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The life and works of James Miller, 1704-1744, with particular reference to the satiric content of his poetry and plays.
No full textPhDJames Miller was born the son of a Dorset rector in 1704. He
was himself ordained, but acquired no benefice until just before his
early death, probably because of a scathing portrayal of the Bishop
of London in one of his verse satires. At Oxford he wrote a vivacious
comedy of humours, set in the University. Its production in 1730
began his dramatic career, at a time when the number of London
theatres had just doubled, and new dramatic forms were being invented.
In 1731 his poem Harlequin-Horace, a witty inversion of
the Ars Poetica, attacked pantomime and opera, but also painted a
lively portrait of the entire theatrical world, in the tradition of
the Dunciad.
After collaborating in a translation of Moliere's works Miller
wrote two plays based on this author. Of all his dramatic works
these were the most successful with his contemporaries, and were
followed by a modernisation of Much Ado, and a ballad-opera adapted
from an afterpiece by Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, and rendered highly
topical. Miller made similar use of a recent French comedy showing
a Red Indian's reactions to civilisation, a satiric "fable" by Walsh
and Voltaire's Mahomet. A large quantity of original material was
incorporated into most of these, and this is generally satirical in
nature. The Indian is made to voice almost egalitarian sentiments.
An afterpiece, "The Camp Visitants", satirised military inaction
in the war, and was apparently banned. The manuscripts of the six
plays produced after the Licensing Act bear the examiner's deletions,
and illustrate the nature of the censorship at this time.
Miller's greatest strength is probably his flexible, vigorously
colloquial dialogue. His political satire is mostly contained in
the poetry, which attacks Walpole's administration with increasing
vehemence through the seventeen-thirties, until its fall. In 1740
two poems that used Pope in symbolic contrast to Walpole caused a
sensation. In both poetry and plays Miller is also a social satirist,
who lays unusually strong emphasis on false taste and the deterioration
of culture
Tele-operated climbing and mobile service robots for remote inspection and maintenance in nuclear industry
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A program in Medium-Energy Nuclear Physics
No full textThis report discusses research on the following topics: single electron scattering; coincidence electron scattering; photonuclear reactions; pion scattering; and the GWU nuclear detector. (LSP)
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Electromagnetic dissociation of radioactive heavy-ion beams
No full textBased on our experience with electromagnetic dissociation of relativistic stable ions, we discuss the prospects for experiments with beams of relativistic radioactive heavy ions
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Atlas of photoneutron cross sections obtained with monoenergetic photons. [Between 10 and 50 MeV]
No full textThe data included in this supplement replace earlier preliminary results presented in the Bicentennial Edition of the Atlas of Photoneutron Cross Sections (UCRL-78482, 1976). The nuclei included are /sup 13/C, /sup 18/O, /sup 55/Mn, /sup 59/Co, /sup 186/ /sup 188/ /sup 189/ /sup 192/Os, /sup 232/Th, and /sup 235/ /sup 236/ /sup 238/U, all from measurements performed at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory
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Photofission and electrofission. [Review, cross sections, fission yield, angular distribution]
No full textRecent experimental progress in the fields of photofission and electrofission of actinide nuclei is summarized. In particular, experimental results which throw light on the delineation of the characteristics of the giant resonances are highlighted. Measurements of especial interest in this regard include photofission cross-section studies with monoenergetic photons and electrofission yield and angular-distribution studies. 36 references
Minimal Lp projections by Fourier, Taylor, and Laurent series
No full textAbstractIn appropriate function space settings, it is proved that the Fourier, Taylor, and Laurent series projections are minimal in all Lp norms (1 ⩽ p ⩽ ∞). This result unifies and extends known results for the Fourier, Taylor, and Laurent projections in L∞ and for the Fourier projection in L1. The proof is based on a generalisation of a kernel summation formula due to Berman
Atlas of photoneutron cross sections obtained with monoenergetic photons
No full textPhotoneutron cross section data obtained with monoenergetic photons are presented in a uniform format. This compilation is current as of December, 1976
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