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Becoming Light.
Commonweal
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August 13, 1999|
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"Let them learn how to live and die more lightly."
Czeslaw Milosz
Mists rise in the valleys, skim off
with the breath of farm ponds.
As when we are no longer weighted down
with wants. Even as gravity pulls
us closer to our mother, Gaea,
even as the flesh draws down, flattens,
squeezes bony discs, compacts them,
we must levitate, glide across that distance,
smell that lap of death as waters
wash and waste the shore,
the eyes see farther, can now
make out the riffles on the far bank
as the ...
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Robert Owen and the Commencement of the Millennium: A Study of the Harmony Community.(Review)
Magazine article from: Utopian Studies
; Edward Royle. Robert Owen and the Commencement of the Millennium...and often misunderstood thoughts of Robert Owen. Royle's primary concern is the...Martineau, whom Royle quotes, said, "Robert Owen is not the man to think differently...
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Ian Donnachie. Robert Owen: Owen of New Lanark and New Harmony.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Utopian Studies
; ...HERE IS YET ANOTHER BIOGRAPHY of Robert Owen (1771-1858)--it has, after...the self-congratulatory tone of Owen's autobiography and, frankly...disrupts the biographical narrative. Robert Owen: Owen of New Lanark and New Harmony...
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Out of Harmony; Indiana histories. (Robert Owen's utopian dream for New Harmony, IN)(History and Memory)
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...mill entrepreneur and visionary, Robert Owen, in 1824. A wealthy industrial...community was extremely open. Robert Owen was a missionary anxious to convert...when a former residence of one of Robert Owen's children, Jane, was donated...
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Robert Owen: pioneer of personnel management.
Newspaper article from: Thinkers
; Robert Owen (1771-1858) was an early industrialist...otherwise) of their expendable employees. Owen's strength was that he saw his employees...claimed as a father of personnel management. Owen the factory owner By the age of 19, Owen...
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Broker takes the fuss out of flex. (Robert Owen, selling flexible benefit plans)
Magazine article from: National Underwriter Life & Health-Financial Services Edition
; ...easy to do? The simple fact is that Robert Owen has made a success of selling flexible...within the same industry, says Mr. Owen, a principal of Brokers Diversified...about target marketing," says Mr. Owen. "Once you get in and get known...
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United Kingdom: Robert Owen Society Selects Thus for Ethernet Solution.
News Wire article from: TendersInfo
; Byline: shabnam05 Robert Owen Society, an education and training...next-generation network linking Robert Owen Society's two corporate sites...Chris Morgan, chief executive of Robert Owen Society, said: Robert Owen believed...
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Through the looking glass: Victor Frankenstein and Robert Owen.
Magazine article from: Extrapolation
; Robert Owen (1771-1858) was a philanthropic mill owner of the...3). But I'd concede some arbitrariness in pairing Owen and Frankenstein. Yet, as Iain Donnachie argues, Owen was clearly influenced by Mary Shelley's father, William...
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Robert Owen: New Lanark's Enlightened Revolutionary
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...monument to his search for Utopia. Robert Owen was an 18th-century mill owner who...mere morass" in the Clyde Valley by Owen's father-in-law, Glasgow businessman...orphanages of Edinburgh and Glasgow. Owen had first visited the model village...
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 "Naperville Sun, The (IL)")
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Robert Owen Richardson
Newspaper article from: Naperville Sun, The (IL)
; Robert Owen Richardson Robert Owen Richardson, 83, formerly of Gallatin, Mo., died Friday, April 7, 2006, at the Tabor Hills Healthcare Center in Naperville. He was born Sept. 7, 1922, to Denver Oscar and Izetta Opal (Wellman) Richardson...
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 "Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)")
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Robert Owen Key formerly of Barrington and Palatine.(Obituaries)(Obituary)
Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
; Robert Owen Key formerly of Barrington and Palatine The visitation for Robert Owen Key, 76, of Huntley, will be from 5 p.m. until the time of services...
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