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CONVERSATION
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conversation piece
conversation piece. A portrait showing two or more full-length figures engaged in conversation or other polite social activity, generally in a domestic or landscape setting. Conversation pieces are usually, though not always, fairly small in size. They were especially popular in Britain during the... Read more |
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beat generation
beat generation term applied to certain American artists and writers who were popular during the 1950s. Essentially anarchic, members of the beat generation rejected traditional social and artistic forms. The beats sought immediate expression in multiple, intense experiences and beatific... Read more |
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Gregory Corso
Corso, Gregory [Nunzio] (1930–2001), poet of the Beat movement from New York City and friend of Allen Ginsberg, has led a checkered life in several lands and spent three years in prison. His poems of protest, now intensely bitter, now amusingly irreverent, appear in The Vestal Lady of... Read more |
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Vladimir Sergeyevich Soloviev
Vladimir Sergeyevich Soloviev , 1853-1900, Russian religious philosopher and poet; son of Sergei Mikhailovich Soloviev. Soloviev believed in the incarnation of divine wisdom in a being called Sophia, a concept that greatly influenced the young symbolist poets, especially Blok. He advocated a... Read more |
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Conversion disorder
Conversion disorder Definition Conversion disorder is defined by Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition, Text Revision, also known as the DSM-IV-TR,as a mental disorder whose central feature is the appearance of symptoms affecting the patient's... Read more |
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Wiretapping
WIRETAPPING AND EAVESDROPPING Wiretapping and electronic eavesdropping are two types of electronic surveillance that play vital roles in criminal investigations. Wiretapping involves the use of covert means to intercept, monitor, and record telephone conversations of individuals. Electronic... Read more |
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