On foreign and military policy, Lincoln spoke out against the Mexican – American War, which he attributed to President Polk's desire for " military glory — that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood ".

As early as the 1850s, a time when most political rhetoric focused on the sanctity of the Constitution, Lincoln redirected emphasis to the Declaration of Independence as the foundation of American political values — what he called the " sheet anchor " of republicanism.

The 21st chapter was omitted from the editions published in the United States prior to 1986 .< ref > Burgess, Anthony ( 1986 ) A Clockwork Orange Resucked in < u > A Clockwork Orange </ u >, W. W. Norton & Company, New York .</ ref > In the introduction to the updated American text ( these newer editions include the missing 21st chapter ), Burgess explains that when he first brought the book to an American publisher, he was told that U. S. audiences would never go for the final chapter, in which Alex sees the error of his ways, decides he has lost all energy for and thrill from violence and resolves to turn his life around ( a slow-ripening but classic moment of metanoia — the moment at which one's protagonist realises that everything he thought he knew was wrong ).

At the American publisher's insistence, Burgess allowed their editors to cut the redeeming final chapter from the U. S. version, so that the tale would end on a darker note, with Alex succumbing to his violent, reckless nature — an ending which the publisher insisted would be ' more realistic ' and appealing to a U. S. audience.

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The classic example, considered by their American counterparts quite curious, was the maintenance of the internal comma in a British organisation of secret agents called the " Special Operations, Executive " — " S. O., E " — which is not found in histories written after about 1960.

Stokoe used it for his 1965 A Dictionary of American Sign Language on Linguistic Principles, the first dictionary with entries in ASL — that is, the first dictionary which one could use to look up a sign without first knowing its conventional gloss in English.

At the time of Kennedy's proposal, only one American had flown in space — less than a month earlier — and NASA had not yet sent an astronaut into orbit.

The city was destroyed partially — and in some parts completely — during the fighting, mostly by American artillery fire and demolitions carried out by the Waffen-SS defenders.

Over the past 400 years the form of the language used in the Americas — especially in the United States — and that used in the United Kingdom have diverged in a few minor ways, leading to the dialects now occasionally referred to as American English and British English.

Nevertheless it remains the case that, although spoken American and British English are generally mutually intelligible, there are enough differences to cause occasional misunderstandings or at times embarrassment — for example some words that are quite innocent in one dialect may be considered vulgar in the other.

* African American Lives, edited by Henry L. Gates, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Oxford University Press, 2004 — more than 600 biographies.

* African American archaeology in Oakland, California — See Part III, Chap 10

The work contexts in which African-Americans sang songs comparable to shanties included: boat-rowing on rivers of the south-eastern U. S. and Caribbean ; the work of stokers or “ firemen ,” who cast wood into the furnaces of steamboats plying great American rivers ; and stevedoring on the U. S. eastern seaboard, the Gulf Coast, and the Caribbean — including " cotton-screwing ": the loading of ships with cotton in ports of the American South.

Edited, with an Afterword, by Sharrar, Avery Hopwood's The Great Bordello, a Story of the Theatre, is a roman à clef that tells the story of Edwin Endsleigh — Hopwood ’ s fictional counterpart — who graduates from the University of Michigan and heads for Broadway to earn his fortune and the security to pursue his one true dream of writing the great American novel.

The feature was launched on Monday, August 13, 1934 in eight North American newspapers — including the New York Mirror — and was an immediate success.

Fans of the strip ranged from novelist John Steinbeck, who called Capp " possibly the best writer in the world today " in 1953, and even earnestly recommended him for the Nobel Prize in literature — to media critic and theorist Marshall McLuhan, who considered Capp " the only robust satirical force in American life.

Metal Rhythms sales were arguably confounded by the lack of strong promotion and IRS's inappropriate choices of singles ( the record label also changed the album's title to New Anger, changed the album colour shade from black to blue, and remixed several of its tracks for its American release against Numan's wishes ).

Scenes for the movie Mr. & Mrs. Smith were filmed in San Marino, as were scenes from many other movies ( including Memoirs of a Geisha, The Holiday, Monster-in-Law, Anger Management, The Wedding Singer, The Wedding Planner, Starsky & Hutch, Intolerable Cruelty, Beverly Hills Ninja, One Hour Photo, Legally Blond, American Wedding, Mystery Men, S1m0ne, Enough, Men in Black II, Charlie's Angels, and The Sweetest Thing ).

Other American programming on Nine include Two and a Half Men, Anger Management, Dallas, The Mentalist, the CSI franchise, The View, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Days of our Lives and Extra.

Both teachers had studied at SAIC and they exposed students to works by significant figures of the American avant-garde cinema such as Maya Deren, Kenneth Anger, Stan Brakhage, Owen Land and Paul Sharits.

Kenneth Anger ( born Kenneth Wilbur Anglemeyer ; February 3, 1927 ) is an American underground experimental filmmaker, actor and author of two controversial Hollywood Babylon books.

" Anger himself has been described as " one of America's first openly gay filmmakers, and certainly the first whose work addressed homosexuality in an undisguised, self-implicating manner ", and his " role in rendering gay culture visible within American cinema, commercial or otherwise, is impossible to overestimate ", with several being released prior to the legalisation of homosexuality in the United States.

Of this film, Anger would later state in 1966 that " This flick is all I have to say about being 17, the United States Navy, American Christmas and the fourth of July.

One of the actresses in the film was Marjorie Cameron, the widow of Jack Parsons, the influential American Thelemite who had died a few years previously, while Anger himself played Hecate.

Anger made use of homoerotic images of bikers in his Scorpio Rising, here portrayed by Bruce Byron ( American actor ) | Bruce Byron. In 1961, Anger once more returned to America, where he lived for a time with Marjorie Cameron.

Anger himself described the film as " a death mirror held up to American culture ... Thanatos in chrome, black leather, and bursting jeans.

Soon after, Anger struck a deal that allowed Hollywood Babylon to be officially published in the United States for the first time, where it proved a success, selling two million copies during the 1960s, and around the same time Anger also translated Lo Duca's History of Eroticism into English for American publication.

Major studio motion pictures filmed in San Marino include Mr. & Mrs, Smith, Disturbia, Enough, Monster-in-Law, Memoirs of a Geisha, Frailty, Men in Black II, The Hot Chick, One Hour Photo, Anger Management, The Wedding Planner, Starsky & Hutch, Intolerable Cruelty, Mystery Men, Legally Blonde 2, The Nutty Professor, Beverly Hills Ninja, The Sweetest Thing, S1m0ne, Charlie's Angels, Indecent Proposal, and American Wedding.

* American American Association of Anger Management Providers ( AAAMP )

They also regularly play with the American musicians Mike Marshall ( mandolin ) and Darol Anger ( violin ).

Esler has also written a book on American discontent, The United States of Anger, published in October 1997 ( Penguin ).

Brown was 19 when he made his first major screen appearance in Halls of Anger ( 1970 ), followed by The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid ( 1972 ) and his breakthrough role as the American Civil War draft dodger Drew Dixon in Robert Benton's critically acclaimed Bad Company ( 1972 ), co-starring with Jeff Bridges.

He is best known for his bestselling book Film as a Subversive Art ( 1974 ) and as the founder of the New York City avantgarde ciné-club Cinema 16 ( 1947 – 1963 ), where he was the first programmer to present films by Roman Polanski, John Cassavetes, Nagisa Oshima, Jacques Rivette and Alain Resnais as well as early and important screenings by American avant-gardists of the time like Stan Brakhage, Maya Deren, James Broughton, Kenneth Anger, Sidney Peterson, Bruce Conner, Carmen D ' Avino and many others.

*“ Through Anger and Love .” Growing up Asian American, An Anthology.

Darol Anger is an American violinist, born in 1953.

* 1921 – Kenneth Arrow, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate

* Gentry, Kenneth L., Jr. ( 1998 ) Before Jerusalem Fell: Dating the Book of Revelation, Powder Springs, Georgia: American Vision, ISBN 0-915815-43-5.

* Gentry, Kenneth L., Jr. ( 2002 ) The Beast of Revelation, Powder Springs, Georgia: American Vision, ISBN 0-915815-41-9.

* Dartmoor prison plays a central role in The Lively Lady, American author Kenneth Roberts ' 1931 historical novel taking place during The War of 1812

* 1936 – Kenneth Copeland, American televangelist

* 2005 – Kenneth Lee Boyd, American convicted murderer ( b. 1948 )

* 1982 – Kenneth Darby, American football player

* 1905 – Kenneth Rexroth, American poet ( d. 1982 )

* 1952 – Kenneth Edwards, American golfer ( b. 1886 )

* 1911 – Kenneth Patchen, American poet and painter ( d. 1972 )

John Kenneth Galbraith, the Canadian-American Harvard University economist, who advised governments of India during the 1950s, an intimate of Nehru who served as the American ambassador from 1961 to 1963, was a particularly harsh critic of Mountbatten in this regard.

* 1977 – Jay Kenneth Johnson, American actor

At Columbia, he studied English and American literature under professors including New York School avant garde poets Kenneth Koch and David Shapiro.

* 1958 – Kenneth Biros, American murderer ( d. 2009 )

* 1936 – Kenneth G. Wilson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

Under American advice ( by American envoy John Kenneth Galbraith who made and ran American policy on the war as all other top policy makers in USA were absorbed in coincident Cuban Missile Crisis ) Nehru refrained, not according to the best choices available, from using the Indian air force to beat back the Chinese advances.

Kenneth Noland ( April 10, 1924 – January 5, 2010 ) was an American abstract painter.

Knute Kenneth Rockne ( ; March 4, 1888 – March 31, 1931 ) was an American football player and coach, both at the University of Notre Dame.

Kenneth Lee Pike ( June 9, 1912 – December 31, 2000 ) was an American linguist and anthropologist.

Michael Kenneth Mann ( born February 5, 1943 ) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.

* 1966 – Michael Kenneth Williams, American actor

* 1954 – Kenneth Atchley, American composer

The tempera medium was used by American artists such as the Regionalists Andrew Wyeth, Thomas Hart Benton and his student Roger Medearis ; expressionists Ben Shahn, Mitchell Siporin and John Langley Howard, magic realists George Tooker, Paul Cadmus, Jared French, Julia Thecla and Louise E. Marianetti ; Art Students League of New York instructors Kenneth Hayes Miller and William C. Palmer, Social Realists Isabel Bishop, Reginald Marsh, and Noel Rockmore, Edward Laning, Anton Refregier, Jacob Lawrence, Rudolph F. Zallinger, Robert Vickrey, Peter Hurd, and science fiction artist John Schoenherr, notable as the cover artist of Dune.