Boston University Symphony Orchestra and Symphonic Chorus, November 16, 1993

This is the concert program of the Boston University Symphony Orchestra and Symphonic Chorus performance on Tuesday, November 16, 1993 at 8:00 p.m., at the Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue. Works performed were Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90 by Johannes Brahms, Three Pieces for Orchestra by Seymour Shifrin, and Schicksalslied, Op. 54 by J. Brahms. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund

Finding My Place Among the Grits and Liver Mush

One of my first experiences at Gardner-Webb University was trying to “pull” on a door clearly marked “push.” As a master of first impressions, I was trying to go into the Snack Shop restaurant across the street from campus with a small group of people I had just met. One of the waitresses, hiding a smirk, motioned for me to push.https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/gardner-webb-newscenter-archive/1844/thumbnail.jp

Inside Colonial India's Cutcherry

In describing colonial or imperial built landscapes, architectural history has traditionally tended to focus on major urban schemes and grand, monumental buildings such as governmental palaces, public institutions or transport infrastructures like bridges and railway terminals. This is true of traditional ‘received histories’ of colonial architecture which describe the heroic achievements of the rulers,1 and largely also of postcolonial studies up until the late 1990s which looked critically at the political, economic and socio-cultural implications of colonialism and imperialism, but ironically, was still preoccupied with grandiose city designs and iconic buildings, this time as expressions of oppressive colonial power.2 In addition, one sees a disproportionate emphasis on the architectural artefact and the formal language of colonialism. Their on-ground, day-to-day material or spatial patterns and practices, and how they were experienced or inhabited by colonial subjects have remained largely obscure

Reflections 1998

The 1998 issue of Reflections is edited by Matthew Miller with Jennifer Carlile serving as faculty adviser. Award winners of the student poetry contest include: Emily Johnson, Matt Norman, and Jenny Rogers. Award winners of the student art contest include: Joelle Chung, Jodi Baughn, Efvem Teki, and Takiya Patrick. Jodi Baughn is the winner of the photography contest.https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/reflections/1023/thumbnail.jp

The Smolensk region onym in the background knowledge of Moscow studentship (based on the associative experiment)

Studying associative and cultural background of proper nouns became especially topical in early 21 century, in conditions of sweepingly developing globalization, resulting in gradual leveling of national and cultural uniqueness of a language-speaking nation. The other side of the globalist process is an enhanced feeling of ethnic, national and cultural distinctiveness, as any proper noun is adapted to such reflection by its own nature of a unique denomination of a single object. Any name accumulates in its content a large volume of historical and cultural information, and, thus, it is one of the basic units in the background knowledge of the cultural heritage, maintaining a link betwixt generations within an ethnocultural community. Nationwide cultural space (in particular, national onomasticon) is formed by an aggregate of regional subsystems; in this connection, studying and description of a regional material facilitate further structuring and description of the national material. The Smolensk land holds a special place in the nationwide cultural space. Its millennium-long history is represented by the names of outstanding people and reflected in the names of numerous architectural and cultural memorials, being the national heritage of Russia. In this regard, studying associative and cultural background of the Smolensk region toponym will considerably enrich linguistic and culturological explorations. We used a large-scale associative experiment as a basic method to detect associative and cultural background of the capital regional onym of Smolensk. This article presents results of one of the experiment's stages attended by 826 students of various universities of Moscow. Generally, according to the experiment results, reactions of the respondents quite fully and exactly reflect linguistic-cultural realia related to the Smolensk region toponym. The obtained results indicate that the considerable part of Smolensk regional background knowledge (in particular, onomastic ones) is associated with the nationwide level, thus forming a significant part of national cultural space. The described approach to detect and analyze associative and cultural background of capital regional onyms can be used by researches in other regions of Russia

Mechanics of Magma Chamber with the Implication of the Effect of CO2 Fluxing

The rheological contrast between the viscous magma in the magmatic chambers and the surrounding rocks, having an elastic behavior, has allowed for a disturbance of the stress field, which, at a magmatic pressure unequal to the lithostatic one, can give rise to various modes of rock failure, leading to an eruption. In this context, one of the most important problems is represented by the mechanical stability of both large and extra-large magmatic chambers, such as the Yellowstone magmatic chamber. Due to its large volume, the critical overpressure necessary to start the volcanic eruption requires large added volumes of magma and fluids. The viscous relaxation of deviatoric stresses in the thermal areole of large chambers on a time scale of more than few years increases the critical volumetric flow rate of magma to 0.1–1 km3/yr. In this chapter, we have demonstrated that the deep CO2 flux related with the underplating of basaltic magma has significantly enhanced the expansion of the magmatic chamber. In Yellowstone, the CO2 fluxing can be the driver of its cyclic uplift and subsidence having a period of several decades. The extraction of water from the silicic melt by CO2 increases the volume of the fluid up to 4 times, thus multiplying the pumping effect of the fluid. In a long term, simple estimates have also indicated that the CO2 flux can significantly contribute to the heat balance, which can be up to the half one with respect to the value associated with the basaltic magma. The integrated stability index of a magma chamber has been tested during the beginning of the interglacial periods, when the rate of generation of the basaltic magma in a plume setting is of an order of magnitude higher than the normal one. The spikes of rhyolitic magmatism in some periods of the last Quaternary interglacials have been weakened for the Yellowstone case history. The last Pleistocene glaciation activated only strong hydrothermal eruptions, which may imply that at present, the level of CO2 and basalt supply rate is not high enough to cause a major eruption in Yellowstone in the near future

Assessing the Role of Compaction in the Formation of Adcumulates: a Microstructural Perspective

The formation of adcumulates necessitates the continued growth of primocrysts down to low porosities. Gravitationally driven viscous compaction at the base of a crystal mushy layer on the magma chamber floor, driven by the weight of the mushy layer itself, is commonly suggested as a significant process acting to drive out interstitial liquid and promote adcumulate formation. Compaction necessitates viscous deformation, by either dislocation creep or diffusion-controlled processes such as pressure-solution: many studies suggest that the foliations preserved in cumulates are a consequence of recrystallization during compaction, completely overprinting primary magmatic fabrics. We test the compaction hypothesis by looking for microstructural evidence of viscous deformation. A detailed examination of cumulates from the Skaergaard intrusion, East Greenland, demonstrates only limited crystal plastic deformation, with no correlation between the extent of dislocation creep and the calculated volume fraction of trapped liquid left in the cumulates. Although the evidence for diffusion-controlled deformation is often cryptic, there is an anti-correlation between apparent aspect ratio of plagioclase and the extent of adcumulate crystallization, contradicting previous hypotheses involving transposition of original magmatic fabrics by dissolution–reprecipitation. This is supported by the spatial distribution of compositional zoning in plagioclase, which demonstrates that pressure-solution or related diffusion-controlled processes were insufficient to obscure primary magmatic fabrics. The Skaergaard adcumulates did not form by viscous compaction. Instead we suggest that they formed by primary processes involving mass transport in a thin mushy layer. Compaction is most likely to occur in slowly cooled intrusions in which the bulk magma crystallizes abundant dense minerals. We present preliminary observations of microstructures in norites from the lower Main Zone of the Bushveld Intrusion, South Africa, and in plagioclase-rich cumulates from the Fe–Ti oxide-rich Baima Intrusion, SW China. The evidence for dislocation creep in both intrusions is unambiguous, although deformation was insuffi- cient to obliterate all traces of the primary magmatic fabrics and unlikely to have been sufficient to significantly reduce the volume of interstitial liquid.This work was supported by the Natural Environment Research Council [grant numbers NE/J021520/1 and NE/M000060/1] and a Royal Society International Joint Project grant. Z.V. is supported by a Marie SkłodowskaCurie Individual European Fellow grant