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existentialism
existentialism , any of several philosophic systems, all centered on the individual and his relationship to the universe or to God. Important existentialists of varying and conflicting thought are Søren Kierkegaard, Karl Jaspers, Martin Heidegger, Gabriel Marcel, and Jean-Paul Sartre. All... Read more |
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Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski 1933-, Polish-French film director, b. Paris. His family returned to Kraków, Poland, when he was three. His parents were imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps and his mother died at Auschwitz, but Polanski, living partly on his own, escaped the Holocaust. He began to act... Read more |
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Lindsay Rogers
Dulcy (1921), a comedy by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly. [Frazee Theatre, 246 perf.] Dulcinea Smith ( Lynn Fontanne) is an ambitious but feather‐brained young lady given to spouting bromides and getting her husband, Gordon ( John Westley), into jams whenever she attempts to help him... Read more |
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Edward Jenner
Edward Jenner 1749-1823, English physician; pupil of John Hunter. His invaluable experiments beginning in 1796 with the vaccination of eight-year-old James Phipps proved that cowpox provided immunity against smallpox. His discovery was instrumental in ridding many areas of the world of a dread... Read more |
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James Thomson (1834-82)
James Thomson 1834-82, Scottish poet and essayist. He is remembered for his darkly pessimistic poem The City of Dreadful Night. He was raised in an orphan asylum and became (1851) an army teacher at Ballincollig, Ireland. In 1862 he was dismissed from the service for a very minor offense, became... Read more |
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Failure
241. Failure Army Bomb Plot attempted assassination of Hitler; his miraculous escape brought dreadful retaliation (1944). [Ger. Hist.: Van Doren, 500] Brown, Charlie comic strip character for whom losing is a way of life. [Comics: “Peanuts” in Horn, 542–543] Bunion... Read more |
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diphtheria
diphtheria , acute contagious disease caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae (Klebs-Loffler bacillus) bacteria that have been infected by a bacteriophage. It begins as a soreness of the throat with fever. The bacteria lodge in the mucous membranes of the throat, producing virulent toxins that... Read more |
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