Manhattan Punch Line
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Manhattan Punch Line (New York). Dedicated to producing new comedies, the Off‐Off‐Broadway company was founded in 1979 by Mitch McGuire, Faith Caitlan, and Steve Kaplan. In addition to producing plays, the group held a Comedy Institute on occasion and presented a festival of short new comedies for several seasons. The company disbanded in 1992.
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Evangelicalism, Penal Theory and the Politics of Criminal Law Reform in England, 1808-30.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Albion; 9/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...campaign in Parliament under the leadership of Sir Samuel Romilly, Follett argues that Romilly charted his own path toward criminal law reform...structures of English practice and tradition. Romilly believed that certainty of punishment was a...
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OBITUARY: His Honour Patrick Medd
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 10/20/1995; ; 700+ words
; Patrick Medd's biography of Sir Samuel Romilly, the Whig parliamentarian, law...modesty, the same qualities as Romilly's could be seen in his liberalism...his uncle had been a partner of Sir Edwin Lutyens). The Second World...
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Rituals of Retribution: Capital Punishment in Germany, 1600-1987. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: History Today; 1/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...was that far-sighted, humanitarian reformers like Sir Samuel Romilly and Sir James Mackintosh convinced Parliament of the errors...while sensible, humanitarian politicians, notably Sir Robert Peel, carried through the necessary rationalisation...
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The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People, 1770-1868. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: History Today; 1/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...was that far-sighted, humanitarian reformers like Sir Samuel Romilly and Sir James Mackintosh convinced Parliament of the errors...while sensible, humanitarian politicians, notably Sir Robert Peel, carried through the necessary rationalisation...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 3/1/1999; 646 words
; Anniversaries Births: Sir Samuel Romilly, law reformer, 1757; Gottfried Weber, composer, 1779; Denis...Edward Moore, playwright and writer of fables, 1757; Hermann Samuel Reimarus, philosopher, 1768; Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor...
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Creating an American property law: alienability and its limits in American history.
Magazine article from: Harvard Law Review; 12/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...extended this rule so that, at the death of a debtor, the debtor's real property holdings descended to the heirs and devisees free of all legal claims of the deceased debtor's unsecured creditors. As Sir Samuel Romilly described, an En
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Pub backs anti-crime plan.
Newspaper article from: South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales); 4/7/2009; 500 words
; THE latest pub to open in Barry has signed up to a scheme to cut crime in the area. The Sir Samuel Romilly, a JD Wetherspoon pub which opened in Broad Street, Barry, last month has signed up to a Business PACT initiative which covers...
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Roget made lists to fend off depression, biographer says
Newspaper article from: Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review; 4/6/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...suffered depression and mental problems. Then there was the case of Roget's uncle, British member of Parliament Sir Samuel Romilly, known for his opposition to the slave trade and for his support of civil liberties. He slit his own throat while...
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ANNIVERSARIES
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 3/1/1996; 477 words
; Births: Sir Samuel Romilly, law reformer, 1757; Frederic-Francois (Fryderyk Franciszek) Chopin, composer, 1810; Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin...
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Innocents convicted: an empirically justified factual wrongful conviction rate.
Magazine article from: Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology; 3/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...convicting the guilty that they will be opposed. Romillists, whom I have named after the early 19th-century reformist Sir Samuel Romilly, have such a horror of convicting the innocent that they are willing to propose many changes to whatever system...
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Sir Samuel Romilly
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Sir Samuel Romilly , 1757-1818, English law reformer. Admitted to the bar in 1783...figures of the Enlightenment, including Diderot and Jean d'Alembert. Romilly's enthusiasm for the French Revolution inspired his Letters Containing...
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Romilly, Sir Samuel
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
Romilly, Sir Samuel (1757–1818). Legal reformer. Born of a Huguenot family...and supporting the abolition of slavery and catholic emancipation . Romilly wished to reduce capital crimes but most of his time was spent powerless...
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Samuel Romilly
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Samuel Romilly English lawyer and law reformer Sir Samuel Romilly (1757-1818) divided his time between the law and public...Swiss Enlightenment philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Romilly devoted his life to advocating on behalf of the lower...
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Holland House
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...distinguished men. Reformers such as Jeremy Bentham, Samuel Romilly, and Henry Brougham, scientists such as Michael Faraday...Davy, writers such as Thomas Moore, George Byron, and Sir Walter Scott, and statesmen such as William Melbourne...
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