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Naomi Duff Smith papers
No full textNaomi Duff Smith (1902-1973) was a poet, author of short stories and radio scripts, and owner of a Baltimore, Maryland, public relations firm. Her collection consists of poems, short stories, correspondence, and awards documenting her literary output and business and civic achievements. Significant correspondents represented in the collection include Lizette Woodworth Reese, R. P. Harriss, Millard E. Tydings, Amy Winslow, Alan P. Hoblitzell, E. Paul Mason, Joseph R. Byrnes, Emory J. Niles, William D. MacMillan, and Hugo R. Hoffman
An Interview with Alan Duff
No full textAlan Duff's novel Once Were Warriors is the first work of fiction to be
published in the Talanoa: Contemporary Pacific Literature series of the
University of Hawai'i Press. One reason for choosing this novel was that
it had recently been published in AotearoalNew Zealand (I990) and
was causing considerable controversy. All of a sudden, this relatively unknown
Maori was making headlines in the print media, being interviewed
over and over again on television, and making a lot of people angry. His
novel had shot to the top of the bestsellers' list soon after its release, and
booksellers were besieged with requests to buy it-a novel that supposedly
puts the boot in the face of the Maori.
Once Were Warriors is now a successful, award-winning feature film.
Alan Duff, who has since published another novel titled One Night Out
Stealing (I992), a nonfiction book titled Maori: The Crisis and the Challenge
(I993), anda radio series, State Ward (I994), is now famous, if not
a household name in AotearoalNew Zealand. By his account, more
novels, and possibly films, are already being written or planned. Refusing
to be silenced by his critics, this author will probably continue to be in the
news for many years to come.
The mention of Duff's name is enough to set many people off, Maori
and non-Maori alike. In a recent issue of this journal, Christina Thompson
wrote a lengthy article that used as a hook the selection by theUniversity
of Hawai'i Press of Alan Duff as a "representative Maori writer."
Labeling the choice "radical," she teased out the cultural and political
issues that surround his book-which is "problematic from almost any
perspective" (THE CONTEMPORARY PACIFIC 6:397-4I3). The interview
that follows allows the author to talk about his work from his own perspective,
and to continue the debate that still rages around it.
Soon after his film was released, Duff passed through Hawai'i on his
way to Budapest to promote it. The University of Hawai'i Press took the
opportunity to ask him to talk about his work during the launching of
the Talanoa series, and Vilsoni Hereniko interviewed him in his office on
I6 June I994. Hereniko describes the interview
Video 1: Supplementary video for Favaro and Duff
No full text<p>In situ recordings of S. maliger feeding attempts in and around traps designed to catch spot prawns (Supplementary video for Favaro and Duff)</p
Mann's Estate, Gosford [cartographic material] : good orchard & farming land on Narara Creek, by order of the Perpetual Trustee Co. Ltd., trustees of settlement of the late Gother Kerr Mann /
No full textSales plan for Gosford. Includes local sketch and information about terms of sale.; "S.R. Dobbie, licensed surveyor (under R.P. and Mining Acts), Norwich Chambers, Hunter St., Sydney."; "Herbert Robjohns, draftsman, 86 Pitt St., Sydney."; Also available in an electronic version via the internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-lfsp975
Synthesis of salicylaldehydes from phenols via copper-mediated duff reaction
No full textA copper-mediated Duff reaction for ortho-selective formylation of phenols has been developed. In the presence of copper species, significant improvements of yield and ortho-selectivity of the Duff formylation were achieved, which provides an easy access to salicylaldehydes from phenols
The Press of the Royal Institution
No full textThe essay offers the first detailed account of the Press of the Royal Institution, established in 1801 in order to print the recently launched Journals of the Royal Institution as well as lecture syllabuses, other pedagogical works and a wide range of administrative and promotional documents. Analysing these diverse outputs, the essay also discusses the equipment and finances of the Printing Office, the people associated with it and the symbolism of the Press as an expression of the Institution’s ambitions and public image-building. The relationship with other London printers and booksellers is addressed, as are contemporary developments in printing technology and politically-motivated legislation to regulate the print trade. Later sections explain the reasons for the premature closure of the Printing Office in 1804 and chart its long-term legacy through the work of the printer (and later publisher and author) William Savage and his various collaborators, who included the bibliographer Thomas Frognall Dibdin and, briefly, Samuel Taylor Coleridge.The essay offers the first detailed account of the Press of the Royal Institution, established in 1801 in order to print the recently launched Journals of the Royal Institution as well as lecture syllabuses, other pedagogical works and a wide range of administrative and promotional documents. Analysing these diverse outputs, the essay also discusses the equipment and finances of the Printing Office, the people associated with it and the symbolism of the Press as an expression of the Institution’s ambitions and public image-building. The relationship with other London printers and booksellers is addressed, as are contemporary developments in printing technology and politically-motivated legislation to regulate the print trade. Later sections explain the reasons for the premature closure of the Printing Office in 1804 and chart its long-term legacy through the work of the printer (and later publisher and author) William Savage and his various collaborators, who included the bibliographer Thomas Frognall Dibdin and, briefly, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
duff
No full textduff 1 nTo get your '_duff_' and sugar you had to be able to 'box the compass.' This applied to young fishermen who went to the Labrador on fishing schooners. Duff and sugar was considered a treat, or a popular dessert served after the Jigg's dinner. Apparently it also served as an incentive to youngsters perparing for the fishing occupation. The 'duff' referred to is made with flour water and baking powder, rolled into balls and cooked in the pot with turnip, carrot, potatoes, cabbage, salt meat, and fat back pork. Boxing the compass is saying the copass backward and foward in quarters, e.g. N. to E. , S. to E. , S. to W., N to W. (over).DICT CEN.Used I and SupUsed I and Sup1Not usedThis is from a Newfoundland Folklore Survey card. This is side one of two. Side two is file D_14907
Tim DUFF, Plutarch 's Lives. Exploring Virtue and Vice.
No full textDonnet Daniel. Tim DUFF, Plutarch 's Lives. Exploring Virtue and Vice.. In: L'antiquité classique, Tome 71, 2002. pp. 304-305
Peter Duff: Accountant and educator
No full textPeter Duff, an accountant in Pittsburgh, was the author of several books on accounting and also the founder of a school for bookkeepers and accountants in 1840. The Duff school is significant because of its early beginnings and the fact that the school still operates today, having outlived many of its noted competitor
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