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... end, I thank my husband Jeffrey Cathcart, my dear friend Tom Westlake, and actors Gerard Butler and Earl Carpenter for inspiration. I am also grat... ...bers to prepare for the night’s performance. Overhead, I heard a beautiful male voice singing. This was not the first time: probably one of the 4... ...owers over the beasts. I finished my toilette by making up my face for the stage. The footlights required extra enhancements so that the performer... ...cs a month. I could not even hold the bank account in my name as long as a male relative was available to manage the funds for me. It was a generou... ... opportunity to consider further, though, as it was now my time to take the stage. As promised in the note, Cesare performed beautifully. I did not ... ...mud tail.” Christine Daae, now the Comtesse de Chagny, had unmasked him on stage, revealing a face reputed to be so scarred and hideous that women ... ...y favorite recipes for madeleines and cheese crisps, and had Russian tea and American coffee on offer. The ladies came to the first one in droves, a... ...was grateful for the black weeds that held off potential suitors. I had no male guardian, and so was considered ripe spoils for the taking. It se...

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...or strawberries. 9 ―World cotton prices have never been lower but American cotton farmers earn nearly twice as much for their crops because... ...about 80% of all of the subsidies. I‘ve rambled on, but I wanted to set the stage of your approach to farming.‖ —―As in all countries, when suf... ...fe by the Chinese or the realities of the ill-conceived war in Iraq for the Americans and British—it doesn‟t take long for the truth to be known. The... ... price of their exports up. The Chinese yuppies are following the American way of pursuing money and the things it can bring—less free time... ...to eliminate them. For example, China has 320 million smokers. 90% of adult males smoke. That‘s about twice the world‘s rate. Smoking now accounts fo... ...hat the developing body may be susceptible to different toxins at different stages of development. In animal studies, alcohol damages an embryo withi... ...he people. Whether we look at the ancient Athenians‘ democracy only for the male citizens, or the thinkers of the Enlightenment who envisioned a broa... ...sulted from reducing the population in China. First there is the excess of males to females. Then there is the graying of the population. But whatev... ...ants, and Tibetan literature. We merely read their work. Our work, at this stage of our development is in those hard sciences that may make life on e...

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... ....................................................... 30 TRADITION AND MALE POWER ................................................................... ...e on the lower end of the scale to voluntarily undergo sterilization. For males or females with no children for every point on the IQ scale that a ... ...st its role as the scientific and intellectual leader of the world. As an American I am greatly saddened, but as a citizen of the world and of the co... ...ed that the major medical researching country had had its tires shot out. American researchers and other medical leaders streamed into southeast Asia... ...ligent Barak Obama was not enough to keep all of the intelligentsia. The American depression had sapped its economy of the necessary funds for rese... ...ing jobs to become barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen. Marriage for the male university graduates was more likely to be with less educated women. ... ...rities. If people want to pretend they are other people in films or on the stage, if they want to kick a ball, throw a ball through a hoop or run fas... ...of dollars and to accord celebrity status to people playing ball games or actors who are only pretending to be somebody else. Why is it in the West ... ... to make money by entertaining others. But that‟s not us. Pro athletes and actors should be paid less here than janitors because their contributions ...

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...s losing one‘s job. Sex makes us happier, as does enjoying one‘s job. The Americans, who spend much more time working are much higher on the happine... ...ed at home, in your neighborhood or in school is the truth, divine truth. Americans eat with their forks in their right hands, Europeans with the for... ...ies ate their meals together. She was appalled by the poor manners of the American students. Her mother had taught her good table manners at home, r... ...saying one thing while doing something different? Why don‘t more American males wear condoms if they are going to have sex. ―Look at the risin... ...ier church council seriously debated whether females even had souls. If a male fetus younger than four weeks old is aborted, was it a human life? ... ... come from valid basic assumptions. But, as with the case of the Taliban, male supremacy reduced women and non-believers to a nearly non-human status... ...hange. The situations change. The rationalizations for the actions of the actors change. It is in the reporting of the actions, actors and oratory t... ...ions and the doctors who perform them.‖ —―The church regards early-stage embryos as human lives, not to be used or destroyed. It maintains th... ...Various points during fetal development have been suggested as significant stages at which simple biology gives way to full personhood. The U.S. Supr...

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...tisfied their pleasures differently. The infant's greatest pleasures were found in the mouth, in sucking and eating. This was called the oral stage ... ...ld's greatest joys and feelings of accomplishment were found in defecating, urinating, or in withholding these excrements. ―The next stage ... ...mother and of Electra‘s mother and her lover killing Electra‘s father, leaving her to be occupied by her father‘s memory. The latent stage ... ...ily member abuse and in prisoner abuse and torture? When I was at Stanford, Dr. Zimbardo, who was a psychologist, recruited a couple of dozen male s... ...‘t be surprised when young Germans tortured and killed for Hitler, when young Chinese and Cambodians killed for Mao or Pol Pot, or even young Americ... ...s certainly not a universal. Eleanor Roosevelt got hers from her brains, as did Marie Curie. But back to Ardrey. He gives many examples of how male a... ...on. Was it really just searching for orgasm? ―Some species are prepared to die for sex. The preying mantis bites off the head of its male m... ... in the vitamin D producing sun, could add the A and D to their skim milk. They don‘t, but are finally thinking about it—sixty years after the Americ... ...ental side, wartime British Prime Minister, historian and author Winston Churchill had a father who wrote of him ‗I have an idiot for a son.‘ Americ...

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... Uni­ versity. He was also required to maintain a rigorous teaching schedule in American Indian Culture and Artifacts. In addition, he had contracte... ...est. He of­ ten felt dumb in her presence when she started talking about Native American history. But right now all he could feel was how much he mi... ...m of a necklace draped smoothly just above her breast. A row of square, silver American Indian amulets diagonally circled her waist from the top of... ...arhan Cross Matloch was standing with Arthur Hill and Franklin Pierce just off stage and just out of sight of the spectators. Matloch pat­ ted Hill ... ...ou expect to raise those billions of dollars?" Richard motioned to someone off stage. Two hotel employ­ ees emerged unfurling a long banner. They un... ...oyant style was perfectly suited for Nicky's. It was a place for celebri­ ties, actors and Hollywood producers, deal makers, and men on the hunt for... ... impressed with you, Dr. Hawk. He's assigned us to do a story, you know ... the male, female angle." Emily Thompson wanted to slap him upside his he... ...right now, the stakes were high; very high. Pierce had spent years setting the stage, scripting every scene, and directing it with a deft hand. The... ... had a .357 Magnum pointed to his head. Pierce glanced at his watch, his prized actors would be arriving soon. The meeting would be taped and expert...

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...than all her begging. If the great Daniel Connolly did not appear upon his stage tonight, his audience would clamor for a refund. And the shame of... ... so loud until it all but drowned out the haunting voice that rose from the stage. Morgan brushed and folded her father’s costume and lay it in the ... ...d the letter deep into her pocket and hurried from the room. High above the stage, amid the riggings and the cables, she found a perch on the catwal... ...ing as he crashed against it. “No, Daniel! It’s not...” she heard another male voice call out. “Don’t stop him. Let him save her. It may be jus... ...bout making the arrangements already. We believe if you were married to an American citizen— “ He exploded. “Married? You must be mad. I’ve bar... ...t been?” “My name is Falkner. And I’ve been here long enough to know how Americans treat intruders.” The man was as tall as Daniel, and block s... ...y realistic look to them. At the same time, they call to mind a distinctly American spirit.” “It must have cost a fortune.” “It did. But worth ... ...to step into the role. The director and the crew were on payroll, half the actors on contract, just waitin’ for Helene. I dragged my feet cancelli... ... “Specifically, Danny, the female audience should want to identify, and the male audience should want to ravish. Morgan has the aptitude to send ev...

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...d, impressive, highly pictorial.” JOE KNOEFLER in the L.A. Times: “...an American writer gifted with...perception and sensitivity.” FRANK TANNENBA... ... of his work and literary correspondence have now been established at the American Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Bens... ...Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas, and the Rare Books Collect... ...was our first excursion around the whole island, in years. We sailed past Malea Point to Eresos, to Antiss, then Methymn, and round our island, back ... ...lleviate my longing. Her perfume, kisses and caresses were not the crude, male love I wanted. However, I was half in my dreams and I remembered the ... ...on and bring him back to me. P This is theatre season and the talk is of actors and acting. I like to familiarize myself with a play before attendi... ...od.” I suppose he is right. If we rely on the old writers altogether, the stage will become stale. Perhaps I can think of something for the religiou... ...o visit his sister, VOICES FROM THE PAST 74 riding all day in slow stages, to reach her hut and sleep there. I thought we would never find it... ...haraxos...no, harshness is not in keeping with a wedding. I can hear the male chorus. I hear the surf... Below us, the ocean eats at its rocks, ab...

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.......................................................................................... 87 THE ANTIGONE OF SOPHOCLES, AS REPRESENTED ON THE EDINBURGH STAGE . 98 THE MARQUESS WELLESLEY 1 ............................................................................................ 125 MILTON VERSUS SOUTHEY AND LANDOR ..............................................................

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............... 87 THE ANTIGONE OF SOPHOCLES, AS REPRESENTED ON THE EDINBURGH STAGE . 98 THE MARQUESS WELLESLEY 1 .......................................... ...alamity, inevitably, and with- out restraint, we go on to consider it as a stage spectacle. Exclamations of—How grand! How magnificent! arise in a sor... ...nd then would come the rush up-stairs. Against this, as the only dangerous stage in the transaction, the murderer would have specially prepared. Mrs. ... ...ge line of sea-board (stretching through twenty-four hundred miles) of the American United States; may enjoy fifty years for lei- surely repentance; a... ... that, as the chorus sometimes intermingles too much in the action, so the actors sometimes intermingle in the business of the chorus. Now, when you a... ...e maternal ancestors of the present Wellesleys. Garret Wellesley, the last male heir of the direct line, in the year 1745, left his whole estate to on... ... well known upon that coast; and ‘faults’ may be a flash term for what the Americans call ‘notions.’ A part of the cargo it clearly is; and one is not... ... by persons who were not merely contemporary with the great civil war, but actors and even leaders in its principal scenes—there is hardly one which d... ...informer? A French- man, reader, —M. Simond; and though now by adoption an American citizen, yet still French in his heart and in all his prejudices. ...

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...ine in the dinghy of a fourteen-ton yawl belonging to Marlow my host and skipper. We helped the boy we had with us to haul the boat up on the landing-stage before we went up to the riverside inn, where we found our new acquaintance eating his dinner in dignified loneliness at the head of a long table, white and inhospitable like a snow bank....

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...ipper. We helped the boy we had with us to haul the boat up on the landing-stage before we went up to the riverside inn, where we found our new acquai... ...ping Masters in the Port of London he dispatched me to sea on several long stages of my 7 Joseph Conrad sailor’s pilgrimage. He resembled Socrates. I... ...e knowledge of its origin and of its nature. It was given to me in several stages, at intervals which are not indicated here. On this first occasion I... ...ishment. Its consort The Sceptre collapsed within the week. I won’t say in American parlance that suddenly the bottom fell out of the whole of de Barr... ...blished, I’ll al- most say hackneyed, illusions, without which the average male creature cannot get on. And that condition is very important. For ther... ... to drive people into sudden irrelevancy. Hers was feminine irrelevancy. A male genius, a male ruffian, or even a male lunatic, would not have behaved... ...y! But Mrs. Fyne’s fervent “thank goodness” turned out to be a bit, as the Americans—some Americans—say “previous.” In a very short time the odious fe... ...to Flora de Barral. See the might of suggestion? We live at the mercy of a malevolent word. A sound, a mere disturbance of the air, sinks into our ver... ...rom perverted ambition, for spectacular reasons too. There are on earth no actors too humble and obscure not to have a gallery; that gallery which env...

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...Excerpt: Volume I. Preface: Nothing is more easy than to state the subject of ?The Ambassadors,? which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review (1903) and was published as a whole the same year. The situation involved is gathered up betimes, that is in the second chapter of Book Fifth, for the reader?s benefit, into as few words as possible-- planted ...

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... of “The Ambassadors,” which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review (1903) and was published as a whole the same year. The situ... ... for expression of its maximum, my glim- mering story was, at the earliest stage, to have nipped the thread of connexion with the possibilities of the... ...estions that the “story,” with the omens true, as I say, puts on from this stage the authen- ticity of concrete existence. It then is, essentially—it ... ... happy luck of mere finding has little to do. The joys of finding, at this stage, are pretty well over; that quest of the subject as a whole by “match... ...“arranged for”; its first appearance was from month to month, in the North American Review during 1903, and I had been open from far back to any pleas... ...sibly a question of Mr. Waymarsh of Milrose Connecti- cut—Mr. Waymarsh the American lawyer. “Oh yes,” he replied, “my very well-known friend. He’s to ... ...hat matter, it had begun to seem to him that there must only have been the male and the female. These made two exactly, even with the individual varie... ...ut of it, with his “home,” as Strether figured the place, in the Boulevard Malesherbes; which was perhaps why, re- pairing, not to fail of justice eit... ...actual business half an hour later was with a third floor on the Boulevard Malesherbes—so much as that was definite; and the fact of the enjoyment by ...

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...eral government that was ever devised for a free people. He found that the American people, through their chosen representatives who were instructed b... ...ent country, or among any different people. The pride and comfort that the American people enjoy in the great commentaries of De Tocqueville are far r... ...ment which has afflicted mankind for many ages, that gives joy to the true American, as it did to De T ocqueville in his great triumph. When De Tocque... ...f them had a physiognomy of its own; and as they had already attained that stage of civilization at which men are led to study themselves, they have t... ...hts must be granted to no one. For na- tions which are arrived at the same stage of social existence as the Anglo-Americans, it is therefore very diff... ...well as everywhere else, the people is the only source of power; but in no stage of government does the body of citizens exercise a more immediate inf... ...hreatened by the frenzy of the mob was to throw them into prison as common malefactors. But even this precaution was ineffectual; the mob collected ag... ...sewhere. Hence, whilst these nations are de- sirous of enrolling the whole male population in the ranks of the army, they have the power of effecting ... ...f the United States, with the exception of the State of Vermont, where the male heir in- herits a double portion. (Kent’s “Commentaries,” vol. iv. p. ...

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...iversity. Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ............................................... ...secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicita- tion or the shadow of any expectation o... ...rty years ago, which papers have been reprinted in a collective form by an American house of high character in Boston; but in part they are to be view... ...ered to remain too long upon the eye, and that connect themselves at every stage with in- tellectual objects. But, even here, I do not scruple to clai... ...o the future, nor successes, fixing his eye on the present; nothing on the stage but a solitary infant, and its solitary combat with grief—a mighty da... ...y in the most dreadful and comprehensive of her convulsions, in that final stage of her transmutations to which Cicero was himself a party—and, as I m... ...f a real uncounterfeit sympathy. I have mentioned already that we had four male guard- ians, (a fifth being my mother.) These four were B., E., G., an... ...better sung; but at that time I needed nothing better. It was sung by four male voices, and rose into a region of thrilling pas- sion, such as my hear... ...ell away from her, and for- sook her house. T o them succeeded a clique of male visitors, some of whom were doubtfully respectable, and others (like M...

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...ffort—made several efforts, in fact—but the portier was not satisfied. He finally had it taken up, and then he put it down himself and got it right. A... ...was heard, and immediately groups of people began to gather in the street. Two or three open carriages arrived, and depos- ited some maids of honor an... ...ves of foreign lands were very numerous. They hailed from every corner of the globe—for instruction is cheap in Heidelberg, and so is living, too. The... ... Go”ttingen, to fight with a Go”ttingen expert; if he is victorious, he will be invited to other colleges, or those colleges will send their experts t... ...only with the white corps, while we were their guests, and keep aloof from the caps of the other colors. Once I wished to examine some of the swords, ... ...nnheim 41 A Tramp Abroad opera. These people talked, between the acts, and I under- stood them, though I understood nothing that was uttered on the d... ...up, the light in the body of the house went down. The audience sat in the cool gloom of a deep twilight, which greatly enhanced the glowing splendors ... ...ake a drowning relative to help dispute about whether the stopple of a departed Buon Retiro scent-bottle was genuine or spurious. Many people say that... ...the walls of one room were pretty completely covered with small pictures of the Margravine in all conceivable varieties of fan- ciful costumes, some o...

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...HER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES......................................................................................................................

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................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. ................................................ ...condly, in hav- ing made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on ... ...me hours after the last murder, a man was apprehended at Barnet (the first stage from London on a principal north road), encum- bered with a quantity ... ...ment) with respect to the fictitious character of the incidents and of the actors in that famous tale. Mere accident it was that had intercepted those... ...form; and so far otherwise, that a period of several years in Kate’s South American life is confessedly suppressed; and on no other ground whatever th... ...oon after the publication of Kate’s memoirs, in what you may call an early stage of her literary career, though two centuries after her personal caree... ...carried through to its natural crisis in the Liverpool Mail. It was on the stage leading into Lichfield; there was no con- spiracy, as in our Irish ca... ...r with the numerous chapels erected in it to different saints by devotees, male or female, in the families of forgotten Landgraves through four centur... ...h a marriage went to incapacitate the children who might be born under it, male or female, from succeeding. On that account, as well as because curren...

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...p- tain, is it permitted to come on board?’ were the first words we heard among the islands. Canoe followed canoe till the ship swarmed with stalwart,... ... spoke no language. ‘Mais, vous savez,’ objected the fair sentimentalist; ‘Ils apprennent si vite l’Anglais!’ But to be able to speak to people is not... ...of the catch; and I think we may go beyond, and say, that if such a population could be isolated, and this mispronunciation should become the rule, it... ...there dwelt an old, melancholy, grizzled man of the name of Tari (Charlie) Coffin. He was a native of Oahu, in the Sandwich Islands; and had gone to s... ...id, is uppermost in the mind of the Marquesan. It would be strange if it were oth- erwise. The race is perhaps the handsomest extant. Six feet is abou... ...ey of Hapaa, known to readers of Herman Melville under the grotesque misspell- ing of Hapar. There are but two writers who have touched the South Seas... ...candid, almost innocent, description of a Russian man-of-war at the Marquesas; consider the disgraceful history of missions in Hawaii itself, where (i... ...tted. They must not sit on the paepae; they must not go up to it by the stair; they must not eat pork; they must not approach a boat; they must not co... ...e bell agoing in the small belfry; and the faithful, who were not very numerous, gathered to prayers. I was once present: it was the Lord’s day, and s...

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...ble me to solve it. At length, in 1812, Mr. Williams made his début on the stage of Ratcliffe High- way, and executed those unparalleled murders which... ...nic ulcer, superbly defined, and running regularly through all its natural stages, may no less justly be regarded as ideals after their kind, than the... ...onged to quite another cen- tury, would have frightened out of their wits. Malebranche, it will give you pleasure to hear, was mur- dered. The man who... ...proper light. Berkeley, when a young man, went to Paris and called on Père Malebranche. He found him in his cell cooking. Cooks have ever been a genus... ...l cooking. Cooks have ever been a genus irritabile; authors still more so: Malebranche was both: a dispute arose; the old father, warm already, became... ...time to review, to ponder, to compare. There have been great actors on the stage of tragic humanity that might, with the same depth of confidence, hav... ...he sun, 10 “Three hundred.” Of necessity this scale of measurement, to an American, if he happens to be a thoughtless man, must sound ludicrous. Acco... ...less man, must sound ludicrous. Accordingly, I remember a case in which an American writer indulges himself in the luxury of a little lying, by ascrib... ...o an Englishman a pompous account of the Thames, constructed entirely upon American ideas of grandeur, and concluding in something like these terms:— ...

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... university. 3 Henry James A Little Tour In France by Henry James WE GOOD AMERICANS—I say it without presumption—are too apt to think that France is ... ... of old furniture, as all apartments should be through which the insatiate American wanders in the rear of a bored domestic, pausing to stare at a fad... ...had not come over the spirit of the people. They seemed to me as silent as Americans when Americans have not been “introduced,” and infinitely less ad... ...France be a very imperfect pleasure. The full pleasure is to ap- proach by stages and gradations; to observe the succes- sive shades of difference by ... ...e to me in the compartment were a couple of figures almost as vivid as the actors in the “Comedie Humaine.” One of these was a very genial and dirty o... ... several weeks in the French provinces I rarely encountered a well-dressed male. Can it be possible the republics are unfavorable to a certain attenti... ...ountered enough specimens to justify an induction. But there were very few males in the streets, and the place presented no appearance of activity. He... ...he two lone columns that survive—part of the decoration of the back of the stage— and at the fragments of ruin around them, we might have been in the ... ...heir entablature. Be fore them is the vacant space which was filled by the stage, with the line of the prosoenium distinct, marked by a deep groove, i...

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...ee months spent there in the spring of 1879. Like “Roderick” and like “The American,” it had been designed for publication in The Atlantic Monthly, wh... ...te history of the business—of retrac- ing and reconstructing its steps and stages. I have al- ways fondly remembered a remark that I heard fall years ... ...n short, on the consciousness of your heroine’s satellites, especially the male; make it an interest contributive only to the greater one. See, at all... ...e eigh- teenth century, it had passed into the careful keeping of a shrewd American banker, who had bought it originally because (owing to circumstanc... ... thirty years before, had brought with him, at the top of his baggage, his American physiognomy; and he had not only brought it with him, but he had k... ...ceive nothing irregular in the situation. It had become clear, at an early stage of their community, that they should never desire the same thing at t... ... had better not marry their cousins. Another is that people in an advanced stage of pulmonary disorder had better not marry at all.” The old man raise... ...ained for some days a mystery. Isabel remembered perfectly the neat little male child whose hair smelt of a delicious cos- metic and who had a bonne a... ... deplorable degree the quality known and esteemed in the appearance of fe- males as style; and that if she is dressed with great fresh- ness she wears...