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Without Prejudice
WITHOUT PREJUDICE Without any loss or waiver of rights or privileges. When a lawsuit is dismissed, the court may enter a judgment against the plaintiff with or without prejudice. When a lawsuit is dismissed without prejudice, it signifies that none of the rights or privileges of the individual... Read more |
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prejudice
prejudice unsubstantiated prejudgment of an individual or group, favorable or unfavorable in character, tending to action in a consonant direction. The hostility that prejudice can engender and the discrimination to which it may lead on the part of a dominant population toward an ethnic group,... Read more |
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Christopher Fry
Christopher Fry 1907-2005, English dramatist, b. Bristol as Christopher Fry Harris. Like his friend and mentor, T. S. Eliot , he was one of the few 20th-century dramatists to write successfully in verse. Fry's first major success was The Lady's Not for Burning (1949), a wry comedy set in the... Read more |
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Gordon W Allport
Gordon W. Allport , 1897-1967, American psychologist, b. Montezuma, Ind. One of the first psychologists to study personality , Allport researched human attitudes, prejudices, and religious beliefs. His theory of personality, which rejected both Freudian psychology and behaviorism, emphasized the... Read more |
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All Gods Chillun Got Wings
All God's Chillun Got Wings (1924), a play in two acts by Eugene O'Neill. [Provincetown Playhouse, 43 perf.] Although the black Jim Harris ( Paul Robeson) and the white Ella Downey ( Mary Blair) have known each other since childhood, Ella drifts away from their relationship as her awareness of... Read more |
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John of Ephesus
John of Ephesus , c.505-c.585, Syrian Monophysite historian, bishop of Ephesus. He became a leader of the Monophysites (see Monophysitism ), and Byzantine Emperor Justinian, whose favor he enjoyed, set him over the Monophysite community in Constantinople. John suffered greatly in the persecution of... Read more |
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Hans-Georg Gadamer
Hans-Georg Gadamer , 1900-2002, German philosopher, b. Marburg. He taught at Kiel (1934-37), Marburg (1937-39), Leipzig (1939-74), and Frankfurt (1947-49) before becoming a professor at the Univ. of Heidelberg (1949-68). Influenced by his teacher Martin Heidegger , he made a major contribution to ... Read more |
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John Grier Hibben
John Grier Hibben , 1861-1933, American educator, b. Peoria, Ill., grad. Princeton (B.A. 1882; Ph.D., 1893) and studied at the Univ. of Berlin and Princeton Theological Seminary. He was minister of the Presbyterian Church at Chambersburg, Pa., from 1887 to 1891. He taught logic at Princeton from... Read more |
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Inheritance
Inheritance CONTROVERSIES AND CRITICAL ISSUES POLICY IMPLICATIONS BIBLIOGRAPHY Pride and Prejudice opens with the proclamation that it is well known that a man with a fortune is in want of a wife (Austen 1991, p. 1). This satirical remark conveys a theme that is illuminated elsewhere in the... Read more |
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Segregation
SegregationSocial structural factorsPatterns of racial and ethnic segregationIdeological bases of segregationSegregation and prejudiceBIBLIOGRAPHYSegregation is an institutionalized form of social distance expressed in physical separation. It signifies a convergence of physical and social space and... Read more |
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The paradoxical poet
...notably successful against lawyer Anthony Julius's TS Eliot, Anti-Semitism and Literary Form (1996), but less so against crisp, stylish Christopher Ricks's TS Eliot and Prejudice (1986), perhaps because Ricks's precise and feline... |
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What is his secret?
...the TS Eliot affair broke out. Julius's book, TS Eliot, anti-Semitism and literary form was published in...editors. Had not Christopher Ricks already done it in TS Eliot and Prejudice? Both books examined ... |
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Books in brief
...as "that fascist". This seems hard on a writer of real talent who was a good deal more up-front in his prejudices than TS Eliot, less dementedly right-wing than Ezra Pound, and less lunatic in his mystification of masculinity than DH... |
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How unpleasant to meet Mr. Eliot.(T.S. Eliot)(Minority Report)(Column)
...took public stands against prejudice. W.H. Auden issued...is "free-thinking." Eliot's objection was not to...of amendment.) But are Eliot's poetry and prose hopelessly...Anthony Julius, titled TS. Eliot, Anti-Semitism and Literary... |
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Nice rapping
...the writers develop a line of argument, and on the whole are good at doing what TS Eliot said the responsible critic should, disciplining their `personal prejudices and cranks ... in the common pursuit of true judgment'. One is nevertheless... |
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The ignorance that leads to prejudice on Europe
...very good sense. It says something about our sense of where we belong. In his Notes towards a Definition of Culture, TS Eliot made the point that we live within a number of concentric circles, to all of which we bear some loyalty, by all of which... |
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Lecture discusses connection between literature, life.
...reflect the tendencies and aspirations of his age. TS Eliot is a modern poet whose poetry expresses the boredom...Society in a fantastic manner (Emma and Pride and Prejudice etc). George Eliot was a psychological novelist. Hardy has given a... |
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A Week in Books ; ARTS & BOOKS REVIEW
...his admiration, is no Eliot idolater. Yet then there...Semitism directed at Eliot over the decades but...Julius in his 1995 book TS Eliot: Anti-Semitism and...and their (alleged) prejudices indicates that racism... |
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Emanuel Litvinoff
...Europe. Although a huge admirer of TS Eliot, Litvinoff had been dismayed by...Litvinoff wrote a response, "To TS Eliot", which he read in front of Eliot...experienced his first "serious" prejudice. From the first roll call, ... |
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Edinburgh Festival 97 / The Cocktail Party King's Theatre
...Company. By any standards, TS Eliot's 1949 verse drama...in BBCtv's Pride and Prejudice) brings an uncustomary...one who copes best with Eliot's verse, effortlessly...staging: it sidelines Eliot's off- putting metaphysics... |
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