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... far future, research will unequivocally prove that listening to a certain kind of music or entertaining certain thoughts seriously hampers the emb... ...tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface." Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894-1963), British writer I. Overview of Theories of Anarchism Politics... ...ry language for a minute, what group does not behave this way? Harvard alumni, the British Commonwealth, the European Union, the Irish or the Itali... ...cond mortal sin by transforming itself into an outpost and beacon of Western (first British-French, then American) neo-colonialism. As the represent... ...illions of professionals - judges, police officers, criminologists, psychologists, journalists, publishers, prosecutors, lawyers, social workers, p... ...heir true accomplishments. A celebrity is famous for being famous. Of course, such journalists will likely to fall prey to up and coming colleagues... ...olution: the virtual collaborative ("Follow the Sun") modes. Examples: A group of musicians is able to compose music or play it - while spatially ... ...ought into a virtual pharmacy and into other virtual businesses. It is now selling music, video, electronics and many other products. It started as... ...ainty of the tried and failed. Many senior politicians, managers, entrepreneurs and journalists across this region are in their 20's or 30's. Yet, ...

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...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 ca...

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... early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New Y ork. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remot... ...to; and the sentimental clung to it for its historic associations, and the musical for its excellent acous- tics, always so problematic a quality in h... ... tics, always so problematic a quality in halls built for the hear- ing of music. It was Madame Nilsson’s first appearance that winter, and what the d... ...ated by pre-revolutionary mar- riages to several members of the French and British aristocracy. The Lannings survived only in the person of two very o... ...ever seen them. The two men always met at the Century, or at some haunt of journalists and theatrical people, such as the restaurant where Winsett had...

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... war against the idea of imperialism, not German imperial- ism merely, but British and French and Russian imperial- ism, and we were saying this not b... ...ayle’s “Great Settle- ment” (1915), a frankly sceptical treatment from the British Imperialist point of view, on the other. An illuminating dis- cussi... ...ce with an unrevolutionized Germany, an idea to which, in common with most British people, I am bitterly opposed. Walsh’s “World Rebuilt” is a good ex... ...about the fifth standard level, plus a little French, German, Italian, and music—who do so much to make our England what it is at the present time, up... ...e. A little group of pothouse politicians, wire-pullers, busybodies, local journalists, and small lawyers, working for various monetary interests, hav...

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...tional, or any other of those patriotic Libraries, at present the glory of British Literature;” might work revolutions in Thought; and so forth;—in co... ...uch title and vocation, it were perhaps uninteresting to say more. Let the British reader study and enjoy, in simplicity of heart, what is here presen... ...poison-brewing, and choking by sul- phur. From the Palace esplanade, where music plays while Serene Highness is pleased to eat his victuals, down to t... ... Gay mansions, with supper- rooms and dancing-rooms, are full of light and music and high-swelling hearts; but, in the Condemned Cells, the pulse of l... ... us to that joint-stock ve- hicle of publication, “at present the glory of British Lit- erature”? If so, the Library Editors are welcome to dig in it ... ...steem him, with a very mixed feeling. Farther down we meet with this: “The Journalists are now the true Kings and Clergy: henceforth Historians, unles... ...lls; so that when a man walks, it is with continual jingling. Some few, of musical turn, have a whole chime of bells (Glockenspiel) fastened there; wh... ...it has ceased to flourish, or indeed to exist, among Thinkers, and sunk to Journalists and the popular mass,— who sees not that, as hereby it no longe... ... able to procure may fitly stand here. “It is true, certain of the English Journalists, men gen- erally without sense for the Religious Principle, or ...

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...s, the opening campaign through the Neth- erlands, and the despatch of the British Expeditionary Force were all justified before the book had been pub... ...f the huge economic revolution that im- pended. What chiefly impressed the journalists of 1933 was the production of gold from bismuth and the realisa... ... as rush wildly through the air. The last dread of flying vanished. As the journalists of the time phrased it, this was the epoch of the Leap into the... ... rela- tively barbaric times. The horse-hair wigs and antic dresses of the British judges, their musty courts and overbearing manners, were indeed onl... ...ool of London University. The older so-called ‘classical’ education of the British pedagogues, probably the most paralysing, ineffec- tive, and foolis... ...n of any criticism of the public judicature and the place was crowded with journalists who had ventured to call attention to the dementia of Chief Jus... ... informant, hovered for a moment, and then went on his way to the Alhambra music hall. Barnet became aware of an excitement in the newspaper kiosks at...

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...rate-souled young man named Grubb, with a black-smeared face by day, and a music-hall side in the evening, who dreamt of a patent lever chain; and it ... ...t great boom in aeronautics was beginning. Grubb and Bert heard of it in a music-hall, then it was driven home to their minds by the cinematograph, th... ...ng hotel in Piccadilly, in which he tried to horse-whip a prominent German musician upon some personal account, delayed his promised ascent. The quarr... ... disaster, and had the doors locked immediately upon the photographers and journalists who been waiting his re- turn. “Look here, you chaps,” he said,... ...d to keep his secret safe from any further risk of leak- age. He faced the British public now with the question whether they wanted his secret or not;... ...sual dimensions and irregular circumstances and the still largely decorous British public learnt with reluctance and alarm that a sympathetic treatmen... ...exclusive acquisition of the priceless secret of aerial sta- bility by the British Empire. The exact particulars of the simi- larity never came to lig... ... He would make this appalling viscus beat and throb be- fore the shrinking journalists—no uncle with a big watch and a little ever baby ever harped up...

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...e had spent an extra sum of ten thousand francs in the company of artists, journalists, and their mistresses. A confidential and rather disquieting le... ...s a daughter of the famous harp- sichordist Valentin Mirouet, a celebrated musician, frail and delicate, whom the Revolution slew. Minoret knew Robesp... ...Ham- burg, where he married the daughter of a bourgeois, a girl devoted to music, who fell in love with the singer (whose fame was ever prospective) a... ...ched ex- istence before Joseph Mirouet reached the point of enlisting as a musician in a French regiment. In 1813 the surgeon- major of the regiment, ... ...inheriting. Now, Ursula’s father is dead.” Goupil’s argument produced what journalists who report the sittings of legislative assemblies are wont to c... ...f the American War of Independence, he had protected from an attack by the British, bringing his convoy safe into port after an en- gagement with supe...

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... ‘There you’re wrong; nor wouldn’t be.’ ‘What’s that?’ was the gentleman’s musical inquiry. ‘That’s flat, as you was half a minute ago,’ the man re- j... ...ood for it; plentiful din- ners, country excursions, stout menagerie bars, music, a dance, and to bed: he was for patting, stroking, petting the mob, ... ...hment. He needs it, must have it. I propose to catch him on his way to his music-halls and other places, and take him to one of our establishments. A ... ... He agreed with Colney, forgetting the satirist’s venom: to- wit; that the journalists should be close under their editor’s rod to put it in sound bol... ...ck,’ Victor replied hurriedly. ‘He got a drenching of all the damns in the British service from his. Generalissimo one day at a Review, for a trooper’... ...ell of the fairtressed Delphica’s phosphorial enthusiasm for our galaxy of British Poets. Assisted by Mr. Semhians, he begins to imagine, that he has,... ...a theme. He is a colonel of Companies. But those are his diversion, as the British Army has been to the warrior. Puellis idoneus, he is professedly a ...

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...ra which was the tragic story of Lucia di Lammermoor in a setting of light music. I could recall no more the hallucination of the Eastern Archi- pelag... ...he darkness of a new-born national hatred fostered by the Moscow school of journalists against the Poles after the ill-omened rising of 1863. This is ... ...g many words on the mere amenities of life. This was my first contact with British mankind apart from the tourist kind seen in the hotels of Zurich an... ... Tower Hill on the steps of the St. Katherine’s Dockhouse, a master in the British Merchant Service. But the man who put his hand on my shoulder at th... ....” I would have been, without doubt, saddened; for in this world where the journalists read the signs of the sky, and the wind of heaven itself, blowi... ...ut I had thought to myself that if I was to be a seaman, then I would be a British seaman and no other. It was a matter of deliberate choice. He nodde...

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...ra which was the tragic story of Lucia di Lammermoor in a setting of light music. I could recall no more the hallucination of the East- ern Archipelag... ... darkness of a new-born national hatred fos- tered by the Moscow school of journalists against the Poles after the ill-omened rising of 1863. This is ... ...g many words on the mere amenities of life. This was my first contact with British mankind apart from the tourist kind seen in the hotels of Zurich an... ... Tower Hill on the steps of the St. Katherine’s Dockhouse, a master in the British Merchant Service. But the man who put his hand on my shoulder at th... ....” I would have been, without doubt, saddened; for in this world where the journalists read the signs of the sky, and the wind of heaven itself, blowi... ...but I had thought to myself that if I was to be a seaman then I would be a British seaman and no other. It was a matter of deliberate choice. He nodde...

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...ated steamers running many knots, and heralding their approach by strains of music. The contrast between these pleasure embarkations and our own grim ... ..., Wyoming, Minnesota, and the Carolinas; there are few po- ems with a nobler music for the ear: a songful, tuneful land; and if the new Homer shall ar... ...talk ceased at that, and the faces began to lengthen. I have no idea whether musically this air is to be considered good or bad; but it belongs to tha... ...nger and disgrace of Cali- fornia; and the holders are mostly of American or British birth. We have here in England no idea of the troubles and inconv... ...There were many works burnt at Alex- andria, there are many treasured in the British Museum, that I could better spare than the proces-verbal of Chati... ...appily inspired; with a better modesty he accepted the honour; and anonymous journalists have not yet (if I am to believe them) recovered the vicariou...

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...n afternoon once a month that was quite well attended, they sometimes gave musical evenings, they dined out and gave a finish to people’s dinners, the... ...ed to make words tell it. It’s no good. Mild, you know, and boon. You want music.” Ann V eronica agreed, and tried to make the manner of her assent co... ... of lunching quietly together in some jolly restaurant, of moon- light and music and all that side of life, of seeing you dressed like a queen and shi... ...ot look to right or left again. Beyond the Circus Ann Veronica went into a British Tea- Table Company shop to get some tea. And as she was yet waiting... ...wages; and they de- manded all her time and energy. She had heard of women journalists, women writers, and so forth; but she was not even admitted to ... ...erself anxious to read more of him, and the next Wednesday she went to the British Museum and hunted first among the half-crown magazines for his essa... ... nity, and spent most of the intervening time in the Assyrian Court of the British Museum, reading and thinking over a little book upon the feminist m...

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...s everywhere on dread foundations, were we farther down; and Pan, to whose music the Nymphs dance, has a cry in him that can drive all men distracted.... ... Blue, and cut her loose: but whether now is it she, with her softness and musical speech, or is it he, with his hardness and sharp falchion and aegis... ...lle Desmoulins, though he stutters in speech; Manuel, Tallien and Company; Journalists Gorsas, Carra, Mercier, Louvet of Faublas; Clootz Speaker of Ma... ...l not force. Through the woods, volleying War reverberates, like huge gong-music, or Moloch’s kettle- drum, borne by the echoes; swoln torrents boil ... ... been sent to that effect; and indeed, for a year past, all Public Bodies, Journalists, and Patriots in general, have dated First Year of the Republic... ...Jean-Jacques: not one of the least afflicting occur- rences for the actual British reader of French History;— confusing the soul with Messidors, Meado...

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...d of Mr. and Mrs. Doppelbrau as “Bohemian.” From their house came midnight music and obscene laughter; there were neighborhood rumors of bootlegged wh... ...ed hair, his nose-glasses, his hesitant speech, his moodiness, his love of music, as a younger brother, to be petted and protected. Paul had gone into... ...lofty and half-timbered, with Tudor leaded casements, an oriel, a somewhat musicianless musicians’-gallery, and tapes- tries believed to illustrate th... ...stlers over there, is that they’re willing to take a lot off the snobs and journalists and politicians, while the modern American business man knows h... ...to a fault. but one thing he does demand of all teachers and lecturers and journalists: if we’re going to pay them our good money, they’ve got to help... ...e ever-memorable visit of the Earl of Sittingbourne. Not only is he of the British peerage, but he is also, on dit, a leader of the British metal indu... ...ving a great trip since we saw you in Zenith.” 213 Sinclair Lewis “Quite. British Columbia and California and all over the place,” he said doubtfully... ...y, looking at Babbitt lifelessly. “How did you find business conditions in British Colum- bia? Or I suppose maybe you didn’t look into ‘em. Scenery an...

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...ed to the westward ‘Beach-la-Mar,’ comes easy to the Polynesian; it is now taught, besides, in the schools 9 Robert Louis Stevenson of Hawaii; and fr... ...urprise. Her Majesty was often recognised, and I have seen French subjects kiss her photograph; Captain Speedy—in an Abyssinian war-dress, supposed to... ...gise for the smallness of their repertory. They were only young folk present, they said, and it was only the old that knew the songs. The whole body o... ... mentioned; and the agents of the farmer blush for their employment. Those that live in glass houses should 53 Robert Louis Stevenson not throw stone... ...y years of Europe . . .’ Farther on, the floor of the valley is flat and green, and dotted here and there with stripling coco-palms. Through the midst... ...he cockpit, study for a while my shapeless scrawl and encourage me with a heart- felt ‘Mitai!—good!’ So might a deaf painter sympathise 88 In The Sou... ...ow shadow, and turn- ing to the king a row of leering faces. Tembinok’ would be within, the flaps of the cabin raised, the trade blowing through, hear...

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... father. He had a young sister with a remarkable voice—he was giving her a musical education, so that her longing to be self supporting might be grat... ... comforts were now curtailed? Y.M. Quite seriously. Yes. O.M. The sister’s music lessens had to stop? Y.M. Yes. O.M. The young brother’s education—wel... ..., greatly performed. Take it to pieces and examine it, if you like. Y.M. A British troop ship crowded with soldiers and their wives and children. She ... ...law by which it automatically hammers out of a piano an elaborate piece of music, with out error, while the man is thinking about something else, or ... ...s, philoso What Is Man and Other Essays 246 phers, burglars, highwaymen, journalists, physicians, sur geons—you can get the life histories of all o...

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...o the wharf. For Condy had joined a certain San Francisco club of artists, journalists, musicians, and professional men that is one of the institution... ...For Condy had joined a certain San Francisco club of artists, journalists, musicians, and professional men that is one of the institutions of the city... ...nd a wedge of new cheese. On the way back to Chinatown Travis stopped at a music store on Kearney Street to get her banjo, which she had left to have ... ... shoulder had in it something indescribable— something that was related to music, and that eluded speech. Her hair was nothing more than a warm col- o... ...ace, called “The Exiles,” made up chiefly of “younger sons” of English and British-Canadian families, every mem- ber possessed of a “past” more or les...

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...as a Sowerby’s Botany also, with thousands of carefully tinted pictures of British plants, and one or two other important works in the sitting-room. I... ...orant and wretched and the under-equipped and under-staffed Na- tional and British schools, supported by voluntary contribu- tions and sectarian rival... ...uality of intimacy and more. We wanted each other as one wants beau- tiful music again or to breathe again the scent of flowers. And that is all there... ... social phenomenon, the German official, so differ- ent in manner from the British; and when one woke again after that one had come to Bale, and out o... ...’s the best time for it. We 111 H G Wells can start about five.” We heard music, and went further along the arcade to dis- cover a place where girls ... ...hy but determined. She had rather open blue eyes, and she spoke in an even musical voice with the gen- tlest of stresses and the ghost of a lisp. And ... ..., here a couple of young Jews ascendant from Whitechapel, here a circle of journalists and writers, here a group of Irish politicians, here two East I...

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... to Egypt and we’ll meet at Shepheard’s Hotel, and you’ll put me in my place, which I stand in need of badly by this time. Lord, what bully times!I su... ...f Wrecker since the mail left, which must be my excuse, and the bother I’ve had with it is not to be imagined, you might have seen me the day before y... ...e to-day about (of all things) Carthage; 11, luncheon; after luncheon in my mother’s room, I read Chapter XXIII. of The Wrecker, then Belle, Lloyd, a... ...say, the end should leave me per February mail; I cannot receive it back till the mail of April. Y es, it can be out in time; pray God that it be in t... ...ng by next mail, and must go again at the History. Is it not characteristic of my bro- ken tenacity of mind, that I should have left Davie Balfour som... ...he sound of a whistle pipe blown outside on the dark, very softly and to a pleasing simple air; I really think I have hit the first phrase: [Here foll... ...ion, if that might be. As he left I heard the villagers asking which was the great lady?And a little further, at the borders of Malie itself, we found... ..., long lost, improved by the most heroic industry. So far, I have managed to please the jour- nalists. But I am a fictitious article and have long kno...

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...a picture such as may be 17 Balzac seen at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts; if a musician, a cantata; if an architect, the plans for a public building. At t... ...le,” he said to one of the frequenters of the cafe, who repeated it to the journalists of the Left. Philippe did not go back to the rue Mazarin; he we... ..., the suppers, the evenings in the side- scenes, the animation of wits and journalists, the sort of racket that went on around him, the delights that ... ... things; he loved the poetry of Lord Byron, the painting of Gericault, the music of Rossini, the novels of Walter Scott. “Every one to his taste, mama... ...t in literature. Philippe and his friend Giroudeau lived among a circle of journalists, actresses, and booksellers, where they were re- garded in the ... ... to the Admiralty, was made the basis of a remonstrance on the part of the British government with Spain on the subject of its cruelties. Sir Charles ...