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are are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party? formal question put to those appearing before the Committee on UnAmerican Activities during the McCarthy campaign of 1950–4 against alleged Communists in the US government and other institutions; the allusive form are you... Read more
Bartlesville Bartlesville
Bartlesville , city (1990 pop. 34,256), seat of Washington co., NE Okla., on the Caney River; inc. 1897. It is a distribution center for a ranching and rich oil-producing area. Petroleum production, marketing, and research have been major enterprises since the first well was tapped in 1897. Of... Read more
Bill Withers Bill Withers
Withers, Bill1938— Singer, songwriter Singer/songwriter Bill Withers has described his approach to his craft in this way: "I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you," according to his... Read more
Trevor Nunn Trevor Nunn
Nunn, Trevor (b. 1940), director. The British director, equally successful in staging the classics as well as giant Broadway musicals, was born in Ipswich, England, and educated at Cambridge where he began directing. Nunn has long been associated with the Royal Shakespeare Company and several of his... Read more
Miranda v Arizona Miranda v Arizona
Miranda v. Arizona U.S. Supreme Court case (1966) in the area of due process of law (see Fourteenth Amendment ). The decision reversed an Arizona court's conviction of Ernesto Miranda on kidnapping and rape charges. Identified in a police lineup, Miranda had been questioned, had confessed, and had... Read more
Ruby Dee Ruby Dee
Ruby Dee1924— Actress, civil rights activist, writer The actress and social activist Ruby Dee expressed her philosophy in I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America: "You just try to do everything that comes up. Get up an hour earlier, stay up an hour later, make the time. Then... Read more
Sensibility Sensibility
SENSIBILITY SENSIBILITY. During the eighteenth century, cultures of sensibility came into general existence in several European countries and colonies; they persisted well into the nineteenth century, and while they have been fragmented as coherent middle-class cultures, the values they embodied... Read more
William George Fargo William George Fargo
William George Fargo 1818-81, American pioneer expressman, b. Pompey, N.Y. He had been successively a postrider, freight agent, messenger, and resident agent (1843) for an express company in Buffalo, N.Y., when in 1844, with Henry Wells and another partner, he organized Wells & Company, the... Read more
Anthony Burgess Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess , 1917-93, English novelist, b. Manchester as John Anthony Burgess Wilson, grad. Manchester Univ., 1940. He taught school in England and in East Asia and pursued an early interest in music. His novels are marked by a surreal, darkly comic imagination. Burgess is acknowledged to have... Read more
United States Naval Academy United States Naval Academy
United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md.; for training young men and women to be officers of the U.S. navy or marine corps. George Bancroft , Secretary of the Navy, founded and opened (1845) it as the Naval School at Annapolis. In 1850-51 the school was reorganized under the present title.... Read more

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