The thesis is, that the dance, as metaphor and as ordering function, is central to an understanding of William Carlos Williams' poetry and of his activity as poet. The first chapter, which is a ground for what follows, begins with a close examination of "The Rose" from Spring and All as a demonstration of some of Williams' basic principles concerning the act of making the poem. My emphasis is on what one can observe happening in the poem itself, the poem as enactment or dance. I then proceed to examine the prose passages from Spring and All as statement of those principles, in order to establish the meaning of some terms, imitation, engagement, imagination, as Williams uses them "both as theory in the prose descriptions and as actuality in the poems. The second chapter deals with the notion of dance as alternative to description, the action or enactment in a poem, which Williams calls imitation. I attempt to show what dance is, the metaphor of it, and how it might manifest itself in (as) language, that is to say, the energy of the poem as dance. Then, in the light of several poems included in the text of the chapter, I discuss imitation in terms of composition and invention, what Williams considers the basic activities of the poet in the making of a poem. The third chapter deals with the act of engagement as dance, to engage in an activity, making love or writing a poem. I attempt to show, by reference to several of Williams' short stories and to In the American Grain, as well as to the poems, some of the kinds of perceptions and awareness that are characteristic of this kind of engagement, and how they shape the poem; and, in the end, to come to an understanding of what Williams means by penetration. In the fourth chapter, measure as dance, I examine some of Williams' ideas and practice in the rhythm and form of the poem, to show how measure is the shape the dance assumes, and how Williams resolved some of his own difficulties concerning the problem of measure. And the chapter concludes with a restatement of, and an insistence upon, the importance of the metaphor of dance. My purpose has not been to attempt a historic analysis or evaluation of Williams as critic and theorist, or as poet – though the fact of the thesis does imply certain judgements of value, and the text of it is, to some degree, analytical -- but to demonstrate and elucidate, by making the dance a basis for my discussions, some of Williams' primary concerns as poet. My emphasis, then, has not been on the views and theories of other critics, not on chronological developments in the poems themselves, but on the facts of the dance, immediate and actual. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate

In this thesis I first delineated the universe that John Cowper Powys envisioned and the ways he posited of living in that universe. The magician, the ichthyosaurus-ego, the saint and the sadist are anthropomorphized facets of what Powys felt was his own composite nature. Each has his own way of coming to terms with his environment. Then, I attempted to show that, in his novels at any rate, Powys's concern is artistic not philosophical or prophetic. He does not advocate one specific way of life such as that offered in In Defence of Sensuality. Only in the last few pages of A Glastonbury Romance does he eschew his personae for a personal statement about the ineradicable nature of a certain kind of response to the universe. However, in the greater part of A Glastonbury Romance, and in Wolf Solent and Maiden Castle, Powys is chiefly concerned with situating his characters, the autonomized fragments of his own character, in Glastonbury, Dorset and Dorchester. He explores the reactions of these characters to the milieu in which they are placed. My investigation of the themes of the three novels and their relationship to the novels' structures reinforces my contention that Powys's emphasis is not on the narrow formulation of a life-way. A Glastonbury Romance probes the responses of the magician, ichthyosaurus-ego, saint and sadist to that aspect of existence which the Grail represents—the unseen, the scientifically unverifiable. Wolf Solent examines the convoluted state of an ichthyosaurus-ego who learns to simply accept the universe. Maiden Castle is a hybrid of Wolf Solent and A Glastonbury Romance. It combines the focus on the ichthyosaurus-ego with the multiple perspectives of that aspect of existence represented by the powers of Maiden Castle. Though both the magician and ichthyosaurus-ego display a partial inability to cope with quotidien events, they seem most aware of all the dimensions of Powys's universe. Consequently, the three novels dwell for the most part on the responses of the ichthyosaurus-ego and the magician. Powys does not resolve which of the two ways is most viable; however, he does espouse that facet of both of them which accepts a living cosmos, a non-mechanistic world redolent of the fourth dimension, that aspect of existence which cannot be rationally apprehended. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, 1963. / Vita. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 75). / by Ivan Edward Sutherland. / Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, 1963.

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Meteorology, 1963. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 50-51). / by John Robert Clark. / M.S.

In the study of the cyclodehydrogenation of 12-(3-methylphenyl)benz[a]anthracene, Zajac pointed out that the hydrocarbon might undergo ring closure at either of the ortho positions of the phenyl ring. These positions are not equivalent with respect to the methyl group and ring closure might yield either 2-methyl dibenzo[a,l]pyrene or 4-methyldibenzo[a,l]- pyrene or a mixture of both isomers. When the compound, 12-(J-methylphenyl)benz[a]-anthracene, was dehydrogenated only one isomer was isolated. The isomer which was isolated could be either of the two possibilities. Therefore, it was decided to synthesize 2-methyldibenzo[a,l]pyrene unequivocally. By comparing the physical properties of the compound synthesized unequivocally with those of the compound from the cyclodehydrogenation of 12-(3-methylphenyl)benz[a]anthracene it can be determined which isomer was isolated by Zajac. Therefore, 12-{ 2-chloro-5-methylphenyl)benz[a]-anthracene was synthesized; this compound could then be cyclodehydrohalogenated to the corresponding 2-methyldibenzo[a,l]]pyrene. Using potassium hydroxide-quinoline and alkoxides led only to the recovery of starting material or to the destruction of it, depending on whether the reaction conditions were mild or drastic. Aluminum chloride destroyed the starting material in reaction time as short as five minutes. Stannic chloride destroyed only part of the starting material. An aluminum chloride-stannic chloride mixture also destroyed the starting material. In none of the experiments mentioned could the presence of 2-methyldibenzo[a,l]pyrene be detected. Although the right conditions for the cyclodehydrohalogenation were not found, the data obtained during the gas chromatographic studies are very valuable because it can be used for the other phases of the work being done in This Laboratory. / Master of Science

Esta investigación se inició en una idea generalizada en las Ciencias Sociales. Es la suposición que asume una correlación positiva en la predilección electoral de las clases trabajadoras y los sectores urbano-populares a favor de los partidos de izquierda y, como antítesis, una estrecha relación entre la derecha conservadora, las élites dominantes y la clase media citadina. Esta suposición se sustenta en los resultados electorales de la década de 1980 hasta las elecciones generales del S. XXI.

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by Chan Weng Kit. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 101-105). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i / Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter1 --- The Eyes in Paterson: Williams as Photographer and Illustrator --- p.14 / Chapter Chapter2 --- The Past and the Present: Williams as Historian in Paterson --- p.37 / Chapter Chapter3 --- "The Father, the Mother and the Son: the Making of the Paterson Family" --- p.60 / Conclusion --- p.92 / Works Cited --- p.101

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