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suicide suicide
suicide [Lat.,=self-killing], the deliberate taking of one's own life. Suicide may be compulsory, prescribed by custom or enjoined by the authorities, usually as an alternative to death at the hands of others, or it may be committed for personal motives. Depending on the time and place, it may be... Read more
Remorse Remorse
554. Remorse (See also Regret.) Ayenbite of Inwit (Remorse of Conscience ) Middle English version of medieval moral treatise, c. 1340. [Br. Lit.: Barnhart, 74] Deianira commits suicide out of remorse for unwittingly having killed husband, Hercules. [Gk. Myth.: Benét, 709] Hermione ... Read more
Yasunari Kawabata Yasunari Kawabata
Yasunari Kawabata , 1899-1972, Japanese novelist. His first major work was The Izu Dancer, (1925). He came to be a leader of the school of Japanese writers that propounded a lyrical and impressionistic style, in opposition to the proletarian literature of the 1920s. Kawabata's melancholy novels... Read more
Marcus Gabius Apicius Marcus Gabius Apicius
Marcus Gabius Apicius , 1st cent., Roman gourmet. He squandered most of his large fortune on feasts and then, anticipating a need to economize, committed suicide. The cookbook called Apicius probably dates from a century later.... Read more
asp asp
asp popular name for several species of viper , one of which, the European asp ( Vipera aspis ), is native to S Europe. It is also a name for the Egyptian cobra ( Naja haja ). It is believed that the asp Cleopatra used to commit suicide was either that cobra or the horned viper ( Cerastes... Read more
Amos Oz Amos Oz
Amos Oz Gifted Israeli author, Amos Oz (born 1939), achieved international regard as a novelist and short story writer, as well as the author of political nonfiction. Born in 1939 to well-read parents who had emigrated from Europe several years earlier, Amos Oz grew up in a working-class... Read more
Leroi Jones Leroi Jones
Jones, Leroi (1934–), New Jersey‐born militant black author, reared in a middle‐class environment, attended Rutgers and Howard University (B.A., 1954), served in the Strategic Air Command (1954–57), and studied philosophy and German literature respectively at Columbia and... Read more
Jim Jones Jim Jones
Jim Jones 1931-78, American religious leader, b. Lynn, Indiana. An influential Indianapolis preacher since the 1950s, Jones formed the People's Temple (1955), which he eventually moved to Ukiah, Calif. (1967) and then San Francisco (1971). After Jones became the subject of criminal investigations,... Read more
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1860-1935, American feminist and reformer, b. Hartford, Conn.; great-granddaughter of Lyman Beecher . Prominent as a lecturer and writer on the labor movement and feminism, she edited the Forerunner, a liberal journal. She wrote many works on social and economic... Read more

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