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Sarah Caldwell
Sarah Caldwell 1924-2006, American opera director and conductor, b. Maryville, Mo. In 1957 she founded the Boston Opera Group, later renamed the Opera Company of Boston, and headed it until its demise in 1990. Under her direction, the company became noted for its innovative productions of a wide... Read more |
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London Gazette
London Gazette. Published as the Oxford Gazette prior to 5 February 1666, this bi-weekly was an immediate success, despite its dullness, since it carried all the official news. Competition from new, livelier publications after 1695 and the Stamp Act (1712) led to a decline in importance and sales,... Read more |
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Giuseppe di Lampedusa
Giuseppe di Lampedusa , 1896-1957, Italian novelist. A wealthy Sicilian prince, Lampedusa drew on his family's history for his internationally acclaimed work, Il gattopardo, published posthumously in 1958 (tr. The Leopard, 1960). In urbane, elegant style, Lampedusa depicts the demise of an old,... Read more |
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Peacekeeping
Peacekeeping. One consequence of the end of the Cold War and the demise of the Soviet Union was a burst of joint efforts aimed at resolving armed conflicts. Between 1990 and 1994, fifteen international peacekeeping operations were initiated through the United Nations. At their peak in 1994, there... Read more |
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Anti-Jacobin
Anti-Jacobin. A weekly journal which ran from November 1797 until July 1798 under the editorship of William Gifford. Its prospectus declared its prejudices in favour of the established institutions of church and state, and its satire was directed against British radicals—Paine, Godwin, ... Read more |
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Anglo-Japanese treaty
Anglo-Japanese treaty, 1902. Concluded on 30 January to improve British security against France and Russia in the Far East, each party agreed to fight only if the other became involved in war with at least two other powers. The treaty promised to localize any war, and facilitated Japan's decision to... Read more |
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Vance Nye Bourjaily
Bourjaily, Vance [Nye] (1922–), Ohio‐born writer, after service in World War II wrote The End of My Life (1947), a novel about a young man's collapse in the war, and The Hound of Earth (1954), about a scientist who runs away from his army job and his family after the bombing of... Read more |
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Mellifont
Mellifont, the first Cistercian abbey in Ireland, and ultimately head of an affiliation of over 20 Irish Cistercian foundations. Founded in 1142 at the instigation of St Malachy of Armagh, this essentially European foundation was part of the wider 12th‐century reform of the Irish church... Read more |
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Colliers
COLLIER'S CLOSES Magazine Economics The closing of Colliersmagazine in 1956 shockingly illustrated the postwar changes in magazine economics and the entertainment and editorial tastes of the American reading public. A venerable name in magazine history, ... Read more |
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