December 8, 2009, Filed Under: Research + TeachingFellows Find: Fannie Hurst and Diets Before the Atkins, South Beach, and Cabbage Soup diets was the Hollywood Eighteen Day Diet from the 1920s, which demanded fewer than 600 calories per day. One of its earliest practitioners was American novelist Fannie Hurst, who wrote extensively about her weight loss struggles in the early 20th century, when… read more
October 13, 2009, Filed Under: Meet the StaffDiscovering "The Sheltering Sky" Matt Morton, a senior in the English Honors Program, Humanities Honors Program, and Government, is working as an undergraduate intern with Ransom Center Curator of British and American Literature Molly Schwartzburg. Undergraduate interns at the Harry Ransom Center have the opportunity to gain valuable behind-the-scenes experience at a major research… read more
September 10, 2009, Filed Under: Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing ArtsResearch at the Ransom Center: Terrence McNally’s connections By Raymond-Jean Frontain What brings people to the theater, a speaker explains in “Hidden Agendas”—a sketch that Terrence McNally wrote in the early 1990s in response to a censorship crisis at the National Endowment for the Arts—is “the expectation that the miracle of communication will take place. […] Words, sounds,… read more
