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Joan Didion
Joan Didion , 1934-, American writer, b. Sacramento, Calif., grad. Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1956. Her works often explore the despair of contemporary American life, a condition she views as produced by the disintegration of morality and values. She is known for a cool and almost brittle style... Read more |
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Henry Marie Brackenridge
Henry Marie Brackenridge 1786-1871, American writer, b. Pittsburgh; son of Hugh Henry Brackenridge. Admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in 1806, he moved to St. Louis, where he was a lawyer and journalist. Among his writings are Views of Louisiana (1814), part of which was one of the sources of... Read more |
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Mary Boykin Chesnut
Mary Boykin Chesnut Diarist Mary Boykin Chesnut (1823-1886) captured an intimate view of the political and personal struggles of the Confederate South during the Civil War. Her journal of the war years describes not only the difficulties of war, but also reveals her personal views on the... Read more |
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Moral realism
MORAL REALISM Moral realism is a metaethical view committed to robust objectivity in ethics. No single description is likely to capture all realist views, but a reasonably accurate rule is to understand moral realism as the conjunction of three theses: The semantic thesis: The primary semantic... Read more |
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Amber Tamblyn
Tamblyn, Amber May 14, 1983 • Santa Monica, California Actress Most people talk to God in the privacy of their own homes, but when Amber Tamblyn talks to God she does it while eleven million other people watch. As the star of the surprise CBS television hit ... Read more |
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Attraction
Attraction Attraction is an interactive process that involves one person who transmits verbal, visual, or other stimuli, and another who responds more or less positively to those stimuli. Early research viewed the attraction response as an attitude toward the target person that included favorable... Read more |
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Wislawa Szymborska
Wislawa Szymborska While celebrated in her native Poland since the 1960s, Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska (born 1923) did not become well known internationally until she received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996. Since then, Szymborska's works have been translated widely and the... Read more |
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videotex
videotex communications service that is linked to an adapted television receiver or a personal computer by telephone lines, cable television facilities, or the like, and that allows a user to retrieve and display alphanumeric and pictorial information at home. Traditional videotex systems... Read more |
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MIASMIC VICE: TWO FORAYS INTO THE GRITTY CITY
...By Joan Didion. Simon...in the New America, By David...having nowhere else to go, went...property for Joan Didion, whose idea of a writer's vacation...more than one Cuban millionaire...who ... |
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TRANCEBOOKS / Fiction
...If nothing else, the novel...blindfold. It is one of the book...strikes to capture their revolutionary...West,'' Joan Didion found Hearst...why,'' Didion writes...generation of writers, many of...them across ... |
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Mosley returns with `Fearless Jones' and much, much more.(Knight Ridder...
...riddled America of the 1940s...He's one of the most...novel "Tell No One" is a current...which nobody else has done...combination to capture. I guess...is simply one of our finest writers ... |
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They deliver the goods; From trucks to tugboats to coal trains, John McPhee...
...New Yorker writer has done...residue of just one ten-thousandth...gallon. But no matter the...McPhee captures the essence...troopers along America's interstates...works of Joan Didion and ... |
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