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[Along] comes Orson Welles, with his finest sherry-selling voice, and he messes about arrogantly with the medium and one somehow doesn't mind. This is partly, of course, because he has taken fake, deception, fraud or what you will as his br...
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The English philosopher Francis Herbert Bradley (1846-1924) based his thought on the principles of absolute idealism. He rigorously criticized all philosophies based on the "school of experience." Born in Clapham on Jan. 30, 1846, F. H. Br...
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Flora Macdonald Mayor has been compared as a novelist to Jane Austen because of her provincial settings and the uneventful lives of her characters but chiefly because of the obvious influence of Austen on her language and invention. Their ...
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Beginning his career as a book illustrator in 1843, F. O. C. Darley was the most prolific and successful illustrator of his generation. From the time of his earliest work until his death the words "illustrated by Darley" on the title page ...
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F. R. Leavis is widely considered the most important literary critic of the twentieth century. He is identified with the consolidation of English as a university subject and with the production of an influential map of the English literary...
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The poet, political activist, and constitutional theorist Francis Reginald Scott (1899-1985) was a catalyst in the struggle for Canadian political, legal, and literary independence; for human rights and fundamental freedoms in Canada; and ...
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Although the author of only a small body of poems, F. S. Flint had a major impact on modern poetry. In the decade from 1909 to 1919, Flint was the leading popularizer of French poets, poetic forms, and critical theories in British journals...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald was a writer very much of his own time. As Malcolm Cowley once put it, he lived in a room full of clocks and calendars. The years ticked away while he noted the songs, the shows, the books, the quarterbacks. His own car...
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On reading Soldiers Bathing, E. M. Forster claimed it was one of the three most outstanding books to have appeared in England in 1954. In general, however, knowledge of the work of F.T. Prince has been confined to other poets, the best of ...
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American inventor whose work with W.H. Eccles led to the invention of the first "flip-flop" circuit in 1919. Flip-flop circuits are electrical circuits that can have one of two "states," such as energized (or on...
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The scholarship already accumulated on the subject of F. O. Matthiessen may be larger than that on any other American scholar born in the twentieth century. As the collective reminiscences published in the Monthly Review shortly after his ...
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The term filial responsibility denotes the "responsibility for parents exercised by children. The term emphasizes duty rather than satisfaction and is usually connected with protection, care, or financial support" (Schorr, 19...
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In 1939 Great Britain was in desperate need of a fighter that had the ability to escort bombers deep into enemy territory. In response to this need, North American Aviation developed what would become known as the P-51 Mustang. Betw...
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Last week, Mr. Dino had assigned us students to read the Newsweek magazine, and hand in homework about some articles he had pointed out. Leafing through it, I found this picture which impacted my eyes: four Chinese guys, all singers, were ...
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(1316–1374?), founder of the Lan Xang kingdom of Cambodia. Fa Ngoum or Fa Ngum was born in Muang Sawa, a Lao principality located on the site of present-day Luang Prabang, and founded the Lan Xang Hom Khao (better known as Lan Xang)...
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The Fabaceae family, known as legumes, are one of the most important plant families in both ecological and economic terms. Legumes help increase soil nitrogen and provide rich sources of vegetable protein for humans, livestock, and wild an...
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Perhaps the quintessential teen idol of the 1950s, Fabian was only fourteen when he was plucked from obscurity and thrust into the idol-making machinery by Philadelphia record producer-promoter Bob Marcucci. Though he had failed his high s...
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1778-1852 Estonian explorer who made a number of discoveries in the Pacific Ocean and may have discovered Antarctica. Commanding an around-the-world voyage of exploration that lasted from 1819-1821, Bellinghausen reached as far south as 70...
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Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen Born 1778, Ösel Island, Estonia Died 1852, Kronshlot, Russia Although Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen made pioneering explorations of the waters around the Antarctic continent, the significance of ...
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The boom in romance novels in the mid-1980s propelled cover model Fabio to the heights of superstardom. With his broad, bare chest and long (dyed) blond hair, Fabio became an international sex symbol. Although his subsequent film and telev...
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d. c. 399 Roman Noblewoman and Hospital Founder Fabiola was a Roman matron of noble birth who converted to Christianity and became a disciple of St. Jerome (c. 347-419/420), dedicating her considerable wealth and energies to the care of th...
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A member of a wealthy Roman family, Fabiola became a Christian ascetic, selling all her belongings and founding the first hospital in the Western world. Despite her aristocratic background, she was known for treating patients herself, even...
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Fable by Octavio Paz
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SOURCE: Bassett, John E. “A Fable: Faulkner's Revision of Filial Conflict.” Renascence 40, no. 1 (fall 1987): 15-29. In the following essay, Bassett examines the role of A Fable in Faulkner's canon. A Fable is a troublesome work. Writte...
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SOURCE: Goldsmith, M. M. “Mandeville's Pernicious System.” In Mandeville and Augustan Ideas: New Essays, edited by Charles W. A. Prior, pp. 71-84. Victoria, Canada: English Literary Studies, University of Victoria, 2000. In the followin...
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[The Fabulous Riverboat] is the second volume of Philip José Farmer's "Riverworld" trilogy. Death is apparently only a temporary indisposition. Cadavers find themselves reincarnated as hale youngsters somewhere along the banks of The River...
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["The Face of Another"] is an intricately contrived fantasy, somewhat wanting in dramatic confrontation of characters, but replete with symbolic devices having to do with the fate of modern man. The story, told in a series of letters and jo...
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[The Face of Trespass] is the story of Gray, a failed writer and nearly alienated man, sick with infatuation for a corrupt, rich, married girl, whom he dare not see for fear of her terrible demands. Ruth Rendell conveys the derelict half-dr...
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The story is about a fifteen years old average-teenage girl called Janie Johnson who lives with her parents in Connecticut.
She has long curly red hair and looks well, and she is quite popular at her school.
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Ingmar Bergman's most personal work and one of his most profound and provocative efforts, Face to Face is probably also the Swedish artist's greatest film. A striking synthesis of his previous work and rich in images and themes, the movie w...
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SOURCE: Sun, William H. and Faye C. Fei. “Masks of Faces Re-Visited: A Study of Four Theatrical Works Concerning Cultural Identity.” Drama Review 38, no. 4 (winter 1994): 120-32. In the following excerpt, Sun and Fei provide a mixed ass...
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[Faces] is, I think, a great and courageous film in which Cassavetes has dared more than any American director in recent memory, and it is important to understand the nature of what he has done. (p. 217) [Several] qualities have led to a fe...
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German geologist Johannes Walther (1860–1937) was instrumental in the development of stratigraphy. Walther's two-volume work, Modern Lithogenesis, published in 1883 and 1884 was a pioneering work in classical sedimentary anal...
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Facilitator A facilitator is a person who helps a group identify and solve problems by structuring the discussion and intervening when necessary to improve the effectiveness of the group's processes and outcomes. Facilitators, somet...
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Several years following the Vietnam War, Yusef Komunyakaa being a Vietnam survivor himself, details in his poem "Facing It", his emotions while at the Vietnam Memorial. Yusef allows the reader to experience the conflicts of his feelings, in...
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