Andrew John Charles Grierson (24 iv 1929 - 11 ix 1990)

John Andrew Fisher

Some aestheticians, e.g., Peter Kivy,' are Platonists about pieces of music. They hold that a piece of music is the sound structure indicated by the notation, and that performances are (or, present) tokens of the sound structure, i.e., tokens of a type. Other philosophers, e.g., Jerrold Levinson, deny this; in Kivy's terminology they are anti-Platonists. Levinson holds that the essential charac...

The Wellesley News (1929-01-24)

August 2014 20 − − John Bryce McLeod . 23 December 1929

John Perry (1929-1985) and the origins of the John Perry Prize.

Charles Dickens' Consultation with Mr. Syme *The Life of Charles Dickens, by John Forster, page 417.

us believe) in any dialect in Scotland; in fact the tendency in all Scotch dialects is to pronounce it "jest." And as regards the alleged difference of opinion between Mr. Syme and Sir Henry Thompson, I heard Mr. Syme describe his interview with Dickens on the day it took place, and remember that he not only took a serious view of the condition of Dickens' foot, but also spoke of Sir Henry Thom...