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Parricide Parricide
PARRICIDE "Murder of the father" is a reference to the murder of the legendary king of Thebes by Oedipus, the Greek hero in Sophocles' play Oedipus Tyrannus (King Oedipus). According to Freud, we were all, as young children, gripped by the "compulsion" embodied in the Greek legend: we were all,... Read more
Enrollment Act Enrollment Act
Enrollment Act (1863) (The Conscription Act) Daniel W. Hamilton The Union and the Confederacy armies instituted the first federal military draft in American history during the Civil War. In the wake of military losses and a shortage of soldiers, the Union resorted to a federal draft... Read more
eclecticism eclecticism
eclecticism , art style in which features are borrowed from various styles. It was once applied to the Carracci , who incorporated elements from the Renaissance and classical traditions. Among the most influential advocates of eclecticism were Sir Joshua Reynolds and John Ruskin .... Read more
Panthalassa Panthalassa
Panthalassa The name given to the vast oceanic area that surrounded Pangaea when that supercontinent was in existence. Tethys was a minor arm of this ocean. Once Pangaea began to split in the Triassic, the names of all the modern oceans are normally applied to the developing ocean basins even though... Read more
Malcolm IV Malcolm IV
Malcolm IV 1141-65, king of Scotland (1153-65), grandson and successor of David I . On his accession the young king was at once faced with a rebellion of the western Gaels, supported by the Norse, which he put down. Henry II of England insisted he give up his claim to Northumbria in 1157 in return... Read more
They Knew What They Wanted They Knew What They Wanted
They Knew What They Wanted (1924), a play by Sidney Howard. [Garrick Theatre, 192 perf.; Pulitzer Prize.] Tony ( Richard Bennett), an aging Italian winegrower in the California Napa Valley, proposes by letter to a San Francisco waitress, Amy ( Pauline Lord), who waited on him once. Fearing she... Read more
rare earths rare earths
rare earths in chemistry, oxides of the rare-earth metals . They were once thought to be elements themselves. They are widely distributed in the earth's crust and are fairly abundant, although they were once thought to be very scarce. Generally, the name of an earth is formed from the name of its... Read more
Caffe Cino Caffe Cino
Caffe Cino. In 1959 the coffeehouse on Cornelia Street in New York's Greenwich Village was turned by its owner Joe Cino into one of the earliest establishments offering avant‐garde theatricals. It flourished until Cino's suicide in 1967 and closed shortly thereafter. Lanford Wilson, ... Read more
skylight skylight
skylight, a glazed window frame, usually in pairs, set at an angle in the deck of a ship to maximize light and ventilation to a compartment below, and protected with brass rods. They were only seen on smaller vessels. Once very common in yachts, they were difficult to keep watertight and were... Read more
Colville Colville
Colville , indigenous people of North America whose language belongs to the Salishan branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock (see Native American languages ). Once one of the largest Salish tribes, they were reduced to a few hundred by 1872. They were placed on a reservation in NE... Read more

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