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Beckett, Sade, The Avengers: Patrick Magee and character acting in the 1960s
No full textPatrick Magee was Samuel Beckett’s close collaborator and friend who, through his monologues on BBC radio in the early 1960s, shaped the parameters of a generic Beckettian character, one that can still be detected in the production, reception and understanding of Beckett’s work today. Yet it has not been sufficiently understood that Magee’s performances emerge from a wide and shifting field of biographical, aesthetic, professional and economic forces, given his centrality not only to Beckett’s reception, but to many other areas of performance, from classic West End theatre to horror film, counter-cultural provocation to iconic Sixties television series.
Magee’s distinctive realization of Beckett’s anonymous, isolated, seemingly ancient voices took place in the context of his sustained experiment with the nature and function of character across several media, and in this essay I think through the nature and consequences of this mobility. To do so I focus on his career from 1958 to 1964, that is to say, from the small part he played in the first airing of Beckett’s play All that Fall on the BBC Third Programme, to the Royal Shakespeare Company summer season at the Aldwych in London, which featured Magee as leading man in all four plays staged, including Beckett’s Endgame and Peter Weiss’s Marat/Sade
La Cholla Boulevard : Magee Road
No full textabstract: The Pima County Department of Transportation in cooperation with the Town of Oro Valley and the Regional Transportation Authority proposes to widen approximately 5 miles of La Cholla Boulevard from a two-lane arterial roadway into a four-lane divided arterial roadway between Magee Road and Tangerine Road. During Phase 1 of the proposed project, PCDOT will lead the preliminary roadway design for the entire corridor and will design and construct the roadway improvements from
Magee Road to Lambert Lane. During Phase 2, the Town of Oro Valley will complete the design and construct the roadway improvements from Lambert Lane to Tangerine Road
The identity of the type of Tanacetum burchellii DC. (Asteraceae, Anthemideae), and the correct author citation for Pentzia punctata Harv. ex Hutch.
No full textAbstractThe identity of the type of Tanacetum burchellii DC. is re-assessed. The original material cited by Augustin P. de Candolle represents two different species. When compared to the protologue, it is clear that only one of the two specimens fits the description and is therefore here designated as lectotype. However, the selected lectotype is clearly conspecific with Foveolina albidiformis (Thell.) Källersjö and as a result the new combination Foveolina burchellii (DC.) Magee is proposed as the correct name for this taxon. The correct author citations, typifications and synonyms for both Foveolina burchellii and Pentzia punctata Harv. ex Hutch. are provided
Letter from Freddie Magee to John Muir, 1913 May 7.
No full text3our thoughts and memories. And for the object lessons in the pure love of nature & for the previous things of the lasting hills that you have, & you first & foremost, made the priceless possession of everyone that has eyes to see and hear to love & understand-none of us can be thankful enough to God & to you for interpreting his voice & his handiwork to us- How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, oh God! How great is the sum of them! Your life so well exemplies the2described The Bible that I prize so much as yours in my library-because of the intense personality of the author & because of the affection & sincerest esteem in which we Magees-girls & boys hold him. I especially feel a nearness to you by reason of that babyhood meeting in the Yosemite of you & my dear Mother & father in May 1871 & I do so prize the picture of my mother with me in her lap & I could only wish that you & my father were in the picture as you shall always be inhttps://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/42570/thumbnail.jp
Simulated annealing of Skyrme model configurations
No full textTHESIS 7946The Skyrme model is a topological field theory that has been shown to be a good low energy
approximation to QCD. A particular quantum theoretical treatment of the
model reduces the quantization to a finite-dimensional quantum mechanical problem,
selecting significant degrees of freedom of the configuration and quantizing them.
A long-asked question has been how the quantized configuration differs from the
classical minimum
The Clay statue. A model of a man. Designed by the goddess of liberty
No full textThe artist lionizes Kentucky senator Henry Clay, author of the Compromise of 1850, and slams his political foes and critics of the compromise, particularly those in the Taylor administration. A text in the lower margin reads: "A Fable--In the Reign of Zackery 1st the Goddess of Liberty Designed a Statue. a Model of a Man which she exhibited before the King, his Ministers, & the People. the Beauty of the Statue Elicited such shouts of Approbation from the People that the King's Ministers fired with Jealousy determined to Destroy it, but after many Ineffectual attempts were obliged to Desist amidst the Laughter of the Court & the People." The King is clearly President Taylor, who sits on a throne at the far left, in uniform and holding a sword instead of a scepter. A spittoon is on the floor before him, and a black court jester crouches beside the throne holding a copy of the newspaper the "Republic." A larger-than-life statue of Henry Clay, in armor and holding a shield inscribed "Compromise" and a sword, stands in the center of the scene. Clay's sword bears the words, "I fight for my Country! Traitors Beware." The statue towers over the figures that surround it, which include Taylor cabinet members Reverdy Johnson, George W. Crawford, and Thomas Ewing (on the right) and Secretary of State John M. Clayton (on the left). Crawford and Ewing regard the broken ax and saw which they hold in their hands. Crawford (to Johnson): "Look here Just see what a great Big Piece Ive Broke of my Gulpin Ax. I'll send in a Gulpin Claim for this. Valuable Ax this." The allusion is to Crawford's lucrative and questionable role as counsel for the Galphin family's successful suit against the federal government, an arrangement which provoked heated criticism in the press. The controversy over this Taylor administration scandal reached its peak in April, May and June of 1850. Johnson: "The Ax, was Broke before you used it, however, you Lie & I'll Swear to it, & we'll Pockett the Plunder between us." Ewing: "Why Ive Broke nearly all the teeth of my Chickensaw against this Infernall Statue. I'le send in a Big Claim for this." Clayton gestures entreatingly to Taylor: "Why the Devil dont your Imperial Majesty assist us, I can assure your Majesty, it's much Easier discharging a Bullitt, from a Republic, than it is injuring this Statue." Journalist Alexander C. Bullitt was a Taylor advisor and, beginning in 1849, editor of the administration organ the Washington "Republic." Bullitt appears here as the black court fool. Taylor hugs to his chest the tiny figure of New York senator William H. Seward, who sits on his lap. Seward was an insider in the short-lived Taylor administration, and a vigorous opponent of the Compromise of 1850. Taylor says, "Consider the weight of my Crown, Dear Clayton. besides my sick Baby, little Billey, requires, all my Care. moreove as the People like the Statue, I'de rather not Compromise myself, in the matter. assume the Responsibility Yourself, you'r used to it." Just to the right of the throne stand (left to right) senators Thomas Hart Benton, Daniel Webster, and Henry S. Foote. Benton: "Why its a Miserable Statue. a wretched abortion, the inscriptions on the Sword & Shield are in very Bad Taste, very Bad Taste indeed." Benton was an adamant critic of the Compromise. Foote (to Webster): "I think its a Splendid Statue. Which Party do you go for." Webster: "The Party thats likely to win. Of Course, I shall Keep one eye on the Statue, & the other on the Chair, & act according to circumstances." Senator Lewis Cass stands to the right of Foote, in the background, saying, "I rather like the Inscription on the Shield." Clay does, however, have some friends here. On the far right is a crowd of people led by the figure of Liberty, a young maiden in a classical gown holding a staff and liberty cap. She addresses Johnson and the others, "Gentlemen! I made this Statue as a Model of a Man. now though it is only of Clay & I wafted it here in a Breath, still with all your efforts, you can neither move it from its Base, or inflict the slightest Injury upon it. its innate strenght [sic] will defy all your Puny attempts." Liberty's followers enjoin, "Why I think it's a Beautifull Statue," and "So do I! Hurrah! for the Clay Statue." "The Clay Statue," though tentatively dated 1849 by Weitenkampf, must have appeared in 1850, certainly after Henry Clay's presentation of the compromise in January and probably as late as the spring, at the height of the Galphin controversy.Drawn by John L. Magee.Pubd. by John L. Magee 34 Mott St. N.Y.Title appears as it is written on the item.Weitenkampf, p. 98.Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1850-9
Rent - seeking trade policy : a time series approach
No full textUsing a time-series approach, the author analyzes the relationship between the extent of rent-seeking trade policy and both political and economic variables. For rent-seeking trade policy, the indicator he uses is the number of foreign-trade regulations passed each year for the benefit of a single firm or industry. The author uses data from Uruguay for 1925-83. Uruguay, which experienced an impressive economic decline, is an outstanding example of a rent-seeking society. After being a wealthy economy in midcentury, it suffered almost complete stagnation, which led to social and policital disintegration by the end of the 1960s. Three decades of restrictive regulations on foreign trade had created a nearly closed economy by the end of the 1960s. It was worth analyzing whether policymakers'great receptiveness to demands for protection could account for Uruguay's decline. Over the period 1925-83, the author finds almost 4,000 laws, decrees, and administrative resolutions that create, maintain, or modify a foreign-trade regulation for the benefit of a single firm or industry. About half of them explicitly identify the petitioner - usually a firm or guild. Since the size of the Uruguayan economy changed over the period studied, the author scales the annual number of regulations by output or exports to measure the extent of rent-seeking trade policy. The author shows that the extent of rent-seeking trade policy increased with discretionary policies and under dictatorship. (In the period studied, there were two stages of democracy - until 1932 and from 1943-72 - and two stages of dictatorship.) He also shows that rent-seeking trade restrictions increased under import-substitution strategies and, more unexpectedly, under active export promotion. This suggests that discretionary power leads to wasteful distribution, whether it is used to support inward- or outward-oriented policies. Finally, the author analyzes the correlation between innovations in the trade policy indicator and innovations in the growth rates of output and exports, with a lag of up to 20 years. Surprisingly, he finds a positive correlation with output growth rates after two or three years. But the correlation becomes negative some years later, particularly in the case of exports. The short-run positive impact on growth rates, together with the surprisingly long time lag before the negative impact, may account for policymakers'receptiveness to demands for protection.Trade Policy,Achieving Shared Growth,TF054105-DONOR FUNDED OPERATION ADMINISTRATION FEE INCOME AND EXPENSE ACCOUNT,Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies
Joan Magee, \u3ci\u3eThe Swiss in Ontario\u3c/i\u3e
No full textThis is truly a Swiss-Canadian book. It not only offers a fact-filled survey of the Swiss presence in Canada\u27s vast province of Ontario, covering some three centuries, but it is also produced by Swiss Canadians. The text is .written by a descendant of Johannes Etter, a Swiss innkeeper, the study\u27s end page explains; in 1735 he had left Bern, Switzerland, with about 300 others for South Carolina. Etter\u27s son Peter, a Loyalist, travelled to Halifax in ·1776, founding the Canadian branch of the Etter family. Also the book\u27s artwork is done by a Swiss-Canadian, the painter Rudolf Stussi, and the exquisite interspersed poems enriching the text are by Peter Baltensperger. The printing of the work is done by a firm whose president is H. Rindlisbacher, a descendant of the Bernese Arnold Rindlisbacher who settled in Canada in 1925. The book, furthermore, contains a nuanced foreword by the Consul General of Switzerland residing in Toronto, and the study is dedicated to The Swiss Abroad in their celebration of the 700th anniversary of the Swiss Confederation in 1291. Although clearly a work of love, illustrated by photographs and eight color plates mainly of immigrants or their descendants, Joan Magee; a reference librarian at the University of Windsor and author of four other books relating to Ontario history, has given the study a professional form
Considerations on the immediacy of poetic thought
No full textWhy does poetic verse generate such a heightened sense of immediacy? Aristotle’s discussion of energeia (‘vividness’) in his Rhetoric suggests the effect is attributable to poetry’s reliance upon inherently incomplete devices – metaphor is a prime example – which seduce the reader into participating in the generation of the work. The poem’s vividness and sense of real-time unfolding are on this account due to the reader’s misrecognition of their own sense of embodied temporality, as they creatively raise the work from the page. What this traditional explanation ignores is the possibility that there is something more immediate about the act of writing in lines than in prose in the first place. The paper turns to certain non-Chomskyan linguists who have argued that when speaking we generate our utterance in sub-sentential chunks, and that these typically clausal chunkings are reflective of our extremely narrow window of conscious attention. We simply cannot hold all we would like to say in mind and cannot even grasp quite what verbal form it will take until we actually say it. Revealingly, these linguists tend to lineate their transcripts. Their work suggests that lines of verse bring us closer to an embodied sense of the cognitive constraints contouring real-time utterance than do the multiple recalibrated and revised sentences of prose writers. Biographical note: Paul Magee is the author of Stone Postcard (2014), Cube Root of Book (2006) and the prose ethnography From Here to Tierra del Fuego (2000). His second monograph, Suddenness and the Composition of Poetic Thought will be published in Rowman and Littlefield’s Performance Philosophy series in April 2022. Paul is Associate Professor of Poetry at the University of Canberra.</p
What a Girl Wants, What a Girl Needs: Opening a Women's Centre in Castlegar
No full textWe have collaborated with staff and local women to perform a needs assessment for a women's centre in Castlegar. This will inform its development and ensure that we provide a safe, supportive environment for all women
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