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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...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, ...

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Sappho's Journal

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...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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The Religious Dimension

By: Donald Broadribb

..., University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1953. The Spiritual Legacy of The American Indian, by Joseph Epes Brown. © 1982 by Joseph Epes Brown. Reprint... ..., New York, 1972. The paper by Paul Radin “The Religious Experiences of an American Indian” was published in Eranos 18-1950, © Eranos Foundation, Asco... ...ological Mechanism In Mysticism Contrasting Viewpoints A Chorus Of Powers: American Indian Belief 176 Orenda Deity And Pantheon Time, Space, Direction... ...ft me with a sense of coldness, making me feel a total outsider watching a stage play without a beginning, middle or end, in which I could only be par... ...but it could as easily have been a New Guinea shaman telling her about the malevolent spirit of her dead grandfather. Or a Christian priest warning he... ..., and contributed to the remainder of the book as well, throughout all its stages of preparation. The Conclusion is in many ways a summary of what has... ...us cultures developed the early Hebrew reli- gious culture. In its initial stages Hebrew religious culture was organized along clan and village/city l... ...a role for women proved difficult. Buddhism was a child of its times, when male domination was even more prevalent and taken for granted than now. Ver... ...lace in the religious system determine their social status? The origins of male dominance are lost in the mists of time, proposed explanations are mer...

...What Is Religion? 1Buddhism 16Christianity 59Mysticism 118A Chorus Of Powers: American Indian Belief 176The Sacred Land: Australian Aboriginal Religion 238Conclusion 277References 293The Collected Works Of Carl Jung 299...

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Yellow on the Outside, Shame on the inside : Asian Culture Revealed

By: Chi, Anson

...ually comprised of minorities, not Caucasian. And as everyone knows, Native Americans were here first when they massively outnumbered early European... ...ucasians in America have mixed — blood: Jewish blood, Spanish blood, Native American blood, and even African blood. Also, don't you find it ironic t... ...d since we're the minorities, we've been emblematically segregated as Asian Americans, African Americans, and even Jewish Americans, but the strange... ...hrow a baby off a cliff if it's a girl, only stopping until they conceive a male. In Asian culture, the first son is like winning a biological lotter... ...al. The main reason, obviously, is to get attention, hopefully attracting a male with a strong moral character and benevolent disposition yeah right!... ... Our waiter, also not Japanese even though he's wearing a traditional Jinbei male — kimono brings out a huge sushi boat, full of an assortment of del... ...od. Most people think of Hollywood as the movie capital of the world, where actors and actresses flow like water from a fountain. That's true, for th... ... Gabriel taps me hard on my left shoulder and points to a go-go dancer up on stage near the mezzanine. She is definitely gorgeous, amplified by the f... ...k around and see a voluptuous Vietnamese girl dancing by herself next to the stage. I walk up to her and say Hello. She stares me right in the eyes, ...

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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

By: Sam Vaknin

...andsome world media coverage) and kidnapping for ransom (like the kidnapping of the American Protestant Missionary Ellen Stone - quite a mysterious ... ...urrent nightmare than the numerable German Reichs and Serbia erupted upon the world stage no less frequently and regularly than its northern equival... ...population. The Ustashas committed their deeds in a bestial manner not only against males of conscript age, but especially against helpless old peop... ...d with its self-important figurehead (for instance, in September 1992). Successive American administrations funnelled money into the province and w... ...arxist-Leninist" KLA or its self-appointed government) unequivocally. At a certain stage, he even accused Fatos Nano, his rival and the Prime Minis... ... 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... ...virtuous ideals of democracy and the harsh constraints of realpolitik. At this stage and with elections looming, Hashim Thaci sounds conciliato... ...ion and self-worth was attained through defiance. By relegating them to the role of malevolent heretics, the Orthodox made the sins of the Catholics... ...the majority of the population, purges and back-breaking labour further diminished male life expectancy. As a result of this tragic and brutal hist...

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Aaron's Rod

By: D. H. Lawrence

...cks was very red, the mangle with its put-up board was white-scrubbed, the American oil-cloth on the table had a gay pattern, there was a warm fire, t... ...ritish Government,” and “bad for the people—good for the people,” made him malevolently angry. The doctor was nonplussed for a moment. Then he gath- ... ...o quiet, they had the dangerous impassivity of the Bohemian, Pari- sian or American rather than English. “Cigarette, Julia?” said Robert to his wife. ... ...g; our story continues by night. The box was large and important, near the stage. Josephine and Julia were there, with Robert and Jim—also two more me... ... as impossible to be there without some feeling of horror at the sight the stage presents. Josephine leaned her elbow and looked down: she knew how ar... ...ing that proud, rather stiff bend of her head was. She had some aboriginal American in her blood. But as she looked, she pursed her mouth. The artist ... ..., and looked like a eunuch. This fattish, emasculated look seems common in stage he- roes—even the extremely popular. The tenor sang bravely, his mout... ... can’t stand it that Robert offers to hand her into the taxi.” He gave his malevolent grin round the company, then went out. He did not reappear for t... ... answer. “Did you ever keep count?” Tanny persisted. Jim looked up at her, malevolent. “I believe I did,” he replied. “Forty is the age when a man sho...

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Ann Veronica a Modern Love Story

By: H. G. Wells

... one profession, the one decent profession, I mean, for a woman—except the stage—is teaching, and there we trample on one another. Everywhere else—the... ... is. In all the species of animals the females are more important than the males; the males have to please them. Look at the cock’s feathers, look at ... ...d oxen and things all have to fight for us, everywhere. Only in man is the male made the most impor- tant. And that happens through our maternity; it’... ...al conquering the essential. Originally in the first animals there were no males, none at all. It has been proved. Then they appear among the lower th... ...said Ann Veronica. “It has been proved,” said Miss Miniver, and added, “by American professors.” “But how did they prove it?” “By science,” said Miss ... ...the profession.” “Oh!” said Ann V eronica. “I thought they made knights of actors?” “They may of Hal some day,” said Gwen. “But it’s a long business.”... ...rs. Warren’s Profession furtively with Hetty Widgett from the gallery of a Stage Society performance one Mon- day afternoon. Most of it had been incom... ...ean to fight this through if I possibly can.” “My God!” said Manning, in a stage-aside. “Earning a salary!” 99 H. G . Wells “You’re like a Princess i...

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Chronicles of the Canongate

By: Sir Walter Scott

... INTRODUCTION All who are acquainted with the early history of the Italian stage are aware that Arlecchino is not, in his original concep- tion, a mer... ...ll appear from the following theatrical anecdote:— An actor on the Italian stage permitted at the Foire du St. Germain, in Paris, was renowned for the... ...ed with it. The author, so long and loudly called for, has appeared on the stage, and made his obeisance to the audi- ence. Thus far his conduct is a ... ...rge theatre with benches continu- ally empty, to the discouragement of the actors and the dis- comfort of the spectators. (Applause.) He then commente... ...y grandsire, the inditer of this goodly matter, was rather lengthy, as our American friends say. Indeed, I reserve the rest of the piece until I can o... ...y incline to the account of my previous life, and bestowed some High- land maledictions, more emphatic than courteous, on Christie Steele’s reception ... ...et terrible in their tenor, used frequently to extort, through fear of her maledictions, the relief which was denied to her necessities; and the tremb... ... his mother, in the first burst of her impatience, showering after him her maledictions, and in the next invoking them on her own head, so that they m... ...rvade every civilized country. Amongst their mountains, as among the North American Indians, the various tribes were wont to make war upon each other,...

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The French Revolution a History Volume Three

By: Thomas Carlyle

...ed tough fellow-mortal our farewell. His Figaro has returned to the French stage; nay is, at this day, sometimes named the best piece there. And indee... ... heights, are peaceable masters of Verdun. And so Brunswick advances, from stage to stage: who shall now stay him,—covering forty miles of country? Fo... ...of Orleans; was the good Duke de la Rochefoucault. He journeying, by quick stages, with his Mother and Wife, towards the Waters of Forges, or some qui... ...ate Tronchet, some ten years older, does not decline. Nay behold, good old Malesherbes steps forward voluntarily; to the last of his fields, the good ... ...le. For this do Deseze and Tronchet plead, with brief eloquence: brave old Malesherbes pleads for it with eloquent want of eloquence, in broken senten... ... tears. (Moniteur (in Hist. Parl. xxiii. 210). See Boissy d’Anglas, Vie de Malesherbes, ii. 139.)—They reject the Appeal to the People; that having be... ...) ‘It is the Explosion and New-creation of a World,’ says Foster; ‘and the actors in it, such small mean objects, buzzing round one like a handful of ... ...uses broken into (by a tumult of Patri- ots, among whom red-capped Varlet, American Fournier loom forth, in the darkness of the rain and riot); had th... ...in, yet destroyed and engulphed. Terror has long been terrible: but to the actors themselves it has now become manifest that their appointed course is...

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The French Revolution a History Volume Two

By: Thomas Carlyle

...au, are flung wide open to King Mirabeau, the cynosure of Europe, whom fe- male France flutters to behold,—though the Man Mirabeau is one and the same... ... sea cockfight it is, and of the hottest; where British Serapis and French-American Bon Homme Richard do lash and throttle each other, in their fashio... ... working in them; and withal has quarrels enough with Dame le Jay, his Fe- male Bookseller, so ultra-compliant otherwise. (See Dumont: Souvenirs, 6.) ... ...s of Federates, of this Fed- eration, will have enough to do! Harangue of ‘American Committee, ’ among whom is that faint figure of Paul Jones ‘as wit... ...eaded in vain? Such visual spectra flit across this Earth, if the Thespian Stage be rudely interfered with: but much more, when, as was said, Pit jump... ... be rudely interfered with: but much more, when, as was said, Pit jumps on Stage, then is it verily, as in Herr Tieck’s Drama, a Verkehrte Welt, of Wo... ...iclers are trustworthy, as was not witnessed since the Age of Gold. Paris, male and female, precipitates itself towards its South-west extremity, spad... ...ranc etrier, on that old Herb- merchant’s route, quickened during the last stages, has got to Varennes; where the Ten thousand now furiously demand, w... ...ournalist Carra, Camille Desmoulins, Alsatian Westermann friend of Danton, American Fournier of Martinique;—a Committee not unknown to Mayor Petion, w...

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Bleak House

By: Charles Dickens

... are—mistily engaged in one of the ten thou 7 Bleak House – Dickens sand stages of an endless cause, tripping one another up on slippery precedents,... ... that day week, amply provided with all necessaries, I left it, inside the stagecoach, for Reading. Mrs. Rachael was too good to feel any emotion at p... ...nleaf, seeing in those around me, as it might be in a looking glass, every stage of my own growth and change there, when, one November morning, I rece... ...– Dickens ain, the Sisters of all the cardinal virtues separately, the Fe males of America, the Ladies of a hundred denominations. They appeared to b... ...ith another blot headed candle in his hand. “Pray is your lodger within?” “Male or female, sir?” says Mr. Krook. “Male. The person who does copying.” ... ...ut Boodle and his retinue, and Buffy and his retinue. These are the great actors for whom the stage is reserved. A People there are, no doubt—a certa... ...g up at me. I felt all through the performance that he never looked at the actors but constantly looked at me, and always with a carefully prepared ex... ... but still a demon of the patrician order. All the Dedlocks, in the direct male line, through a course of time during and beyond which the memory of m... ...ghts as I lie here. T ake an extreme case. T ake the case of the slaves on American plantations. I dare say they are worked hard, I dare say they don’...

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Laws of Destiny Never Disappear : Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World

By: Matti Sarmela

...the crop to ripen. In cultivating flooded fields, the heaviest and hardest stage is the ploughing, but in swidden cultivation, the vegetation must be ... ...inese extraction. From the perspective of this book, the city takes centre stage during celebrations of great annual festivals, and it includes pictur... ...widdens have become gardens where forest that has barely reached the scrub stage is burned, and soil fertility is maintained by fertilizers. Efforts h... ...s to use genetic modification to produce and patent a variety suitable for American conditions. Potential cultivation of Jasmine rice by American supe... ...vely to men. Women have done sewing and handicrafts, but tailors are often male, as was the case in Finnish villages; today, young men are already see... ... produced, and they have rather tended to be TV serials; cinemas show many American movies as is the case elsewhere in Asia. From citizen to gl... ...ar, the groom on the bride's right. Each has their assistants, the groom a male best man, the bride one or two bridesmaids, who take charge of the mon... ...on, to deliver him a Songkran greeting. This ceremony was deemed to be too male-oriented, and a new celebratory tradition was created to better reflec... ... US army during the Korean war; sex trade has always flourished around all American military bases. In 1983, it was said that there was only one broth...

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The Soul Bearer

By: Jonathan Cross

... 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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Fuzzy Cognitive Maps and Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps

By: W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy and Florentin Smarandache

...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...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

...- Adventures in the New World -- The first white man that ever set foot on the American continent -- Killing of Thorwald by natives -- His last instru... ...- Snakes and crocodiles -- The return to France -- Bougainville in the war for American independence 415- 422 CHAPTER XL. A Brief Biography of Captain... ..................................................... 54 Thorfinn's voyage to the American shores................................. 55 Killing of the firs... ...emale of which is superstitiously believed to lay her eggs on the back of the male who flies about with them until they are hatched; he watched the p... ...to be the last important appearance of either Buccaneers or filibusters on the stage of history. The war with the Grand Alliance had gone against Fran... ...s usually their custom. As soon as they occupied the city, they seized all the male population and locked them Tip in the churches, then issued a proc... ...e with an exactness which is scarcely excelled by the best performers upon the stage of Europe; but the practice which is allowed to the virgin is pro... ...h from the outside. "As soon as one of the family had been selected all of the male members were looked upon as devoted to the same horrid purpose. It... ...i-circle on a table, in front of which lay the remains of a hog in an advanced stage of decay, which were taken up and held out towards Cook. With Koa...

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The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater

By: Thomas de Quincey

............... 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. ...

.......................................................................................... 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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Memorials and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

................................................... 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...

...ience I had found from nervous depression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on my part, without any legal claim that I could plead, or equitable warrant in established usage, solely and merely upon your own spontaneous motion. So...

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

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Miscellaneous Essays

By: Thomas de Quincey

...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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Cousin Betty

By: Honoré de Balzac

... would still be mine; for I, you know, should never have placed her on the stage. She would have lived obscure, well conducted, and mine. Oh! if you c... ...s she humbugs every one—she who knew nothing, not even that word.” At this stage the retired perfumer wiped his eyes, which were full of tears. The si... ...se, at the Theatre des Varietes, had recognized her father in a lower tier stage-box with Jenny Cadine, and had exclaimed: “There is papa!” “You are m... ...few exceptions, who ought to be rewarded with the Montyon prize, the cook, male or female, is a domestic rob- ber, a thief taking wages, and perfectly... ... 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. ... ...are equally applicable to any lady-killing rake; he is, in fact, a sort of male courtesan. Valerie’s last fancy was a madness; above all, she was bent... ...ound him. Where does Madame Nourrisson—yes, that was her name—pick up such actors?” On the following day, Doctor Bianchon allowed the Bar- oness to go... ...quite inexplicable. The disease is peculiar 369 Balzac to negroes and the American tribes, whose skin is differently constituted to that of the white...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 6 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...r- thy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him. In the American Revolutionary war sacrifices were made by men engaged in it, but t... ...r newer States, and less than in some of our larger ones. They are not all American colonists or their descendants. Something less than 12,000 have be... ... so radically changed, for the mo- ment, the occupations and habits of the American people, has necessarily disturbed the social condition, and affect... ..., and also the evidence in his possession upon which some of the principal actors and head men were tried and condemned to death,” I have the honor to... ...sons thus recited, it was enacted by the said statute that all able-bodied male citizens of the United States, and persons of foreign birth who shall ... ...SON ST AGER. W AR DEPARTMENT, W ASHINGTON, D. C., May 24, 1863.10.40 ANSON STAGER, Cleveland, O.: Late last night Fuller telegraphed you, as you say, ... ...t their hands to the paper, it pleased Almighty God to take both from this stage of action. This was indeed an extraordinary and remarkable event in o... ...braham Lincoln: V ol Six President, five years after, was called from this stage of exist- ence on the same day and month of the year; and now on this... ...ong the exceptions are the massacre of vanquished foes and non-combatants, male and female. But the proclamation, as law, either is valid or is not va...

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The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. : A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne : Written by Himself : Book Two

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

... enormous compli- ment to a woman, and some outrageous panegyric about fe- male virtue, I always feel sure that the Captain and his better half have f... ...and in a land that is independent in all but the name, (for that the North American colonies shall remain dependants on yon- der little island for twe... ...e fourth year of his reign, upon Thomas Viscount Castlewood and the heirs- male of his body, in default of which issue the ranks and digni- ties were ... ...Beatrix, you should retire off the scene awhile, and leave it to the other actors of the play.” As the Colonel spoke with a perfect calmness and polit... ...eath on the next day. And these two forming the whole of Lady Castlewood’s male domestics, Mr. Esmond’s faithful John Lockwood came to wait on his mis... ...e had done; he was seven hours a-head of us still when we reached the last stage. We rode over Castlewood Downs before the breaking of dawn. We passed...

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The Two Sides of the Shield

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...ng about it!’ ‘They can’t mend,’ said Mysie. ‘Besides, do you know, in the American war, all the sewing-machines in the Southern States got out of ord... ...It has quite put out the Desert Island passion, which used to be a regular stage in these children’s lives. Every voyage we have taken, somebody has c... ...ne; she has not learned to be laughed at yet, and has not come even to the stage for being taught to bear it.’ ‘She looks fit to turn the cream sour,’... ...that a person answering to his description had embarked at Liverpool in an American-bound steamer. This idea, though very uncertain, was a relief, at ... ...he French original existed in the house, and Fly started the idea that the male performers should speak En- glish and the female French; but this was ... ...olute best.’ The performance went off beautifully—at least so thought both actors and spectators. The dignity of the Bailli and the meddling of the dr... ...and the least successful personation was that of Gillian, who had a fit of stage-fright, forgot sentences, and whirred her spinning- wheel nervously, ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...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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The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet

By: George Bernard Shaw

...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...

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Dark Lady of the Sonnets

By: George Bernard Shaw

...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...

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The French Revolution a History Volume One

By: Thomas Carlyle

... with their pasteboard coulisses, thunder-barrels, their kettles, fiddles, stage-wardrobes, portable larders (and chaffering and quarrelling enough); ... ...ndemn to death for preaching, ‘put in execution.’ (Boissy d’Anglas, Vie de Malesherbes, i. 15-22.) And, alas, now not so much as Baron Holbach’s Athei... ...ons, it is said, What a spectacle! Now too behold our Deane, our Franklin, American Plenipotentiaries, here in position soliciting; (1777; Deane somew... ...de Figaro; which now (in 1784), after difficulty enough, has issued on the stage; and ‘runs its hundred nights, ’ to the admiration of all men. By wha... ... Darkness? Among the Paris Long-robes there may be more than one patriotic Malesherbes, whose rule is conscience and the public good; there are clearl... ...he heavier; for did it not employ the working- classes too,—manufacturers, male and female, of laces, es- sences; of Pleasure generally, whosoever cou... ... His- torical Scene; and so singular a man as Lomenie de Brienne still the Stage-manager there. Behold, accordingly, a Home-Secretary Breteuil ‘beauti... ...ant glances on the Bust of Lafayette, which has stood there ever since the American War of Liberty. Whereupon, by acclamation, Lafayette is nominated.... ...as Carlyle perpetual pamphlets: and no man to gag them! Neither, as in the American Congress, do the arrangements seem per- fect. A Senator has not hi...

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The French Revolution a History

By: Thomas Carlyle

... with their pasteboard coulisses, thunder-barrels, their kettles, fiddles, stage-wardrobes, portable larders (and chaffering and quarrelling enough); ... ...ndemn to death for preaching, ‘put in execution.’ (Boissy d’Anglas, Vie de Malesherbes, i. 15-22.) And, alas, now not so much as Baron Holbach’s Athei... ...s, it is said, What a spec- tacle! Now too behold our Deane, our Franklin, American Pleni- potentiaries, here in position soliciting; (1777; Deane som... ... Figaro; which now (in 1784), after difficulty enough, has is- sued on the stage; and ‘runs its hundred nights, ’ to the admira- tion of all men. By w... ... Darkness? Among the Paris Long-robes there may be more than one patriotic Malesherbes, whose rule is conscience and the public good; there are clearl... ...he heavier; for did it not employ the working-classes too,— manufacturers, male and female, of laces, essences; of Pleasure generally, whosoever could... ...er Historical Scene; and so singular a man as Lomenie de Brienne still the Stage-manager there. Behold, accordingly, a Home-Secretary Breteuil ‘beauti... ...ant glances on the Bust of Lafayette, which has stood there ever since the American War of Liberty. Whereupon, by acclamation, Lafayette is nominated.... ...ning forth perpetual pamphlets: and no man to gag them! Neither, as in the American Con- gress, do the arrangements seem perfect. A Senator has not hi...

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Travels in England during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth

By: Paul Hentzner

...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 ...

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The Wife and Other Stories

By: Anton Tchekhov

...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 ...

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Essays

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

... 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...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume One

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...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...

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Autobiography Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life

By: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

...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...

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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

By: John Locke

...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...

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Madame Bovary

By: Gustave Flaubert

...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...

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Resurrection

By: Mrs. Louis Maude

...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...

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The Chaplet of Pearls

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...light of steps leading into a square walled garden, with a couple of stone male and female ma- rine divinities accommodating their fishy extremities a... ...ng in indignant distress, and the bantering, indo- lent determination of a male annoyer. ‘Hark!’ exclaimed Berenger; ‘this must be seen to.’ ‘Have a c... ... a great and terrible tragedy, whose first act was being played out on the stage where they schemed and sported, like their own little drama, which wa... ...t in that weak, unwilling heart. It was not till the memoirs of the secret actors in this tragedy were brought to light that the key to these doings w... ...ble gallery accommodated the audience, and left full space beneath for the actors. Down the centre of the stage flowed a stream, broad enough to conta... ...dience, and left full space beneath for the actors. Down the centre of the stage flowed a stream, broad enough to contain a boat, which was plied by t... ...of Pearls galimatias of mythology, a pasteboard cloud was propelled on the stage, and disclosed the deities Mercury and Cupid, who made a complimentar... ... and he was no more than a French duke distantly related to royalty in the male line, and more nearly through his grandmother and bride. The eight hun... ...in general the scum of the nation—were apt to comport themselves more like American buccaneers than like champions of any form of religion. La Sableri...

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An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks Upon Contemporary Matters

By: H. G. Wells

..................................................................... 182 THE AMERICAN POPULATION .......................................................... ...ory of this development and arrive at any other conclusion. The French and Americans can laugh at our aeroplanes, the Ger- mans are ten years ahead of... ...lf and dominate the tailor- ing of the world, while Brazilians, Frenchmen, Americans and Germans fly. That we are hopelessly behindhand in aeronautics... ...getting up. We wrote with vast gravity about “starting rails” and “landing stages,” and it is still true that landing an aeroplane, except upon a well... ...hen coasted round to Spain and into the Mediterranean. And so by leisurely stages to India. And the East Indies.... I find my study unattractive to-da... ...imum of 5s., may be clever, but it is certainly not politic in the present stage of Labour feeling. To stamp violently upon obscure newspa- pers nobod... ...tinual repetitions. Now this human over-life may take either beneficent or maleficent or neutral aspects towards the general life of hu- manity. It ma... ...uality of this American tradi- tion of unconditional freedom for the adult male citizen. I have shown that from the point of view of anyone who re- ga... ...ion. It may be that this is incorrect, and that in devotion to an accepted male and his children most women do still and will continue to find their g...

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Getting Married and Preface to Getting Married

By: George Bernard Shaw

...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...

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Man and Superman a Comedy and a Philosophy

By: George Bernard Shaw

...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, ...

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...e dark and grimy counter, strewed with old feathers, old yellow hoots, old stage mantles, painted masks, blind and yet gazing at you with a look of sa... ...f Illyria. “I have already drawn it,” says I, “with my spurs.” “Malheur et malediction!” roared the Marshal. “Hadn’t you better settle your wig?” says... ...f my whiskers gone; whereas at the same moment, and shriek- ing a horrible malediction, my adversary reeled and fell. “Mon Dieu, il est mort!” cried N... ...ving heart had nothing to cling to. Her splendid mansion was a convent; no male person even entered it, except Franklin Fox, (who counted for nothing,... .... I have seen no grandee of V ersailles that has the noble bearing of this American envoy and his suite. They have the refinement of the Old W orld, w... ...ne good service elsewhere than at Quebec,” the King said, appealing to the American Envoy: “at Bunker’s Hill, at Brandywine, at Y ork Island? Now that... ...ely Antoinette flashed fire, but it played round the head of the dauntless American Envoy harmless as the lightning which he knew how to conjure away.... ...w the youth did his foes engage; and at length they went off in the Gretna stage, the high-born dame and the peasant page. W olfgang beat time, waggle... ...(Have you not remarked, dear friend, how often in novel- books, and on the stage, joy is announced by the above burst of insensate monosyllables?) “To...

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Twice Told Tales

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...for a new St. Bartholomew!” cried others. “We are to be massacred, man and male child!” Neither was this rumor wholly discredited, although the wiser ... ...s of the congregation, many of the middle aged, and nearly all the younger males. Pearson found it difficult to sustain their united and disapproving ... ..., while she undid the door, and stood up in the sacred desk from which his maledictions had just been thundered. She then divested herself of the cloa... ...dition of the narrative, with a voice like a field preacher, when the mail stage drove into the village street. It had trav- elled all night, and must... ...alled me to his bedside, and gave me two dollars and fifty cents to pay my stage fare, and another dollar for my extra expenses. He then laid his pock... ...woke in the next street to his home, he is as effectually abroad as if the stage-coach had been whirl- ing him away all night. Yet, should he reappear... ...ge than General George Washington; and the other principal officers of the American army, such as Gates, Lee, Putnam, Schuyler, Ward and Heath, were r... ...ernard, and of the well-remembered Hutchinson; thereby confessing that the actors, whoever they might be, in this spectral march of governors, had suc... ...night. However this might be, such knowledge has never become general. The actors in the scene have vanished into deeper obscurity than even that wild...

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The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. : A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne : Written by Himself

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...SMOND, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING TRIN- ITY COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE. T HE ACTORS IN THE OLD TRAGEDIES, as we read, piped their iambics to a tune, spe... ...Castlewood (the second Viscount), of King Charles the First’s time, had no male issue save his one son, Eustace Esmond, who was killed, with half of t... ...ferring the title of Marquis of Esmond on my Lord Castlewood and the heirs-male of his body; his appointment as Lord-Lieutenant of the County, and Maj... ...and tearful eyes conveyed them. Then, perhaps, the pair reached that other stage which is not uncommon in married life, when the woman perceives that ... ...not to be imagined that Harry Esmond had all this experience at this early stage of his life, whereof he is now writing the history—many things here n... ...ordingly, he took leave of Castlewood, proposing to ride to London by easy stages, and lie two nights upon the road. His host treated him with a stud-... ...fiddlers, laced clothes, fine furniture, and parasites, Jew and Christian, male and female, who clung to him. As, according to the famous maxim of Mon... ...he lobby: and as he sat on the stage more people looked at him than at the actors, and watched him; and I remember at Ramillies, when he was hit and f... ... is independent in all but the name, (for that 350 Henry Esmond the North American colonies shall remain dependants on yon- der little island for twe...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...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, ... ...Easton Police Department and relayed what he had heard. 45 Also at 8:52, a male flight attendant called a United office in San Francisco, reaching Mar... ...ss. Although the Boston Center air traffic controller realized at an early stage that there was something wrong with American 11, he did not immediate... ...ent. And, as a Palestinian, he saw Israel as the top priority for the next stage. 26 Whether the dispute was about power, personal differences, or str... ...s, missile defense, and glob- alization.Terrorism infrequently took center stage; and when it did, the con- text was often terrorists’ tactics—a chemi... ...was to land the tenth plane at a U.S. airport and, after killing all adult male passengers on board and alerting the media, deliver a speech excoriati... ...ter the move, Bayoumi used their apartment for a party attended by some 20 male members of the Muslim community.At Bayoumi’s request, Bin Don videotap...

...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...

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Memories and Portraits

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...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...

...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...

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