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Diaries
DIARIES DIARIES. Contemporary diaries and journals offer one of the most important sources of evidence for the social, economic, and cultural life of early modern Europe. An immense range of different types of serial memoranda were produced at a time when the personal memoir had not yet... Read more |
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Ned Rorem
Ned Rorem 1923-, American composer and author, b. Richmond, Ind. He is basically romantic in approach, determinedly tonal, and often lyrical. Although he has written a wide range of compositions, including chamber and choral music, symphonies, and tone poems, Rorem is best known for his vocal... Read more |
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diary
diary [Lat.,=day], a daily record of events and observations. As distinguished from memoir (an account of events placed in perspective by the author long after they have occurred), the diary derives its impact from its immediacy, requiring each generation of readers to supply its own perspective.... Read more |
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Arthur Christopher Benson
Arthur Christopher Benson 1862-1925, English author; eldest son of Archbishop Benson . He was master at Eton (1885-1903) and at Magdalene College, Cambridge (1915-25). His works include poetry; novels; essays, notably From a College Window (1902); critical studies; and biographies of his father... Read more |
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Nelson Algren
Nelson Algren , 1909-81, American novelist, b. Detroit. He grew up in Chicago, and much of his fiction is set in the slums. His novels, such as Never Come Morning (1942), The Man with the Golden Arm (1949), and A Walk on the Wild Side (1956), are brutally realistic. In a lighter vein are the... Read more |
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J M Coetzee
J. M. Coetzee (John Maxwell Coetzee) , 1940-, South African novelist, b. John Michael Coetzee. Educated at the Univ. of Cape Town (M.A. 1963) and the Univ. of Texas (Ph.D. 1969), he taught in the United States and returned home (1983) to become a professor of English literature at Cape Town. He... Read more |
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Anna Brownell (Murphy) Jameson
Anna Brownell (Murphy) Jameson , 1794-1860, English essayist, b. Dublin. The diary of her travels on the Continent as governess to a wealthy family was later published as The Diary of an Ennuyée (1826). Jameson's works—especially Shakespeare's Heroines (1932)—were popular in... Read more |
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Hitler
Hitler derogatory term for an overbearing and officious person, held to resemble the Nazi leader and German Führer Adolf Hitler (1889–1945).Hitler diaries in April 1983, it was announced that diaries written by Adolf Hitler had been discovered. Initially accepted as genuine (extracts... Read more |
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Nathaniel Ames
Nathaniel Ames 1708-64, American almanac maker, b. Bridgewater, Mass. His Astronomical Diary and Almanack, begun in 1725 and issued annually after c.1732 from Dedham, Mass., was highly popular and served as a model for Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack and later almanacs. It had a circulation... Read more |
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Anne Frank
Anne Frank 1929-45, German diarist, b. Frankfurt as Anneliese Marie Frank. In order to escape Nazi persecution, her family emigrated (1933) to Amsterdam, where her father Otto became a business owner. After the Nazis occupied the Netherlands, her family (along with several other Jews) hid for just... Read more |
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University presidents sound off in Internet diaries
...really important in setting the moral tone for the university...labeled as presidential diary entries, it is actually a section of essays, and they read like...way when using the diary entries as a way...with a less formal ... |
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THE SECRET OF GREAT LEADERSHIP; (1)SATURDAY ESSAY(2)HAS BLAIR GOT WHAT IT...
...newly elected MPs, taking the first big decision or setting the tone of his rule (`The people are the masters. We are the...Please make up my mind for me, because I can't.' My diary records: `I longed to shout out at him - for God... |
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Beautiful Lamptown: The Writings of Dawn Powell.(Critical essay)
...uninterested in literature as such. Sometimes, in her diaries, Powell seems to complain too much of her neglect...sometimes manifesting themselves in similarities of tone and setting rather than recurring characters, and are never so... |
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The top five Randy Rhoads riffs of all time.(LICK LIBRARY)(Critical Essay)
...Blizzard of Ozz (1980) and Diary of a Madman (1981...5 "Believe" from Diary of a Madman (0:31...ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 4 "Diary of a Madman" from Diary...appropriately ominous tone for what one could describe...when applied in a rock ... |
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New in Paperback
...a surprising change of setting and tone: A governess, newly come...in the 1840s, keeps a diary in which she slowly begins...outgrowth of the issue-length essay and a follow-up piece...other than antisemitic in tone and substance." Second... |
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Expert's Picks: Photography
...has assembled in his diaries. Beard's imaginings...even with the insightful essays, it is impossible to...critical element here. Setting the tone for the volume, a poem...swallowed by their setting. As this book shows... |
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A naturalist in the metropolis
...her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast...from his marvellous 1949 essay Here is New York, which...novelistic in its scene-setting, and restrained, even deferential in tone. White emerges as a...children, The Bad Karma ... |
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Singers capture mood of Argento's `Chekhov' at Ordway premiere.(NEWS)(Review)
...falls into the latter category, setting to music the words from diaries and letters, letting music speak...is drawn from Knipper's 1924 essay, "A Few Words About Chekhov...part and at the end a gradual tone of consolation, both dramatic... |
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An Irishwoman's Diary
...It sounds like one of those nowhere settings favoured by Peter Carey. Stuart's parents...person and in the past tense, it is an essay in chaos. There is a ragged candour in...prose, but Stuart captures the emotional tone and emotional chaos of an inner voice... |
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Dangerous spending habits: the epistemology of Edna Pontellier's extravagant...
IN AN INTROSPECTIVE DIARY ENTRY OF 1884, the widowed and motherless...intellectual growth. (3) Since the setting of The Awakening is South Louisiana and...more importantly, understanding why the tone of this novel has more ontological urgency... |
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