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The standard account of R. P. Blackmur's career that few readers have questioned has him beginning as a New Critic producing his best essays, including those on Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, D. H. Lawrence, and other poets, in the 1920s...
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Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his 1975 biography of Edith Wharton, R. W. B. Lewis established himself first in the field of literary criticism. In fact, his influence can be largely traced to a single seminal work. Since its original publ...
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R.C. Gorman (born 1931) was perhaps the leading Native American artist in the United States. Gorman's themes were universal and transcended the boundaries of the Navajo culture in which he was raised. Gorman's portraits of Navajo women wer...
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An alternative rock band of the 1980s and 1990s, R.E.M. served up an eclectic mix of musical styles that included punk, rock, and even country and folk. Comprised of Michael Stipe (vocals), Peter Buck (guitar), Mike Mills (bass), and Bill ...
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R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) is a science fiction play by Karel Čapek. It premiered in 1921 and is famous for having introduced and popularized the term robot....
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RE, the ancient Egyptian sun god, was, for most of the pharaonic period, the chief god or at least among the chief gods. His cult center was at Heliopolis, where he seems to have displaced Atum as universal god during the fifth dynasty, an...
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Rab and his Friends (1859) was a book by Scottish writer Dr John Brown. "Rab" is the Lowland Scots form of "Rob", and he is a dog. He is described as being "old, grey, brindled, as big as a Highland bull", as well as being extremely loyal a...
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Magnentius Hrabanus Maurus (also known as Raban, Rabanus, and Rhabanus) acquired the final part of his name from his teacher, Alcuin, who gave it to him in honor of Saint Maur, the favorite pupil of Saint Benedict. He was of aristocratic b...
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RABBAH BAR NAHMANI (d. around 330 CE), a third-generation Babylonian amora, rabbinical colleague of Yosef bar Ḥiyyaʾ and Ḥisdaʾ. Rabbah studied with Hunaʾ and several other Babylonians, including Yehudah ...
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One could call Rabban Bar Sauma a "reverse Marco Polo": whereas Polo traveled from West to East, Bar Sauma's trek took him from what is now Beijing to the Bourdeaux region in France; and whereas Polo went on business,...
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TAM, YAʿAQOV BEN MEʾIR (c. 1100–1171), leading Jewish halakhic scholar, known as Rabbenu ("our teacher") Tam from the biblical description of the patriarch Jacob as tam (Gn. 25:27), a word often translate...
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SPEKTOR, YITSḤAQ ELḤANAN (1817–1896) was an Orthodox rabbi and foremost traditional Jewish legal authority during the last half of the nineteenth century. Born in Rosh, in the Grodno district of Russia, Spektor was rai...
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The Palestinian rabbi Akiba ben Joseph (ca. 50-ca. 135) was a founder of rabbinic Judaism. He developed a method of Hebrew scriptural interpretation. The early life of Akiba ben Joseph is enshrouded in legends, anecdotes, sayings, and nume...
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If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you....
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1092-1167 Spanish Jewish scholar who wrote on a number of mathematical topics, introducing Europeans to concepts that originated in the Arab world. Ezra spent the first five decades of his life peacefully, but after 1140 political turmoil ...
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meat produced under current factory farming conditions render the eating of such meat, halachically unacceptable...
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I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come together and make sense....
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Never be satisfied with what you achieve, because it all pales in comparison with what you are capable of doing in the future....
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The rabbinate as an institution of intellectual, spiritual, and religious leadership developed relatively late in the history of the Jewish people. It is found neither in the Bible nor in other Jewish literature from the biblical period. I...
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Used contemptuously in Shakespeare’s Henry the Fourth Part Two (2:ii), where Bardolph says to a page: ‘Away, you whoreson upright rabbit, away.’ The reason for ‘rabbit’ in this context is not clear: the word w...
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Rabbit at Rest is a 1990 novel by John Updike. It is the fourth and final novel in a series beginning with Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, and Rabbit is Rich. There is also a related 2001 novella, Rabbit Remembered. The novel won the Pulitzer Pr...
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Rabbit Hill is a novel by Robert Lawson that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1945....
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[Rabbit Is Rich] is a brilliant performance. As always, but more soberly and relevantly than in such subjective books as Couples and Marry Me, Updike revels in his great gifts of style and social—I mean domestic—observation. There have ...
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Rabbit Redux is a 1971 novel by John Updike. It is the second book in his "Rabbit" series, which begins with Rabbit, Run, and is followed by Rabbit Is Rich and Rabbit At Rest. There is also a related 2001 novella, Rabbit Remembered....
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Rabbit, Run - John Updike - 1960 Introduction Rabbit, Run (1960) is the first of John Updike's quartet of novels about Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, a modern American anti-hero. Later books in the tetralogy are Rabbit Redux,...
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When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit is a children's novel, by Judith Kerr, first published in 1971. It is a semi-autobiographical story of a young Jewish girl who is forced to flee her home in Germany in 1933 with her family to escape the Nazis, ...
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Film is a effective way to express ideologies and discourses. The film "Rabbit Proof Fence" is a riveting film, which has contributed to the representation of social events that have constructed the cultural identity of Australia. This mo...
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RABBITS. The belief that a rabbit dwells in the moon is widely attested not only in Inner Asia, South Asia, and East Asia but also in North America, Mesoamerica, and southern Africa. Among the Turco-Mongol peoples of Inner Asia, the shaman...
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Imported into Australia in the mid-nineteenth century, rabbits have overrun much of the country, causing extensive agricultural and environmental damage and demonstrating the dangers of introducing non-native species into an area. Before t...
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The Rabbits is about the arrival of the British and the progression that took place after that.
In the beginning of the book the rabbits are very few and appear nice. The pictures are still natural colours and involve lots of curves. Thi...
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Rabies is a rare but serious disease caused by a virus. The virus that causes rabies is carried in saliva. It is transmitted when an infected animal bites another animal. Rabies affects humans and other mammals. Another name for rabies is...
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Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a Bengali poet, philosopher, social reformer, and dramatist who came into international prominence when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913. Rabindranath Tagore or simply Rabindranath a...
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Many people believe that humility is the opposite of pride, when, in fact, it is a point of equilibrium. The opposite of pride is actually a lack of self esteem. A humble person is totally different from a person who cannot recognize and a...
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A regular and highly visible presence in the frenetic world of Italian culture, Giovanni Raboni is one of the leading exponents of the Italian school of poetry loosely known as the Linea lombarda (Lombard Line), which emerged in the early ...
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