellectualism of American fundamentalism probably doesn't develop until the second half of the 19th century, though there were No-Nothings in the 1850s (but I think they were tied to Northeast Catholics). I should say that I'm a rank amateur with regard to US intellectual history.
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I read Marsden's Fundamentalism and American Culture several years ago, and found it an excellent source of background information on the development of fundamentalism in the US. Intellectual history isn't my field so I can't give a well-informed appraisal of his analysis and conclusions, but the book was highly regarded when it came out, and Marsden does an excellent job of covering the sources relevant to the development of fundamentalism. I suppose I should note that it's a scholarly work and requires more than a casual reading.
 
Does Kant have a position on Beaujolais? Does one of the Pure Concepts of the Understanding entail what winemakers should do? I'm pretty sure the Aesthetics isn't of concern here given Kant's belief that aesthetic qualities are not part of objects but of our perception of them, but then, people who disagree with me about that might shoot rubber bullets at me, I guess.
 
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