Gallico's 1969 book The Poseidon Adventure, about a group of passengers attempting to escape from a capsized ocean liner, attracted little attention at the time.

A television series, The Adventures of Hiram Holliday ( starring Wally Cox ) was adapted from a series of Gallico's stories about a newspaper proofreader who had many adventures dealing with Nazis and spies in Europe on the eve of World War II.

Often, Gallico's point of view implies that the nonhuman character in some way really possesses a human spirit, or a portion of a human spirit.

However, some fans of Gallico and critics of Kinkade would argue that Gallico's literary art is more comparable to the paintings of nineteenth century Russian painter Victor Vasnetsov, as Vastenov's works are more firmly rooted in genuine sentimentality and folk tradition as opposed to Kinkade's work which is often criticized as " cheezy ," " schmaltz ," and " cookie-cutter pop-art.

Helen Deutsch's adaptation is true to the essential core of Gallico's story, but there are many differences, and Gallico's book is far, far darker in tone.

Gallico's Peyrot, however, is vicious in every sense of the word.

Gallico's career was launched by an interview with boxer Jack Dempsey in which he asked Dempsey to spar with him, and described how it felt to be knocked out by the heavyweight champion.

" In contrast, Irwin Allen's motion picture adaptation of Gallico's book was instantly recognized as a great movie of its kind.

Andrea Park, in a review of Love of Seven Dolls, notes that Gallico's work has power only as a textural whole.

One of the mysteries of Gallico's style is its effectiveness despite his constant violation of this rule.

" Much of Gallico's stories are told as a string of assertions and generalities, illuminated only by touches of the particular and specific.

in 2000 J. K. Rowling declared that Gallico's 1968 Manxmouse was one of her favorite childhood books.

In 1975, the British progressive rock band Camel released an album of work based on Gallico's The Snow Goose.

Rabelais was by far Sterne's favourite author, and in his correspondence he made clear that he considered himself as Rabelais ' successor in humor writing, distancing himself from Jonathan Swift:

While Cavendish often speaks of her writing in metaphors of domestic or stereotypically feminine activities, here she attempts to excuse her desire for fame by distancing her ambition from the feminine.

During the 1950s, however, Graham began distancing himself from the older fundamentalism and, in preparation for his 1957 New York Crusade, he sought broad ecumenical sponsorship.

An alternative term, expressing an ideological ( sometimes religious ) approach aimed at distancing oneself from the source of the count, is למניינם ( according to their count ).

From a sociological point of view, Danielle Lindemann has noted the " embattled purity regime " in which many pro-dommes emphasise their specialist knowledge and professional skills, while distancing themselves from economic criteria for success, in a way which is comparable to avant-garde artists.

" One of Lenin's challenges was distancing materialism, as a viable philosophical outlook, from the " vulgar materialism " expressed in the statement " the brain secretes thought in the same way as the liver secretes bile " ( attributed to 18th c. physician Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis, 1757 – 1808 ); " metaphysical materialism " ( matter composed of immutable particles ); and 19th-century " mechanical materialism " ( matter as random molecules interacting per the laws of mechanics ).

Significant for the distancing of the concept of elves from its mythological origins was the influence from literature.

Mountbatten making an address in Singapore, 1945. As a result of the Dieppe raid, Mountbatten became a controversial figure in Canada, with the Royal Canadian Legion distancing itself from him during his visits there during his later career ; his relations with Canadian veterans " remained frosty ".

Mary J. Hickman writes that " plastic Paddy " was a term used to " deny and denigrate the second-generation Irish in Britain " in the 1980s, and was " frequently articulated by the new middle class Irish immigrants in Britain, for whom it was a means of distancing themselves from established Irish communities.

Marxist-Leninist cultural policy focuses upon modernization and distancing society from: the past, the bourgeoisie, and the old intelligentsia.

Despite this, a turn of events eventually led to his distancing from Wilhelm.

The first wave of punk rock aimed to be aggressively modern, distancing itself from the bombast and sentimentality of early 1970s rock.

However, he did not return to Microsoft and began distancing himself from the company.

In recent years, the Philippines has been distancing itself from the West due to its active role in the Non-aligned Movement and the G-77.

As Janet Croft notes, Tolkien's literary reaction to war at this time differed from most post-war writers by eschewing irony as a method for distancing events and instead using mythology to mediate his experiences.

Lope's Arte nuevo, is a 389 verse poem which explicitly defends his, and other dramaturges, distancing from Aristotelian unities of theater.

" Gadamer nevertheless makes clear that Dilthey's influence was important in helping the youthful Heidegger " in distancing himself from the systematic ideal of Neo-Kantianism, as Heidegger acknowledges in Being and Time.

Thus, by distancing themselves from gay people, they are reaffirming their role as a heterosexual in a heteronormative culture, thereby attempting to prevent themselves from being labeled and treated as a gay person.

The King's Speech from the Throne ( 21 February 1910 ) made reference to introducing measures restricting the Lords ' power of veto to one of delay, but Asquith inserted a phrase " in the opinion of my advisers " so the King could be seen to be distancing himself from the planned legislation.

The literary effect aimed for is a distancing effect, inviting the readers to contemplate their own species as it might be seen from an external point of view.

This shift represents the first major usurpation of power by distancing magic from those participating in that magic.

The Agent for Foreign Affairs, Van der Goes who had been in favor of distancing the Republic from the French, chose this inopportune moment to secretly approach the King of Prussia as a mediator, with a scheme in which the Hereditary Prince was to become a kind of constitutional monarch in a constitution on the model of the American Constitution.

He also began to follow new policies, pursuing independent defence and foreign policies and distancing Australia from its traditional ties to Britain.

In Simulacra and Simulation, French theorist Jean Baudrillard describes " retro " as a demythologization of the past, distancing the present from the big ideas that drove the “ modern ” age.

Renault's stated intention was to target less conformist, selective modern customers who were identified as " distancing themselves from the conventional saloon.

Modern top-of-the-line total stations no longer require a reflector or prism ( used to return the light pulses used for distancing ) to return distance measurements, are fully robotic, and can even e-mail point data to the office computer and connect to satellite positioning systems, such as a Global Positioning System.

Tomlin has been involved in a number of feminist and gay-friendly film productions, and on her 1975 album Modern Scream she poked fun at straight actors who make a point of distancing themselves from their gay and lesbian charactersanswering the pseudo-interview question, she replied: " How did it feel to play a heterosexual?

Nevertheless, he was distancing himself from the purest Junimist tenets, and took a favorable view of Romantic writers whom the society had criticized or ridiculed — among these, he indicated his personal rival Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, whom he acknowledged to be among " the most remarkable figures of our literature ", and Alexandru Odobescu.