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...d out of the Simpson household in July 1936. Nor was Wallis the Prince's first American liaison. He contemplated marrying one, Thelma Furness, ... ...he goings-on, reported noting almost until the King's abdication. The European and American press, in contrast, provided extensive coverage of the ... ...n in 1910. http://www.armenian-genocide.org/ http://www.cilicia.com/armo10.html Art, Modern We are all acquainted with the tales - many apocry... ...odern We are all acquainted with the tales - many apocryphal, some real - of how art critiques, curators, collectors and buyers were fooled into ... ...inted with the tales - many apocryphal, some real - of how art critiques, curators, collectors and buyers were fooled into purchasing "works of art"... ...rt critiques, curators, collectors and buyers were fooled into purchasing "works of art" created by monkeys. The animals "painted" by dipping their... ...ser/gr/public/bh_home.html Bolivar, Simon Simon Bolivar (1783-1830) is a Latin American folk hero, revered for having been a revolutionary free... ...d - are not rare, though highly valued by philatelists. The two immediately became collectors' items. Perforation was introduced only in 1848- 54. ...
...ng relic and the putrid sheet concealing it. The next day, it was hauled by sturdy garbage collectors into a truck and, with assorted other junk, i... ...ent. He is writhing on the inlay, attempting tears. It's futile, I know. We both forgot the art of crying, except from torn veins. The light is wan... ...hing: the fullest trust, a willingness to yield. I remember having seen the following in an art house movie, it was a test: to fall, spread-eagled f... ... two-dimensional rendition of a layered archeological excavation. Come morning, I sniff my art and recoil, only to be captivated again by its monot... ...ary Club Award for Social Studies (1976), and the Bilateral Relations Studies Award of the American Embassy in Israel (1978). Hundreds of professio...
...ame de Sabran—” But Glennard insisted. “I want something modern—English or American. I want to look something up,” he lamely con- cluded. The libraria... ...etters to Harriet Westbrook. I had a devil of a time getting them—a lot of collectors were after them.” Glennard, taking the volume from his hand, gla... ...o, scrupulously vigilant in the management of the household, preserved the American wife’s usual aloofness from her husband’s business cares. Glennard... ...in values. To a dispas- sionate critic (as Glennard now rated himself) the art may at times have been a little too obvious. Her attempts at lightness ...
...ook at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI as told to Jacqueline Slow Art Work by Susie Kleiner © 2008 ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 ... ...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... ...our major you are preparing for your occupation. When you take courses in art history, music appreciation or tennis you are preparing to enjoy your n... ... supernatural being, we look at the wonders of our world. One week modern art might be discussed and illustrated, another time we might discuss the ... ...ctor employees increase government inflow from their activities like toll collectors, parking ticket givers, and other tax collectors. ―We h... ... the society. Meter maids issuing vehicle parking citations, toll and tax collectors, and county appraisers are such people. Some may make society r... ...ctors or nurses, grave diggers or street cleaners—and certainly not trash collectors! But whether the object of religious spending is pro-society or...
... Language with Feelings Pg 1143 The Idea of Civilized Equality Pg 1191 The Art of Giving Pg 1195 Giving Pg 1209 Judgment and Measurement Pg 1... ...nder the 3- dimensional world we see onto a 2-dimensional surface as abstract art. This The Path of Splitness Chapter One: The Universe 91 co... ... One: The Universe 91 concept of Actual infinity has been used in abstract art on a practical basis for hundreds of years. It is one reason why ... ...ew lions? When there were millions of grazing animals? Why didn’t the North American natives colonize the land where millions of bison lived? It ... ...hapter Three: Summary of Hominid-Human development 205 The earliest North American cultures invented bone-tools and flint tools by themselves. B... ...plitting with crude stones as the first form of stone technology. After North American humans began splitting Mammoth-bones: did they start evolving... ...atholic church in all of fucking Europe. Read how their hit men and gangster collectors and strong-arm men visited every fucking church that did not... ...ve to your obsessions. The same principle applies to the insane stupidity of collectors who spend and waste their live collecting specialized dead ... ...ense of ownership, the sense of selfishness greedily to your bosom. Becoming collectors. Obsessing over dead material objects. Obsessing over the...
...andsome world media coverage) and kidnapping for ransom (like the kidnapping of the American Protestant Missionary Ellen Stone - quite a mysterious ... ...d with its self-important figurehead (for instance, in September 1992). Successive American administrations funnelled money into the province and w... ... was all but ignored in these events. Rugova was not. He was often consulted by the American negotiators and treated like a head of state. The messa... ... of the Ottoman Empire was devolution - not centralization. Local governors and tax collectors had too much power and the sultan was too remote and ... ...Ottomans of individuals or rebellious groups. Sadness was expressed in liturgy, in art and literature, in music and in dance. Acceptance by conceiv... ...leads to dysfunctions in one or more areas of life. Pathological narcissism is the art of deception. The narcissist projects a False Self and manag... ...it was acquired by (his) own efforts" (in Georges Duby, "The age of the Cathedrals: Art and Society, 980-1420, Chicago, Chicago University Press, 1...
...p. 2) The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM)) IV-TR (2000), published by the American Psychiatric Association, defines personality traits as:... ...cally fundamental "condition" vanished after 1980. Homosexuality, according to the American Psychiatric Association, was a pathology prior to 1973.... ...atterns – in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, fourth edition, text revision [American Psychiatric Association. DSM- IV-TR, Washington, 2000] –... ...nce of a much broader category of claims: that we can learn about the artist by his art, about a creator by his creation, and generally: about the o... ...gy. In a way, psychology has affinity with some private languages. It is a form of art and, as such, is self- sufficient. If structural, internal co... ...nd treatment modalities - including medicating one's patients - are still forms of art and magic rather than scientific practices. The very existen... ...eveloped, abstract and expressly deal with the day residues. They are the "garbage collectors", the "sanitation department" of the brain. Day resid...
... Lastly, you can purchase a copy of a US County directory listing all of the Tax Collectors and County Clerks along with their phone numbers, addres... ...l be settled by arbitration in accordance with the rules, then obtaining, of the American Arbitration Association, and judgment upon the award rende... ...n’t Want You to Know . . . 131 The Procrastinator’s Handbook: Mastering the Art of Doing It Now Author: Rita Emmett See You at the Top Au... ...t offer education on “tax relief.” They have as their goal the education of the American public as to the tax saving strategies they can use to cut...
...g to the commander of the corvette, had recently gone ashore there from an American whaler, and were desirous of ship- ping aboard one of their own co... ...h remark, Hardy had a good deal to say concerning the manner in which that art was practised upon the island. Throughout the entire cluster the tattoo... ...tattooers of Hivarhoo enjoyed no small reputation. They had carried their art to the highest perfection, and the profession was esteemed most honoura... ...arcely any price too dear which will purchase his darling “tot.” Nowadays, American whalemen in the Pacific never think of carrying spirits as a ratio... ... had thrown the sailors, now brooked no restraint; and one of them—a young American who went by the name of Salem—dashed out from among the rest, 70 ... ...udiously inclined, he would take great pleasure in teaching such the whole art and mystery of navi- 75 Melville gation, including the gratuitous use ... ...he island, and spy- ing out the wickedness thereof. Moreover, they are the collectors of fines—levied gener- ally in grass mats—for obstinate non-atte...
...Secretary of the Embassy, from his occasional excursions into the field of American humour, had formed a special notion of that class of mechanic as t... ...ide the ordinary pas- sions of humanity is the answer. Of course, there is art. A bomb in the National Gallery would make some noise. But it would not... ...ational Gallery would make some noise. But it would not be serious enough. Art has never been their fetish. It’s like breaking a few back windows in a... ... the roof. There would be some screaming of course, but from whom? Artists—art critics and such like - people of no account. Nobody minds what they sa... ...ter of course by the merest begin- ner. A few inquiries amongst the ticket collectors and the por- ters of the two small railway stations would give a...
...great days of the nineteenth century, when every department of letters and art was represented in England by two or three illustrious names. Where are... ...th a character of its own. Perhaps it was the chief triumph of Katharine’s art that Mrs. Hilbery’s character pre- dominated. She and Mr. Hilbery appea... ...took part in a series of scenes such as the taming of wild ponies upon the American prairies, or the conduct of a vast ship in a hurricane round a bla... ...people who wished to meet, either for purposes of enjoyment, or to discuss art, or to reform the State, had a way of suggesting that Mary had better b... ...ith relief, and she had merely to shake hands with Rodney and to greet the American lady who had come to be shown the relics, before the talk started ... ..., and the polite alacrity with which he was answering the questions of the American visitor. It was certainly a sight to daunt any one coming in with ... ...e dull old letters, which would have turned the heads of the most sober of collectors, were laid upon a table, and, after a moment’s pause, Cassandra,...
...de and supersede one's moral obligations towards non- affiliated humans. Thus, an American's moral obligation to safeguard the lives of American f... ...igation to save the lives of innocent civilians, however numerous, if they are not Americans. The larger the number of positive self-definitions I ... ...ical Islamists are now advocating the mass slaughter of Westerners, particularly of Americans and Israelis, regardless of age, gender, and alleged c... ... the will is there it can be done. The alternative is too horrible to contemplate. Art (as Private Language) The psychophysical problem is long sta... ... himself against past artists). They could be few or many, but they must exist for art, in its fullest sense, to exist. Modern theories of art spea... ... and only he can decide how far is his representation from his original experience. Art criticism is impossible. Granted, his reference group (his a... ...eveloped, abstract and expressly deal with the day residues. They are the "garbage collectors", the "sanitation department" of the brain. Day resid... ...lties with youthful ferocity and tenacity. Businessmen amass superfluous wealth and collectors bid in auctions regardless of their age. We all - par...
...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....
...d, impressive, highly pictorial.” JOE KNOEFLER in the L.A. Times: “...an American writer gifted with...perception and sensitivity.” FRANK TANNENBA... ...nique, beautifully designed books, many of them illustrated with original art specially created for each book. Each of our books aspires to be a wor... ...pecially created for each book. Each of our books aspires to be a work of art in itself—in both its content and its design. The press was estab... ...dence have now been established at V VOICES FROM THE PAST xiv 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... ... clay long dried by the sun. It is too bad they can’t apply some of their art to themselves. They are such emaciated creatures, I wonder what they e... ...tayed in London to the end, fought the Puritans, fought the King, the tax collectors, the players of the shrew’s men! Pain shut me out: the body mu...
... In a way, economics has an affinity with some private languages. It is a form of art and, as such, it is self- sufficient and self-contained. If c... ...uch as the recently established African Trade Insurance Agency or the more veteran American OPIC (Overseas Private Investment Corporation), the Bri... ...d a refund of all war and terrorist liabilities above $100 million per airline. The Americans later extended the coverage until mid-May. The Europea... ...daries between insurance and capital is most evident in Alternative Risk Transfer (ART) financing. It is a hybrid between creative financial engine... ...nufacturers to insurance agents - are willing to retain more risk than ever before. ART constitutes less than one tenth the global insurance market ... ...nnovation generates the very tools that facilitate further innovation. The eminent American economist Robert Merton - quoted in Sigma 3/2001 - desc... ...lties with youthful ferocity and tenacity. Businessmen amass superfluous wealth and collectors bid in auctions regardless of their age. We all - par...
...ical serpent. In 1846, now that such immense strides have been made in the art of which Benvenuto Cellini was the master, by Mademoiselle de Fauveau, ... ...uld amaze nobody; but at that time a girl who understood the silversmith’s art stood astonished as she held the seal which Lisbeth put into her hands,... ...ad no fault to find but that the taste of all this luxury was commonplace. Art, and the distinction that comes of the choice of things that taste assi... ... do you not leave everything for my sake?” asked the Brazilian. This South American born, being logical, as men are who 164 Cousin Betty have lived t... ... you?” “Valerie,” said the official, “my child, that cousin of yours is an American cousin—” “Oh, that is enough!” she cried, interrupting the Baron. ... ...quite inexplicable. The disease is peculiar 369 Balzac to negroes and the American tribes, whose skin is differently constituted to that of the white... ...to charge nothing for the marriage-contract of the poor. As to the revenue collectors, the whole machinery of Government would have to be dislocated t...
...will confess I am all for laxness and variety in this as in every field of art. Insistence upon rigid forms and austere unities seems to me the instin... ...ainst the fecund. It is the tired man with a headache who values a work of art for what it does not contain. I sup- pose it is the lot of every critic... ...he impossible. At any rate, that is the present writer’s conception of the art of the short story, as the jolly art of making something very bright an... ...8 The Country of the Blind on a way of settling him at last. It is a South American dodge. I joined all my fishing-lines together with stems of seawee... ...ot a professor at that time. Hapley in his retort,*** spoke of “blundering collectors,” and described, as if inadvertently, Pawkins’ revision as a “mi... ..., the people were supposed to be English and were dressed like fashionable Americans of the current epoch, and I fell into the natural error of suppos... ...eboard partially covered by a black velvet cloth, and beside a decanter of American whisky. It is from 202 The Country of the Blind Mr. Wace, indeed,...
... davidt@hawaiibusiness.com EDITOR Steve Petranik stevep@hawaiibusiness.com ART DIRECTOR Jen Tadaki Catanzariti jent@hawaiibusiness.com CHIEF WRITER St... ... Foundation Hawaiian Electric Industries Hawaiian Electric Company and American Savings Bank Palapalai Alexander & Baldwin, Inc. First Hawaiian Ba... ...r Cable University of Hawai‘i System Hāpu‘u Kupukupu aio Ala Moana Center American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), Ha... ...arge conference centers Waikiki’s largest capacity ballroom State-of-the-art audio and video services 22-acres of tropical gardens with 5 resort po... ...arge conference centers Waikiki’s largest capacity ballroom State-of-the-art audio and video services 22-acres of tropical gardens with 5 resort po... ...ar farm on Hawai‘i’s Big Island is 1.6 hectares of sun-tracking parabolic collectors covered in polished aluminum. Sunshine pours into the troughs ... ...āhole Point on the western side of Hawai‘i Island. There, 1,008 MicroCSP collectors capture enough solar energy to power more than 250 Hawai‘i hom... ...sier to deploy, Wong says. For instance, in Mexico, 350 rooftop-mounted collectors are used to air condition a factory. The same technology can be... ...nd its engineering, design and system integration oferings. Investing in American solar projects is a smart move for Asian capital, says Schreck, ...
...per division and combination of their different operations. In every other art and manufacture, the effects of the division of labour are similar to w... ...on of labour, however, so far as it can be introduced, occasions, in every art, a proportionable increase of the productive powers of labour. The sepa... ...the reason why the improvement of the productive powers of labour, in this art, does not always keep pace with their improve- ment in manufactures. Th... ...ust always be posterior to the improvement of that coun- try. In our North American colonies, the plantations have con- stantly followed either the se... ...d not rise to what it had been in 1755, till 1766, after the repeal of the American stamp act. In that and the following year, it greatly exceeded wha... ... increase too, so may likewise the capital of a great nation. In our North American and West Indian colonies, not only the wages of labour, but the in... ...he same proportion, too, by three very faith- ful, diligent, and laborious collectors of the prices of corn, Mr Dupré de St Maur, Mr Messance, and the... ...which was paid in kind, would suffer so much from the mismanagement of the collectors, that a very small part of what was levied upon the people would...
...e Odys- sey. He is indeed so closely concealed that the reader suspects no art at all. Boswell’s perfor- mance looks easy enough—merely the more or le... ...Nevertheless it was rare and diffi- cult, as is the highest achievement in art. Boswell is primarily the artist, and he has cre- ated one of the great... ... is set forth with the unadorned vividness and permanent effect which seem art- less enough, but which are characteristic of only the greatest art. Bo... ...uch copies as I could procure, and wished for more, but have not found the collectors of these rarities very communicative.’ I told him, that Garrick ... ...iga- tion, by transmitting to me copies of two letters from Dr. Johnson to American gentlemen. On Saturday, April 3, the day after my arrival in Londo... ...as to the justice and wisdom of the conduct of Great-Britain to- wards the American colonies, while I at the same time requested that he would enable ... ...tled, Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress. He had long before indulged most unfavourable sentiments...
.... Even at Angouleme, so closely connected through its paper-mills with the art of typography in Paris, the only machinery in use was the primitive woo... ... not known how to read or write; in 1802 he had made no progress in either art; but by allowing a handsome margin for “wear and tear” in his esti- mat... ...ing was scanty, on the other hand, he was supposed to be past master of an art which workmen pleasantly call “tipple-ography,” an art held in high est... ...e cost of production by one-half; and he had another plan for employing an American vegetable fibre for making paper, something after the Chinese fash... ...oet of L ’Houmeau; but one thing they never did, they never re- ceived tax-collectors, and, after all, Chatelet is only a tax- collector.” Du Chatelet...
..................................................................... 38 THOU ART THE MAN .................................................................. ...amenable to those undeviat- ing principles which regulate all varieties of art; and very nearly the same laws by which we decide on the higher merits ... ...- nies to twirl it by steam. Glare is a leading error in the philosophy of American house- hold decoration—an error easily recognised as deduced from ... ...that spotty look to a room, which is the blemish of so many a fine work of Art overtouched. The frames are broad but not deep, and richly carved, with... ...ifices.” Simeon, Abel-Phittim, and Duzi-Ben-Levi were the Gizbarim, or sub-collectors of the offering, in the holy city of Jerusalem. “V erily,” repli... ...- tween a London populace and that of the most frequented 35 V olume Five American city. A second turn brought us into a square, bril- liantly lighte... ... 39 V olume Five velop my morals:—that is the secret. By and by the “North American Quarterly Humdrum” will make them ashamed of their stupidity. In t...
...BET THE DEVIL YOUR HEAD ..................................................................................................................... 38 THOU ART THE MAN................................................................................................................................................ 47 WHY THE LITTLE FRENCHMAN WEARS HIS HAND IN A SLING ..................
...ly, of course, on the “picture book” quality that contemporary English and American prose appears more and more destined, by the conditions of publica... ...m, set up some semblance of them in his own other medium, by his own other art—nothing could better consort than that, I nat urally allow, with the d... ...convenience for those who passionately cultivate the image of life and the art, on the whole so beneficial, of projecting it. The seer and speaker unde... ... to reach its maximum, no doubt, over many of the sorry businesses of “The American,” for instance, where, given the elements and the essence, the lon... ...tion of several shorter pieces. Inevitably, in such a case as that of “The American,” and scarce less indeed in those of “The Portrait of a Lady” and ... ...hetic vision, the mind led captive by a charm and a spell, an incalculable art. The essential property of such a form as that is to give out its finest... ...ull of consequences produced by her father’s. Mr. Verver, one of the great collectors of the world, had n’t left his daughter to prowl for herself; he... ...d together capitalists and bankers, re tired men of business, illustrious collectors, American fathers in law, American fathers, little American daug...
...: It is not a new observation that the people of any country (if, like the Americans, intelligent and wellinformed) seldom adopt and steadily persever... ...on which used to mark the progress of war prior to their introduction. The art of fortification has contributed to the same ends. The nations of Europ... ... their most specious declamations. The valuable improve- ments made by the American constitutions on the popular models, both ancient and modern, cann... ... with painful solicitude. They foresee the dangers that may threaten their American dominions from the neighbor- hood of States, which have all the di... ...h which the beneficence of nature has inter- sected our country, and which art finds it so little difficult to connect and complete. A fourth and stil... ...ost to fear from us, and most to hope from them. The improve- ments in the art of navigation have, as to the facility of com- munication, rendered dis... ...espondent authority of the Union. Should it happen, however, that separate collectors of in- ternal revenue should be appointed under the federal gove...
... I take my place behind this desk, and face this learned au- dience. To us Americans, the experience of receiving instruction from the living voice, a... ...uous an act. Particularly must this be the case on a soil as sacred to the American imagination as that of Edinburgh. The glories of the philosophic c... ...rd a sweet savor;” we “taste and see that he is good.” “Spiritual milk for American babes, drawn from the breasts of both testaments,” is a sub-title ... ...he value of works of genius in a wholesale way (such works of contemporary art, namely, as he himself is unable to enjoy, and they are many) by using ... ...o limit our view to it, we should have to define reli- gion as an external art, the art of winning the favor of the gods. In the more personal branch ... ...f anything. And thou dost cut off, as far as it is in thy power, when thou art dissatisfied, and in a man- ner triest to put anything out of the way.”... ...fire of invective against the “closet-naturalists,” as he called them, the collectors and classifiers, and handlers of skeletons and skins. When I was...
...Action 126 4.5 Searching for Fresh Options 134 5. AL QAEDA AIMS AT THE AMERICAN HOMELAND 145 5.1 Terrorist Entrepreneurs 145 5.2 The “Planes O... ...r stairwell with deviations p. 312 The Twin Towers following the impact of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Penta... ...1 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Pentagon after being struck by American Airlines Flight 77 p. 313 American Airlines Flight 93 crash site, ... ...cations equipment employed for these casing missions included state-of-the-art video cameras obtained from China and from dealers in Germany.The casin... ...ck on Bin Ladin or his associates during 1999. The tribals remained active collectors of intelligence, however, providing good but not predictive info... ...arm system with redundant electronics and control panels, and state-of-the-art fire command stations were placed in the lobby of each tower. 9 T o man... ...ands on already hard-pressed single-source national technical intelligence collectors like the National Security Agency. Combining Joint Intelligence ... ...view (Oct. 20, 2003); Phoenix Field Office agent interview (Oct. 21, 2003);Art C. interview (Dec. 4, 2003). 48.Treasury report,“1995 Highlights of The...
...ent the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation?s capital at a time of great partisan division--have come together to present this repo...