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Hiss Case
HISS CASE HISS CASE. The Hiss case, which spanned the years from 1948 through 1950, helped pave the way for McCarthyism and, in particular, the Cold War search for communists thought to have infiltrated the State Department during the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman.... Read more |
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Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan , 1909-2003, American stage and film director, producer, writer, actor, b. Turkey, as Elia Kazanjoglous. Immigrating with his Greek family to the United States in 1913, Kazan studied at Williams College and the Yale Drama School before beginning his acting career with the New York Group... Read more |
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Granville Hicks
Granville Hicks 1901-82, American writer, b. Exeter, N.H. A member of the Communist party, he edited The New Masses and wrote a pioneering Marxist interpretation of American literature, The Great Tradition (1933). In 1939 he resigned from the party and in the 1950s was a cooperative witness... 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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House Un-American Activities Committee
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), a committee (1938-75) of the U.S. House of Representatives, created to investigate disloyalty and subversive organizations. Its first chairman, Martin Dies , set the pattern for its anti-Communist investigations. The committee's methods included... Read more |
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Lillian Hellman
Lillian Hellman 1905-84, American dramatist, b. New Orleans. Her plays, although often melodramatic, are marked by intelligence and craftsmanship. The Children's Hour (1934), her first drama, concerns the devastating effects of a child's malicious charge of lesbianism against two of her teachers.... Read more |
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J.D. Salinger
J. D. S ALINGER Born: January 1, 1919 New York, New York American writer J. D. Salinger, best known for his controversial novel The Catcher in the Rye(1951), is recognized by critics and readers alike as one of the most popular and influential authors... Read more |
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Irene Sharaff
SHARAFF, Irene Costume Designer. Nationality:American. Born:Boston, Massachusetts, 1910. Education:Attended the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts, Art Students League, New York, and La Grande Chaumiere, Paris. Career:1928–30—assistant designer to... Read more |
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Walter Francis Kerr
Walter Francis Kerr 1913-96, American drama critic, b. Evanston, Ill. He wrote for the theater in the 1930s, and became drama critic for the New York Herald Tribune in 1951 and for the New York Times in 1966. His books include How Not to Write a Play (1955), The Decline of Pleasure (1962), ... Read more |
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Marcel Lajos Breuer
Marcel Lajos Breuer , 1902-81, American architect and furniture designer, b. Hungary. During the 1920s he was associated, both as student and as teacher, with the Bauhaus in Germany. In 1925, Breuer won renown with his design of the first tubular steel and laminated plywood chair. He built only... Read more |
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44 Liquormart v. Rhode Island (1996)
...police powers of the state, since, among other things, it would likely result in fewer drunk drivers on the road. In many ways, however, the economic analysis presented by Rhode Island was inconclusive. Lawyers for the liquor sellers took a different... |
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Abercromby, Sir Ralph
...government forces. He was also attacked for his cautions approach to the disarming of the United Irish movement in Leinster and resigned in March, opening the way for the unrestrained military repression that preceded the insurrection of 1798. |
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abox
...required to wear or to stay the vessel. But to brace abox was to brace the head-yards flat aback to the wind, not square to the mast, in order to ensure that the wind acted on the sails so that the bows of the ship cast the required way. |
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Abstract Expressionism
...Abstract Expressionism as evidence of American cultural superiority and heroic individualism. Later cultural historians explored the ways it illuminated the interconnections of Cold War art and politics. Although succeeded by other art styles such as Pop and Minimalism... |
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Actor
...with its all-important chorus. In Rome, where tragedy gave way before low comedy and farce, they were less highly regarded...Irving.Fashions in acting change constantly, one method giving way to another, one convention replacing an earlier one. In Greece... |
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addiction
...induced depression or continued drinking despite recognition that an ulcer was made worse by alcohol consumption).This new way of thinking about drug-dependence is significantly different from much of the earlier work in this field. It means that neither... |
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Advertising
...and design, and being compensated through a discount for the space they purchased from publishers. Freelance copywriters gave way to a new generation of agency employees. In the early 1900s, agencies increasingly boasted of their broad competence as sales... |
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Agee, James
...including Stephen Crane's The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky and The Blue Hotel. A Death in the Family was dramatized as All the Way Home (1960) by Tad Mosel and won a Pulitzer Prize. Agee's letters to his old schoolteacher and friendly mentor from his... |
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ageing
...in culture outside the body) and normal cells grown in this way have finite replicative life spans. The cell type most commonly...cellsin vivo Within the living body, cells age in very different ways, associated with the proliferative status of the tissues in... |
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Agricola, Gnaeus Iulius
...camps’, temporary campaign fortifications. In the intervals from fighting he is shown governing wisely and promoting Roman ways amongst the Britons. But our view of Agricola has been over-influenced by Tacitus' laudatory biography, portraying him as... |
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Part 3 Forestry and natural resources management.(Part 2: E-M)(Definition)
...upon the existing conditions of associated species. Ecological Factor (Limiting Factor)--Any part or condition of the habitat affecting directly or indirectly the life of one more organisms in such a way as to differentiate it from other v |
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Abd al-Krim
...imprisoned, and sent to detention on the island of La Réunion until 1947, when he was allowed to return to France. On the way he escaped to Cairo, where he set up the Maghreb Bureau or Liberation Committee of the Arab West. After Moroccan independence... |
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about
...about, rout, scout, shout, snout, spout, sprout, stout, thereabout, thereout, throughout, timeout, tout, trout, way-out, without •layout, payout •buyout • blowout • layabout •gadabout • roundabout • knockabout •walkabout... |
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absolute music
absolute music. Instr. mus. which exists simply as such, i.e. not ‘programme music’, or in any way illustrative. |
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absolute path
...paths are usually frowned on by professional WEB DESIGNERS since, if it is necessary to move pages which are specified in this way, the Web pages in which they are referenced need to be modified. Because of this, most professional Web pages contain RELATIVE... |
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absolute pollen frequency
...rates are known, per unit time. In certain circumstances this approach gives clearer information than does the traditional way of expressing pollen data as relative pollen frequencies (RPF). APFs are particularly useful in site comparisons in which... |
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abstract machine
abstract machine A machine can be thought of as a collection of resources together with a definition of the ways in which these resources can interact. For a real machine these resources actually exist as tangible objects, each of the type... |
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academic
...excelling at scholarly pursuits and activities. ∎ (of an art form) conventional, esp. in an idealized or excessively formal way. 2. not of practical relevance; of only theoretical interest: the debate has been largely academic. • n. a teacher or scholar... |
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accord
...the rebels are in accord on one point. PHRASES: in accord with according to. of its own accord without outside intervention: the rash may go away of its own accord. of one's own accord voluntarily. with one accord in a united way. |
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accordingly
ac·cord·ing·ly / əˈkôrdinglē/ • adv. 1. in a way that is appropriate to the particular circumstances: we'll read the plans and act accordingly. 2. consequently; therefore. |
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adaptable
adaptable • adjective 1. an adaptable design | an adaptable way of lifesynonyms: adjustable, convertible, alterable, modifiable, variable, versatile. 2. you must try to be adaptablesynonyms... |
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alike
alike • adverb think alikesynonyms: similarly, the same, just the same, in the same way, identically, in like manner. |
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allow
...driving synonyms: set aside, allocate, allot, earmark, designate, assign, leave. 3. she allowed that all people had their funny little ways synonyms: admit, acknowledge, recognize, agree, accept, concede, grant.antonym: deny. |
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anger
...synonyms: infuriate, irritate, exasperate, irk, vex, peeve, madden, put out; enrage, incense, annoy; rub the wrong way; informal make someone's blood boil, get someone's back up, make someone see red, get someone's dander up, rattle someone... |
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annoy
...annoyed hersynonyms: irritate, exasperate, vex, ruffle, rile, irk, provoke, displease, anger, madden, rub one the wrong way, get on one's nerves; inf. get to, bug. 2. don't annoy her when she's readingsynonyms: bother, disturb, pester... |
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anyhow
anyhow • adverb 1. go anyhow you likesynonyms: in any way, anyway, in any manner, by any means. 2. anyhow, you must gosynonyms: in any case, in any event, no matter what. 3. lying around anyhowsynonyms: haphazardly, carelessly, heedlessly, negligently. |
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approve
...AWKWARD SYNONYMS approve, certify, commend, endorse, ratify, sanction There are a number of ways to show your support for something. The most general way is to approve it, a term that covers everything from simple, technical agreement (to approve... |
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apropos
apropos • adverb 1. talked apropossynonyms: appropriately, pertinently. 2. apropos, we're not goingsynonyms: by the way, incidently. |
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as
...saysynonyms: in the manner that, in the way that. 5. they live as their ancestors...in the same manner that, in the same way that; inf. like. 6. the well-paid...to speak, in a manner of speaking, in a way.as yet synonyms: until now, up to... |
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ascetic
ascetic • adjective an ascetic way of lifesynonyms: self-denying, abstinent, abstemious, self-disciplined, austere, frugal, rigorous, strict, moderate, temperate, celibate, spartan, puritanical. |
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Toronto, Ontario
...KLEINBURG, LANGSTAFF, Lake Ontario, MALTON, MAPLE, MARKHAM, MEADOWVALE, MISSISSAUGA, NORTH YORK, OAKVILLE, QUEEN ELIZABETH WAY, REXDALE, RICHMOND HILL, SCARBOROUGH, THORNHILL, TULLAMORE, Toronto Islands, WILDFIELD, WOODBRIDGE, YORK PreviousNextCopyright... |
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Washington
...Selah, Ellensburg, Wenatchee, Ephrata, Chelan, Moses Lake, Othello, Longview, Kelso, Aberdeen, Hoquiam, Federal Way, Kirkland, Edmonds, Forks, Sequim, Omak, Shelton, Raymond, Quincy, Prosser, Camas, Sedro, Woolley, Seattle, Tacoma... |
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Tucson, Arizona
...GeoNova City Maps 08-01-2007 Table of Contents PreviousNextTucson, Arizona Key Words: Map of Tucson, Arizona, ALVERNON WAY, AVRA VALLEY RD, BROADWAY BL, CATALINA HWY, CORTARO, Coronado National Forest, GOLF LINKS RD, HOUGHTON RD, INA RD, LA... |
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Take Your Facebook Page to the Next Level with F-Commerce
...Delta, Land's End, and 1-800 Flowers already accept credit card info on their Facebook pages. There are a couple different ways to set up a storefront on Facebook. A brand can use iframes [Web coding that lets users display content] or a Facebook app... |
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Jumping Droplets Make a Heat Trap
...N.C., said they've developed a new way of producing thermal diodes that regulate...dependent on gravity or restricted to a one-way direction, said Chuan-Hua Chen, Duke...engineers believe they have figured out a way to overcome these limitations through use... |
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The Hard Work of Law Making
...government that is able to change a regulation or other law on a whim? There would be no stability whatsoever. So, in many ways the inertia that Congress has is a good thing. However, recently, there is the general feeling that partisanship has trumped... |
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Eighteenth-Century Literary Culture and the Experience of History
...powerful in history and eighteenth-century studies. It is in this way that Mack stakes her claim in the debate between fiction and...the lens of modern manners. The combination of such different ways of experiencing the world in a single text or character, Mack... |
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The representation of ontological category concepts as affected by healthy...
...such category deficits may arise (e.g., according to selective damage to certain types of features, or differences in the way these categories are represented, etc.) would be seriously confounded by the experimental stimuli. For example, in the real... |
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Finding a picture's station point: Reconstructing virtual space when the...
...point, must first be found, and the usual way to find this point requires that the picture...pictorial situations for which the usual ways will not work. The approach has uses in...Alberti, 1435/1991, pp. 56-58) was a way of projectively drafting into the picture... |
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SPSS and SAS programs for generalizability theory analyses
...items, or observers). There is also no way of combining the numerous possible reliability...an overall estimate of reliability, no way of determining the relative importance of the various sources of error, and no way of assessing possible interactions between... |
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