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Sophisticated Ladies
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Sophisticated Ladies (1981), a musical revue by Donald McKayle (concept), Duke Ellington (music). [
Lunt‐Fontanne Theatre, 767 perf.] Thirty‐six numbers by Ellington were performed in this sleek, stylish revue that took the form of a classy nightclub floor show. Michael Shumin directed and co‐choreographed the musical numbers and the talented cast featured Gregory
Hines, Judith Jamison, Hinton
Battle, Phyllis Hyman, and Gregg Burge.
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Philo and Paul Among the Sophists
Magazine article from: Trinity Journal; 10/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...that the polemic against sophists continues in 1 Cor 9:23-27, for sophists lived luxuriously and softly...life, the kind of life the sophists detested and mocked. Winter...3-4) as evidence of sophist opponents since their debates...
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Sophist Surpasses Million Dollar Mark with Text-to-Pledge(TM) Program.
PR Newswire; 5/21/2008; 684 words
; ...week beginning May 19th, amounts raised through Sophist Productions' patent-pending Text-to-Pledge...represents the second largest revenue stream for Sophist-produced or Sophist-powered Non Profit events, with only ticket sales...
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Indie label in Queens fights for cred; Without radio deals, Sophist uses creative marketing methods to get exposure.(News )
Magazine article from: Crain's New York Business; 5/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...called on a small Queens company called Sophist Productions to work the celebration...the-art digital video turntables, Sophist staffers delivered a knockout performance...become a moneymaker for four-year-old Sophist. But for Chief Executive Reed Baker...
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WHO'S A PHILOSOPHER? WHO'S A SOPHIST? THE STRANGER V. SOCRATES.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 9/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...to be a pretender--or sophist. If, on the other hand...the very first line of the Sophist Theodorus expresses his belief...Sometimes philosophers appear to be sophists, at other times statesmen...Elea believe that these--sophist, statesman, and philosopher...
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Form and Good in Plato's Eleatic Dialogues: The 'Parmenides,' 'Theaetetus,' 'Sophist,' and 'Statesman.'
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 3/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...repeated allusions to the sophist's disordered soul, to...improved definition of the sophist, as Dorter seems to imply. If in the Statesman sophists are indeed defined as...indistinguishable from the sophist. As if to underscore this...
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Gorgias: Sophist and Artist.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Argumentation and Advocacy; 3/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...95. Interest in the Sophists as teachers and theorists...Isocrates. In Gorgias: Sophist and Artist, Scott Consiguy...encourage those who see the Sophists as forerunners of antifoundationalism...part one of Gorgias: Sophist and Artist, SC examines...scholars have described the Sophists in ...
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On Plato's 'Sophist.'
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 6/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...OVER THE DISCUSSION at the beginning of the Sophist,(1) and agrees to discuss the sophist, the statesman, and the philosopher, it...soul with itself (Theaetetus 189e4-190a7; Sophist 263e3-264a3). A double negation is assigned...
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COLUMN: Richard Cohen is a sophist not an anti-Semite
News Wire article from: University Wire; 2/15/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...doesn't necessarily make the sophist an anti-Semite, I might...that anti-Semites love these sophists, adopt their language and...prejudice because, hey, the sophists are often Jews. Another point...or bizarrely - that Jewish sophists who sincerely want to debate...
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Image And Paradigm In Plato's Sophist.(Brief article)(Book review)
Newspaper article from: Internet Bookwatch; 11/1/2007; 503 words
; Image And Paradigm In Plato's Sophist David Ambuel Parmenides Publishing 3753...2736 "Image And Paradigm In Plato's Sophist" by David Ambuel (Associate Professor...translation of Plato's dialogue, the 'Sophist', along with a comprehensive and articulate...
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Philo and Paul among the Sophists
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 10/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...W. WINTER, Philo and Paul among the Sophists (SNTSMS 96; Cambridge/ New York...which they employ. Winter finds that the Sophists constituted an elite class in both Alexandria...typical of a population given to idolizing Sophists. He argues that the opponents in 2 Corinthians...
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Sophists, The
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
SOPHISTS, THE. The word sophist (Greek: ho sophist ê s ) can be traced as far back as...musicians, philosophers, and statesmen are referred to as "sophists" by ancient writers. However, the word acquired a technical meaning...
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Sophists
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Sophists , originally, itinerant teachers in Greece...was perhaps the first to style himself a Sophist and to receive payment for his instruction...1846) was one of the first defenses of the Sophists. Modern studies have stressed the contributions...
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sophists
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
sophists (Greek sophistes , “wise man...southern Italy in the 5th century BC. Sophists offered instruction in a wide range of...the truth. However, the most renowned sophists, such as Gorgias and Protagoras ( c...
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sophist
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
sophist a paid teacher of philosophy and rhetoric in Greece in the Classical and Hellenistic periods, associated in popular thought with...
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Antiphon
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...Athenian to be classed as a “ Sophist ” in the sense of “...concluding that at least the orator and the Sophist were one and the same person. Something...sound, we would at least know that the Sophist had belonged to the extreme right wing...
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