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George William Curtis
George William Curtis American writer, orator, and, especially, civil service reformer, George William Curtis (1824-1892) was a patrician whose ideals and causes are blurred in historical retrospect by a personal elitism that bordered on priggishness and was out of step even in his own time.... Read more |
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Incompleteness
INCOMPLETENESS In psychoanalysis, the state of "incompleteness" does not connote an imperfect or unfinished state, but rather implies openness and retrospective reexamination. The notion of incompleteness in the work of Sigmund Freud presupposes two possibles and one constraint: the... Read more |
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Paul Kelly
Paul Kelly Singer, songwriter For the Record… Selected discography Sources Australian singer-songwriter Paul Kelly is a star in his own country; in 1997 his retrospective album Songs from the South: Paul Kelly Read more |
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William Bayle Bernard
Bernard, William Bayle (1807–75), dramatist who helped popularize the stage type of the eccentric rural American. Among the 100 successful plays that he wrote were The Dumb Belle (1831); The Kentuckian; or, A Trip to New York (1833), a revision of Paulding's Lion of the West; His Last Legs... Read more |
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Rocky Mountain School
Rocky Mountain School. Term applied retrospectively to 19th-century American artists who painted large pictures of the Rocky Mountains in a reverential spirit similar to that adopted by the Hudson River School. The German-born Albert Bierstadt and the English-born Thomas Moran (1837–1926)... Read more |
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Henry Luttrell
Luttrell, Henry (c.1655–1717), initially a leading supporter, with his brother Simon, of Sarsfield and the Jacobite militants in the Williamite War, but arrested after Aughrim for corresponding secretly with the enemy. Following the treaty of Limerick, he brought his regiment into the... Read more |
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Elie Nadelman
Elie Nadelman , 1882-1946, Polish-American sculptor, b. Warsaw. He spent some time in Paris and is said to have influenced Picasso. Before he settled (1914) in the United States his work was exhibited in New York City at the Armory Show in 1913. His gracefully rounded sculptures, most often in... Read more |
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Apprentice Boys
Apprentice Boys, a Protestant political society, named after the thirteen apprentices who on 7 December 1688 shut the gates of Derry against Catholic troops under Lord Antrim. Their motive was fear of an impending massacre of Protestants, aroused by the recent circulation of an inflammatory... Read more |
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Gesamtkunstwerk
Gesamtkunstwerk (German: ‘total work of art’). A term used to describe the cooperation of several arts in a single expressive aim. The term was coined by the composer Richard Wagner in his book Das Kunstwerk der Zukunft (The Artwork of the Future, 1849), although the idea of uniting... Read more |
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Retroactive
RETROACTIVE Having reference to things that happened in the past, prior to the occurrence of the act in question. A retroactive or retrospective law is one that takes away or impairs vested rights acquired under existing laws, creates new obligations, imposes new duties, or attaches a new and... Read more |
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