Full Text Search Details
...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... ...nd the ability to feel pain? Historically, philosophers like Kant (and Descartes, Malebranche, and Aquinas) rejected the idea of animal rights. Th... ...sitizes us to human suffering and makes us more prone to using violence on humans. Malebranche augmented this line of thinking by "proving" that an... ...and suffering, as we all know, are the exclusive outcomes of Adam's sins. Kant and Malebranche may have been wrong. Animals may be able to suffer a... ...these problems are averted. Therapeutic cloning has vast untapped - though at this stage still remote - potential to improve the lives of hundreds ... ...y deleterious. We can render a system dysfunctional by inhibiting or reversing any stage in the complex processes involved - or by preventing the e... ...s "how are the laws applied". If a bias exists, if a party is favoured it is at the stage of administering justice and the impartiality of the arbit...

Full Text Search Details
...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...

Full Text Search Details
...INT SELECT COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS AND THE HOUSE OF COMMONS ON THE STAGE PLAYS (CENSORSHIP) TOGETHER WITH THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE, MI... ...E, AND APPENDICES. What the 4 The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet phrase “the Stage Plays” means in this title I do not know; nor does anyone else. The n... ...e play, and may honestly see nothing but an ordinary “character part” in a stage figure which may be a libellous and unmistakeable caricature of some ... ...e official substituted for a court mar- tial. It is, in fact, assumed that actors, playwrights, and theatre managers are dangerous and dissolute chara... ...er branches of fine 31 Shaw art. To-day we have on the roll of knighthood actors, authors, and managers. The rogue and vagabond theory of the depravi... ... other hand, it is some- times so vague, as for example in the case of the American law against obscenity, that it makes the magistrate virtually a ce... ... submitted for license in which the relations of a prostitute with all the male characters in the piece was described as “immoral,” the Examiner of Pl... ...ough to hang you, anyway. [Going over to him threateningly]. Youre no true American man, to insult a 86 The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet woman like th... ...he word of a woman of bad character. I stand on the honor and virtue of my American manhood. I say that she’s not had the oath, and that you darent fo...

Full Text Search Details
...kespear, there must have been many people about who idolized Shakespear as American ladies idolize Paderewski, and who carried Bardolatry, even in the... ... human race as Shakespear understood them, and not the vindictiveness of a stage Jew. Gaiety of Genius In view of these facts, it is dangerous to cite... ...ade her rather sore on the subject of her complexion; that no human being, male or female, can conceivably enjoy being chaffed on that point in the fo... ...s in Hamlet and Mercutio, is an- other. Shakespear never “saw himself,” as actors say, in Romeo or Orsino or Antonio. In Mr Harris’s own play Shakespe... ... plays are either strokes of character-drawing or gags interpolated by the actors. This ideal Shakespear was too well behaved to get drunk; therefore ... ...e Shakespear we get no such scenes of village snobbery as that between the stage country gentleman Alexander Iden and the stage Radical Jack Cade. We ... ...simply could not have hap- pened to a plumber. A poor man is useful on the stage only as a blind man is: to excite sympathy. The poverty of the apothe... ... Shakespear’s tragedies has thus been the history of a long line of famous actors, from Burbage and Betterton to Forbes Robertson; and the man of whom...

Full Text Search Details
...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... ...ity which resolved itself into the wages, would, through all the different stages of the manufacture, rise only in arithmetical proportion to this ris... ...odity which re- solved itself into profit would, through all the different stages of the manufacture, rise in geometrical proportion to this rise of p... ...his business, and his own labour maintains him through all the dif- ferent stages of his employment. It is reasonable, therefore, that in Europe the w... ...the Romans who made no more distinction between elder and younger, between male and female, in the inheritance of lands, than we do in the distributio... ... can be no indisputable dif- ference but that of sex, and that of age. The male sex is universally preferred to the female; and when all other things ... ...aestus”, says old Cato, “stabilissimusque, minimeque invidiosus; minimeque male cogitantes sunt, qui in eo studio occupati sunt.” Country gentlemen an...

Full Text Search Details
...h, fruits, and the like. Without the city are some theatres, where English actors represent almost every day tragedies and comedies to a very numerous... ...velvet, in some of which were woven history pieces; in others, Turkish and American dresses, all extremely natural. In the hall are these curiosities:... ...Baron Stourton. Nevill, Baron Latimer, died some years since without heirs male; the title controverted. Lumley, Baron Lumley. Blunt, Baron Montjoy. O... ...ed, both the blood and inheritance of the eldest brother for want of issue males, by which accumulation the house within few descents mounted, in culm... ..., not factious and ambitious of fame; such as came not to the House with a malevolent spirit of contention, but with a preparation to consult on the p... ...to that refined wit which since hath acted a disastrous part on the public stage, and of late sat in his father’s room as Lord Chancellor; those that ...

Full Text Search Details
...ng her on the steamer before the artists, and went with her to the landing-stage. The steamer soon came up and carried her away . She arrived home two... ... from gaunt trees, broken windows, grey walls, and doors covered with torn American leather! 84 Anton Chekhov When I go to my own entrance the door i... ..., she talked of nothing with such pleasure and such warmth as of plays and actors. She bored us with her con- tinual talk of the theatre. My wife and ... ...d other stories Later on she used to bring with her dozens of portraits of actors and actresses which she worshipped; then she attempted several times... ...he theatre. T o my mind, if a play is good there is no need to trouble the actors in order that it may make the right impression; it is enough to read... ...vain in what is more important. When an actor wrapped from head to foot in stage traditions and conventions tries to recite a simple ordinary speech, ... ...lly, is a very clever man, and that “Woe from Wit” is not a dull play, the stage gives me the same feeling of conventionality which bored me so much f... ...an, has denounced him, proving that the discovery was made in 1870 by some American; while a third person, also a German, trumps them both by proving ... ...haracteristic reflection on the ill- behaviour of the young people in both male and female high- schools, the uproar in the classes. “Oh, he hoped it ...

Full Text Search Details
... idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascination for all educated Americans. They who made England, Italy, or Greece venerable in the imagina... ...r of thought and quaint expression are as near to us as to any, and if the American artist will study with hope and love the precise thing to be done ... ...in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of waters; in male and female; in the inspi- ration and expiration of plants and animals;... ...or combine against it. Things refuse to be mismanaged long. Res nolunt diu male administrari. Though no checks to a new evil appear, the checks exist,... ...r run up hill, to twist a rope of sand. It makes no difference whether the actors be many or one, a tyrant or a mob. A mob is a society of bodies volu... ...s he looked out of this window, when he looked out of that,—whip him.” Our American character is marked by a more than average delight in accurate per... ...rofes- sionally expressers of Beauty, as painters, poets, musi- cians, and actors, have been more than others wont to lead a life of pleasure and indu... ...ng in nature is bipolar, or has a posi- tive and negative pole. There is a male and a female, a spirit and a fact, a north and a south. Spirit is the ... ... and begins again with the first 280 Essays elements on the most advanced stage: otherwise all goes to ruin. If we look at her work, we seem to catch...

Full Text Search Details
...ting place of Edgar Allan Poe, the most interesting and original figure in American letters. And, to sig- nify that peculiar musical quality of Poe’s ... ...s unmortified sense of independence.” And this was the tribute paid by the American public to the master who had given to it such tales of conjuring c... ...s Dickens, although they made him many enemies among the over-puffed minor American writers so mercilessly exposed by him; such poems of beauty and me... ...d, the match meeting with pa- rental disapproval, had himself taken to the stage as a profes- sion. Notwithstanding Mrs. Poe’s beauty and talent the y... ...stanza from William Winter’s poem, read at the dedication exercises of the Actors’ Monument to 10 Poe in Five V olumes Poe, May 4, 1885, in New Y ork... ...ch it might be possible to travel. “It is true that balloons, in the first stage of their ascensions from the earth, are known to rise with a velocity... ...egan to fill me with alarm. It will be remem- bered, that, in the earliest stage of my speculations upon the possibility of a passage to the moon, the... ...e any thing to do with the proceedings but himself, and he has elbowed the male rela- tives out of the way, according to their representations, in a v... ...ng the rose in the key-hole; the ‘Marie’ upon the slate; the ‘elbowing the male relatives out of the way;’ the ‘aversion to permitting them to see the...

Full Text Search Details
...cene in Auerbach’s cellar. Egmont was also begun under the stimulus of the American Rebel- lion. A way of escaping from his embarrassments was unex- p... ...on, which continued to vibrate with a great and lasting effect. The little stage, with its speechless personages, which at the outset had only been ex... ...rious other pieces, which were indeed on too grand a scale for so narrow a stage. Al- though this presumption spoiled and finally quite destroyed what... ..., by dint of my mother’s support. There I sat in the pit, before a foreign stage, and watched the more 101 Goethe narrowly the movement and the expre... ...hought myself sufficiently well dressed; but it was not long before my fe- male friends, first by gentle raillery, then by sensible remon- strances, c... ...Huguenots, who settled there after the revocation of the edict of Nantes.— American Note. 235 Goethe me. Her ill health kept her constantly at home. ... ...to her: for, in the first place, she never thought of emulating one of the male sex; and, sec- ondly, she believed, that, in regard to religious cultu... ...to her: for, in the first place, she never thought of emulating one of the male sex; and, secondly, she believed, that, in regard to religious culture... ...g class of men in England or America, which would justify an English word.—American Note. 328 Autobiography tained; which he very soon managed to gai...

Full Text Search Details
...t it does. 20. Sticking on and under-propping. Whatever a learned 159 John Locke man may do here, an intelligent American, who inquired into the nat... ...in confu- sion. 6. Another reason for the necessity of names to num- bers. This I think to be the reason why some Americans I have spoken with, (who ... ... that, with language and reason and a shape in other things agreeing with ours, have hairy tails; others where the males have no beards, and others wh... ...s not distinguished by generation. Nor let any one say, that the power of propagation in animals by the mixture of male and female, and in plants by s... ...des, being actions which perish in their birth, are not capable of a lasting duration, as substances which are the actors; and wherein the simple idea... ... without being peremptory in defining the dif- ferent states which creatures shall come into when they go off this stage. It may suffice us, that He h... ...n lost among us, we should in a few ages be unavoidably reduced to the wants and igno- rance of the ancient savage Americans, whose natural endowments...

Full Text Search Details
...posite the fire, on a little table brought to him all ready laid as on the stage. When, therefore, he perceived that Charles’s cheeks grew red if near... ..., and in the niches constellations of gilt paper stars; then on the second stage was a dungeon of Savoy cake, surrounded by many fortifications in can... ...rsecuted la- dies fainting in lonely pavilions, postilions killed at every stage, horses ridden to death on every page, sombre forests, heart- aches, ... ...iosity , he said, while he lived at Rouen, to go to the theatre to see the actors from Paris. He could neither swim, nor fence, nor shoot, and one day... ...d be strong and dark; she would call him George; and this idea of having a male child was like an expected revenge for all her impotence in the past. ... ...erves. She had not eyes enough to look at the cos- tumes, the scenery, the actors, the painted trees that shook when anyone walked, and the velvet cap... ...r for calls. I saw that the very moment that I came in. I’ve the eye of an American!” He did not send the stuff; he brought it. Then he came again to ... ..., near the espalier, and he ground his teeth; he raised to heaven looks of malediction, but not so much as a leaf stirred. A fine rain was falling: Ch...

Full Text Search Details
...RS QUESTIONED When he had finished his speech, the president turned to the male prisoner. “Simeon Kartinkin, rise.” Simeon jumped up, his lips continu... ... away from their regiment any longer, for their leave was fully up. At the stage which Nekhludoff’s selfish mania had now reached he could think of no... ...e afraid of him,” said Khoroshavka, who managed to exchange notes with the male prisoners and knew all that went on in the prison. “He’ll run away, th... ..., and some military men and some civilians stood near them. The clatter of male and female voices went on unceasingly. “Enfin! you seem to have quite ... ...nd this is a thing not only we but many have been considering. There is an American, Henry George. This is what he has thought out, and I agree with h... ...s the Frenchman’s name. Perhaps you’ve heard of him. He makes wigs for the actors in the big theatre; it is a good business, so he’s prospering. He bo... ...suddenly uncovered his face, and smiled a very real-looking smile, such as actors express joy with, and began again with a sweet, gentle voice: “Yet t... ...lova’s would shape if she were acquitted. He remembered the thought of the American writer, Thoreau, who at the time when slavery existed in America s...

Full Text Search Details
...d, impressive, highly pictorial.” JOE KNOEFLER in the L.A. Times: “...an American writer gifted with...perception and sensitivity.” FRANK TANNENBA... ...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... ...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 ... ...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 78 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... ...ssessed, subtracted from physical ailment and sickness of mind. Surely the stage was not intended for a single player. Stratford February 2nd, ...

Full Text Search Details
...aph theory and matrix theory. The authors thank Dr. Minh Perez of the American Research Press for his constant support and encouragement towards... ...n of the threshold function is used as the input vector for the (t+1) th stage. This new input vector again is operated on the connection matrix. T... ...g decision support systems to simulate the process of decision making by “actors” within the system [19-23]. With the introduction of mechanisms p... ...nt input vectors. The main conclusion made are: They are in a redefined stage of thinking on the web at any given time. These stages are unique an... ... 0) ∈ D, after updating and thresholding the instantaneous vector at each stage we obtain the following chain G 1 → H 1 → G 2 → H 1 FIGURE: 1... ...ool of refugees, waiting in a political refugee camp in Turkey to get the American visa, a% have the chance to be accepted – where a varies in the s... ...re generally biologically stronger as new-borns than boys. The birth of a male child is a time for celebration, but the birth of female child is oft... ...hennai, March 2000. 4. Ashbacher, C. Introduction to Neutrosophic Logic, American Research Press, Rehoboth, 2002. http://www.gallup.unm.edu/~smar...

Full Text Search Details
...s? Even the ones they claim to have been dictated by gods or aliens? Even if American copyright law requires “an author,” presumably a human one? 9 Ca... ...r the films of the Second World War, or footage on the daily lives of African-Americans during segregation, or the music of the Great Depression, or th... ...simpler, but the broad strokes are the same.) Since that point, in two broad stages, we have moved away from this system at the very moment in history... ...hey were successful. 36 As Yochai Benkler puts it, Alice Randall, an African American woman, was ordered by a government official not to publish her cr... ...ates, and eventually a blueprint for our systems of com- munication. At this stage, the range of possibilities is extremely wide. A lot of different c... ...ar end lies the Internet and the online version of the human genome. At each stage, copying costs are lowered and goods become both less rival and les... ...ruling sounded reasonable and clear, something that would only strike at bad actors while paying heed to the Sony Axiom and the assurance of safety th... ...-mockery, as it explores the concerns of the rich African-American celebrity male. My favorite line is “If you ain’t no punk, holler ‘We want prenup!!... ...l, who uses her sexuality for profit. Put them together and you have bookends—male fantasy and male nightmare. Was that Mr. West’s point? Perhaps. The ...

Full Text Search Details
...VIII. procured his divorce from Katharine of Arragon to the pleas on which American wives obtain divorces (for instance, “mental anguish” caused by th... ... female adultery is malversation by the woman and theft by the man, whilst male adultery with an unmarried woman is not an offence at all. But though ... ...Shaw females lose their sex altogether and become workers sup- porting the males in luxury and idleness until the queen has found her mate, when the q... ...rous emergencies: in short, for treating their lives as more valuable than male lives, is not in the least a chivalrous reason, though men may consent... ...her, not by formal abolition, but by simple disuse. The private con- tract stage of this process was reached in ancient Rome. The only practicable alt... ...be said: it would be let alone as it always is let alone during the cruder stages of civiliza- tion. But the moment we refer to the facts, we discover... ...h parties as in Sweden, not to mention the experiments made by some of the American States, would have shaken society to its foundations. Yet they hav... ...ust not blind us to the fact that he is (to use the word coined by certain American writers to describe themselves) something of a Varietist. Even tho... ...avelled first class with a third-class ticket, and then tried to go on the stage. But they wouldnt have him. He called himself Egerton Fotheringay. TH...

Full Text Search Details
... 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... ...n works of piety and autobiog- raphy. Interesting as the origins and early stages of a subject always are, yet when one seeks earnestly for its full s... ...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 ... ... piety do not reach back so far. And if fetishism and magic be regarded as stages of reli- gion, one may say that personal religion in the in- ward se... ...tion thus becomes a verbal one again; and our knowledge of all these early stages of thought and feeling is in any case so conjectural and imperfect t... ...on the sly, and this fact, together with my jealousy of another one of her male admirers and my own conscience despising me for my uncontrollable weak... ...h between the two Ideals. The carnivo- rous-minded “strong man,” the adult male and can- nibal, can see nothing but mouldiness and morbid- ness in the... ...Bad, between Friends and Foes, between Father and Child, Husband and Wife, Male or Female; but all would have been turned topsy-turvy, by being expose...

Full Text Search Details
...in which not one of that hero’s mille e tre adventures is brought upon the stage? To propitiate you, let me explain myself. You will retort that I nev... ...end. Why are our occa- sional attempts to deal with the sex problem on the stage so repulsive and dreary that even those who are most deter- mined tha... ...Hogarth or the XVII Bunyan, had got past the Dickens-Macaulay Dumas-Guizot stage and the Stendhal-Meredith-T urgenieff stage, and were confronted with... ... and then disparage it as unworthy and indelicate. We laugh at the haughty American nation be- cause it makes the negro clean its boots and then prove... ...licacy would initiate any effort in that direction. There are no limits to male hypocrisy in this mat- ter. No doubt there are moments when man’s sexu... ...ng about our imperial destiny; but our eyes and hearts turn eagerly to the American millionaire. As his hand goes down to his pocket, our fingers go u... ...ighton and the south coast with the Riviera, for the spending money of the American T rusts. What is all this growing love of pag- eantry, this effusi... ... premier; for it is not in reason to suppose that a second such attractive male figure should appear in one story. The slim shapely frame, the elegant... ...N. I thought so, sir. Morality sent to the devil to please our libertines, male and female. That is to be the fu- ture of England, is it? TANNER. Oh, ...

Excerpt Details
...n India, along much of the coast of Africa, and in the ports of China and Japan, is still to be heard, in its home country, in half a hundred varying stages of transition. You may go all over the States, and -- setting aside the actual intrusion and influence of foreigners, negro, French, or Chinese -- you shall scarce meet with so marked a difference of accent as in the f...

Full Text Search Details
...an, is still to be heard, in its home country, in half a hundred vary- ing stages of transition. You may go all over the States, and – setting aside t... ...ll we eager him to eat of it himself. The same spirit inspired Miss Bird’s American missionaries, who had come thousands of miles to change the faith ... ... their ignorance of the religions they were trying to supplant. I quote an American in this connection without scruple. Uncle Sam is better than John ... ...the largest, to a clique of states; and the whole scope and atmosphere not American, but merely Yankee. I will go far beyond him in reprobating the as... ...h English children begin to grow up and come to themselves in life. As the stage of the Uni- versity approaches, the contrast becomes more express. Th... ...ci- plined and drilled by proctors. Nor is this to be regarded merely as a stage of education; it is a piece of privilege be- sides, and a step that s... ...- tered by another hand, came on the stage itself and was played by bodily actors; the other, originally known as Semiramis: A Tragedy, I have observe... ...tely stem. In boyhood, as he told me once, speaking in that tone that only actors and the old-fashioned common folk can use nowadays, his 38 Robert L... ...ir, an abstraction, an excuse for talk, a logical Aunt Sally, then may the male debater instantly abandon hope; he may employ reason, adduce facts, be...