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Diana Baumrind
Baumrind, Diana 1927- RESEARCH ETHICS PARENTING STYLES BIBLIOGRAPHY Diana Baumrind’s seminal work on research ethics and parenting styles has shaped research and practice since the 1960s. Baumrind earned her... Read more |
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Harry Mathews
Mathews, Harry (1930– ),New York City‐born author, long expatriated in France, whose esoteric, experimental works include short novels concerned with curiously convoluted quests. The Conversions (1962) presents a person who can inherit a huge fortune if able to answer three recondite... Read more |
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Boyz II Men
Boyz II Men Rhythm and blues group Four Nerds from Philly Classy Dress Matched Vocal Stylings Aspired to Achieve Long-Lasting Fame Selected discography Sources Boyz II Men, a Philadelphia-based rhythm and blues quartet, have literally gone from singing together in a bathroom to... Read more |
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Shakuntala
Shakuntala Shakuntala is the heroine of a great love story told in the Hindu epicthe Mahabharata.She was the daughter of a wise man named Vishvamitra and the nymphMenaka, who abandoned her in the forest as an infant. A hermit who lived in the woods found the... Read more |
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Sophia Loren
Sophia Loren , 1934-, Italian film actress, b. as Sophia Scicoloni. She grew up in the slums of Naples. With the help of Italian producer Carlo Ponti (later her husband) she gained international fame as a beautiful and accomplished film actress in both tragic dramas and boisterous comedies. She won... Read more |
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Moscow Art Theater
Moscow Art Theater Russian repertory company founded in 1897 by Constantin Stanislavsky and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko . Its work created new concepts of theatrical production and marked the beginning of modern theater. Rebelling against the highly stylized theater of the 19th cent., the... Read more |
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E.L. Doctorow
Edgar Laurence Doctorow E.L. Doctorow (born 1931) is widely regarded as one of America's pre-eminent novelists of the 20th Century. His work is philosophically probing, employing an adventurous prose style, and the use of historical and quasi-historical figures, situations, and settings.... Read more |
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Grace Paley
Grace Paley The American writer Grace Paley (born 1922) is best known for her three collections of short stories, The Little Disturbances of Man (1959), Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (1974), and Later the Same Day (1985). As long as she has been a writer, Paley has also been an activist,... Read more |
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Driver's tall tale casts a Potter spell on tourists
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Broadway Joe The mad, magical life of an athlete who battled booze and bad knees
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WALTER CRONKITE DOCUMENTARY WORTHY TRIP DOWN MEMORY...
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