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...mational storage and retrieval system, without express permission in writing from the publishers. ISBN: 978-1-932695-79-3 “Scripture taken from the N... ...ting from the publishers. ISBN: 978-1-932695-79-3 “Scripture taken from the New Century V ersion. Copyright © 2005 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by ... ...s Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.” “Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®, Copyright © 1960,1962,1963,1968,19... ... Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.” “Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®, Copyright © 1960,1962,1963,1968,1971,1972,1... ...5,1977,1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.” “Scripture taken from the New King James V ersion. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, I... ...95 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.” “Scripture taken from the New King James V ersion. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used ... ..., holding our hands, and also walking ahead of us. My interview with the New York editor went well. No, I didn’t receive a contract, but to God’s cred... ...arden, FL.. She also plans travel for the Lake Highland Prep School Academy Singers of Orlando and writes creative entertainment programs for Family ...
...New York City Ades Web Magazine 2010/01 New York City 3 Bridges 13 Buildings 92 Central Park 102 From The Empire St... ...New York City Ades Web Magazine 2010/01 New York City 3 Bridges 13 Buildings 92 Central Park 102 From The Empire State ... ...Magazine 2010/01 New York City 3 Bridges 13 Buildings 92 Central Park 102 From The Empire State Building 120 Inside 137 Liberty And Ellis Islands 150... ...rly morning 6 N e w Y o r k C i t y Ades web magazine the brooklyn bridge from fulton pArk , dumbo , brooklyn 7 N e w Y o r k C i t y Ades web magazi... ...Ano bridge 9 N e w Y o r k C i t y Ades web magazine the mAnhAttAn bridge from the brooklyn bridge 10 N e w Y o r k C i t y Ades web magazine the mA... ...ke 204 N e w Y o r k C i t y Ades web magazine sniper policemAn reAdy for new yeAr 's eve - times squAre 205 N e w Y o r k C i t y Ades web magazine ... ...gazine mAdison squAre gArden 282 N e w Y o r k C i t y Ades web magazine new jersey , mAnhAttAn And the brooklyn bridge from stAten islAnd 283 N e w... ...nhAttAn - chAmbers st 382 N e w Y o r k C i t y Ades web magazine mexicAn singers - slightly blurred And out of focus shot 383 N e w Y o r k C i t y ...
...Bright lights, towering skyscrapers, frantic people: welcome to the Big Apple! New York City is one of the most fascinating cities in the entire world and its museums, restaurants, night-life, architecture and trends will conquer you...
...Fantasy/Romance By Gracie C. McKeever New Life Incognita New Life Incognita by Gracie C. McKeever 2 Fictionwise ... ...s displayed using 100% recycled electrons. Distributed by Fictionwise.com New Life Incognita by Gracie C. McKeever 3 PROLOGUE Current Day—Spring Brea... ...acie C. McKeever 3 PROLOGUE Current Day—Spring Break Ends Reece University—New York Campus Kelly should have listened to his brother. Nevery was his b... ... C. McKeever 3 PROLOGUE Current Day—Spring Break Ends Reece University—New York Campus Kelly should have listened to his brother. Nevery was his boy, ... ...sest, older sib who'd never steered him crooked, had only taught him right from wrong, good from bad—more like their now-dead father than a brother. H... ... he? He couldn't be— "No Ben." Amire shook her head, adamant as she pulled from Ben to stare at the lifeless body sprawled across the bottom of the co... ...ed her to a seat on the bottom step of the campus stairs. She was bleeding from a shoulder and a leg. What the hell had happened to her? Had she been ... ...w Life Incognita by Gracie C. McKeever 12 CHAPTER 1 Current Day—Spring New York Downtown Hospital Something was sitting on his chest like a nightmare.... ...dows to better hear the dreamy violin strains backing the harmonizing male singers as they belted out a pure song with deep sentiments of being inside...
...ences in my life * Young people don't want to farm * Life is dying out from irrigation canals * Should we have more development Villages and... ...of the pillar house 64 * Building practices 68 Equipment of living 69 From buffalo to motor car 69 * Conveniences of living 71 * Triumph of h... ...pound 41 * Making a communal living 43 * Childhood environments 45 * From village school to university 46 School of life 47 From villager ... ...Farmer's festival calendar 172 * Modern annual festivals 173 * Chinese New Year 175 Songkran 176 New Year of Thai culture 176 * Programme of... ...ugs ever younger. In many countries, including Finland, young girls of the new, free generation have adopted behaviour patterns of gender equality and... ...s individual people and communities adapt to changes in the environment, a new cultural response is created, a new human ecosystem, where old structur... ... houses, nor paintings - the walls are hung with pictures of the king, pop singers and film stars, and calendars, but some have acquired carved teak p... ... Ordinary Thai faces are only seen occasionally on TV news. Neither do pop singers on TV sing like people in Thailand used to sing. Their voices do no... ...le is tending towards the Western. Pop stars sing in the same style as pop singers on all the world's televisions. In Thailand, lightening shampoos, l...
...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author... ... taken with Bartlett’s work and commend it highly.” CHARLES POORE in The New York Times: “...believable characters who are stirred by intensely per... ...en with Bartlett’s work and commend it highly.” CHARLES POORE in The New York Times: “...believable characters who are stirred by intensely persona... ...ure artist, Bartlett writes with ease and taste.” J. DONALD ADAMS in The New York Times: “...the freshest, most vital writing I have seen for some ... ...and poetry. Our most recent publication is the remarkable quintet, Voices from the Past, by bestselling author Paul Alexander Bartlett, whose novel,... ...hanges to its content, provided that both the author and the original URL from which this work was obtained are mentioned, that the contents of this ... ...o tell us? Had the fog tricked the fleet? Changing my clothes, putting on new sandals, I walked to the pier and the seagulls screamed and we waited ... ... together...played cards, talked about my Anghiari...when she posed I had singers for her... I loaned her little sums; she lent me money; she sent m... ...ness, out of the wilderness...” I turned in mighty late that night, yet singers were still singing, singing “Gen- tle Annie” and other favorites. ...
...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private world...
...her to foster curiosity about past Information Technology. Paraphrased from Henry Hobhouse’s introduction to Seeds of Change. Table of Contents... ... Francis Bacon. . CHAPTERS 1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke? From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet?... ...allucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. 2. T... ...aissance. By changing the structure of words and sentences, the monk from York makes writing forever easier to read. 9. Largest Land Empire Ever ... ... ―As long as scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, new scientific knowledge will flow to those who can apply it to practical ... ... about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds,... ...in a university print shop that made textbooks with offset machines and a new variety of mimeograph that duplicated the original to make the master ... ...nformation technology. Mnemonics skills that once worked well for poet-singers‘ stories failed to meet the needs of an economic species that irri... ...ient postal system. The Great Wall that stretched farther than from New York to Los Angeles. The 1,103-mile Grand Canal ‗s locks could lift boa...
...s with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books....
...1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke?-From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sen...
...on ceremonies or reading their mandates became irrelevant. Yang Lin, parting from their movement toward the steps that led toward the Royal Museum, be... ...and letting a cigarette dangle limp in a frown, Sang Huin realized that this new friend of his was not just straying off briefly, so he gradually went... ...tely something that was not wanted. It stayed with him on the bus. On a ride from the Nambu Bus Terminal to Chongju, Sang Huin's sleep was spastic lik... ...iguk." Sometimes at the primary school in Muguk he would ask, "Where are you from?" Then once, in a coaching effort for the pitch of a complete sente... ...nts at a language institute but stayed contained to his own students and his new friend, Sung Ki. That night they slept together; and the boy that had... ... was his friend. Still, Koreans, as addicted as they were to pagers and the new popularity of cellular telephones, could not easily dangle them from ... ...rre and sadistic ramifications were buried each day on page 1,999 of the New York Times. She would always read voraciously and thereby find their cada... ...ontemplated her isolated existence in an obscure trailer park in Ithaca, New York within the middle of winter in contrast to the crowds of Iraqi and A... ...t to him as to other foreigners, "Taxi cab! Border line, Mister!"; mariachi singers; zebra wagons for tourist photos; Burger King; stores with rectan...
...n outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca New York who manifests a more open and less asphyxiating rebellion against society...
...her to foster curiosity about past Information Technology. Paraphrased from Henry Hobhouse’s introduction to Seeds of Change. Table of Contents... ... Francis Bacon. . CHAPTERS 1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke? From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet?... ...allucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. 2. T... ...aissance. By changing the structure of words and sentences, the monk from York makes writing forever easier to read. 9. Largest Land Empire Ever ... ... ―As long as scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, new scientific knowledge will flow to those who can apply it to practical ... ... about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds,... ...in a university print shop that made textbooks with offset machines and a new variety of mimeograph that duplicated the original to make the master ... ... information technology. Mnemonics skills that once worked well for poet-singers‘ stories failed to meet the needs of an economic species that irri... ...ient postal system. The Great Wall that stretched farther than from New York to Los Angeles. The 1,103-mile Grand Canal ‗s locks could lift boa...
...s with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books. This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Tech...
... ...............................................................................................................................103 RETREATING FROM R... ...study our field—to throw suspicion off ourselves. ―We are afraid we won‘t be seen as logical. People are more likely to do something from a... ...nnings of psychology to begin to focus seriously on our motivations. Just as the great religious leaders seem to be climbing the same mountain from d... ...of the nest in place. Marais took some of these finch eggs and removed them from their environment and had them hatched by canaries. When the new fi... ...ing which there was no contact with their parents, with nests, or with nest building materials. After the fourth generation Marais allowed the new bi... ...y that they don‘t have control over their behavior, except in court then they are looking for excuses for their anti-social actions. ―New br... ...1920‘s songstress whose ample body produced the powerful tunes that rocked the speakeasies of the 20s. Sophie was one of America‘s most famous singer... ...and be firm against them, their abode is Hell-- an evil refuge indeed.‘ (6a) ―We wonder if the violence we see on the streets of New York o... ... largest stage spanning one end of the area and the giant Egyptian pyramid revolving above it, the unamplified voices of the world‘s greatest singer...
...E THINK WE KNOW? 155 EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE 159 THEORY AS A START TO SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY 162 HISTORICAL EVIDENCE 163 EVOLUTION 171 ACCEPTING OUR KNOWLEDGE FROM AUTHORITY 176 PERSONAL EXPERIENCE 181 FAITH 182 REASON 184 BUT WE ARE PSYCHOLOGICAL BEINGS 185 THE PROCESS OF REASONING 185 OPINIONS AND SEEKING EXPERTISE 189 SEMANTICS 191 CONFLICTSINVALUES 199 MORALS OR ETHICS ARE NOT ...
...How You Can Em Erg E Strong from t HE w orld Cri Si S Bail Y ourself Out laitman Kabbala H Pu bli S... ...ISBN 978-1-897448-27-4 50500 Bail Y ourself Out How Y ou Can Emerge Strong from the w orld Crisis Bail Y Ourself Out Michael l aitman, PhD m ... ...g process will guarantee that we and our families can indeed prosper in a new world of peace and plenty. Michael laitMan, P hD b lack and PmS 186 LA... ...ERS Michael Laitman, PhD Bail Yourself Out How You Can Emerge Strong from the World Crisis BAIL YoURSELf oUT : How YoU C AN EMERgE S TRoNg fR... ... oN, M2R 3X1, Canada Bnei Baruch USA, 2009 85th Street #51, Brooklyn, New York, 11214, USA Printed in Canada No part of this book may be used ... ...N, M2R 3X1, Canada Bnei Baruch USA, 2009 85th Street #51, Brooklyn, New York, 11214, USA Printed in Canada No part of this book may be used or r... ...HIEVINg EqUILIBRIUM ................ 59 Chapter 10: How the Arts Can Model New Attitudes ... 61 films of Hope ...................................... ...by itself. To complete the shift in our thinking, we must engage actors, singers, and other public idols and celebrities 62 B ail Yourself o ut in...
...itman. These forces are at work in every aspect of life: family, economy, politics, ecology, and health. Bail Yourself Out: How You Can Emerge Strong from the World Crisis is a guide to mastering these forces on the personal, national, and global levels. With this knowledge, we hold the key to success by harnessing them to our benefit....
...ngs out, continually wondering about things, continually looking at things in new ways, continually experiencing new things, continually comparing t... ... Chapter 5: Modern Humans: Pgs 267-299 The Transition from Hunter-gatherers to Settlements ... ...nce Pg 265 Memory and Wisdom Chapter Five: Modern Humans: The Transition from Hunter-gatherers to Settlements. Pg 267 Modern Humans before C... ...e of Indulgences Pg 1015 The Protestant Psychological Reformation of Slavery from Unwilling to Willing Work Slaves Pg 1017 Sharing Pg 1020 Shari... ... of one Totality to penetrate, there were two. This Condition was completely new to Impetus. He became confused, he became indecisive…. Which one... ...an angle of 90 degrees to the original Dimension of Length. This created the new Dimension of Width. This created the 2- Dimensional Condition of t... ...; that features ordinary people trying to mimic-duplicate famous entertainers-singers. The premises… the assumptions… the norms, the normality, the... ... is a competition. It assumes that entertainers and artists and composers and singers must compete against each other in order to gain popular recog... ...e to compete at all… no matter if they happen to be ten times better than the singers who do compete… then they automatically lose. And are conside...
... fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects and dynamics of the Organic Universe and Organic Life. 3: The origins of modern humans going back 25 million years. 4: Human Psycho-biology. 5: The beginnings of civilization....
...r 4: Modern Human Dynamics Pgs 223-266 Human Psycho-biologic Totality. Chapter 5: Modern Humans: Pgs 267-299 The Transition from Hunter-gatherers to Settlements Chapter 6: Civilization Pgs 300-704 A: The Beginnings of Civilization Pgs 705-1474 B: The Effect of Civilization on Humans Pgs 1475-1868 Chapter 7:...
............................................. 230 The Welfare State is moral from a self-centered point of view ........................................... ...elf-centered point of view .......................................... 232 From a self centered point of view it is immoral ............................. .................................................................. 233 Moral from God based assumptions ................................................... ...usinessman. He finds your country fascinating and wants to list it on the New York Stock Exchange. Lee isn‘t so sure he likes Kino. There‘s nobody t... ...essman. He finds your country fascinating and wants to list it on the New York Stock Exchange. Lee isn‘t so sure he likes Kino. There‘s nobody to su... ...y are barbarians. It is the same in the area of values, when we encounter new concepts we often criticize them because they are, or might be, unethi... ...ive happier lives because she saved the planet?‖ ---―That adds some new evidence. I still couldn‘t go for it because of my traditional beliefs... ...w could a merciful God allow the deaths of so many innocent people in New York in September of 2001. How could a just God allow a bin Ladin to asso... ...e tax breaks to symphony orchestras and operas and to their musicians and singers? How about secular private schools and hospitals? What about fitne...
...city of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search for solutions to the planet's most pressing problem. He...
... THE COUNTRY OF SINGALING From one of the two most advanced countries of the world to the other. Sing... ...the other. Singaling, just off the Malay Peninsula, tooled its philosophy from its successful island neighbor, Singapore. I had visited Singapore a ... ...r withdrawal pains should their beloved chewy companion be suddenly jerked from their lips. 4 Singaling enjoyed a long economic head start over ... ...imported laborers of the earlier days. Even in the 80's robots welded our new car bodies pushing those human welders out of the factories and into o... ...ot slowed by nebulous religious thinking that has hampered the U.S., that new methods of medical research are somehow against the will of God. Also, ... ...eople are not wearing out as early as they used to. If knees hurt, put in new ones. Intestinal problems?, fix them with stem cells. Alzheimer‟s?, dis... .... Last time I looked there wasn‟t much wheat growing in the streets of New York City or Los Angeles. “I‟m sure you are aware that the adv... ...tial. Salaries here are pretty much performance based. As we said earlier, singers, actors and professional athletes are paid little. They are superf...
...e The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale University Press New Haven & London ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 37278_u00.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Pag... ...ess Control Number: 2008932282 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO ... ...4 AM Page vi Acknowledgments ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 The ideas for this book come from the theoretical and practical work I have been doing for the last te... ...le theoretical and empirical studies have helped me to understand everything from software patents to synthetic biology. Jerry Reichman has supplied e... ...” 2 For several years now I have been a columnist for the Financial Times’s “New Economy Policy Forum.” Portions of Chapter 5 and Chapter 9 had their ... ...cases it effectively removes the privilege of fair use. Each day brings some new Internet horror story about the excesses of intel- lectual property. ... ...re—the mix of earnest essays and saccharine greeting cards and scantily clad singers and poetic renditions of Norse myths—will be decentral- ized to t... ...east till he figures out how to get his own shit together. T oday I hear some singers who I think sound like me. Joe Cocker, for instance. Man, I know ... ...ms that there was a different source, a mysterious song by the Bailey Gospel Singers, or the Harold Bailey Gospel Singers, called “I’ve Got a Savior.”...
...of Words and the Impact T ey Have on All Life Liz McGrath iUniverse, Inc. New York Bloomington The Power of Our Words A Journey into the Power of ... ...ords and the Impact T ey Have on All Life Liz McGrath iUniverse, Inc. New York Bloomington The Power of Our Words A Journey into the Power of Word... ... I decided to investigate. T is quest put me on a path of self-discovery. From yoga I moved into the study of Chinese medicine— their philosophy and ... ...ny things in our lives. I realized that I had learned everything I needed from these systems. I was introduced to a chiropractor who specialized in... ...ife started to change. I felt as if I were coming out of a fog and into a new reality. I was more attuned to the here and now, simply observing what... ...elief systems, rules, clichés, and slogans in order to separate the wheat from the chaff and therefore to arrive at their intrinsic value. I asked m... ...ything that expressed a great deal of wisdom, I formulated that wisdom as new goals, using carefully worded statements. My truest desire was to mani... ...e images that come to mind by the words being sung? I have observed many singers who are so attuned to the words and the music they produce that it... ...or, Jill. My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey. New York: Viking, 2008. Braden, Gregg. Walking Between the Worlds: T e Science ...
...THE WHOLE HISTORY OF GRANDFATHER’S CHAIR or TRUE STORIES FROM NEW ENGLAND HISTORY, 1620 1808 by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE A Penn State Ele... ...THE WHOLE HISTORY OF GRANDFATHER’S CHAIR or TRUE STORIES FROM NEW ENGLAND HISTORY, 1620 1808 by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE A Penn State Electron... ...ries Publication The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620 1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publicati... ...Publication The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620 1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of... ...sion, in any way. The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620 1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne , the Pennsylva... ... in any way. The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620 1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne , the Pennsylvania S... ..., arrived, with a commission to be governor general of New England and New York. The king had given such powers to Sir Edmund Andros that there was no... ...month the fleet set sail, carrying four regiments from New England and New York, besides the English soldiers. The whole army amounted to at least sev... ...e drum, fife, and bugle drowning the holy organ peal and the voices of the singers. It would appear as if the British took every method to insult the ...
...tensibly relating the adventures of a chair, he has endeavored to keep a distinct and unbroken thread of authentic history. The chair is made to pass from one to another of those personages of whom he thought it most desirable for the young reader to have vivid and familiar ideas, and whose lives and actions would best enable him to give picturesque sketches of the times. ...
... . . 131 24 THE SAME NIGHT — THE FIR PLANTATION . . . . . . . . 137 25 THE NEW ACQUAINTANCE DESCRIBED . . . . . . . . . . . 143 26 SCENE ON THE VERGE ... ... Oak remedied by thumps and shakes, and he es caped any evil consequences from the other two defects by constant comparisons with and observations of... ...ount of the exertion, and drawing up the watch by its chain, like a bucket from a well. But some thoughtful persons, who had seen him walking across o... ... a way of curtailing their dimensions by their manner of showing them. And from a quiet modesty that would have become a vestal which seemed continual... ...riel Oak, and he recognised his position clearly. The first movement in his new progress was the lambing of his ewes, and sheep having been his special... ...drew again from the flock. He — returned to the hut, bringing in his arms a new born lamb, consisting of four legs large enough for a full grown sheep,... ..., what was going on. ‘The Royal Hippodrome Performance of Turpin’s Ride to York and the Death of Black Bess,’ replied the man promptly, without turnin... ...urchyard, Bathsheba heard singing inside the church, and she knew that the singers were practising. She crossed the road, opened the gate, and entered... ...ill: remember not past years. ‘I was,’ said Gabriel. ‘I am one of the bass singers, you know. I have sung bass for several months. ‘Indeed: I wasn’t a...
...116 -- 22 THE GREAT BARN AND THE SHEEP-SHEARERS, 122 -- 23 EVENTIDE?A SECOND DECLARATION, 131 -- 24 THE SAME NIGHT? THE FIR PLANTATION, 137 -- 25 THE NEW ACQUAINTANCE DESCRIBED, 143 -- 26 SCENE ON THE VERGE OF THE HAY-MEAD, 146 -- 27 HIVING THE BEES, 154...
...venties, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New Y ork. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropo... ...f the erection, in remote metropolitan distances “above the Forties,” of a new Opera House which should compete in costliness and splendour with those... ...cher- ished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the “new people” whom New Y ork was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to; and ... ...ost masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it. When Newland ... ...her, leaning against the wall at the back of the club box, turned his eyes from the stage and scanned the op- posite side of the house. Directly facin... ...l pen-wipers made by female parishioners for fashionable clergymen, sprang from the moss beneath the rose-trees; and here and there a daisy grafted on... ...ng in every second generation of the Albany Chiverses, with whom their New York cousins had always refused to intermarry—with the disastrous exception... ...kes and Ambassadors, associated familiarly with Papists, entertained Opera singers, and was the intimate friend of Mme. Taglioni; and all the while (a... ... “That would be charming. But I was re- ally thinking of dramatic artists, singers, actors, musicians. My husband’s house was always full of them.” Sh...
...Excerpt: On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances ?above the Forties,? of a new Opera House which should compete in costliness and splendour with those of the great European capitals, t...
...Bart. It was a Monday in early September, and he was returning to his work from a hurried dip into the country; but what was Miss Bart doing in town a... ...f the Newport season; but her desultory air perplexed him. She stood apart from the crowd, letting it drift by her to the plat- form or the street, an... ... some one, but he hardly knew why the idea arrested him. There was nothing new about Lily Bart, yet he could never see her without a faint movement of... ... uglier.” She broke off, laughing, to explain that she had come up to town from Tux- edo, on her way to the Gus Trenors’ at Bellomont, and had missed ... ...t, he had always made use of the “argument from design.” “The resources of New Y ork are rather meagre,” he said; 5 Edith Wharton “but I’ll find a ha... ...ed with a sigh. “Oh, dear, I’m so hot and thirsty—and what a hideous place New Y ork is!” She looked despairingly up and down the dreary thoroughfare.... ...een this year and last, except that the women have got new clothes and the singers haven’t got new voices. My wife’s musical, you know—puts me through... ... person, who was great at bridging over chasms she didn’t see … Ah, in New York, is she? Pity New York’s such a long way off!” Miss Bart, emerging lat... ...ts inhabitants. She was unacquainted with the world of the fashionable New York hotel—a world over-heated, over-upholstered, and over-fitted with mech...
...rand Central Station his eyes had been refreshed by the sight of Miss Lily Bart. It was a Monday in early September, and he was returning to his work from a hurried dip into the country; but what was Miss Bart doing in town at that season? If she had appeared to be catching a train, he might have inferred that he had come on her in the act of transition between one and ano...
...nsas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very differently would it be told Up York State or in the Carolina hills. Main Street is the climax of civilizat... ...isters. What Ole Jenson the grocer says to Ezra Stowbody the banker is the new law for London, Prague, and the unprofitable isles of the sea; whatsoev... ...els run over, and the fact that the chemistry instructor had stared at the new coiffure which concealed her ears. A breeze which had crossed a thousan... ...aching comedy of expectant youth. It is Carol Milford, fleeing for an hour from Blodgett College. The days of pioneering, of lassies in sunbonnets, an... ...onsin, the Dakotas send their children thither, and Blodgett protects them from the wickedness of the universities. But it secretes friendly girls, yo... ...- ness of her body when they saw her in sheer negligee, or darting out wet from a shower-bath. She seemed then but half as large as they had supposed;... ...ed hero. Then she found a hobby in sociology. The sociology instructor was new. He was married, and 7 Sinclair Lewis therefore taboo, but he had come... ...s and Jews and million- aire uplifters at the University Settlement in New York, and he had a beautiful white strong neck. He led a gig- gling class t... ...ictures and a halting narrative. Three brass-bands, a company of six opera-singers, a Hawaiian sextette, and four youths who played saxophones and gui...
...n Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very differently would it be told Up York State or in the Carolina hills....