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Awareness Awareness
Awareness Awareness is a holistic health and New Age networking periodical based in Orange County, California. It primarily serves the greater Los Angeles area, but includes a special section devoted to the San Diego area. Based primarily around health concerns, it has adopted the format pioneered... Read more
Hui Shih Hui Shih
Hui Shih , c.380-c.300 BC, Chinese logician, remembered for his paradoxes. Little is known about his life, except that he was a provincial prime minister, or about the thinking that led to his paradoxes, which range over physical, mathematical, and logical concepts. Of his voluminous writings, only... Read more
Aversion Aversion
DISGUST DISGUST. Some philosophers doubt that there is such an emotion as disgust, yet in spite of the concept's overlap and fuzzy edges, there is a learned discourse about disgust defined as a feeling of revulsion. The prime example is in the context of food. Disgust may cause shock, faintness,... Read more
Greed Greed
GREED USA, 1924 Director:Erich von Stroheim Production:Begun under Goldwyn-von Stroheim Productions for Goldwyn Pictures; released by Metro-Goldwyn Corporation as a Louis B. Mayer Presentation; black and white, 35mm, silent; running time: about 150... Read more
Kevin Garnett Kevin Garnett
Kevin Garnett 1976- American basketball player In 1995, Kevin Garnett became famous as one of the first high school basketball players to be drafted directly into the National Basketball Association (NBA). Despite many people's concerns about how a teenager would fare in that setting, Garnett did... Read more
Sonni Ali Sonni Ali
Sunni Ali Sunni Ali (died 1492) founded the Songhay empire of West Africa. Best known as a great military leader, he was called Ali Ber, or "Ali the Great." There is much controversy about his attitudes toward Islam. Almost nothing is known about the early life of Ali (who received the title... Read more
Breakdown Breakdown
BREAKDOWN The term breakdown draws on Donald Winnicott's posthumous article "The Fear of Breakdown," published in 1974. Winnicott was referring to mental breakdown associated with a serious failure of the facilitating environment at such an early stage that the self is not yet capable of dealing... Read more
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drapery painter. A specialist in the painting of costume and other accessories employed by a portraitist with a large practice. Such specialist assistants or subcontractors seem to have emerged in the late 17th century, perhaps in the Netherlands, and almost all the leading British portraitists of... Read more
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John Phillips Marquand , 1893-1960, American novelist, b. Wilmington, Del., grad. Harvard, 1915. Most of Marquand's gently satirical novels examine life among the rich and socially prominent of New England. Often they concern people too hidebound by money or tradition to change their lives for the... Read more
Order Order
Order In most religions the world is believed to be an embodiment of divine wisdom. Paradoxically, the divine is both present (immanent) and absent (transcendent). This paradox is expressed in a hierarchy of degrees of manifestation of divine wisdom, each representing a kind of order. Further,... Read more

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