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David Brown
Brown, David 1916–PERSONALBorn July 28, 1916, in New York, NY; son of Edward Fisher and Lillian (maiden name, Baren) Brown; married Liberty LeGacy, April 15, 1940 (divorced, 1951); married Wayne Clark, May 25, 1951 (divorced, 1957); married Helen Gurley (an author and editor), September 25, 1959;... Read more |
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legacy
legacy bequest by will of personal property , similar in many respects to a gift causa mortis. A legacy ordinarily is distinguished from a devise, which transfers real property by will. The person who receives a legacy is called a legatee. Legacies are of various types. A specific legacy... Read more |
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Electronic Data Systems Corp
Electronic Data Systems Corporation 5400 Legacy DrivePlano, Texas 75024-3199U.S.A.(800) 474-2323(972) 604-6000Fax: (972) 605-2643Web site: http://www.eds.com Public CompanyIncorporated : 1962Employees : 110,000Sales : $16.9 billion (1998)Stock Exchanges : New York LondonTicker Symbol :... Read more |
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J.C. Penney Company Inc
J.C. Penney Company, Inc. 6501 Legacy DrivePiano, Texas 75024-3698U.S.A.Telephone: (972) 431-1000Toll Free: (800) 953-9421Fax: (972) 431-1362Web sites:http://www.jcpenney.net ;http://www.jcpenney.com Public Company Incorporated: 1913Employees: 267,000Sales: $31.85 billion (2001)Stock... Read more |
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Cynthia Ozick
Cynthia Ozick 1928-, American writer, b. New York City, studied New York Univ. (B.A., 1949), Ohio State Univ. (M.A., 1950). Her fiction, written with high intelligence, elegant incisiveness, and sharp, frequently satiric wit, is mainly concerned with facets of Jewish life and thought including the... Read more |
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Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko , 1903-70, American painter, b. Russia. Rothko emigrated to the United States in 1913. He was a student of Max Weber , then came under the influence of the surrealists. In the mid-1940s Rothko experimented with abstraction, arranging intense colors in irregular shapes. Soon he became a... Read more |
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May Fourth Movement
May Fourth Movement (1919), first mass movement in modern Chinese history. On May 4, about 5,000 university students in Beijing protested the Versailles Conference (Apr. 28, 1919) awarding Japan the former German leasehold of Jiaozhou, Shandong prov. Demonstrations and strikes spread to Shanghai,... Read more |
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Howard Fast
Howard Fast 1914-2003, American author, b. New York City. A prolific writer, he is best known for historical novels that mainly concern rebellion against various forms of tyranny. They include Citizen Tom Payne (1943), Freedom Road (1944), My Glorious Brothers (1948), Spartacus (1951), and ... Read more |
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Edward Gorey
Edward Gorey 1925-2000, American illustrator and writer, b. Chicago, grad Harvard. He lived and worked in New York City and Cape Cod until 1986 when he moved permanently to the Cape. Gorey is celebrated for his more than 100 small volumes of gothic fables, meticulously hand-lettered and intricately... Read more |
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Phyllis Hyman
Phyllis Hyman 1949(?)–1995 Vocalist Formed Own Band Nominated for Sophisticated Ladies Confessed Loneliness and Unhappiness Selected discography Sources When Phyllis Hyman committed suicide in June of 1995, she closed the book on a career that had long been deeply appreciated by connoisseurs... Read more |
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Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
...feminist intellectual.Born in...public life as a socialist and feminist...relocating to New York City, Gilman played...made two major intellectual contributions to American...Gilman's legacy is conflicted...to American ... |
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Ralph Miliband: legacy of a visionary. (late socialist)
...creative and independent socialist intellectual ought to be. His...accompanied capitalism's new economic depression...The proofs for his new book, Socialism...at Brandeis, at York University in Toronto...Political Science at ... |
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India: the next China? Asia's fourth largest economy is throwing off its...
...off the lingering socialist legacy that has held back...the country's intellectual capital as a source...technologies and launch new products aimed for...could rest assured a new regime is now in...publicized speech in New ... |
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The Socialist Response to Antisemitism in Imperial Germany.(Book review)
The Socialist Response to...Fischer. (New York, N.Y...13). Socialists believed that...study of key socialist intellectuals, who are...and tropes socialists shared with...unresolved legacy ... |
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Socialist who loved Keats: the late Irving Howe ... was a beacon of a certain...
...American intellectual life. Undaunted...decline of socialist movements...Such a legacy may not produce...political New York intellectuals who were...the New York ... |
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W.S.F. Pickering and Massimo Rosati, eds., Suffering and Evil, The...
...Suffering and Evil, The Durkheimian Legacy. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books in...evil. Highlighting Durkheim's intellectual legacy, Robert Parkin brings Robert...the political (and primarily socialist) commitments that ... |
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The New York intellectuals: the rise and decline of the anti-Stalinist left...
The New York Intellectuals...WALD'S The New York Intellectuals: TheRise and...sturdiest political legacy of these former...formation of the New York ... |
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ON THE HOOK NEOCONSERVATIVES LOVE HIM. YOUNG RADICALS DO TOO. WHO WILL...
...Review and the New Leader, was...University of New York's Center for...to debate the legacy of one of the...figures of postwar intellectual life. With...warrior and a socialist, and an erudite...called New ... |
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CLR James: a political biography.
...University of New York Press 1996...writing for a new audience. Selected...CLR James: His Intellectual Legacies (1995) have...political and intellectual fields. As a...American Trotskyist Socialist Workers' ... |
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The socialist who loved Keats.(Irving How)
...certain kind of intellectual and moral...American intellectual life. Undaunted...decline of socialist movements...Such a legacy may not produce...political New York intellectuals who were...the ... |
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Farewell to the new Europe?(COMMENTARY)
...of the term "New Europe." With...S. press and intellectual elites. John...constitution on all its New European members...traditional and new-found friends...Contrast that with Socialist Jose Luis Rodriguez...Old Labor (a ... |
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