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Interview with Barry C. Barish
No full textInterview in five sessions, May-July 1998, with Barry C. Barish, Linde Professor of Physics emeritus and director of LIGO [Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory] 1994-2005.
Recalls undergraduate education, Berkeley; graduate work on Lawrence Radiation Laboratory cyclotron; postdoc work on bevatron. Meets Alvin Tollestrup, comes to Caltech as postdoc, 1963. At Brookhaven National Laboratory. At Stanford Linear Accelerator Center with Henry Kendall, Richard Taylor, and Jerome Friedman. With Frank Sciulli, proposes neutrino experiment for Fermilab; work on tau leptons at SLAC. Move to Cornell.
Discusses history of magnetic monopoles and his work on monopoles at Caltech in 1980s. Discusses history of SSC [Superconducting Super Collider]; problems with Standard Model of Particle Physics; Aspen conferences to plan SSC; selection of Texas site. Involvement of Samuel C. C. Ting. Devises SSC experiment, with W. J. Willis. SSC's defeat in Congress (1993). Discusses his work in Italy on monopoles, in Gran Sasso tunnel. MACRO [Monopole Astrophysics Cosmic Ray Observatory] detector.
Discusses history of LIGO. Bar detector experiments of Joseph Weber. Initial meetings at Caltech. Hiring of Ronald W. P. Drever. Rochus E. (Robbie) Vogt as head, 1987. Disastrous technical review and project review, 1992-93. He takes project over from Vogt in February 1994. Discusses problems he encountered and lack of evolution between 1989 and 1994. Discusses LIGO's technical difficulties and evolution of its organizational structure. LIGO Laboratory and LIGO (construction) Project. Establishment of LIGO Scientific Collaboration.
Comments on Caltech; disinclination to serve on committees, enjoyment of teaching. Recollections of Richard Feynman. Influence of Tollestrup and Taylor
Bart King, Mrs. William S. Barry, and Samuel A. Clark
No full textBart King of Mounds, Minnesota, left; Mrs. William S. Barry, Greenwood, Mississippi, and Samuel A. Clark, Davis, California, examine a black cocker, Shadow\u27s Theodora, from the Shadow Oaks Kennels of Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Mount who entertained the three at luncheon Monday. King is publisher of the Cocker Spaniel Visitor. Mrs. Barry judged cockers at Dallas Sunday. Clark is a California rancher and sporting dog enthusiast.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_startelegram1950s/22661/thumbnail.jp
Samuel Carlile Letter : January 22, 1863
No full textSamuel Carlile writes to William Lickly, noting that he and James are well. He continues by detailing that the rumors about James doing poorly are incorrect. Carlile writes about being on guard and details the removal of one man from camp. Carlile notes that he does not think he will ever desert the army. He continues by writing that Albert is doing well, and that he thinks Barry should not enlist. Carlile concludes by detailing the events of a brief battle with the Rebels
The Cambridge companion to medieval English mysticism /
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (p. 265-289) and index.Introduction / Nicholas Watson -- c. 1080-1215 : culture and history / Brian Patrick McGuire -- c. 1080-1215 : texts / Henrietta Leyser -- 1215-1349 : culture and history / Alastair Minnis -- 1215-1349 : texts / Denis Renevey -- 1349-1412 : culture and history / Jeremy Catto -- 1349-1412 : texts / Roger Ellis and Samuel Fanous -- 1412-1534 : culture and history / Vincent Gillespie -- 1412-1534 : texts / Barry Windeatt -- 1534-1550s : culture and history / James P. Carley and Ann M. Hutchison -- 1534-1550s : texts / James Simpson
The construction of Karen Karnak: The multi-author-function
No full textThis thesis is situated within the comparatively recent developments of Web 2.0 and the emergence of interactive WikiMedia, and explores the mode of authorship within a Read/Write culture compared to that of a Read/Only tradition. The hypothesis of this study is that the role of the audience has become merged with the author, and as such, represents new functions and attributes, distinct from a more conventional concept of authorship, in which the roles of audience and author are more separate. Read/Write and participatory culture, as defined by this study, is focused on collaboration, and includes the influences of D.I.Y. culture, Open-Source practices and the production of text by multiple authors. Multi-authorship presents a re-thinking of several concepts which support the notion of the individual author, since the focus of multi-authorship is not on attribution and ownership of a finished text, but on the continued malleability of a text. Modes of multi-authorship, demonstrated in the use of the pseudonyms Alan Smithee and Karen Eliot, represent declarative authors whose names signify multiple origins, whilst concurrently indicating a distinct body of work. The function of these names form an important context to this study, since primary research involves the construction of an experimental mode of multi-authorship utilising WikiMedia technology and the interaction of thirty nine participants, who are invited to create a body of work under the collective pseudonym Karen Karnak. The data generated by this experiment is analysed using aspects of Michel Foucault's author-function to identify and determine power structures inherent in the WikiMedia context. The interplay of power structures, including concepts such as identity, ownership and the body of work, affect the resulting mode of authorship and contribute to the construction of Karen Karnak, suggesting further areas of research into the emerging multi-author
The paradox of self-annihilating expression : representations of ontological instability in the drama of Samuel Beckett
No full textOne of the central critical problems about Beckett - how can we
praise without feeling uneasy the work of an artist for whom "to
be an artist is to fail"? - parallels the creative predicament
of a writer whose "art of failure" can only exist in an inherently
expressive medium. How can an art which is anti-art remain true
to itself? Is a truly self-annihilating expression possible?
Two perspectives on the problem are opened. The first is theoretical:
a consideration of the Duthuit Dialogues confirms that Beckett refuses
to countenance an art which survives by making artistic
failure itself the occasion of artistic creation. Rather he "dreams"
of a genuine "art of failure": without occasion, in-expressive and
indefinable. The second perspective (itself suggested by Beckett's
critical tendency in the Duthuit Dialogues) is literary-historical:
pertinent Romantic, nineteenth-century and Modernist attitudes
towards artistic failure are outlined and briefly considered. Such
a consideration serves both to define the particular (and unique)
nature of Beckett's response to what may be seen as a traditional
Romantic and Modernist problem, and to confirm the essentially
ontological nature of what Beckett sees as the creative "obligation".
(Failure to create as failure to be.)
The Beckettian creative predicament is thus considered next in terms
of individual identity, by way of the recurring motif of the
"imperfect birth", and the paradoxical quality of Beckett's response
to his creative problem is most clearly seen in the theatre, where he
needs to represent degrees of ontological absence in what has been
seen as the medium of "presence".
Studies of the individual plays show that Beckett's method is to
exploit the essence of theatre, which is playing, so as to suggest
that the players are never really present, only playing, because
obliged to play, over the void of (their own) identity. In order to
render the creative-ontological situation of the imperfectly born
subject, Beckett seeks to produce, both in the text and the stage-picture
and by a precise counterpointing of the two elements, the
effect of parody presence.
Examination of the plays in chronological order illustrates a
development towards abstraction and an increasing emphasis on shape
and pattern. The central character becomes more and more obviously
a creator and (by the same token) is revealed more and more clearly by
the effect of parody presence as a created being, though imperfectly
created. Thus theatrical presence is undermined and the Beckett play
enacts its own self-annihilation
Was Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq the Author of the Arabic Translation of Paul of Aegina’s <i>Pragmateia?</i> Evidence from the Arabic Translations of the Hippocratic <i>Aphorisms</i> and the Syriac Lexicons of Bar Bahlul and Bar ‘Ali
No full textAbstract
Study of the process of translation into Arabic of the Pragmateia of Paul of Aegina, an important work of late-Hellenic medicine, has the potential to shed light upon the early development of Arabic medicine. Traditionally, the authorship of this translation has been ascribed to the famous translator Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq. In this paper, however, I provide evidence drawn from several primary sources, including prominently the Arabic translations of the Hippocratic Aphorisms and the Syriac lexicons of Ḥasan bar Bahlul and Isho ‘bar ‘Ali, demonstrating that Ḥunayn was not the author of the Arabic translation of the Pragmateia, and that the translation was composed well before Ḥunayn’s career. The addition of the Arabic version of the Pragmateia to the list of Arabic medical works produced prior to Ḥunayn should enrich significantly scholarly understanding of the early development of the discipline.</jats:p
Samuel Beckett and the contingency of old age
No full textThis article explores the ‘best chance’ for aesthetic inspiration and experiment that old age—as an experience and a concept—might offer to Samuel Beckett. It considers the way in which the period of advanced old age might elude conventional narrative structures, and why Beckett might find this suggestive. Finally, it examines the tensions that emerge in Beckett’s writings between philosophical treatments of temporality and contingency in relation to finitude, and the lived experience of temporal phenomena at the end of life
Experiencing the armed struggle : the Soweto generation and after
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (p. 354-369).This study explores the experiences of the rank-and-file soldiers of Umkhonto we Sizwe and the Azanian People's Liberation Anny. Extensive interviews by the author and other researchers reveal the voices of the soldiers themselves. The African National Congress and Pan African Congress archives at the University of the Western Cape and the University of Fort Hare supplement and verify these oral testimonies, as do some published sources. Most previously published materials about the armed struggle against apartheid have already focused on diplomacy, strategy and tactics, operations, leadership, and human rights abuses to the neglect of the soldiers' actual experiences. This study complements these with significant new oral history materials from the Soweto generation of soldiers and their successors. When dealing with MK, many authors have documented issues of the camp structure in Angola, and operations inside South Africa, so much of this detail is only addressed briefly, leaving space to explore the soldiers' experiences. In the case of APLA, very little has been written on its history, and more detail is provided on these subjects. This study therefore deals with the soldiers' politicisation and motivation for joining the armed struggle, their experiences in leaving South Africa and training in exile, the crises in exile which limited their effectiveness for a time, their return to fight in South Africa, and their difficulties in the "new" South Africa. These materials reveal that vast problems remain facing these veterans of the struggle against apartheid, and that they have the potential, if properly supported and employed, to contribute substantially to the development of present day South Africa. Conversely, if their neglect continues, they also have the potential to bring vast harm to the country. Further use of the investigative tools of oral history, especially if extended to the former soldiers' vernacular languages, is necessary to augment the history of South Africa, and these soldiers' contributions
Bibliography of works of Sebastian Barry and production details of the premieres of Sebastian Barry’s plays
No full textBook synopsis: Out of History is the first book to appear on the work of award-winning Irish author Sebastian Barry. Barry began publishing at the early age of 25, and his work represents another 25 years of short stories, poems, works for children, and most notably plays and novels. His play The Steward of Christendom became canonical in Ireland on its first appearance in 1995 and was absorbed into the contemporary repertoire abroad. His recent novel It’s a Long Long Way has received the utmost critical attention and was nominated for the Man-Booker prize in London.
Barry is recognized as one of Ireland’s greatest living writers and his works now appear regularly on syllabuses in U.S. colleges in Irish Studies and in Drama departments. This book, edited by Christina Hunt Mahony, presents twelve essays that trace the development of the writer’s career and the individual achievement of his works, concentrating largely, but not exclusively, on the plays. The essays address Barry’s engagement with the contemporary cultural debate in Ireland and also with issues that inform postcolonial critical theory.
The essays in this volume include contributions from the most prominent of Irish Studies critics from Ireland, Britain, and the United States. Among the contributors are two prize-winning novelists, a historian and recent biographer of the poet W. B. Yeats, a former editor of Poetry Ireland, and several theatre historians and critics. The range and selection of contributors to this volume has ensured a high level of critical expression and an insightful assessment of Barry and his works
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