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weaver bird
weaver bird name for the Ploceidae, a family of Old World seed-eating birds closely resembling finches (hence the alternate name weaver finch). It includes a number of so-called goldfinches and waxbill finches that are actually weaver birds, rather than true finches of the family Fringillidae. The... Read more |
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Thomas Deloney
Thomas Deloney , c.1543-c.1600, English ballad writer, fiction writer, and pamphleteer. He was a silk weaver. Deloney's chief works are three prose narratives— Jack of Newbury, Thomas of Reading, and The Gentle Craft (all c.1597)—relating to the clothier's, weaver's, and shoemaker's... Read more |
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James Baird Weaver
James Baird Weaver 1833-1912, American political leader, b. Dayton, Ohio. Reared in frontier areas of Michigan and Iowa, he practiced law in Iowa. He served in the Union army in the Civil War and rose from the rank of private to that of brevet brigadier general. He held several offices in Iowa... Read more |
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Hjalmar Bergman
Bergman, Hjalmar Frederik (1883–1931), Swedish dramatist and novelist, one of the most influential in the Swedish theatre after the death of Strindberg, who, with Maeterlinck and Ibsen, had a great influence on Bergman's early work. He first came into prominence with two one-act... Read more |
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damask
damask [from Damascus ], fabric of silk, wool, linen, cotton, or man-made fibers, with a pattern formed by the weaving; e.g., the ground may be in twill weave, and the contrasting design in satin. True damasks are flat and reversible, thus differing from brocades. Splendid patterns, silks, and... Read more |
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Robert Clifton Weaver
Robert Clifton Weaver 1907-, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (1966-68), b. Washington, D.C. He was successively adviser to the Secretary of the Interior (1933-37), special assistant with the Housing Authority (1937-40), and an administrative assistant with the National Defense... Read more |
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Louvain
Louvain , Du. Leuven, city (1991 pop. 85,018), Flemish Brabant prov., central Belgium, on the Dijle River. It is a commercial, industrial, and cultural center, as well as a rail junction. Mentioned in the 9th cent., Louvain was a center of the wool trade and of the cloth industry in the Middle... Read more |
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Samuel Bamford
Samuel Bamford 1788-1872, English weaver, poet, and social reformer. Always sympathetic toward the working class, he was jailed in 1819 for his part in the Peterloo massacre. His dialect verses were popular among the Lancashire workers. Besides his poetry, Bamford is noted for Passages in the Life... Read more |
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John Dollond
John Dollond , 1706-61, English optician and inventor. A silk weaver, he taught himself languages, mathematics, and science, becoming a noted scholar as well as a scientist. He invented the achromatic lens, which led to the construction of telescopes free of color fringes, and the heliometer, used... Read more |
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Northwich
Northwich , town (1991 pop. 32,664), Cheshire, W central England, at the confluence of the Weaver and Dane rivers. Northwich was once the center of England's salt production; however, the manufacture of chemicals has become its leading occupation. It was the site of a Roman station. The rock-salt... Read more |
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Rediscovering the heroic conservatism of Richard M. Weaver [Part two].
IN 1953, when Richard M. Weaver published The Ethics of...The standard reading of Weaver has understood him, both...a singular and unitary vision of human nature, which...of Weaver's writing, Richard Johannesen, Rennard ... |
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The Unregenerate South: The Agrarian Thought of John Crowe Ransom, Allen...
...faithful disciples," Richard M. Weaver and M. E. Bradford...Davidson's mystical vision of the South. The opposing...an equally dubious vision of the southern tradition...Tate, and Davidson's vision of the traditional agrarian... |
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The TV Set.(Movie review)
...Duchovny Lenny Sigourney Weaver Richard McAllister Ioan Gruffudd...prexy Lenny (Sigourney Weaver), whose concept of...primetime programming Richard McAllister (Welshman...Fantastic Four") that his vision will remain, production... |
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Art; The Renwick's Greatest Hits; Celebrating 20 Years of American Crafts
...clay, and transformed it into a vessel to hold a vision. Richard Mawdsley set a miniature banquet table with his sterling...was influenced by her work for some years with Mexican weavers. The variety of clay objects in the exhibition is immense... |
 "The Washington Times (Washington, DC)")
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A conservative's enduring legacy.(BOOKS)
...centenary of this man, Richard M. Weaver Jr. (1910-1963...Ashville, N.C., Weaver rose from humble beginnings...nature of things.'.. Richard Weaver was eloquent in...posthumously published Visions of Order: The Cultural... |
 "The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)")
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ART'S SALE FOR ART'S SAKE; AUBURN'S ART WENZEL WORKS TO OVERCOME DEBT,...
...and has since suffered vision loss. "I've humbled...But a haze clouds his vision and he has trouble distinguishing...the early 1980s was for Richard Weaver, one of the first people...receive a donated heart. Weaver died in November. ... |
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Economic Behavior: An Inherent Problem With Utilitarianism
...founded upon a naturalist vision of the cosmos and the...foundations for this vision can be refuted. Economists...this line of reasoning. Richard Weaver has captured this progression...concept of transcendence (Weaver, 1948). In his book... |
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Happy holidays: creating common ground in the "War on Christmas".(Report)
...economic interests, and visions of a better society...conservative ideals of Richard Weaver (1948) who lamented...fluidity of language that Weaver distrusted was an intrinsic...position aligns more with Weaver and Berger and Luckmann... |
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Sunshine and the 21st century
As Richard Weaver remarked in Ideas Have Consequences...all eyes seem focused on visions of the future, either predictions...twentieth century who, as Weaver suggested, had lost the...of beliefs or another." Weaver's image of the hunted... |
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Freedom and Virtue: The Conservative/Libertarian Debate
...power to enforce their vision of virtue is dangerous...supposed conservatives as Richard Weaver and L. Brent Bozell...path to disaster." Weaver, on the other hand...own being." In this, Weaver finds himself embracing... |
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