Although there is no doubt that some agisms are intended as hostile intergroup moves and divergences, there is a great deal of well-intentioned agism.

The cittern consisted of a pear-shaped body similar to that of the lute but with a flat back and sound-board joined by ribs. The neck was provided with a fretted fingerboard; the head was curved and surmounted by a grotesque head of a woman or of an animal.

You must know I commissioned a particular friend of mine, Miss Moffat, to buy me a trimming when she went to Paris […].

The Attorney General reports that the Austrian Presidency circulated an alternative, more general, text as a non-paper which was discussed at informal working group meetings in April and May and at the June JHA council.