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Richard Dorson (interview)
No full textThis interview is included in the American Folklore Society Oral History Project held at the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. In this item, Richard M. Dorson is interviewed by Richard Reuss at the American Folklore Society annual meeting in Nashville, Tennessee for the American Folklore Society Oral History Project. Biography/History note: Richard M. Dorson, folklorist, author, and educator, was born in New York City in 1916 and died in 1981. He earned his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. at Harvard University and taught at Harvard and Michigan State University before becoming professor of history and folklore at Indiana University where he founded its Folklore Institute in 1963 and became the first director and first chair of the Folklore Department at Indiana University in 1978. This collection consists of 1 sound tape reel (40 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono. ; 7 in. It was originally recorded on November 2, 1973 at the American Folklore Society annual meeting in Nashville, Tennessee by Richard Reuss on a Sony audiocassette. This is a first-generation copy
Richard Weiss-Steinbrüchel zum Gedenken (1907-1962)
No full textInhalt: Nachrufe von Professor Dr. R. Hotzenköcherle, Dr. Fritz Tanner ; Lebenslauf (von) M. Möckli ; Erinnerungen an Richard Weiss (von) Professor Dr. Emil Staige
Paul Edward Weiss
No full textPaul Edward Weiss, a Palo Alto resident and retired Chevrolet car dealer, died on Aug. 25 of heart failure while on vacation in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He was 90. He was born on Oct. 6, 1924, in Chicago to Morton and Edna Weiss. He studied and graduated at the University of Chicago Laboratories High School, before enlisting at age 18 in the U.S. Navy. He served during World War II on a Landing Craft Infantry Flotilla Flagship in the Pacific Ocean, and he earned five distinctions as radar man second class, including a Bronze Service Star. With the help of the G.I. Bill, he attended the University of Chicago, earning a degree in business. After working briefly as a door-to-door salesman, he joined Midway Chevrolet, an agency in Chicago co-founded by his father. In 1953, he married Barbara, with whom he had three children. The family moved west in 1968 so Paul could start a Chevrolet franchise in Cupertino. After residing in Saratoga, they moved to Los Altos Hills in 1974. Paul operated Key Chevrolet for 20 years before retiring and selling the dealership. In 2004, Paul and Barbara relocated to downtown Palo Alto. For over 40 years, Paul participated actively in the Rotary Club of Cupertino as a Paul Harris Fellow, and in 2011, he went with the group to Mexico to provide wheelchairs to the needy. In his retirement, he and Barbara traveled together, played golf and became involved in a variety of causes and activities. He is survived by his wife, Barbara Weiss of Palo Alto his daughter, Linda (Mark) Moulding of San Carlos sons, Richard (Nancy) Weiss of Los Altos Hills and Mark (Terry) Weiss of Palo Alto and two grandsons, Jon and Aaron Lipinski. He is also survived by his sister, Barbara Blumfield of Sarasota, Florida, and several cousins, including Mark Levi of Los Altos and Victor Levi of San Rafael
Guía de estudio núm. 27. Aprendiendo menos: Gabriel Orozco, Fischli & Weiss, Richard Wentworth
No full textUna disertación sobre la fotografía y la percepción de la realidad cotidiana inadvertida, aparentemente banal, nos introduce en el sentido singular de las obras del artista mexicano Gabriel Orozco, del grupo suizo Peter Fischli & David Weiss y del artista británico Richard Wentworth, quienes emplearon la fotografía para registrar sus procesos creativos particulares, en los que el público es llevado a descifrar tanto complejas como sencillas relaciones de cercanía con el mundo de la utilidad. Incluye imágenes de diez obras
Interview with Rainer Weiss
No full textInterview, May 10, 2000, with Rainer Weiss, professor of physics at MIT.
Family background, Germany, Czechoslovakia; arrives U.S. 1939. Attends Columbia Grammar School. Interest in engineering. Flunks out of MIT; returns as technician with Jerrold Zacharias; cesium clock. Resumes undergraduate career at MIT; graduate student there. Princeton postdoc with Robert Dicke. Builds experiment to find scalar gravitational waves based on work by Frank Press and Hugo Benioff, Caltech. 1964 Alaskan earthquake; effects on his machine. 1965, returns to MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics at Zacharias' behest. Military joint services support. Looks for scalar changes in Newtonian constant; work on photon redshift. Teaches relativity course. Works on spectrum of cosmic microwave background; interest in gravity waves.
LIGO's origins. RLE support for interferometric detector. 1971 funding for 1.5-meter prototype. Changes at RLE. Interest of Max Planck Inst. for Grav. Physics. Gravity-wave work in early 1970s: Kip Thorne and William Press at Caltech. Chairs NASA committee on space applications of gravitational work; meets Thorne in Washington; discusses MIT/Caltech collaboration; recommends Ronald Drever. Meets Thorne and Drever, Perugia; misgivings about Drever. 1983, joint LIGO presentation to NSF. Drever wants his own LIGO project, threatens to undercut MIT-Caltech project. Difficulties with MIT administration. Troika (Weiss, Drever, Thorne) unworkable. Comments on Caltech project mgr. Frank Schutz. Site-selection process. Drever's troubles building 40-meter prototype. Richard Garwin, IBM, pressures NSF to conduct LIGO study; Weiss organizes it in Cambridge, 1986, chaired by Andrew Sessler. Thorne and Weiss want director to replace troika. Selection of Rochus (Robbie) Vogt, 1987. Vogt's management style. Attempt to site LIGO at NRAO in Green Bank, W. Va.; selection of Livingston, La., and Hanford, Wash. Livingston's drawbacks. Misgivings about Vogt's directorship. Vogt's conflicts with Drever; Drever removed from project. Caltech faculty critics of Drever removal. NSF dismisses Vogt
Folder 9: Schwiderski, Richard Craig v. State of Texas 2, 1979-1984
No full textPhotocopy of a section of an article written by New York author Richard Reeves and titled 'Too Late to Kill the Messenger' and dated 1979, and argues for the role of media during violent situations
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
An Annotated Arthur Schnitzler Bibliography: Editions and Criticism in German, French, and English, 1879-1965
No full textOriginally published in 1967, Richard H. Allen's volume with a foreword by Robert O. Weiss was the first comprehensive bibliography of Arthur Schnitzler's writings, including his literary works (with translation and criticism), philosophical reflections, essays, correspondence, and medical writings, together with general criticism and dissertations on the author. Indices of titles, personal names, and periodicals make the material readily accessible
An Annotated Arthur Schnitzler Bibliography
No full textOriginally published in 1967, Richard H. Allen's volume with a foreword by Robert O. Weiss was the first comprehensive bibliography of Arthur Schnitzler's writings, including his literary works (with translation and criticism), philosophical reflections, essays, correspondence, and medical writings, together with general criticism and dissertations on the author. Indices of titles, personal names, and periodicals make the material readily accessible
An Annotated Arthur Schnitzler Bibliography
No full textOriginally published in 1967, Richard H. Allen's volume with a foreword by Robert O. Weiss was the first comprehensive bibliography of Arthur Schnitzler's writings, including his literary works (with translation and criticism), philosophical reflections, essays, correspondence, and medical writings, together with general criticism and dissertations on the author. Indices of titles, personal names, and periodicals make the material readily accessible
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