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was and father
When he regained consciousness he was in Lord's house, in the office of Doctor Lord, the deputy's deceased father.
He was in earnest conversation with her father and the old vaquero, Luis Hernandez.
`` Karipo was great goddess, told our mothers that men were not necessary except to father children '', the crone told me.
My curiosity was sharpened a day or two before the interview by a conversation I had with a well-informed teacher of literature, a Jesuit father, at a conference on religious drama near Paris.
It was, of course, a little boy's fantasy of winning his mother to himself, and replacing the father who could not give her the things she wanted -- a classical oedipal fantasy if you like -- but if it were only this the story would be banal.
His father was a good friend of Rabbi Szold, and Joe lived with the Szolds for a while.
What I fled from was my fear of what, unwittingly, you might betray, without meaning to, about my father and yourself.
But her father was not enthusiastic about sending young Paula to high school.
His father, George A. Mercer, was descended from an honored Southern family that could trace its ancestry back to one Hugh Mercer, who had emigrated from Scotland in 1747.
The lyricist's father was a lawyer who had branched out into real estate.
He was the son of a Scottish father and an American Jewish mother, long widowed, with whom he lived in a comfortable home in Flushing.
There was the Neapolitan, Ribas, a capable conniver whose father had been a blacksmith but who had fawned his way up the ladder of Catherine's and Potemkin's favor till he was now a brigadier ( and would one day be the daggerman designated to do in Czar Paul 1,, after traveling all the way to Naples to procure just the right stiletto ).
His father was a professor at Hartford Theological Seminary, and from him he acquired a conviction, which he passed along to me, that there is in the universe of persons a moral law, the law of love, which is a natural law in the same sense as is the physical law.
My father, who liked Alfred very much, was a constant visitor.
Banks the Butcher was a hard master and a hard father, a man who didn't seem to know the difference between the living flesh of his family and the hanging carcasses of his stock in trade.
She was the opposite of everything she should have been -- a positive pole in a negative home, a living reaction of warmth and kindness to the harsh reality of her father.
Karl was an almost exact copy of his father physically and it was strange to see the expected become the unexpected.
From the point of view of popularity the best-known member of the Commission was Walter Camp, the Yale athlete whose sobriquet was `` the father of American football ''.
the mere fact that he was selected, though as a substitute, to act as interlocutor or moderator for it, or perhaps we should say with Buck as ' father of the act ', is in itself a difficult phase of his development to grasp.
Angry that my father was being burnt alive in the mills ; ;
Jemela ( surname: Gerby ), 23, seems Hong Kong Oriental but has a Spanish father and an Indian mother, was born in America and educated at Holy Cross Academy and Textile High School, says she learned belly dancing at family picnics.
His father was a constant visitor.

was and Project
This meeting was called to determine how these groups might cooperate to launch what is known as the Outdoor Education Project.
Attempts to accuse anthropologists of complicity with the CIA and government intelligence activities during the Vietnam War years have turned up surprisingly little ( although anthropologist Hugo Nutini was active in the stillborn Project Camelot ).
The discovery of americium and curium in 1944 was closely related to the Manhattan Project ; the results were confidential and declassified only in 1945.
The Alan Parsons Project was an English progressive rock band, active between 1975 and 1990, consisting of singer Eric Woolfson and keyboardist Alan Parsons surrounded by a varying number of session musicians.
Behind the revolving lineup and the regular sidemen, the true core of the Project was the duo of Parsons and Woolfson.
Parsons would produce and engineer songs written by the two, and the Alan Parsons Project was born.
Although the studio version of Freudiana was produced by Parsons ( and featured the regular Project backing musicians, making it an ' unofficial ' Project album ), it was primarily Woolfson's idea to turn it into a musical.
In 2010 Eye to Eye: Alan Parsons Project Live in Madrid was released on CD.
The opening instrumental was largely done away with by 1980 ; no later Project album except Eye in the Sky featured one ( although every album includes at least one instrumental somewhere in the running order ).
This score was partly in the Project style, recorded by most of the Project regulars, and produced and engineered by Parsons.
The one occasion where the band was introduced as " The Alan Parsons Project " in a live performance was at Night of the Proms 1990 ( at the time of the group's break-up ), featuring all Project regulars except Woolfson who was present but behind the scenes, while Parsons stayed at the mixer except during the last song, where he played acoustic guitar.
First conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space, Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of " landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth " by the end of the 1960s, which he proposed in a May 25, 1961 address to Congress.
Project Mercury was followed by the two-man Project Gemini ( 1962-66 ).
In September 1962, by which time two Project Mercury astronauts had orbited the Earth, Gilruth had moved his organization to rented space in Houston, and construction of the MSC facility was under way, Kennedy visited Rice to reiterate his challenge in a famous speech:
In October 1943, shortly before he was to be arrested by the German police, Niels Bohr escaped to Sweden with his family, later travelling to London and on to work on the Manhattan Project.

was and Xanadu
In 1980 Jeff Lynne was asked to write for the soundtrack of the musical film Xanadu, with the other half written by John Farrar and performed by the film's star Olivia Newton-John.
Xanadu was turned into a surprising hit Broadway Musical that opened on 10 July 2007 at the Helen Hayes Theatre to uniformly good reviews and received 4 Tony Award nominations.
According to Coleridge's Preface to Kubla Khan, the poem was composed one night after he experienced an opium influenced dream after reading a work describing Xanadu, the summer palace of the Mongol ruler and Emperor of China Kublai Khan.
The text about Xanadu in Purchas, His Pilgrimage, which Coleridge admitted he did not remember exactly, was: " In Xandu did Cublai Can build a stately Pallace, encompassing sixteen miles of plaine ground with a wall, wherein are fertile Meddowes, pleasant Springs, delightfull streames, and all sorts of beasts of chase and game, and in the middest thereof a sumptuous house of pleasure, which may be moved from place to place.
This quotation was based upon the writings of the Venetian explorer Marco Polo who is widely believed to have visited Xanadu in about 1275.
In the 1970s Ted Nelson's original " Xanadu " hypertext repository was envisioned as such a service.
The term " hyperlink " was coined in 1965 ( or possibly 1964 ) by Ted Nelson at the start of Project Xanadu.
Though Nelson's Xanadu Corporation was eventually funded by Autodesk in the 1980s, it never created this proprietary public-access network.
One early showcase for Dunn was Orson Welles ' Citizen Kane, where such locations as Xanadu ( and some of Gregg Toland's famous ' deep focus ' shots ) were essentially created by Dunn's optical printer.
Khubilai's summer capital Shangdu ( aka Xanadu ) was located near present-day Dolonnor.
Project Xanadu was the first hypertext project, founded in 1960 by Ted Nelson.
According to economist Robin Hanson, in 1990 the first known corporate prediction market was used at Xanadu.
However, this version of Xanadu was successfully demonstrated at The Hackers Conference and generated considerable interest.
When the Web began to see large growth that Xanadu did not, Nelson's team grew defensive in the supposed rivalry that was emerging, but that they were losing.
* Xanadu ( Shangdu ) ( 上都 ) was the summer capital of Kublai Khan's empire.
In an interlude set in " Xanadu ", a character claims that the universe is dangerous because the poem went unfinished, but whether this was his misapprehension or not is not established.
When this map was made, Xanadu had been in ruins for almost three centuries.
Xanadu (; Mongolian: ), or Shangdu (, ) was the summer capital of Kublai Khan's Yuan Dynasty in China, before he decided to move the seat of his dynasty to the Jin Dynasty capital of Zhōngdū (), which he renamed Dàdū, the present-day Beijing.
Xanadu was visited by the Venetian traveler Marco Polo in about 1275, and in 1797 inspired a famous poem, Kubla Khan, by one of the leading English poets of the Romanticism movement, Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Xanadu was located in what is now called Inner Mongolia, north of Beijing, about northwest of the modern town of Duolun.
In June 2012, Xanadu was made a World Heritage Site.
In 1797, according to his own account, the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge was reading about Xanadu in Purchas his Pilgrimage, fell asleep, and had an opium-inspired dream.
Unfortunately Coleridge's writing was interrupted by an unnamed " man from Porlock ," causing him to forget much of the dream, but his images of Xanadu became one of the best-known poems in the English language.
This film starred Gene Kelly and Olivia Newton-John and was widely considered a big-budget flop, but its soundtrack spawned several hit singles for Ms. Newton-John, such as the # 1 hit " Magic ", a duet with Cliff Richard called " Suddenly ", and, with Electric Light Orchestra accompaniment, the title song " Xanadu ".
In 2006, the International Astronomical Union ( IAU ) named a continent-sized area of Saturn's moon Titan as Xanadu after it was referred from Coleridge's poem.

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