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Don (Russia)
Don , river, SW European Russia. It rises SE of Tula and flows c.1,200 mi (1,930 km), first SE past Voronezh, then SW into the Sea of Azov. At its eastern bend the Don is linked by a canal (c.65 mi/105 m long), with the Volga River near Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad). The annual flood of the river... Read more |
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Don Cossacks
Don Cossacks Cossack settlers (see Cossacks ) who in the 16th cent. founded the virtually independent republic of the Don Cossacks on the fertile steppes along the lower course of the Don River. Novocherkassk was their chief town. The host of the Don Cossacks was governed by a popular council,... Read more |
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Novocherkassk
Novocherkassk , city (1989 pop. 188,000), SE European Russia, on the Aksai River (the right tributary of the Don). It manufactures locomotives, machine tools, mining and building equipment, and chemicals. Founded in 1805, it remained the administrative center of the Don Cossacks until 1920.... Read more |
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Don Cheadle
Don Cheadle 1964(?)– Actor At a Glance… Sources Don Cheadle has been working steadily in films, television and theater since 1985, when he was still in drama school. Typical struggling actor jobs such as waiting on tables or parking cars are not part of Cheadle |
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Elvira
Elvira ♀ (Spanish) name of Germanic (Visigothic) origin, very common in the Middle Ages. It was not used in the English-speaking world until the 19th century, when it was made familiar as the name of the long-suffering wife of Don Juan, both in Mozart's opera Don Giovanni (1789) and in ... Read more |
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Elizabeth Schachter. Origin and Identity: Essays on Svevo and Trieste.(Book...
...lasting effects on his life and art. Chapter Three, "Don Juanism: Rivalry and Betrayal," is essentially a treatment...that La Coscienza di Zeno diverges from the pattern of Don Juanism set by the previous two novels, it is not clear what... |
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Elizabeth Schachter. Origin and Identity: Essays on Svevo and...
...lasting effects on his life and art. Chapter Three, "Don Juanism: Rivalry and Betrayal," is essentially a treatment...that La coscienza di Zeno diverges from the pattern of Don Juanism set by the previous two novels, it is not clear what... |
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The Man With the Golden Arm
...century, Franz Liszt scandalized Europe with his maniacal assaults of the piano keyboard and his well-publicized Don Juanism. Huge crowds attended his concerts, and high-society women would swoon and gasp as he played, sometimes attaching... |
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Books: Paperbacks
...of any boozer which happens to be holding a pub quiz, don't miss Marcus Berkmann's hilarious guide to this inexplicably...cinematic output, McGilligan's main concern is "the Don Juanism that grew to dominate his personal life". We learn that... |
 "The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY)")
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IS BIGGER BETTER? TORONTO FESTIVAL LEAVES FILM CRITICS WITH A BLOATED FEELING
...wants a tape of it sent to his room right now! He says don't send it through the concierge, either. He wants it...possibly be savored. There is a difference between love and Don Juanism. I love movies. If I see too many of them, though... |
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A one-night stand with Marcus Aurelius
...amenable form of erudition. In fact, if you feel the need for it, there's always been a sanction for such intellectual Don Juanism - Dr Johnson was a notorious abuser of books (the sort of man who would use a slice of ham as a bookmark if nothing... |
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Sex addiction: disorder or social control?
...breakup. (Then there's the added, implied drama of Duchovny's real-life travails with compulsive sex.) So is Don Juanism funny, or is it sad? The pop-culture ambivalence reflects an uncertainty that extends all the way through the medical... |
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THE NEWS FROM MOUNT BRANDO
...especially in the young, would-be Don Juan's tempestuous narratives of...He sees himself, as any righteous Don Juan should, not as a conqueror of...replete with a few decades of genial Don Juanism. Dunaway, for her part, obviously... |
 "The Mail on Sunday (London, England)")
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The trashing of the chambermaid ... so much for France as a beacon of...
...by God, do they have other words for it. Sarkozy's 'Don Juanism' is to be admired. To be a lothario is a sign of political...elite of powerful white men both on the Left and Right. We don't get everything right here, of course, but bear in... |
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JASPERS AND RICOEUR ON THE SELF AND THE OTHER
...Jasper's understanding of religious commitment. As the story goes, Ricoeur dismisses Jaspers' faith as a form of Don Juanism; while Jaspers' and his followers see in Ricoeur's turn to the symbolics and hermeneutics of religion a move away... |
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