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Norman Podhoretz
Norman Podhoretz , 1930-, American editor and essayist, b. Brooklyn, N.Y. As editor in chief (1960-95) of Commentary, he turned the Jewish monthly into an influential forum for social criticism and American neoconservatism. He subsequently became a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, a think... Read more |
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Norman Lewis
Norman Lewis 1909–1979 Painter Bought Art Books with Gambling Winnings Fascinated by Act of Painting Favored Black Paint Selected paintings Sources Norman Lewis was the first major African-American member of the art movement known as Abstract Expressionism. As such, he occupies a... Read more |
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Norman Vincent Peale
PEALE, NORMAN VINCENT 1898-1993 Author and minister Marble Collegiate Norman Vincent Peale came to the Marble Collegiate Church in New York City in 1932, leaving his Methodist background for this Reformed Church in America congregation. He revitalized that congregation, turning it into one of the... Read more |
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Neoconservatism
NEOCONSERVATISM NEOCONSERVATISM was primarily an intellectual movement of Cold War liberal Democrats and democratic socialists who moved rightward during the 1970s and 1980s. The term was apparently coined in 1976 by an opponent, the socialist Michael Harrington. By and large, neoconservatives... Read more |
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John Ciardi
John Ciardi , 1916-86, American poet, b. Boston, grad. Tufts College, B.A., 1938, Univ. of Michigan, M.A., 1939. His poetry, noted for its wit and perception, includes Homeward to America (1940), Live Another Day (1949), In the Stoneworks (1961), and For Instance (1979). He also wrote How... Read more |
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Richard Wilbur
Richard Wilbur 1921-, American poet and translator, b. New York City, grad. Amherst (B.A., 1942) and Harvard (M.A., 1947). A skillful craftsman who writes gracefully in traditional verse forms, Wilbur is always original, generally affirmative in his view of the world, and can be profound and witty,... Read more |
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Philip Evergood
Philip Evergood 1901-73, American painter and etcher, b. New York City. His original name was Philip Blashki. He was educated at Eton and Cambridge and studied art in New York City and Paris. Evergood was famed for his murals, including The Story of Richmond Hill (1936-37; Public Library branch,... Read more |
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Sir Harrison Birtwistle
Harrison Birtwistle Composer For the Record… Selected compositions Sources Sir Harrison Birtwistle is one of the most challenging, original, and controversial musicians of his generation. Though angular and modern, his work nevertheless is indebted to tradition. Birtwistle composes... Read more |
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Henry Miller
Henry Miller 1891-1980, American author, b. New York City. Miller sought to reestablish the freedom to live without the conventional restraints of civilization. His books are potpourris of sexual description, quasi-philosophical speculation, reflection on literature and society, surrealistic... Read more |
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Nicole Oresme
ORESME, NICOLE (b. France, ca. 1320; d. Lisieux, France, 1382) mathematics, natural philosophy. Oresme was of Norman origin and perhaps born near Caen. Little is known of his early life and family. In a document originally drawn in 1348, Read more |
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Original Intent
Original Intent is a method of constitutional...that seeks to discern the original meaning of the words being...provision in question. In the American tradition, original intent is often...what the law means is not an American innovation. ... |
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Original Cast Recordings
Original Cast Recordings. From the...late 19th century, prominent American theatrical figures have stood...is that many of the great American musicals of the 1910s, 1920s...The vogue for recording American casts of American shows ... |
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Appellate Jurisdiction
...into two main categories: original jurisdiction (the power to...or from state courts). The original jurisdiction, which includes...its modern function in the American legal and constitutional system. Until...than half a dozen times in American ... |
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Hymns
...have been collected by all American Protestant sects and sung in...scruples of the Puritans forbade original hymns, and they created only...on the Mayflower, the first American collection was the Bay Psalm...Unitarians contributed more to American hymnody ... |
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ocean basins
...true ocean floor where any original abyssal hills have now been...corner, adjacent to the North American continent. Their importance...formation is the blanketing of an original rugged topography by sediment...basins still displaying their original ... |
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Cape Horners
...Horners. 1. Originally the American square-rigged ships which...Africa westwards to South American ports around the Horn...which incorporated its original British AICH members...gradual passing of its original members, the AICH decided... |
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Jamestown
...English settlement on the North American continent, established in...King James I in 1606. The original 104 Jamestown colonists sailed...As the town expanded, the original fort fell into ruin. From 1607...discovered the site of the original James Fort, long ... |
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Legal Tender Cases
...be applied pursuant to the original understanding or judicially...unforeseen exigencies (see Original Intent). The cases also illustrate...intended to banish it from the American scene. Reflecting this view...colleagues, reverted to his original reluctance ... |
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comics
...both still flourishing with many of their original characters. Rainbow (1914–56...prompted by the growing infiltration of American horror comics, and it aimed to combine...the thrills of space adventure; the original series came to an end in 1969, but Dan... |
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Federalist, The
...state governments. This new American federalism established spheres...assumed an honored place in American jurisprudence. Scholars...understanding of the context of the original debate over the ratification...that a large portion of the American people and ... |
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Bible, English translations of
...not published. Instead the American revision (1901) was called...the English RV also had the American variations in an appendix...are translations from the original languages, not the French...rather than the lord. The New American Bible, translated from ... |
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status attainment
...M. Blau and Otis Dudley Duncan (The American Occupational Structure, 1967) and David...Stratification and Mobility (1990).In the original Blau-Duncan model for the United...because of measurement errors in the original studies (see, for example, the exchange... |
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United States of America
...declaration of independence by the thirteen original English colonies; this was recognized...of England and English royalty in the original thirteen, although of these Connecticut...reveal their association with Native Americans; the early influence of France and Spain... |
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Bible, English versions
...translations made directly from the original languages were the work of W. Tyndale...4. THE REVISED VERSION and AMERICAN STANDARD VERSION. The...the Apocrypha in 1895. The American Standard Version, published...renderings favoured by the American scholars ... |
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Nation of Islam
...1985 by the radical African-American preacher Louis Farrakhan (1933...The Nation of Islam was the original name of the Black Muslims...separatism. In common with the original organization, the Nation of...working to rid the African-American community of ... |
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replication
...particular program or software employed in the original analysis.Arguably, and for a variety of...either chance or measurement error in the original study. Prominent and informative re-studies...Rural History’, Journal of Latin American Studies, 1971). See also RELIABILITY... |
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Arlington
...the USA bearing this name.2. Massachusetts: its original Native American name, Menotomy, meant ‘Swift Waters’. In 1807 it was...1662–74) to Charles II†.3. Texas: the original settlement, Bird's Fort, was later renamed Johnson... |
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liberty
...strict faithfulness to the facts or to an original: the scriptwriter has taken few liberties with the original narrative. take the liberty venture...The Fourth of July is the day on which Americans commemorate their nation's independence... |
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Black Power
...It called upon African Americans to take pride in their...bargaining power of African Americans in their claim for full...instrumental in the movement's original aim of integration. As...among many young African Americans. |
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citizenship
...context of the modern state, notably during the French and American Revolutions, and gradually identified more with rights than...Marshall's argument can be rescued from these criticisms if the original theory is modified. The continuing debate is reflected in... |
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hopefully
...extended sense is accepted, the original sense will be forever lost...Hopefully is now a part of American English, and it has all but lost...genuinely ambiguous (if the original meaning is considered still...running back?) Indeed, the original meaning of ... |
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chomp
...crunch, chew, bite; champ. USAGE NOTES chomp, champ The original and better term for what horses do to their bits is champ. Chomp is an American variant. (Oddly, American English has transformed champ into chomp, but stomp into stamp... |
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till
...Telegraph [UK]; Mar. 31, 1997.)And it still occurs in American English—e.g.: “In medium skillet, sauté the garlic...Mathematics; Apr. 1, 1997 [in which the sic appeared in the original source being quoted].)If a form deserves a sic, it's... |
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dastardly
...avoids all personal risk,” modern American writers tend to use it as a printable euphemism...have remained truer to the word's original sense—e.g.: “Last week I moved house...London]; Feb. 8, 1994.) Recent American dictionaries record one meaning of dastard... |
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WIPO PUBLISHES PATENT OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES FOR "DATA SHARING...
...A clone inode is created as a copy of an original inode. The clone inode and the original inode are indistinguishable to an end user...parent inode. Data block address links in the original inode are moved to the new clone-parent... |
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FORM 8-K: AMERICAN SUPERCONDUCTOR FILES CURRENT REPORT
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- American Superconductor Corp., Devens...Delaware Explanatory Note American Superconductor Corporation...on December 8, 2011 (the "Original Form 8-K") in order to...changes are being made to the Original Form 8-K. Submission of... |
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ITALIAN AMERICANS IN THE NEWS
...who has a law degree, has managed both American and National League teams, was voted...through colonial America as well as an original artist and scholar. Trained in Italy...He helped found the National Italian American Foundation and was also honored by the... |
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The American dream versus the Korean dream
...assured his fellow Americans that as long as one...beginning, however, American writers have pointed...distortion of the fresh, original American dream of the Founding...his editorial: "The American promise is that people...it was Koreans, ... |
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LOCALLY FILMED NATIVE AMERICAN MOVIE TO SCREEN
...Clan, will discuss Native American film after the screening...by the College's Native American studies program, the Center...It is home to one of the original five nations of the Iroquois...mentor and advisor for Native American inmates in correctional ... |
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UTAH CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION PUSHES THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT ON RESTRICTIVE...
...every available source of American energy." BISHOP: "The...and it's hard-working Americans who would be forced to shoulder...untapped, and millions of Americans out of work who would benefit...is yet another assault on American energy production and ... |
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WIPO ASSIGNS PATENT FOR "ENERGY OPTIMIZATION SYSTEM" (AMERICAN INVENTOR)
...personal computersaEUR" PCs) into two sets of parts and moves the bigger set of the parts to the SELC without compromising the original functionality of the gadgets/gizmos. Thirdly, the system utilizes the material reduction and increased design features... |
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Exhibit looks back at 50 years of American fashion
...London its swinging miniskirts, but ask American designers what they've added to fashion...Furstenberg lent to the museum one of her original wrap dresses from the 1970s, a symbol...influential entity but he followed the American path. When he did his groundbreaking... |
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UTAH CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION PUSHES THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT ON RESTRICTIVE...
...is yet another assault on American energy production and the...it. By cutting back the original oil shale and tar sands development...sources of oil and export more American jobs. It's another failure...Unfortunately, it will be the American people who ... |
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WIPO ASSIGNS PATENT TO COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS FOR "MULTI-MODE MODEM"...
...signals for reception at devices within a modem's premises. The downstream signal may be modulated differently from its original modulation as received by the modem, and may be modulated in a manner that can be received by legacy components on the premises... |
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