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Santee
Santee ETHNONYMS: Eastern Dakota, Isanyati, Mississippi Sioux The Santee are an American Indian group consisting of the Mdewakanton, Sisseton, Wahpekute, and Wahpeton, four of the seven divisions of the Dakota. The other three divisions are the Teton, Yankton, and Yanktonai. The Santee spoke... Read more |
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Dakota
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Kathleen Scott
Scott, Kathleen (1878–1947). British portrait sculptor, born Kathleen Bruce at Carlton-in-Lindrick, Nottinghamshire, the daughter of a clergyman. After spending a few months at the Slade School, she studied in Paris at the Académie Colarossi and under Rodin, 1901–6. In 1908 she... Read more |
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John Norris
John Norris 1657-1711, English clergyman and philosopher. As the most prominent follower of Malebranche he wrote, in exposition of that philosopher's system, An Essay towards the Theory of the Ideal or Intelligible World (1701-4). Previously he had been one of the earliest critics of Locke's ... Read more |
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Charles Gilman Norris
Norris, Charles G[ilman] (1881–1945), brother of Frank Norris, author of novels dealing with such problems as modern education, women in business, hereditary and environmental influences, big business ethics, and birth control, which include Salt (1917), Brass (1921), Bread (1923), Pig Iron... Read more |
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Norris-LaGuardia Act
Norris-Laguardia Act (1932) Neil N. Bernstein When it adopted the Norris-LaGuardia Act (47 Stat. 70), Congress liberated organized labor from the crippling restraints of federal court injunctions. Prior to the act's passage, a federal judge, persuaded that a potential or actual strike, picketing, or... Read more |
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Karl Shapiro
Karl Shapiro 1913-2000, American poet and critic, b. Baltimore, studied Univ. of Virginia, Johns Hopkins. His interests in the aesthetics and artifice of modern poetry and the role of the poet as cultural spokesperson are expressed in his poems and his criticism. Shapiro's early volumes of... Read more |
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William Empson
William Empson 1906-84, English critic and poet. His Seven Types of Ambiguity (1930), a study of the meanings of poetry, is a classic of modern literary criticism. It was followed by Some Versions of Pastoral (1935) and The Structure of Complex Words (1951). In Milton's God (1961) Empson... Read more |
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Holiness
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Frank Norris
Frank Norris (Benjamin Franklin Norris), 1870-1902, American novelist, b. Chicago. After studying in Paris, at the Univ. of California (1890-94), and at Harvard, he spent several years as a war correspondent in South Africa (1895-96) and Cuba (1898). His proletarian novel McTeague (1899) was... Read more |
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For old (and new) readers, Kathleen Norris is back.(VARIETY)
Kathleen Norris is back in...published "Dakota: A Spiritual...understood a place that's routinely...used a lot. Norris made it clear...encounter it during Holy Week - no matter...Minn., where Norris spent two ... |
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Stark reality.(Your True Nature)(deserts)(Brief Article)
...If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to...self. There is no place to hide, and so...love," concludes Kathleen Norris in Dakota: A Spiritual Geography...we learn to love ... |
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Listening with the ear of the heart.(achieving unity of mind and heart to...
...which is the place where the shekhinah...through the Holy Spirit that...like God. In other words, to be...contemporary writer Kathleen Norris, in her book Dakota, gives us a...stranger, the other, the ... |
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Standing for principle sparks a crisis
...parishioners at Holy Trinity Church...joined by other dissenters. Others showed their...protest out of place at worship. Others feared stirring...more than 50 other contributors...Christmas play. Other ... |
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What is spiritual geography? (Geographical Record)
...Beliefs and Holy Places: A Spiritual...1992) and "Dakota: A Spiritual Geography," by Kathleen Norris (1993...Griffin and Norris chose these...concept of place as a means...Griffin and Norris ... |
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Saints living in the deserts escaped deserts of the soul.(NATION)(THE CAPITAL...
...ago the writer Kathleen Norris fled New York City for South Dakota and wrote...and on the other a withdrawal...filled with the Holy Spirit and spiritual...nun once told Kathleen Norris two versions...indeed, ... |