March 1966

March 1966. 46 pages including covers and advertisements. Walsh, John Poem Barrett, Peter Antigone: a modern transliteration Hutson, Bob Journal Square to 33rd Moody, Stephen S. Neucomb Thompson, John A. Visions Wentraub, Dennis Waiting for Godot: a critical essay Walsh, John Poem Emond, Louis To Dream Napier, James New York - My Way Moody, Stephen S. A Whisper Doyle, James P. Vesti la Giubba Walsh, John Untitled Barrett, Peter Lyri

Composers' Forum, April 26, 1988

This is the concert program of the Composers' Forum performance on Tuesday, April 26, 1988 at 12:10 p.m., at Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth. Works performed were "Snow" by John Moody, SOnatina for PIano by Dick K. Ng, Two Songs, Op. 2 by Evan Van Wyck Keely, Fantasy for Piano by Andrew List, The Tenebrae by Daniel Kastner. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund

Boston University Jazz Lab Band and MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble, December 7, 1989

This is the concert program of Boston University Jazz Lab Band and MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble performance on Thursday, December 7, 1989 at 8:30 p.m., at the Boston University Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts. Works performed were Crossing Time Zones by John LaPorta, Katarina's First Song by Jamshied Sharifi, Pat Your Foot by Eric Ostling, Denial and The Change by Jamshied Sharifi, One O'clock Jump by Basie/Sebesky, Sackbut City by Rayburn Wright, Moscow Beat Blues by Bob Pilkington, Promise by Ken Schaphorst, and Yo' Mamba by John Moody. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund

On resolving singularities

Let V be an irreducible affine algebraic variety over a field k of characteristic zero, and let (f_0,...,f_m) be a sequence of elements of the coordinate ring. There is probably no elementary condition on the f_i and their derivatives which determines whether the blowup of V along (f_0,...,f_m) is nonsingular. The result is that there indeed is such an elementary condition, involving the first and second derivatives of the $f_i,$ provided we admit certain singular blowups, all of which can be resolved by an additional Nash blowup. There is is a particular explicit sequence of ideals R=J_0, J_1, J_2,... \subset R so that V_i=Bl_{J_i}V is the i'th Nash blowup of V, with J_i|J_{i+1} for all i. Applying our earlier paper, V_i is nonsingular if and only if the ideal class of J_{i+1} divides some power of the ideal class of J_i. The present paper brings things down to earth considerably: such a divisibility of ideal classes implies that for some N\ge r+2 J_i^{N-r-2}J_{i+1}^{r+3}=J_i^NJ_{i+2}. Yet note that this identity in turn implies J_{i+2} is a divisor of some power of J_{i+1}. Thus although $V_i$ may fail to be nonsingular, when the identity holds the {\it next} variety V_{i+1} must be nonsingular. Thus the Nash question is equivalent to the assertion that the identity above holds for some sufficiently large i and N

Letter from John Moody McCaleb to V. M. Metcalfe

Letter from John Moody McCaleb to V. M. Metcalfe dated 31 January 1936. McCaleb addresses Metcalfe as Uncle Minor. The correspondence is handwritten

A Hyaenarctid Bear from the Later Tertiary of the John Day Basin of Oregon

In the course of field investigations on the Mascall and Rattlesnake deposits and faunas of the John Day Basin of eastern Oregon, conducted by Chester Stock and C. L. Moody during 1916, fragmentary material of a hyaenarctid type was discovered at University of California collecting locality 3042. The specimen was described in 1925 by John C. Merriam, Chester Stock and C. L. Moody. Locality 3042 was visited again during the summer of 1926. Charles W. Merriam, a member of the party in search of mammalian remains at this locality, discovered several hyaenarctid teeth and fragments. Study of this new material has shown that it represents the individual found in 1916. The additional remains furnish valuable information relating to the Tertiary bears of North America