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Sergius Paulus
Sergius Paulus , in the New Testament, proconsul in Cyprus, friendly to Paul.... Read more |
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Friendship
Friendship Friendship is a relationship with broad, ambiguous, and even shifting boundaries. The terms friend and friendship mean different things to different people and different things to the same people at different times. To think and communicate effectively about the topic, people find it... Read more |
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Honesty
333. Honesty (See also Righteousness, Virtuousness.) Alethia ancient Greek personification of truth. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 18] Better Business Bureau nationwide system of organizations investigating dishonest business practices. [Am. Commerce: Misc.] bittersweet traditional symbol of... Read more |
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Aves
Aves Eggs and poultry make up a significant part of peoples' diets. Similarly, products made from feathers such as pillows, comforters, or down-lined coats are widely used. There is an increasing awareness and heightened passion for our feathered friends sweeping the nation.... Read more |
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Edward Carpenter
Edward Carpenter 1844-1929, English author. Although ordained a minister in 1869, he became a Fabian socialist in 1874 and renounced religion. Among his works on social reform are Towards Democracy (1883-1902), a long unrhymed poem revealing the influence of his friend Walt Whitman; England's... Read more |
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Tom Taylor
Tom Taylor 1817-80, English dramatist and editor. His most famous play is Our American Cousin (1858), performed at Ford's Theater in Washington, D. C., when Lincoln was assassinated. Of his more than 100 plays, others are The Ticket-of-Leave Man (1863) and, written with his friend Charles... Read more |
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Friends of Ireland
Friends of Ireland, a backbench group in...debated Northern Ireland issues. Friends like Geoffrey Bing saw British intervention and socialist politics as necessary precursors...Delargy in the process. The Friends faded away. Several, including... |
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
...poems, addressed to his friends: ‘Fears in Solitude’, ‘This Lime Tree Bower...a second periodical, the Friend. The intellectual effort...shattered his circle of friends: Sara left for Wales...suicide, sustained only by his friends the Morgans, who took him ... |
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Abrams v. United States
...States and Debs v. United States upholding the conviction of socialists for making antiwar statements on the grounds that such statements...dissent, Holmes—stung by criticism from libertarian friends such as Zechariah Chafee of Harvard Law School and Harold J...Bill of Rights; Censorship; ... |
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Maurice, Frederick Denison
...1848 and declared himself a Christian socialist. In 1854 he founded the Working Men...Maurice as muddled and obscure; but to his friends he was a saintly and prophetic figure...modernists) and also influenced the Christian socialist revival of 1877–1914. John F. C... |
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Antiwar Movements
...many religious COs, progressive pacifists, and antiwar socialists like Eugene V. Debs, as well as within some ethnic communities...Resisters League (WRL, 1921). Some, like the American Friends Service Committee (1917), had a progressive orientation, and...security programs. They were joined ... |
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel
...The claim for Hawthorne's civic importance also enabled friends and admirers to procure government employment for him, including...implications of social engineering, as exemplified by utopian‐socialist, feminist, and prison‐reform movements. This novel also...contemporaries, his closest ... |
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1919
...of a wealthy Chicago minister, and her friend Eleanor Stoddard become interior decorators...a bright young Brooklyn Jew, once a friend of Anne Trent, is active in a strike, becomes a Socialist, is an agitator at a Passaic mill strike... |
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42nd Parallel, The
...distributing company whose proprietor defrauds him. With a socialist friend he bums across the continent, works for an anarchist printer...suppression of socialism, and craving action, he and his friend Doc Rogers join a French ambulance corps. |
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Pacifism
...Reformation such as the Mennonites, Society of Friends (Quakers), and Brethren. For some...Reconciliation (FOR, 1915), American Friends Service Committee (1917), and Mennonite...sectarian or who objected (like many socialists) only to that particular war or (like... |
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Kingsley, Charles
...for the People (1848) and to its successor, The Christian Socialist (1850–1).In 1850 he published his first novel, Yeast...despised Negroes, a muscular Christian who wrote much (like his friend T. Hughes) of the virtues of ‘manliness’ and who nevertheless... |
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Mitterrand, François
...of the Parti Socialiste (Socialist Party), and in 1972 he strengthened...third attempt. The innovative socialist policies of his first Prime...revive the fortunes of the Socialist Party sufficiently, so...integration, together with his friend, the German ... |
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Cresson, Edith
...was an organizer of the youth in the Socialist Party (1974–9) and a member of the...1979–81), before joining all Socialist Cabinets of the 1980s, with responsibility...and nepotism. She appointed personal friends to public positions, such as hiring... |
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Georgia
...Union in 1991; the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic (1936); a part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (with Armenia and Azerbaijan...colony of Georgia in 1732. Because a friend had died in a debtors' prison in... |
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Marx, Karl
...unknown people he met, especially the socialist artisans and Friedrich Engels, the son...Engels was to become Marx's lifelong friend, collaborator, and much-put-upon...hitherto suppressed humanistic Marxist and socialist tradition that provided a basis for the... |
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associate
...someone commonly regarded with disapproval: she began associating with socialists. • n. / -it/ 1. a partner or colleague in business or at work. ∎ a companion or friend. 2. a person with limited or subordinate membership in an organization... |
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Temple, William
...Influenced by the Workers' Educational Association and Student Christian Movement, he was, like his friend R. H. Tawney, socialist in his thinking. Later dubbed ‘intellectually the most brilliant archbishop since Anselm’, he also... |
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Deng Xiaoping
...bourgeois’ tendencies. Zhou Enlai reinstated his old friend, and Deng became Vice-Premier of the State Council in 1973...teachings of Mao Zedong, and emphasized instead the need for socialist modernization. This led him to pursue a careful balance between... |
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Clemenceau, Georges
...sharp, destructive, and negative temperament earned him few friends. He lost his seat in 1893 owing to his links with the Panama...repression of labour unrest, which earned him the hostility of the Socialist Party and left him little time for social reform. Despite... |
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Crispi, Francesco
...GARIBALDI's invasion (1860) and ended as a monarchist, a friend of BISMARCK, and twice a dictatorial Premier. During his first...his tariff war against France, and he brutally suppressed a socialist uprising in Sicily. His foreign policy was based on friendship... |
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Berlusconi, Silvio
...construction of new satellite towns, notably in Milan during the 1970s. At that time, he was also a good friend of the Milanese Socialist leader, the future Prime Minister Craxi. He became involved in the entertainment business in 1979 and quickly... |
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The [pounds sterling]80m socialist; CHANCELLOR'S FRIEND AND GURU STRIKES GOLD...
...richer today. Gavyn Davies will collect a shares windfall from the City investment bank Goldman Sachs. The socialist economist, a good friend of the Chancellor, is one of the chief beneficiaries of the private bank's decision to go public. The... |
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The [pounds sterling]26m Socialist; Chancellor's City friend in shares bonanza.
Byline: BARBARA DAVIES;LOUISE JONES AS an economic adviser to Tony Blair and close friend of Chancellor Gordon Brown, his views on the state of the nation's wealth are often sought within the corridors of power. But... |
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Maverick socialist whose charm won him friends in unlikely places
...where he spent the rest of his life, working mostly as an electrician's mate. He had difficulties with literacy and a friend encouraged him to go to night classes. He then began an odyssey round the British Trotskyist left. He was mischievous...real flair for tabloid-style stories and was noted for his ... |
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What Can Friends of Freedom Learn from the Socialists?
...family members. His closest friend spoke at the gravesite and...growth of government. What friends of freedom need to remember...future! Such a sincere socialist could only hope that Marx...Yet within 30 years the socialist idea came to dominate the...market ... |
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A Party of One Who's Not Above Making New Friends: Durable, Rumpled...
...s Not Above Making New Friends: Durable, RumpledThrowback, Vermont's Socialist Rep. Bernie Sanders Survives...congressman, self-described socialist Bernie Sanders,failed to...whenliberals called themselves socialists and liberalism meant not...sonly the ... |
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With friends like these; Muslims and socialists.(Dislike for American policy...
...odd marriage of Muslims and secular socialists, united against America, is challenged...committed bodies--the far-left Socialist Workers Party (SWP) and the Muslim...operation between angry Muslims and secular socialists is not always smooth. In Britain...the Respect Party, ... |
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EDITORIAL: France: A true red, white and blue friend?: Sarkozy's election...
...centerright candidate who promises to change that. His opponent, Socialist Segolene Royal, campaigned on a platform of more socialism...opportunity available in the United States, reassured "our American friends" that "France will always be at the U.S.'s side when... |
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Music: Bring on the evil kulak and the noble peasants To Stalin, Prokofiev's...
...attempt to rescue a very dear friend in need; this was the internationally...conform to the demands of Socialist Realism. The two first met...the official aesthetic of Socialist Realism. Soviet art, he...less obvious, though, how Socialist Realism might be ... |
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Memories carved in stone; Liverpool Cathedral's centenary has united writers,...
...foundation stone, Bower and his friend Jim Larkin, a docker who...their own service. They put a Socialist manifesto in a biscuit tin...cathedral'' to a future socialist society. It began: ``To...Yorkshireman, had started to embrace Socialist ideas. Lines in ... |
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By George, it's war ; Claims and allegations multiply as the custody battle...
...the one he was incarcerated in during the 1970s. The fiery socialist, who once stopped trains, is now babbling incoherently...2009, in favour of Jaitly and Freddie D'Sa, a trusted friend. This did not go down well with both Leila and Sean. "The... |
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