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American author Jack Finney announced his major thematic material early in his career, in the short story "I'm Scared": "Haven't you noticed," the narrator comments, "... on the part of nearly everyone you know, a growing rebellion against...
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Jack Hodgins is one of the most important talents to emerge in English-Canadian fiction in the decade of the 1970s. Especially since his receiving a Governor General's Award for The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne in 1980, his work has been ...
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Jack Johnson (1878-1946) became the first African American heavyweight champion after winning the crown from Tommy Burns in Sydney, Australia on December 26, 1908. As a result of this victory, he became the center of a bitter racial contro...
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A conservative on economic issues and a liberal on social questions, Jack French Kemp, Jr. (born 1935), was an articulate spokesperson for the Republican Party for many years. He was the vice presidential candidate on the Republican Party'...
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Jack Kerouac, regarded in modern American fiction as the authentic voice of the "beat genera- don," thought of himself as a storyteller in the innovative literary tradition of Proust and Joyce, creating an original style that he envisioned...
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Jack Kevorkian (born 1928) became known as "Dr. Death," in part, because he assisted many people in committing suicide. Kevorkian considered the right to die to be a basic personal right, having nothing to do with government laws. He felt ...
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When he coinvented the integrated circuit, or microchip, Jack Kilby also co-launched the age of modern electronics. He was born in Jefferson City, Missouri, and spent most of his childhood in Great Bend, Kansas. Following in his father's f...
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Jack Kirby has been called "the king of comics" by his legions of fans, a "comics artist's artist," by fellow creator Kevin Eastman, and the "greatest artist in the history of comic books," by Frank Miller, yet another comic book artist in...
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"Stop! Look! Listen! It's time for The Jack LaLanne Show. " So began Jack LaLanne's daily exercise program, syndicated on television stations nationwide from 1959 to 1985. The muscular man in the jumpsuit led si...
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For more than four decades, whether working in comedy or tragedy, actor Jack Lemmon (1925-2001) epitomized the joys and travails of Americans in the latter half of the 20th century. Noted as one of the most versatile U.S. film actors of hi...
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American physician who introduced the intra-uterine device (IUD) for birth control. The IUD is a small, inert, plastic device that is inserted into the uterus to prevent pregnancy. Although the manner in which the IUD helped prevent pregna...
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Jack London has been recognized as one of the most dynamic figures in American literature. Sailor, hobo, Klondike argonaut, social crusader, war correspondent, scientific farmer, self-made millionaire, global traveler, and adventurer, Lond...
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SOURCE: Hassall, Anthony J. “A Tale of Two Countries: Jack Maggs and Peter Carey's Fiction.” Australian Literary Studies 18, no. 2 (October 1997): 128-35. In the following essay, Hassall examines the differences between Jack Maggs's cha...
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For most of the past 30 years Jack Nicklaus (born 1940) has been considered golf's greatest. His longevity has proved equal to Arnold Palmer's, and only Ben Hogan and Bobby Jones can be considered players in Nicklaus's league. In numbers o...
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Roger Zelazny has become something of a cult figure among modern fantasy aficionados in the United States. [Jack of Shadows] is another of his extravagant fables set in a quasi-medieval landscape of revenge and paranoia. To many the whole p...
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Best known for his successful mix of the frightening and the foolish, Jack Prelutsky, for the past twenty years, has been making children cringe with fear and laugh with delight. His poems often portray the macabre in such an exaggerated m...
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Jack Ruby was an unknown nightclub owner who became instantly famous in November 1963 as the man who shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald two days after Oswald was arrested for assassinating President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas. The app...
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As baseball historian Lee Allen wrote in his The Cincinnati Reds: An Informal History (1948), "in the isolationist cocoon of the Midwest, breakfast wasn't ten minutes on a drugstore stool and a dash to punch the time clock. . . . Breakfast...
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Jack Schaefer may be the most ignored major writer of the American West. In a quartet of novels--Shane (1949), The Canyon (1953), Company of Cowards (1957), and Monte Walsh (1963)--as well as in richly varied short fiction and nonfiction, ...
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Jack Spicer was a San Francisco poet who rejected the traditional centers for poetry--academia and the established publishing houses, using the phrase "English Department" as a derogatory description for analytical approaches to poetry and...
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Jack Steinberger was born on May 25, 1921, in Bad Kissingen, Germany. He and his brother left Germany in 1934 and immigrated to Chicago, Illinois. There, they lived with the family of Barnard Faroll, a grain broker. Later, Faroll was instr...
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An unidentified man, nicknamed "Jack the Ripper," was held responsible for murdering five London prostitutes in 1888. The five prostitutes were stabbed to death between August 31 and November 9. Jack the Ripper, so named for his skill with...
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Jack Joseph Valenti (born 1921) combined Hollywood and politics long before it was fashionable. Starting as an advertising and public relations man in Houston, Texas, Valenti became a trusted adviser and friend to President Lyndon Johnson....
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John Holbrook Vance was born in San Francisco, the son of Charles Albert and Edith Hoefler Vance. Raised on a ranch in the San Joaquin Valley, he was educated at the University of California, where he took a B.A. in 1942. During World War ...
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One of the most distinguished of the live anthology series, NBC's Philco Television Playhouse is best remembered for nurturing talent to create original television productions. Producer Fred Coe assembled one of television's ...
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With his three brothers, Jack Warner (1892-1978) founded Warner Brothers movie studio, one of Hollywood's premiere forces during the studio era. Warner was also an influential movie producer, responsible for 5,000 films over the course of ...
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John F. "Jack" Welch Jr. (born 1935) rose from the ranks of General Electric (GE) to be named the company's youngest ever chief executive officer in 1981. After making difficult personnel decisions early in his tenure, which included shedd...
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Scots-born Canadian writer Jack Whyte is the author of seven novels in the "Dream of Eagles" series, known in the United States as the "Camulod Chronicles." Whyte's books chronicle the events of fifth-century Britain, examining the sudden ...
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Jack W. Szostak, a professor of genetics and a biochemist at Massachusetts General Hospital developed the Yeast Artificial Chromosome (YAC), in collaboration with Harvard biochemist Andrew Murray. The YAC, developed in 1980s, was the first...
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Jack Williamson has written steadily since his first sale in 1928 and has had published more than three million words of magazine science fiction, thirty-one novels, and at least eight collections and scholarly books. His works have been m...
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Lyricist Jack Yellen was a skillful journeyman songwriter who plied his trade, providing songs for sheet music, recordings, Broadway musicals, and Hollywood movies, for more than forty years. Though the songs he wrote with composer Milton ...
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I don't really feel like writing a paper at this moment. I much rather plan out my day today. Well, first I will meet up with Richard, Chris and Kevin, most likely at one of our houses. Okay, video camera, check. Full battery, check. W...
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SOURCE: A review of Jackie Brown, in Variety, December 22, 1997, pp. 57-8. In the following review, McCarthy offers tempered criticism of Jackie Brown. Facing the daunting task of making a third feature that could measure up to Reservoir Do...
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Best known for his role in Charlie Chaplin's The Kid, Jackie Coogan (1914-1984) was one of the first and best known child actors. Because of the legal problems Coogan faced in obtaining the money he earned as a child star, the California l...
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