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Allinson, Alivilda N.
No full textW. M. Allinson - husband. Register states the place of burial as Rockville, MO.https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cfm-ch-memoranda-1936/1086/thumbnail.jp
The rout of Pan and our split with nature : in Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene
No full textAllinson, M. The rout of Pan and our split with nature : in Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene. PAN : philosophy activism nature. 2002; 2, 121-128</div
Robert E. Allinson: The Philosophical Influences of Mao Zedong. Notations, Reflections and Insights.
No full textReview of Robert E Allinson: The Philosophical Influences of Mao Zedong. Notations, Reflections and Insights (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020)
This book is not merely a history of Mao’s thought, as it presents a philosophical inquest on its development. It is also a philosophical reflection on the state of contemporary Chinese society and culture employing Mao’s philosophical keys. What Allinson provides is a completely new narrative of the so-called Great Helmsman’s intellectual profile and all of 20th Chinese culture. This is the right book at the right moment for understanding China’s incredible growth and deep contradictions, but also the new Chinese diplomatic impatience towards unequal treatment on the international stage. Mao’s most unacceptable and dramatic decisions find a new coherency that, in this case, contradicts the thesis of the “banality of evil”. Allinson shows an excellent capacity to freely reflect with the thinker without lessening the tragic consequences of his political decisions. As the author states: “Mao represents a unique mixture between Plato’s philosopher king and Plato’s tyrant of the Republic” (p. 100)
Robert E. Allinson: The Philosophical Influences of Mao Zedong. Notations, Reflections and Insights
No full textThis book is not merely a history of Mao’s thought, as it presents a philosophical inquest on its development. It is also a philosophical reflection on the state of contemporary Chinese society and culture employing Mao’s philosophical keys. What Allinson provides is a completely new narrative of the so-called Great Helmsman’s intellectual profile and all of 20th Chinese culture. This is the right book at the right moment for understanding China’s incredible growth and deep contradictions, but also the new Chinese diplomatic impatience towards unequal treatment on the international stage. Mao’s most unacceptable and dramatic decisions find a new coherency that, in this case, contradicts the thesis of the “banality of evil”. Allinson shows an excellent capacity to freely reflect with the thinker without lessening the tragic consequences of his political decisions. As the author states: “Mao represents a unique mixture between Plato’s philosopher king and Plato’s tyrant of the Republic” (p. 100).
The War and the spirit of youth
No full text"Three papers published at intervals in the Atlantic."--Pref.Young soldiers of France, by M. Barrès.--Juventus Christi, by Anne C. E. Allinson.--The soul's experience, by Sir F. Younghusband.Mode of access: Internet
Sheffield building image dataset
No full textJing Li and Nigel M. Allinson, Dimensionality Reduction-Based Building Recognition, in Proceedings of the Ninth IASTED International Conference on Visualization, Imaging and Image Processing, Cambridge (UK), July 13 – 15, 2009 This dataset consists of over 3,000 low-resolution images of forty different buildings – typically between 70 and 120 images per building. The images are taken from different viewpoints under widely different lighting conditions. They are intended to represent the quality and variety of images obtained by hand-held mobile devices for a range of weather and time-of-day conditions. Typical images are presented below.</p
Myths surrounding growing a business: a focus group based study on behalf of the Small Business Service
No full textThis study was undertaken by Durham Business School, on behalf of the Small Business Service (SBS), between February and July 2006. The research team previously explored ideas and perceptions associated with starting a business (Allinson et al., 2005), identifying those which are untrue or exaggerated – ‘myths’ which prevent some people from going into business. The current research builds upon that work, exploring the myths related to business growth
DynAMITe: radiation-hard wafer-scale CMOS Imager
No full textWorld’s largest radiation-hard 0.35 um CMOS imager (approx. 13 cm square) for medical imaging applications with superior performance compared to existing technology – faster speed and lower patient dose. Largest possible device on 8†(200 mm) silicon wafer. Demonstrated true charge binning in CMOS imagers for the first time, dual resolution pixel arrays, multiple read-out of selected regions for faster speed and reduced data bandwidths, “lossless†butting for large imager mosaics, fully radiation-hard pixel array (tested up to 8 MRad at 38 MeV protons), and non-destructive readout for accumulating weak signals. Funded by £1.2m EPSRC Translation Grant(EP/G037671/1), which was follow-on from £4.4m Basic Technology MI-3 (GR/S85733/01) consortium. Fully met one of EPSRC Grand Challenges for microelectronics - large-area images for medical applications. Variant of the device transferred into industry through Perkin-Elmer Corp (major global supplier) - Slingshot imager (10 x 15 cm) was realised in Autumn 2012 and will feature in Perkin-Elmer product by Autumn 2013.. DynAMITe was first reported in M Esposito, T Anaxagoras, A Fant, K Wells, A Konstantinidis, J P F Osmond, P M Evans, R D Speller and N M Allinson, DynAMITe: A Wafer Scale Sensor for Biomedical Applications, J. Instrumentation 6, 1-12 (2011). Shortlisted for British Engineering Excellent Award, 2011 and exhibited at Photonics Europe 2012, Brussels. Design produced two patents – realisation of multiple resolution arrays, edgeless butting technology, etc. (GB2011/051300 and P300185GB). Led to formation of ISDI Ltd (2011) – spinout company, with substantial commercial current order book and 7 contracted CMOS designers, with plans for commercial 20 cm square devices (12†wafer) by 2013.</p
"""The ineffable moments will be harder won"": the genesis, compositional process, and early performance history of Michael Tippett's The Heart's Assurance"
No full textCommissioned by tenor Peter Pears, Michael Tippett’s The Heart’s Assurance is an easily overlooked song cycle among twentieth-century English vocal repertoire, overshadowed by Benjamin Britten’s cyclical works and those of other British composers. This cycle, which moved Tippett to tears into his nineties, was intended to eulogize the memory of one of his dearest friends, Francesca Allinson. Tippett later expanded the dedication to serve as a requiem to both Allinson and the millions dead from World War II. The cycle’s poets Sidney Keyes and Alun Lewis also number among the war’s casualties. The violent imagery of the poets’ texts supplied an appropriate framework to characterize Tippett’s ardent pacifism and his response to the losses of war. In fact, The Heart’s Assurance represented a watershed moment to Tippett throughout his life, one to which he returned frequently in his private and public writings. In this respect, the cycle is best understood as a memorial work and for its personal significance to Tippett, rather than a composition that gained singular acclaim. Pears and Britten premièred the cycle at the 1951 Festival of Britain. Its high-profile venue positioned Tippett as a star ascendant among English song composers, yet The Heart’s Assurance did not retain this pinnacle in the repertory; nor did Tippett attempt to compose such a purely voice and piano opus again.
The Heart’s Assurance emerged eight years after Tippett’s first project with Pears and Britten – the neo-Purcellian cantata Boyhood’s End (1943). An exploration of previously unpublished letters from Tippett to Pears concerning The Heart’s Assurance reveals the development of their friendship, the collaboration with Britten the pianist, and the earliest kernels of discussion regarding the cycle. Additional unpublished correspondence with the South African-born British composer Priaulx Rainier, and documents within the BBC Written Archives, shed further light on the cycle’s genesis.
The majority of scholarship on Tippett focuses on his larger orchestral and operatic works. This study reveals why scrutiny of The Heart’s Assurance, clearly a smaller genre, is essential for a greater appreciation of Tippett’s life and persona. Furthermore, this examination elevates our understanding of Tippett’s perception of the artist’s role in modern society. This was an issue with which he wrestled a great deal, as can be seen in his published writings and selected letters, and in his voluminous amount of unpublished correspondence. This author argues that the methodology by which one may fully comprehend both composer and artwork is that which sees a synthesis of its formative elements: what this author names as the “British Library Sketches” (GB-Lbl MS Add. 72026), the “Aldeburgh Drafts and Sketches” (GB-ALb 2-9400780), and the fair copies that form the “Autograph MS” (GB-ALb 2-9400536 and 2-9400538). Drawing upon these materials, the current dissertation applies genetic criticism to this author’s transcriptions of the four extant leaves for The Heart’s Assurance in the British Library Sketches, revealing that Tippett’s compositional process was text-driven and melodically-inspired. Further discussion contrasts and compares these sketches with the later Aldeburgh Drafts and Sketches and the autograph MS. Analysis of these manuscripts presents a micro-view of Tippett’s creative development, and insights into his search for the inexpressible.
Complicating the cycle’s history thereafter is Pears’s pronouncement on it in his contribution to Michael Tippett: A Symposium on His Sixtieth Birthday (1965) fourteen years after its première. Pears’s essay is a partial response to Tippett’s earlier manifesto on composers and text-setting in his concluding essay to Dennis Stevens’s A History of Song (1960). Contextualization of Pears’s commentary requires us to understand that Britten was frequently associated with Tippett in twentieth-century English culture. At the same time, this dissertation makes it clear that Tippett’s ideas on song-writing in his treatise contradict the realities evinced in The Heart’s Assurance.
The present examination also offers a discussion of Pears’s and Britten’s annotations in their personal copies of the published scores. The early performance history of the cycle, including all known performances of The Heart’s Assurance by Peter Pears, are documented and discussed, along with notable later performances by other artists, and recordings. In sum, this dissertation provides the singer, collaborative pianist, professional voice instructor, and the scholarly community alike a broad and detailed perspective on Tippett’s song cycle. The larger goal is to contribute a focused appreciation of Tippett’s compositional process and creative skill, thereby offering richer performance and listening experiences.Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf ([email protected]) on 2011-07-08T18:58:12Z
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