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is and author
I knew that a conversation with the author would not settle such questions, because a man is not the same as his writing: in the last analysis, the questions had to be settled by the work itself.
But to return to the main line of our inquiry, it is doubtful that Utopia is still widely read because More was medieval or even because he was a martyr -- indeed, it is likely that these days many who read Utopia with interest do not even know that its author was a martyr.
To the extent that a tale is twice told, its final author must be suspect, although plagiarism in an oral tradition is less a misdemeanor than the standard modus dicendi.
The author of Crystal Structures is Ralph W.G. Wyckoff, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
He selected as Comptroller of Defense, not a veteran accountant, but a former Rhodes Scholar, Charles Hitch, who is author of a study on The Economics Of Defense In The Nuclear Age.
Postmaster General J. Edward Day, who must deal with matters of postal censorship, is himself author of a novel, Bartholf Street, albeit one he was obliged to publish at his own expense.
Not only should this provision be enforced but other economic and political actions might be taken which, this author believes, `` must surely be supported by every American who values the freedom that has been won for him and whose conscience is not so dominated by the lines in his account books that he can willingly and knowingly contribute to the enslavement of another nation ''.
The dialogue is sharp, witty and candid -- typical `` don't eat the daisies '' material -- which has stamped the author throughout her books and plays, and it was obvious that the Theatre-by-the-Sea audience liked it.
A semi-serious literary document entitled `` The Wings Of Henry James '' is noteworthy, if only for a keenly trenchant though little-known comment on the master's difficult later period by modest Owen Wister, author of `` The Virginian ''.
the author possesses an uncommonly fine English style, and he is dealing with subjects of vast importance that are highly topical for our time.
`` He has married me with a ring of bright water '', begins the Kathleen Raine poem from which Maxwell takes his title, and it is this mystic bond between the human and natural world that the author conveys.
This is not only a compliment to Mijbil, of whom there are a fine series of photographs and drawings in the book, but to the author who has catalogued the saga of a frightened otter cub's journey by plane from Iraq to London, then by train ( where he lay curled in the wash basin playing with the water tap ) to Camusfearna, with affectionate detail.
Mr. Sansom is English, bearded, formidably cultivated, the versatile author of numerous volumes of short stories, of novels and of pieces that are neither short stories nor travel articles but something midway between.
This latter failure is more than merely bad reportage and it is distinctly more important than it would have been had the author drawn Clerfayt as, say, a tournament golfer.
The man most firmly at grips with the problem is the University of Minnesota's Physiologist Ancel Keys, 57, inventor of the wartime K ( for Keys ) ration and author of last year's bestselling Eat Well And Stay Well.
While Swift ’ s proposal is obviously not a serious economic proposal, George Wittkowsky, author of " Swift ’ s Modest Proposal: The Biography of an Early Georgian Pamphlet ", argues that to understand the piece fully, it is important to understand the economics of Swift ’ s time.
Korzybski is remembered as the author of the dictum: " The map is not the territory ".
* Salvatore Iro, artist, author of Manifesto Art is ... Shit, a collection of works conceived to decrypt the language of modern and contemporary art, in 2012 creates the artwork Ceci est une pomme, marked by the subheading: " non aristotelian obviousness ".
Isabel Allende is a prominent Chilean author of the 20th and 21st centuries.

is and book
The book concerned with the Negro's role in an urban society is rare indeed ; ;
This is brought out in the next to last chapter of the book, `` A Hero's Funeral '', written in the form of an impassioned prose poem.
Properly used, the present book is an excellent instrument of enlightenment.
His nationalism was not a new characteristic, but its self-consciousness, even its self-satisfaction, is more obvious in a book that stretches over the long reach of English history.
I know you are very busy now, you are writing a great deal & your book is coming out, isn't it??
Understanding, as he did, the difficulty of the art of poetry, and believing that the `` only technical criticism worth having in poetry is that of poets '', he felt obliged to insist upon his duty to be hard to please when it came to the review of a book of verse.
In his book Civilization And Ethics Albert Schweitzer faces the moral problems which arise when moral law is recognized in business life, for example.
One such is Abraham Meyer, the writer of a recent book, Speaking Of Man.
My last gift to him is complete silence until the book is out and the first heated discussion dies down.
Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.
The work as it stands is not the entire book that Malraux wrote at that time -- it is only the first section of a three-part novel called La Lutte avec l'Ange ; ;
If we are to believe the list of titles printed in Malraux's latest book, La Metamorphose Des Dieux, Vol. 1 ( ( 1957 ), he is still engaged in writing a large novel under his original title.
This magnificent but greatly underestimated book, which bodies forth the very form and pressure of its time as no other comparable creation, has suffered severely from having been written about an historical event -- the Spanish Civil War -- that is still capable of fanning the smoldering fires of old political feuds.
His first book, Before The Brave ( 1936 ), is a collection of poems that are almost all Communistic, but after publication of this book he rejected Communism, and advocated a pacifistic anarchy, though retaining his revolutionary idiom.
In his recent book, Hurray For Anything ( 1957 ), one of the most important short poems -- and it is the title poem for one of the long jazz arrangements -- is written for recital with jazz.
Nowadays, more and more, all he needs is someone else's book.
Whether in his forthcoming book C. P. Snow commits the errors of judgment and of fact with which your heavily autobiographical critic charged him is important.
`` I have read an advance copy of the Snow book which is to be titled, ' Science And Government.
Representatives of Harvard University Press, which is publishing the book this month of April, recognize and freely acknowledge that they invited such reaction by allowing Life magazine to print an excerpt from the book in advance of the book's publication date.
`` Although it is not the best of which he is capable '', said Shelley as he closed the book, `` it is still poetry of a high order ''.

is and Six
The style of this A section is written in the typical French style of composers Claude Debussy and Les Six.
Six astatine isotopes, with mass numbers of 214 to 219, are present in nature as the products of various decay routes of heavier elements, but neither the most stable isotope of astatine ( with mass number 210 ) nor astatine-211 ( which is used in medicine ) is produced naturally.
A principal character in the book " Six Suspects " ( ISBN 0-385-60815-2 ) by Vikas Swarup is from the Andaman Islands.
Diabelli's composition Pleasures of Youth: Six Sonatinas is a collection of six sonatinas depicting a struggle between unknown opposing forces.
The current Senate composition is as follows: 20 seats are held by the Coalition of Parties for Democracy ( CPD ): Six Christian Democrats ( PDC ), eight Socialists ( PS ), three Party for Democracy ( PPD ) and three Social Democrat Radical Party ( PRSD ); 17 by the Alliance for Chile ( APC ): nine Independent Democratic Union ( UDI ) and eight National Renewal ( RN ); and one independent leaning right.
( The six-player version found in the extension has the map split into six islands ; the scenario is titled The Six Islands, but is played identically.
Eureka is the home to the last amusement park to be built under the " Six Flags Over " name.
One of their films is screened in the KahBang Off Screen Category, " Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon " which connects the honored back to the man himself.
Although Drake's birth is not formally recorded, it is known that he was born while the Six Articles were in force.
Fort William is the home of the Scottish Six Day Motorcycle Trial ( SSDT ), held annually in the first full week of May.
Every year the Six Days of Flanders, a six-day track cycling race, is held in Ghent.
The Gaia philosophy is a guiding principle for terrorists in the Tom Clancy novel Rainbow Six.
Napoleon was largely defeated in the Battle of the Nations outside Leipzig in October 1813, and was overwhelmed by much larger armies during the Six Days Campaign ( February 1814 ), although, the Six Days Campaign is often considered a tactical masterpiece because the allies suffered much higher casualties.
: R. Katina said, “ Six thousand years the world will exist and one the seventh, it shall be desolate ( haruv ), as it is written, ‘ And the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day ’ ( Isa.
Kemp briefly served on the board of Oracle Corporation, CEO is friend Larry Ellison, in 1996, but resigned when he ran for Vice President ; he was named to the board of Six Flags, Inc. in December 2005.
The film is based on Ben Mezrich's best seller, Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions, a story of student MIT card-counters who used mathematical probability to aid them in card games such as blackjack.
Six colors suffice to color any map on the surface of a Klein bottle ; this is the only exception to
An easter egg programmed in SimCity 3000 displays the message " Do you know that Maxis spelled backwards is Six AM?
Six of the remainder have strips between 1, 524 and 2, 437 m, while one is under 914 m. 18 additional airports have unpaved runways 15 of them with strips between 914 and 1, 523 m.
This is more than many well known traditions such as Rastafarian, Bahá ' í and Zoroastrian groups, but fewer than the ' Big Six ' of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism, Judaism and Buddhism.
This is badly dated ( based on the 1873 Graham translation ), severely abridged ( leaving out, for instance, Book Six on defense — which Clausewitz considered to be the stronger form of warfare ), and badly biased ( because of its Vietnam War era and the editor's hostility to " neo-Clausewitzian " Henry Kissinger ).

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