The table talk of W.H. Auden
In New York, between 1946 and 1948, the scholar and poet Alan Ansen made rapid notes of Auden's inimitable conversation. This book is a record of Auden's private, offhand and sometimes wayward remarks and opinions about art, literature, music, politics, religion and sexuality.
Hildegard of Bingen
It is problematic to refer to Hildegard of Bingen as a philosopher, even though she was familiar with the philosophical currents of her time and could animatedly and competently take a stand on them. More appropriately, one could call her a theologian, even though she would be loath to claim such authority for herself, in regard to her writing. Her works, including the letters, function to a large extent as visionary literature, and it is not by chance that she, as a woman, chooses these stylistic means. Within her visionary experience, she comes to a philosophical-theological view of the world which displays original traits and sometimes emphasizes polemical aspects, but, in addition, raises many unanswered questions about the influences affecting a 12th-century Benedictine woman’s view of the world and of mankind.
Pasteurella haemolytica serotype 1 colonization of the nasal passages of virus-infected calves.
Nasal passages of calves with a virus-induced respiratory tract disease became colonized by Pasteurella haemolytica serotype 1 after they were inoculated intranasally with P haemolytica. Inoculation with infectious bovine rhinotracheitis virus caused a more severe clinical illness and resulted in a greater degree of colonization with P haemolytica than developed after inoculation with parainfluenza-3 virus. Nasal passages of parainfluenza-3 virus-inoculated calves were colonized to a greater degree with P haemolytica than were those of healthy, nonstressed calves. Calves were susceptible to P haemolytica colonization during or shortly after virus-induced illness, even though they had been previously exposed to P haemolytica and had serum antibody and nasal secretion antibody to P haemolytica.