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Passage of the sales tax measure would also give Davis the means to effect a transition.
In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement after his split with Garry Davis ' movement Citizens of the World, which the surrealist André Breton was also a member.
The track with Cher also resulted in a music video directed by Tamra Davis and Yvette Kaplan.
Many original television theme songs of the era also showed a strong disco influence, such as " Keep Your Eye On The Sparrow " ( theme from Baretta, performed by Sammy Davis, Jr. and later a hit single for Rhythm Heritage ), Theme from " S. W. A. T.
Dartmouth has also graduated three Nobel Prize winners: Owen Chamberlain ( Physics, 1959 ), K. Barry Sharpless ( Chemistry, 2001 ), and George Davis Snell ( Physiology or Medicine, 1980 ).
Later the 17th century Icelandic bishop Guðbrandur Thorlaksson, also used the name Ginnungegap to refer to a narrow body of water, possibly the Davis Strait, separating the southern tip of Greenland from Estotelandia, pars America extrema, probably Baffin Island.
Notable performers there included among others: Pearl Bailey, Count Basie, Nat King Cole, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Coleman Hawkins, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Burl Ives, Leadbelly, Anita O ' Day, Charlie Parker, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Paul Robeson, Kay Starr, Art Tatum, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Josh White, Teddy Wilson, Lester Young, and The Weavers, who also in Christmas 1949, played at the Village Vanguard.
Jim Davis has also collaborated with Ball State University and Pearson Digital Learning to create Professor Garfield, a site with educational games focusing on math and reading skills and with Children's Technology Group to create MindWalker, a web browser that allows parents to limit the websites their children can view to a pre-set list.
It was also the basis for another movie version, Satan Met a Lady ( 1936 ) starring Bette Davis.
When asked to recommend someone else, Davis suggested Robert E. Lee, then an army major in Baltimore ; López approached Lee, who also declined on the grounds of his duty.
They also owned a substantial ranch in northern Arkansas, where Davis learned to ride horses as a boy.
Around 1945, Dizzy Gillespie parted ways with Parker, and Davis was hired as Gillespie's replacement in his quintet, which also featured Max Roach on drums, Al Haig ( replaced later by Sir Charles Thompson and Duke Jordan ) on piano, and Curley Russell ( later replaced by Tommy Potter and Leonard Gaskin ) on bass.
This experience also marked the beginning of the lifelong friendship between Davis and Gil Evans, an alliance that would bear important results in the years to follow.
Though Davis denies it in his autobiography, it is also likely that the environment in which he was living played a role.
With this revamped formation, Davis began a year during which the sextet performed and toured extensively and produced a record ( 1958 Miles, also known as 58 Sessions ).
Written almost entirely by Harvey Kurtzman, the first issue also featured illustrations by Kurtzman himself, along with Wally Wood, Will Elder, Jack Davis and John Severin.
" MGM released Davis from her contract in 1952 ; she sought a broader range of parts, but also married Reagan, keeping her professional name as Davis, and had her first child that year.
Carter came to fame via the second great Miles Davis quintet in the early 1960s, which also included Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and Tony Williams.
After leaving Davis, Carter was for several years a mainstay of CTI Records, making albums under his own name and also appearing on many of the label's records with a diverse range of other musicians.
It also played a central role in the development of the musical style later referred to as Piedmont blues ; indeed, much of the music played by such artists of the genre as Reverend Gary Davis, Blind Boy Fuller, Elizabeth Cotten, and Etta Baker, could be referred to as " ragtime guitar.
In 1948 the Cousteau-Gagnan patent was also licensed to Siebe Gorman of England, when Siebe Gorman was directed by Robert Henry Davis.
Historian and biographer Edmund King, whilst painting a slightly more positive picture than Davis, also concludes that Stephen, while a stoic, pious and genial leader, was also rarely, if ever, his own man, usually relying upon stronger characters such as his brother or wife.
Lombardi also made a big trade with the Cleveland Browns that brought three players to the team who would become cornerstones of the defense: linemen Henry Jordan, Willie Davis, and Bill Quinlan.

Davis and criticized
Historians have criticized Davis for being a much less effective war leader than his Union counterpart Abraham Lincoln, which they attribute to Davis being overbearing, controlling, and overly meddlesome, as well as being out of touch with public opinion, and lacking support from a political party ( since the Confederacy had no political parties ).
In his autobiography, Davis criticized the Juilliard classes for centering too much on the classical European and " white " repertoire.
Bret W. Davis writes, for example, " The first philosophical development of the idea of nihilism is generally ascribed to Friedrich Jacobi, who in a famous letter criticized Fichte's idealism as falling into nihilism.
Some reviewers criticized Davis for the excess of her performance ; James Agee wrote that she " demonstrates the horrors of egocentricity on a marathonic scale "; but despite the mixed reviews, she received another Academy Award nomination.
Though it was a crucial early contribution to geomorphology, many of Davis ' theories regarding landscape evolution, sometimes known as Davisian geomorphology, have been heavily criticized by modern geomorphologists.
While Davis ' record is generally considered pro-environmental due to increases in spending for land acquisition, maintenance of the state's park system, signing legislation that attempts to cut greenhouse gas emissions by having automakers produce more efficient vehicles, cutting fees to state parks and opposing offshore drilling, he was criticized for not backing tougher restrictions on timber companies as some environmentalists desired.
Although Davis ' fundraising pace was criticized by his many detractors, Arnold Schwarzenegger would later collect contributions at a quicker rate during the early years of his governorship.
Olivier criticized Governor Schwarzenegger for passing a budget that was “ 30 % larger than the one that got Governor Davis recalled just three years ago .” Olivier's main earned media was talk radio, advertising his opposition to illegal immigration.
OSS both as API and as software has been criticized by some developers, such as Paul Davis and Lennart Poettering.
He had publicly criticized the Baltimore Colts ' move to Indianapolis, and had testified in favor of the NFL in court cases where the league unsuccessfully tried to stop Al Davis from moving the Oakland Raiders from Oakland to Los Angeles.
The historian Robert Finlay has criticized Davis ' conclusions, arguing that Bertrande was duped ( as most of her contemporaries believed, including the trial judges ) after her husband's long absence.
Arguing that outside intervention in local elections might be construed a contravention of the Green Ten Key Values of Decentralization and Grassroots Democracy, Peter Daniels criticized Camejo for " lend his support to the right-wing effort to depose governor Gray Davis " by recall in 2004.
Journalist David E. Davis, in a 2009 article in Automobile Magazine, criticized Nader for purportedly focusing on the Corvair while ignoring other contemporary vehicles with swing-axle rear suspensions, including cars from Porsche, Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen, notwithstanding the fact that Nader's Center for Auto Safety had published a book critical of the Beetle.
" ( Davis 1967: 401 ) This removes the determinism criticized above.
White residents of Richmond freely criticized Varina Davis ; some described her appearance as " a mulatto or an Indian ' squaw '.
As a member of the Confederate House of Representatives, he criticized the war policies of the Confederate President Davis.
McDonald successfully criticized Davis for being one of only two Georgia congressmen to vote in favor of busing.
Davis also criticized Lungren's hesitancy, as California Attorney General, to enforce laws restricting assault weapons, and his waiting until the last minute to become part of a class action lawsuit against the cigarette industry.
In spite of the popular success of Davis ' many critical studies, some have criticized them.
Some academic leftists have also criticized Davis ' focus on modern urban structures.
Davis ' work, particularly Planet of Slums, has been criticized by Merrifield and urban studies professor Tom Angotti as " anti-urban " and " overly apocalyptic.
Davis had previously had a strained relationship with Clark, having criticized the gasoline tax in the Clark government's 1979 budget.
Spadea criticized a number of tennis players including James Blake and Davis Cup Captain Patrick McEnroe.

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