Agee, William

Patricia Spacks (1995) notes that the conception of the emotion of boredom as an involuntary mental state rather than as a reprehensible sin did not exist until fairly recently and C. S. Lewis (1936) says that the concept of romantic love did not arise until the European Middle Ages. Williams and Spacks also make the point (which Lewis overlooks) that the mental states themselves and their attendant expressions can exist even if there is no concept that captures them. They make the further crucial observation that when the emotion is conceptualized, it is also changed (Williams 1993,91 Spacks 1995,12-13). When a person has the conceptual wherewithal to say to himself, "God, I m bored " the state of boredom will typically become more acute and efforts to alleviate it more intense. 

Wl. Walford, L., The Immunologic Theory of Aging. Williams Wilkins, Baltimore, 1969. 

Lukasa/age William (Succasunna, NJ) Nicolich Steven (Saddlebrook, NJ) Alster Jack (Fair La/vn, NJ)... 

An example from a slowly-accumulating (0.01-0.1 cmyr ) sediment profile in a freshwater lake in Scotland (Williams, 1992) should suffice to illustrate the formation of diagenetic metal profiles. Early diagenetic processes, such as those described before, have promoted extensive metal enrichment immediately beneath the water-sediment interface. The oxic conditions, near the water-sediment interface, that promote metal precipitation and enrichment (Mn, Fe, Pb, Zn, Cu, Ni) are entirely confined to strata of post-industrial age (Williams, 1992). 

Table 14.19. Physical aging Williams Watt parameters derived for PC using positron annihilation [Hill (1990)] ...

Joseph Black was born in Bordeaux, France, the fourth child of parents of Scottish extraction. His father was a native of Belfast engaged in the Bordeaux wine trade his mother was a daughter of an Aberdeen man who had settled in Bordeaux. In all. Black s parents had twelve children. At the age of twelve Black was sent to school in Belfast, and around 1744 proceeded to the University of Glasgow. Black followed the standard curriculum until pressed by his father to choose a profession. He opted for medicine. Black began to study anatomy and chemisti-y. William Cullen had recently inaugurated lectures in chemisti y that were to have a decisive influence on Black s career. Recognizing Black s aptitude, Cullen employed Black as his laboratory assistant. 

William Eugene Parham, Treasurer and member of the Board of Directors and of the Advisory Board of Organic Syntheses, died May 21, 1976 of a coronary occlusion near his summer home on Deer Lake, near Deer River, Minnesota, at the age of 53. Dr. Parham joined the Board of Editors on September 7, 1958 and served as Editor-in-Chief of Volume 44 of Organic Syntheses in 1964. He became a member of the Advisory Board and was elected to the Board of Directors in 1966, and served as Vice President from 1969 to 1974, at. which time he succeeded Richard S. Schreiber as Treasurer. As Treasurer, Dr. Parham was very effective in securing competent legal counsel for Organic Syntheses and in clarifying its foundation tax status with the Internal Revenue Service. 

Idris, O.H.M. Williams, P. A. Phillips, G.O. (1998). Characterization of gum from Acacia Senegal trees of different age and location using multidetection gel permeation chromatography. Food Flydrocolloids, Vol. 12, No. 4, (October 1998), pp. 379-388, ISSN 0268-005X. 

Deletions in the elastin gene (located at 7qll.23) have been found in approximately 90% of subjects with Williams syndrome, a developmental disorder affecting connective tissue and the central nervous system. The mutations, by affecting synthesis of elastin, probably play a causative role in the supravalvular aortic stenosis often found in this condition. A number of skin diseases (eg, scleroderma) are associated with accumulation of elastin. Fragmentation or, alternatively, a decrease of elastin is found in conditions such as pulmonary emphysema, cutis laxa, and aging of the skin. 

Figure 6. Schematic representation of the model used by Williams et al. (1986) to calculate the age of the Oldoinyo Lengai (Tanzania) caibonatite magma. The model assumes an instantaneous Ra-Th fractionation produced by the exsolution of a carbonatite melt from a nephelinite parental magma in radioactive equilibrium for both Ra-Th pairs. The existence of Ra- Th disequihbria indicates that the fractionation occurred shortly before eruption, and thus the ( Tla/ °Th) ratios have not significantly changed since the exsolution. By assuming the same Ra-Th fractionation for both pairs, the ( Ra/ °Th) in the carbonatite gives the ( Ra/ h) ratio just after the exsolution, and its age can then be calculated from the equation ...

Leggett RW, Eckerman KF, Williams LR. 1982. Strontium-90 in bone A case study in age-dependent dosimetric modeling. Health Phys 43 3 07-322. 

Newman, William Royall. Technology and alchemical debate in the late Middle Ages. Isis 80, no. 3 (Sep 1989) 423-445. rhttp //www.compilerpress.atfreeweb.com/ Anno%20Newman%20 Alchemy.html. 

Lilly, William. Mr. William Lilly s history of his life and times, from the year 1602, to 1681. Written by himself in the 66th year of his age, to his worthy friend Elias Ashmole, Esq published from the original manuscript... London Printed for J. Roberts in Warwick-Lane, 1715. 116p. 

Newman, William Royall. "The alchemy of Roger Bacon and theTres Epistolas attributed to him." In Comprendre etmaitriser la Nature auMoyen Age, 461-479. Geneva Droz, 1994. 

Waite, Arthur Edward. The holy Kabbalah a study in the secret tradition in Israel as unfolded by sons of the doctrine for the benefit and consolation of the Elect dispersed through the lands and ages of the greater exile. London Williams Norgate Ltd, 1929. xxvi, 638p. 

Heckethorn, Charles William. The secret societies of all ages and countries. London Richard Bentley, 1875. 2 vols (720p.)... 

Godwin, William. Lives of the necromancers or, an account of the most eminent persons in successive ages, who have claimed for themselves, or to whom has been imputed by others, the exercise of magical powers. London Mason, 1834. 465p.rhttp //visualiseur, bnf.fr/Visualiseur Destination=Gallica Q=NUMM-614981. pp. 277-283 on transmutation... 

William Henry Perkin, an 18-year-old working in the back room and outdoor shed of his London home, had discovered in black coal tar a beautiful purple dye that would change the world. For the first time in history, color could be democratized. William Henry Perkin and his purple, later known as mauve, rescued the poor and middle classes from their age-old austerity of hues. Natural dyes were expensive and, before Perkin s synthetic mauve, millions of poor people lived their lives in untreated drab and dingy fibers. Even for the middle class, pieces of brilliantly dyed cloth were treasures to be reused from garment to garment and from year to year. It was the schoolboy William Henry Perkin and his successors who would give the world the ample abundance of tints that only the rich had previously enjoyed. 

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