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Mad about the pianist: a Hollywood obsession with insanity
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The Hands of Orlac tells the story of a concert pianist caught
in a train crash, who is miraculously unmarked except for his
hands, which are mangled beyond repair. "Prepare for amputation,"
says a doctor grimly. "No! Those hands must be saved!" screams
his wife, who summons the top surgeon in the land. Enter soft-spoken
Peter Lorre, who secretly replaces them with the transplanted hands
of a freshly guillotined knife-thrower. The miracle turns sour
when the bewildered virtuoso can no longer play the piano, but
finds himself compulsively throwing knives. Preposterous? Sure,
but this story ...
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Puritanism and Its Discontents.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Christianity and Literature
; Puritanism and Its Discontents. Edited by Laura...little real use for the book version. Puritanism and Its Discontents faces both of these...lessons of the Puritan revolution, and Puritanism and Its Discontents has much to offer...
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Puritanism and Historical Controversy. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: History Today
; PURITANISM AND HISTORICAL CONTROVERSY William Lamont...the seventeenth century should ignore Puritanism. It had a major role in shaping the...The big problem, though, is what was Puritanism? Patrick Collinson, who has done more...
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The Culture of English Puritanism. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: History Today
; THE CULTURE OF ENGLISH PURITANISM Christopher Durston and Jacqueline...seventeenth century should ignore Puritanism. It had a major role in shaping...big problem, though, is what was Puritanism? Patrick Collinson, who has done...
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Puritanism, paternalism, and power.
Magazine article from: Independent Review
; ...repression? The answer lies in our history. Puritanism Politicians and other patriotic posturers...Mencken's famous characterization, Puritanism was "the haunting fear that someone...American social and political affairs. Puritanism's "central themes recur in the related...
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Economic Puritanism Is Bad for Argentina, Too
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...manifestation of nearly a century of economic puritanism which bears much responsibility for...current exhibit of the effects of economic puritanism but not the most important. More fundamental...Several years later, balanced-budget puritanism accelerated the drop into the Depression...
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The Precisianist Strain: Disciplinary Religion and Antinomian Backlash in Puritanism to 1638.( )(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Church and State
; ...Religion and Antinomian Backlash in Puritanism to 1638. By Theodore Dwight Bozeman...49.95. Blown by the Spirit: Puritanism and the Emergence of an Antinomian Underground...between antinomianism and mainstream Puritanism in early seventeenth-century England...
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Puritanism lives.
Magazine article from: The American Enterprise
; ...all people are uppon us." Hatred of Puritanism happens to be one of the best-established...role in the modern state and world. Puritanism reflected the unhappiness of English...against us." In the literature of Puritanism, the analogy to ancient Israel recurs...
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A CUP OF PURITANISM TO MELLOW CHRISTMAS
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...Christmas discontents is the ruinous success of Puritanism - ruinous, that is, to Puritanism. That Christmas-at-our-throats fellow...emerged from the cultural contradictions of Puritanism. Puritanism inculcated Scrooge-like asceticism...
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The Culture of English Puritanism, 1560-1700
Magazine article from: Anglican Theological Review
; The Culture of English Puritanism, 1560-1700. Edited by Christopher...and a leading scholar of English Puritanism. His name does not appear on the...a "Collinsonian" depiction of Puritanism is of "a form of voluntary religion...
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English Puritanism, 1603-1689
Magazine article from: Anglican and Episcopal History
; JOHN SPURR. English Puritanism, 1603-1689. New York: St. Martin...three parts: first, "Puritans and Puritanism," a fuller discussion and illustration...which marks Spurr's view of English Puritanism most strikingly. He has reminded...
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