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There was the end of his front-page feature story, with byline.
The story was shaping up nicely in his mind: the young pioneer, as of old, altruistically braving the unknown ; ;
Now, although the roots of the mystery story in serious literature go back as far as Balzac, Dickens, and Poe, it was not until the closing decades of the 19th century that the private detective became an established figure in popular fiction.
Now we can argue that the irresistible fate of Oedipus Rex was nothing more than the irresistible unconscious longings of Oedipus projected outward, but this externalization of unconscious conflict makes all the difference between a story and a clinical case history.
But on one occasion when I encountered a similar fantasy in a little boy who was my patient I began to understand the uncanny effects of this story.
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.
He was simply writing a story that wanted to be told, and in the writing a childhood fantasy of his own emerged.
Into the texture of this tapestry of history and human drama Henrietta, as every artist delights to do, wove strands of her own intuitive insights into human nature and -- especially in the remarkable story of the attraction and conflict between two so disparate and fervent characters as this pair -- into the relations of men and women: `` In their relations, she was the giver and he the receiver, nay the demander.
and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;
`` Mr. Miller was in the shop '', the Herald Tribune story related, `` but was reluctant to have anybody's picture taken inside, because his business was too ' confidential ' for pictures.
The Hetman had a strong liking for a story, any story which was to be had by means of much sleuthing or by roundabout methods.
He laughed at a story that he planned to bolt the party if he was not nominated.
Trevelyan was at least in part attracted to the period by an almost unconscious desire to take up the story where Macaulay's History Of England had broken off.
Sherman was responsible for the story when he said in his memoirs that this was the only time he could recall seeing Thomas ride so fast.
Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.
Local industry's investment in Rhode Island was the big story in 1960's industrial development effort.
Usually, this was done when attention was diverted by someone else's long, boring story.
But what was the story??
The woman in the house where the niece was staying backed up his story and said she left when he did to shop for her dinner.
It was the story of the rhinoceros fight all over again.

story and partly
The story of Alcaeus is partly the story of the scholars who rescued his work from oblivion.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus ( book 1 ) rejected this account of the people he called the Tyrrhenians, partly on the authority of Xanthus, a Lydian historian, who had no knowledge of the story, and partly on what he judged to be the different languages, laws, and religions of the two peoples.
However, fame was still eluding him, and partly out of desperation, Coppola bought the rights to the David Benedictus novel You're a Big Boy Now and fused it with a story idea of his own, resulting in You're a Big Boy Now ( 1966 ).
In addition, the story partly concerns the discovery of Aristotle's book on Comedy, which is in fact a lost book.
Pei's tunnel through a mountain leading to the Miho Museum was partly inspired by a story from fourth-century Chinese poet Tao Yuanming.
Its walls are broad, designed to support a second story, and its wide, elaborate entrance leads to a large hall, partly covered with a roof supported on a row of columns.
The story was partly inspired by Čapek's War with the Newts.
In 2002, the Times published a story accusing the National Educational Association ( NEA ), the largest teachers ' union in the United States, of promoting teaching students that the policies of the United States government were partly to blame for the 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.
This is partly because Almásy tells his own story, but it is also because Almásy always adheres to his own moral code.
Most of these readers favored the sad ending, partly because they felt Heinlein should have been free to create his own story, and partly because they believed that the changed ending turned a tragedy into a mere adventure, and not a very well constructed one at that.
Some felt that Little Women was the beginning ofa decline in the radical power of women ’ s fiction ,” partly because women ’ s fiction was now being idealized with a hearth and home children ’ s story.
* Le Cahier volé (" The Stolen Folder "), short story partly inspired by a childhood spent at the École Saint-Martial de Montmorillon ( Fayard, 1978 )
Howard and Marina's story line was partly based on an early subplot of the television show.
Radio Times called the film " partly a love story and partly a thriller, but mainly a study of cultural collision – it's as if the world of Dirty Harry had suddenly stumbled into a canvas by Brueghel.
She met the leading Shakespearean actress Ellen Tree soon after, and persuaded her to take the lead role in a play she was writing, partly in blank verse, entitled The Bride of Fort Edward, based on her award-winning story, Love's Martyr, about Jane M ' Crea, which she also published anonymously in 1839.
The novel is partly an origin story, with a huge cast of characters swarming around-many of whom become the central figures of later novels in the series-and partly an account of the December 1851 coup d ' état that created the French Second Empire under Napoleon III as experienced in a large provincial town in southern France.
This story may be partly apocryphal, because also Ryti had a Finland-Swedish wife.
* Lunar Park ( 2005 ) by Bret Easton Ellis is partly a ghost story and an autobiographical novel describing his early years of fame and difficult relationship with his father.
However, the story says that his horse became trapped in a field of partly frozen mud and his enemies were able to approach him and kill him.
But when they insisted on telling him their film story, Pommer was so impressed that he bought it on the spot, and agreed to have the film produced in expressionistic style, partly as a concession to his studio only having a limited quota of power and light.

story and designed
Hendricks' story was designed for children and he had a small audience of small children right on stage with him.
Evil Dead II, according to Bruce Campbell, " was originally designed to go back into the past to 1300, but we couldn't muster it at the time, so we decided to make an interim version, not knowing if the 1300 story would ever get made ".
In Gregory ’ s day, history was not recognized as an independent field of study ; it was a branch of grammar or rhetoric, and historia ( defined as ‘ story ’) summed up the approach of the learned when they wrote what was, at that time, considered ‘ history .’ Gregory ’ s Dialogues Book Two, then, an authentic medieval hagiography cast as a conversation between the Pope and his deacon Peter, is designed to teach spiritual lessons.
The story describes the creation of self-replicating weapons factories designed to destroy the Anabis, a galaxy-spanning malevolent life form bent on destruction of the human race.
In the story, a machine is designed, the sole purpose of which is to find metal to produce copies of itself, intended to be used as a weapon against an enemy's war machines.
The Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity is housed in an 11-story structure originally built for The Christian Science Publishing Society constructed between 1932 and 1934, and the present plaza was constructed in the late 1960s and early 1970s to include a 28 story administration building, a colonnade, and a reflecting pool with fountain, designed by Araldo Cossutta of I. M. Pei and Partners ( now Pei Cobb Freed ).
In the Fifth Doctor story Resurrection of the Daleks, a small Dalek force aided by human mercenaries and Dalek duplicates liberates Davros ( now played by Terry Molloy, with a new mask designed by Stan Mitchell ) from his space station prison, needing his expertise to find an antidote for a Movellan-created virus that has all but wiped them out.
* Four continuations of Chrétien ’ s poem, by authors of differing vision and talent, designed to bring the story to a close.
During 1951 – 1952, Mies ' designed the steel, glass, and brick McCormick House, located in Elmhurst, Illinois ( 15 miles west of the Chicago Loop ), for real-estate developer Robert Hall McCormick, Jr. A one story adaptation of the exterior curtain wall of his famous 860 – 880 Lake Shore Drive towers, it served as a prototype for an unbuilt series of speculative houses to be constructed in Melrose Park, Illinois.
It was designed with the rules of the Fudge universal role-playing system in mind but added modifications necessary to get rid of the need for a gamemaster, distributing the responsibility for the game and story equally among all players and undoing the equivalence between player and character.
Each academic unit is designed with a two story temple front facing the quadrangle, while the library is modeled on the Roman Pantheon.
In some cases, a work is retroactively named a trilogy instead of having been designed as such by the authors, particularly if it is a story arc of a continuously running series such a comic book or television show.
The fact that the story mentions that cigars are not allowed into the hotel is designed to highlight the fallacy.
For the Beauvais tapestry workshops he first designed a series of Fêtes italiennes (" Italian festivals ") in 1736, which proved to be very successful and often rewoven over the years, and then, commissioned in 1737, a suite of the story of Cupid and Psyche.
The skeptical tradition, which reads the various fulfillment of prophecies in the life of Jesus as inventions designed for that purpose, reads Joseph of Arimathea as a story created to fulfill this prophecy in Isaiah, although the gospel accounts do not claim a prophesied fulfillment at that point.
Final Fantasy IV features computer animated cutscene sequences, while Chrono Trigger features anime-style sequences designed by Akira Toriyama that " help further tell the story of Chrono Trigger.
That was followed in 1940 by the Isaac Asimov short story " Robbie ", about a first-generation robot designed to care for children.
Seeing her costumes as an important part in creating the role of Romana, Ward clashed with costume designer Doreen James, rejecting the silver catsuit James had designed for her for the story.
She is also prominently featured in a comic story published by Marvel Comics, but for some reason, instead of a female duck as she was originally designed, she appears in the comic story as a human.
These critics regard this part of the manna narrative as an etiological supernature story designed to explain the origin of Shabbat observance, which in reality was probably pre-Mosaic.
All of the three are typified in St. Mary's-By-the-Sea, a 1 and 1 / 2 story church building at 30 Agawam Avenue, designed by Francis Goodwin and built in 1883.
" These towers were designed to house two-story apartments, where every inhabitant would enjoy “ the illusion of living on the second floor ,” accomplished by folding concrete floor planes ( like “ bamboo mats ,” claims the firm ), so that every third story opens into a private courtyard.
A tried-and-tested method for presenting newspaper comic strips, the 2003 DC Elseworlds story Batman: Nine Lives also used this method-although unlike those titles, Vertical is designed to be read vertically, and not horizontally.

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