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Erte
Erté , 1892-1990, French designer and illustrator, b. St. Petersburg as Romain de Tirtoff. He moved to France and worked for a time sketching for Paul Poiret and designing opera and theater costumes. Between 1914 and the 1930s he created many magazine covers for Harper's Bazaar. In the... Read more |
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Richard Carvel
Richard Carvel (1900), a play by Edward E. Rose. [Empire Theatre, 128 perf.] Richard Carvel ( John Drew) overcomes the machinations of a wicked uncle, kidnapping by pirates, and a spell in debtors' prison to fight alongside John Paul Jones ( George Le Soir) and win the affection of Dorothy... Read more |
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antiphon (music)
Antiphon , c.479-411 BC, Athenian orator. He rarely spoke in public but wrote defenses for others to speak. Of his 15 extant orations 3 were for use in court, the rest probably for the instruction of his pupils. A few fragments of other speeches survive. Antiphon did much to advance Attic prose... Read more |
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Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber , 1782-1871, French operatic composer. His greatest successes resulted from his collaboration with the librettist Scribe. Their first success together was Le Maçon (1825), and among the long succession that followed were Fra Diavolo (1830), Le Domino... Read more |
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Sophists
Sophists , originally, itinerant teachers in Greece (5th cent. BC) who provided education through lectures and in return received fees from their audiences. The term was given as a mark of respect. Protagoras was perhaps the first to style himself a Sophist and to receive payment for his... Read more |
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Willard Huntington Wright
Wright, Willard Huntington (1888–1939), born in Virginia, was educated in California and at Harvard and became an editor of The Smart Set (1913–14), distinguishing himself as a sophisticated student of esoteric subjects. His writings, during this period in New York and a residence in... Read more |
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percussion instrument
percussion instrument any instrument that produces musical sound when its surface is struck with an implement (such as a mallet, stick, or disk) or with the hand. Perhaps the most universally familiar percussion instrument is the drum , common to the most primitive as well as the most... Read more |
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Alan Watts
Alan Wilson Watts Alan Wilson Watts (1915-1973) was a naturalized American author and lecturer who interpreted Zen to the West. His writings were particularly popular among the so-called "beat generation" of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Alan Wilson Watts was born in Chislehurst, England,... Read more |
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Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis The Brazilian novelist Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908), although only recently "discovered" outside Brazil, ranks among major world authors of the 19th century. His works are notable for their pessimistic view of human nature and their sophisticated... Read more |
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After Paul Left Corinth: the Influence of Secular Ethics and Social Change.
...Christian communities after Paul had left them. W...sources in his St. Paul's Corinth (1983...the City (1994) and Philo and Paul among the Sophists (1997). Building...reflects the secular, sophist ... |
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Roman Wives, Roman Widows: The Appearance of New Women and the Pauline...
...206). Deming concludes that Paul approves of marriage but prefers...books and articles that locate Paul's thought in its Greco-Roman context: Philo and Paul among the Sophists: Alexandrian and Corinthian Responses... |
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SECOND CORINTHIANS.(Review)(Brief Article)
...seems unnecessary to understand Paul's main concern which is to win...whether a fuller characterization of Paul's sophistic opponents, such...recently offered by Bruce Winter in Philo and Paul among the Sophists, might have ... |