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Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr
Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr. 1917-2007, American historian and public official, b. Columbus, Ohio, as Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger; son of Arthur Meier Schlesinger . He achieved early success as a historian with the publication, the year after his graduation, of his Harvard honors thesis, Orestes... Read more |
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Dixon Ryan Fox
Dixon Ryan Fox 1887-1945, American historian and educator, b. Potsdam, N.Y. He taught at Columbia from 1912 to 1934, becoming full professor in 1927. From 1934 until his death he was president of Union College and chancellor of Union Univ. His writings include The Decline of Aristocracy in the... Read more |
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Fountains of Wayne
Fountains of Wayne Pop group Named for a garden shop in Wayne, New Jersey, Fountains of Wayne was formed as a duo by Adam Schlesinger and Chris Collingwood. The pair met in 1985 while they both attended Williams College, supposedly over learning chord progressions to an R.E.M. song.... Read more |
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James Rodney Schlesinger
James Rodney Schlesinger 1929-, U.S. Secretary of Defense (1973-75) and Secretary of Energy (1977-79), b. New York City. After graduating from Harvard (A.B., 1950; A.M., 1952; Ph.D., 1956), he taught economics (1955-63) at the Univ. of Virginia and was then (1963-69) a specialist in strategic... Read more |
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Arthur Meier Schlesinger
Arthur Meier Schlesinger , 1888-1965, American historian, b. Xenia, Ohio. After teaching at Ohio State Univ. and the State Univ. of Iowa, he was a professor of history (1924-54) at Harvard and in 1928 became an editor of the New England Quarterly. His well-known works in the field of colonial... Read more |
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United States Department of Energy
United States Department of Energy executive department of the federal government responsible for coordinating national activities relating to the production, regulation, marketing, and conservation of energy. The department is also responsible for the federal nuclear weapons program and the high... Read more |
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Bruno Walter
Bruno Walter 1876-1962, German-American conductor, b. Berlin as Bruno Walter Schlesinger. Walter studied at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin. After he had conducted in several German cities, Gustav Mahler appointed him (1901) assistant conductor of the Vienna State Opera, where he remained until... Read more |
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Orestes Augustus Brownson
Orestes Augustus Brownson , 1803-76, American author and clergyman, b. Stockbridge, Vt. Largely self-taught, he became a vigorous and influential writer on social and religious questions. He was a Presbyterian, but left that church to become first a Universalist and then a sort of free-lance... Read more |
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Barbara Trapido
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Barbara Frietchie
Barbara Frietchie (1899), a play by Clyde Fitch. [Criterion Theatre, 83 perf.] Almost all the citizens of Frederick are Confederate sympathizers, so they condemn their neighbor, young Barbara Frietchie ( Julia Marlowe), for accepting the attentions of a Yankee, Capt. Trumbull ( J. H. Gilmour).... Read more |
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vision
vision is the task of understanding...the magnitude of the task of vision.Using their eyes, most people...most sophisticated of computer vision systems, which interpret signals...fibres and cells, forming a complex network through which signals... |
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Twenties, The
...image of bathtub gin, speakeasies, flappers, and decadence: in short, The Jazz Age. This superficial vision masks a far more complex history. In this period Americans grappled with the disruptions of ethnic and cultural conflict, the growth... |
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Primates
...opposable big toes. They have a poor sense of smell, good hearing, and acute binocular vision. The outstanding feature of primates is a large complex brain and high intelligence. Primate characteristics are less pronounced in the relatively... |
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Bergman, Ingmar
...Swedish film director. With a versatile company of actors and a strong personal vision, Bergman created dark allegories, satires on sex, and complex studies of human relationships. Major films include The Seventh Seal (1956), Wild... |
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perception
...perception, especially touch and vision, gives undeniably true knowledge...distance (most completely through vision and hearing) freed organisms...phenomena, such as illusions of vision and hearing and touch. The notion...within us, though related in complex ... |
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virtual reality
...200 degrees or more of normal vision). This effectively means...blinkers. The lack of peripheral vision seems to inhibit people's ability...but little else). In more complex worlds each object can have...Virtual worlds that contain complex object behaviours ... |
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consciousness
...including the mechanisms of colour vision — but who happens to be colour blind...information from the senses, and the complex task of selecting and controlling the individual...consciousness with what it is doing.Unconscious vision is not just a neurological anomaly... |
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face
face The face is the most complex-surface structure of human and other...mandible); and sensory apparatus for vision, hearing, taste and smell.The human face...Jaw and tooth structure are less complex and smaller in modern humans, resulting... |
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Frankfurter, Felix
...peace a patriot. The essence of this most complex man was a sense of intellectual commitment...the courts could remedy. Frankfurter's vision of his role on the court thus was the culmination of a vision of himself. He always believed that he... |
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healing
...gods, the ways of healing are just too complex for most people to manage without help. The ill...during which the afflicted had a dream or vision of the nature of the problem which suggested...Children of Israel were cautioned to observe complex purification rituals after ... |
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sensor-data fusion
...for sets of simple sensors of the same modality, but major research issues are involved where the sensors are complex, as in vision, or operate across different modalities. See also data fusion. |
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Tippett, (Sir) Michael (Kemp)
...works which reconcile personal vision with expression of ‘collective...lyrical style, a style that is complex in its madrigalian, contrapuntal...the elaborate choral work The Vision of St Augustine. With the opera The...Nunc Dimittis (1961); The Vision of St ... |
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Amitāyurdhyāna Sūtra
...practitioner to attain a direct vision of the Buddha Amitābha, his...the practitioner will have a vision of Amitābha that demonstrates...concerned to teach a highly complex meditative discipline...They will have an immediate vision of Amitābha upon rebirth ... |
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Durkheim, Émile
...controversies involving those who rejected his vision of sociology.Most of his major monographs...explanations. His principles were applied in the complex and multi-dimensional argument of Suicide...publications one is struck by the breadth of vision displayed by Durkheim in ... |
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progress
...The history of the idea of progress is complex, and even the meaning of the word is fundamentally...combined these two elements with Kant's vision of a universal human history to produce...itself and the world. Marx grounded this vision in reality by relating progress to ... |
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artificial intelligence
...planning, speech understanding, theorem proving, and computer vision.Perceptual tasks (e.g. seeing and hearing) have been found...can perform cognitive tasks is actually thinking. This is a complex topic that has received new interest with a focus on consciousness... |
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Mills, C(harles) Wright
...a discipline. The sociological imagination is the sociological vision, a way of looking at the world that can see connections between...exemplar of critical discussion. See also MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX; UNEMPLOYMENT. |
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Bābīs
...claim, made in the spring of 1844 after a series of revelatory visions, was that he was the Bāb (‘gate’) to the Hidden Imám...Nuqta (‘point’) of a new revelation from God. Teaching a complex combination of esoteric and messianic ideas, the Bāb initially... |
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rebellion
...example rising expectations, class conflicts) she proposes a complex, fluid model which emphasizes the differences between states...later work, including her edited and co-edited volumes on Vision and Method in Historical Sociology, 1984, and Bringing the... |
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Temple
...Babylonians destroyed it (586 BCE). Ezekiel (40–2) had a vision of a new Temple (571 BCE) based on the plan of Solomon...entered alone on the Day of Atonement. The whole building complex occupied no less than a quarter of the area of the city.In... |
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Complex vision; Determined Neuqua efforts moving forward to build facility
...field will be replaced by a brand-new complex with two practice fields and a main game...Valley four years ago, he had a two-part vision. Seeing the talent at his disposal...willing to do just about anything to see his vision come to fruition. "I'd even kiss a... |
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Complex visions in black and white
...close friends, and sometimes the result of occasional encounters on the beach of the Baltic or the Mediterranean reveal his vision of the ideal male beauty. They mark a strong resemblance to Bruce Weber's depictions of young men in Calvin Klein ads. These... |
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SHARING COMPLEX VISIONS FOR INCLUSIVE SCHOOLS
...school year and benchmark standards (or standardized) exams at the end of the year. Given the harsh criticisms of our standard vision of education, it is hard not to wonder whether contemporary education is premised on viable understandings. Other metaphors... |
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Wilbert synthesizes complex visions
...that his work does not invite comparison to, nor does it derive from, photography. Instead, it is about the experience of vision over time, the process of studying objects and then synthesizing what is seen into a cool, unified whole. These are painterly... |
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Artists' complex visions become reality at printer Magnolia Editions of...
SO, where in the world to begin? With the etching presses? The handmade paper making? It would probably have to be the tapestry project. But then what about the 20 Year Drypoint Project? On its Web site, Magnolia Editions is described as a fine art print studio. Talk about an understatement. |
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Hotel, Apartment, Retail Complex Crystallizes Vision for Cupertino,...
...upscale 224-room hotel and a 206-unit apartment and retail complex, approved by the council earlier this week, will create a...balconies and a trellis-covered veranda. The apartment complex being developed by Prometheus will be nine stories high and... |
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Oakland apartment complex a $60M vision
...demolish five decaying homes to build a 16-story apartment complex in the heart of Oakland at a cost of more than $60 million...developer must replace 26 metered, public parking spaces where the complex is to be built, said David G. Onorato, executive director... |
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Robust 'Trovatore' tells complex tale; Delightful vision of Verdi.(LIFE -...
...University in Northeast. First performed in Rome in 1853, "Il Trovatore" was one of Verdi's earliest hits. It's a complex tale of intrigue and mistaken identity in which Count di Luna, the villain of the piece, executes his long-lost brother... |
 "The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)")
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PUBLIC HOUSING VISION EMERGES COMPLEXES WOULD HAVE FEWER UNITS, BUT MORE OF...
...third of the apartment units in some of Norfolk's housing complexes while dramatically upgrading at least as many others. The...Redevelopment and Housing Authority call it their ``new vision'' for public housing. It's part of a broader city effort...nearly $25 million to raze the Ida Barbour ... |
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Black Investment Group Seeks to Purchase Vision Complex Theater
...Group Seeks to Purchase Vision Complex Theater Last Thursday...purchase of the Vision Complex Theater. Among the attendees...acquisition package for the complex which included a $1...Thomas, "We (Project Vision) view the ... |
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