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For example, in the first editions of the collection The Mysterious Mr Quin ( 1930 ), in the short story " The Soul of the Croupier ," she described " Hebraic men with hook-noses wearing rather flamboyant jewellery "; in later editions the passage was edited to describe " sallow men " wearing same.
Calling on congressional approval for the United States to " support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures ," or in short a policy of " containment ", Truman articulated a presentation of the ideological struggle that became known as the " Truman Doctrine.
" The name was originally coined by Bruce Bethke as the title of his short story " Cyberpunk ," published in 1983.
Gibson defined cyberpunk's antipathy towards utopian SF in his 1981 short story " The Gernsback Continuum ," which pokes fun at and, to a certain extent, condemns utopian science fiction.
The science-fiction editor Gardner Dozois is generally acknowledged as the person who popularized the use of the term " cyberpunk " as a kind of literature, although Minnesota writer Bruce Bethke coined the term in 1980 for his short story " Cyberpunk ," which was published in the November 1983 issue of Amazing Science Fiction Stories.
The term " cyberspace " was first used by the cyberpunk science fiction author William Gibson, though the concept was described somewhat earlier, for example in the Vernor Vinge short story " True Names ," and even earlier in John M. Ford's novel, Web of Angels.
Spending $ 478. 28 of that on purchasing the second-hand Bolex camera " of dreams ," Lynch produced a new animated short, but upon getting the film developed, realized that the result was simply a blurred, frameless print.
A fan of Philip K. Dick, author of " We Can Remember it For You Wholesale ," the short story upon which the film was based, Cronenberg related ( in the biography / overview of his work, Cronenberg on Cronenberg ) that his dissatisfaction with what he envisioned the film to be and what it ended up being pained him so greatly that for a time, he suffered a migraine just thinking about it, akin to a needle piercing his eye.
One of Wollheim's short stories, " Mimic ," was made into the feature film of the same name, released in 1997.
In November 2011, Morris premiered a documentary short, " The Umbrella Man ," featuring Josiah " Tink " Thompson on the Kennedy assassination, on the opinion page of The New York Times online.
A reference to Erewhon and specifically " The Book of Machines " opens Miguel de Unamuno's short story, " Mecanópolis ," which tells of a man who visits a city ( called Mecanópolis ) which is inhabited solely by machines.
The exception is a Latin " Epistle to the Laodiceans ," which is actually a short compilation of verses from other Pauline epistles, principally Philippians, and on which scholarly opinion is divided as to whether it is the lost Marcionite forgery or alternatively an orthodox replacement of the Marcionite text.
( This is pronounced " G mod N ," where " mod " is short for modulo.
" I was only on Merseyside a short time, nine or 10 months in total really, but it was still a happy time personally, while professionally it was one of the most successful periods of my career ," he says.
For events of short durations in the past, the distinction often coincides with the distinction in the English language between the simple past " X-ed ," as compared to the progressive " was X-ing " ( compare " I wrote the letters this morning " ( i. e. finished writing the letters: an action completed ) and " I was writing letters this morning ").
Gilbert found a subject in one of his own short stories, " The Elixir of Love ," which concerned the complications arising when a love potion is distributed to all the residents of a small village.
Melville also wrote Billy Budd, White-Jacket, Israel Potter, Redburn, Typee, Omoo, Pierre, The Confidence-Man and many short stories, including " Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street " and " Benito Cereno ," and works of various genres.
However, spaces between words are not counted, so for instance " hat " is normally short, but it is long in " hat throw ," due to the " th " in the next word.
" The New York Times called 1996's Hallelujah Junction " a two-piano work played with appealingly sharp edges ," and 2001's " American Berserk " " a short, volatile solo piano work.
In Thomas Pynchon's 1964 short story " The Secret Integration ," a boy's dreams are affected " when the thing in the sky, the Heaviside layer, was right for it.
* Wells Tower's short story, " Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned ," is centred around a Viking raid on Lindisfarne.
The " broken octave ," a variation of the aforementioned short octave, similarly used split keys to add accidentals left out of the short octave.
* The most important work by Paul S. Fiddes is The Creative Suffering of God ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992 ); see also his short overview " Process Theology ," in A. E. McGrath, ed., The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Modern Christian Thought ( Oxford: Blackwell, 1993 ), 472 – 76.

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He writes, `` Confucius held that in times of stress one should take short views -- only up to lunchtime ''.
Citing the Professional Football Researchers Association as his source, Peterson writes that " Parratt completed a short pass to end Dan Riley ( real name, Dan Policowski )" in a game played at Massillon against a team from West Virginia.
Joseph Hillstrom King, who writes under the professional name Joe Hill, published a collection of short stories, 20th Century Ghosts, in 2005.
A writer is a person who produces nonfictional writing or literary art such as novels, short stories, poetry, plays, screenplays, or essays — especially someone who writes professionally.
She composes plays for her sisters to perform and writes short stories.
* The American dramatist, actor, and short story writer Sam Shepard writes in Cruising Paradise that Cesar Vallejo is his favorite poet.
Elder writes that " he used short, sharp sentences, with language as raw as Ernest Hemingway or Raymond Carver.
In the column, she answers etiquette questions contributed by her readers and writes short essays on problems of manners, or clarifies the essential qualities of politeness.
And yet Magenta ( as Mac-Mahon is also known for short ) writes in his still unpublished memoirs: " By family tradition, and by the sentiments towards the royal house which were instilled in me by my early education, I could not be anything but a Legitimist.
And Gus writes, " Dear Kleine — (" Kleine " means " short " in German.
He writes in the Southern Gothic aesthetic in his distinctly Faulknerian 1965 debut, The Orchard Keeper, and Suttree ( 1979 ); in the Epic Western tradition, with grotesquely drawn characters and symbolic narrative turns reminiscent of Melville, in Blood Meridian ( 1985 ), which Harold Bloom styled " the greatest single book since Faulkner ’ s As I Lay Dying ," calling the character of Judge Holden " short of Moby Dick, the most monstrous apparition in all of American literature "; in a much more pastoral tone in his celebrated Border Trilogy ( 1992 – 98 ) of bildungsromans, including All the Pretty Horses ( 1992 ), winner of the National Book Award ; and in the post-apocalyptic genre in the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Road ( 2007 ).
* Thomas Hardy writes The Son's Veto, which he regarded as his best short story.
Carmichael speaks about the Deacons when he writes, “ Here is a group which realized that the ‘ law ’ and law enforcement agencies would not protect people, so they had to do it themselves ... The Deacons and all other blacks who resort to self-defense represent a simple answer to a simple question: what man would not defend his family and home from attack ?” The Deacons, according to Carmichael and many others were the protection that the Civil Rights needed on local levels, as well as, the ones who intervened in places that the state and federal government fell short.
In short, Grote writes that " the various anecdotes which are told respecting treatment at Sparta betoken less of cruelty than of ostentatious scorn ".
She writes across genre boundaries, writing poetry, fiction, mainstream and speculative, short and long form, arts journalism and arts advocacy.
Surjeet Kalsey ( born in Amritsar, Punjab, India ) is a Canadian poet, dramatist, short story writer and translator who lives in British Columbia and writes in both Punjabi and English.
In his opening remarks, Ebert writes, " Stanley Kubrick considered ' The Killing ' ( 1956 ) to be his first mature feature, after a couple of short warm-ups.
Benny Andersen writes poems, short stories, and music.
Cherie Thiessen writes that “ The short stories in So It Won ’ t Go Away are not plot-driven narratives.
For example, novelist Tim O ' Brien, a Vietnam War veteran, writes in his short story collection The Things They Carried about a character named " Tim O ' Brien " and his war experiences in Vietnam.
Herman Melville considered Timon to be among the most profound of Shakespeare's plays, and in his 1850 review " Hawthorne and His Mosses " writes that Shakespeare is not " a mere man of Richard-the-Third humps, and Macbeth daggers ," but rather " it is those deep far-away things in him ; those occasional flashings-forth of the intuitive Truth in him ; those short, quick probings at the very axis of reality :– these are the things that make Shakespeare, Shakespeare.
Test-driven development ( TDD ) is a software development process that relies on the repetition of a very short development cycle: first the developer writes an ( initially failing ) automated test case that defines a desired improvement or new function, then produces the minimum amount of code to pass that test and finally refactors the new code to acceptable standards.
"' Spanish Harlem Incident ' is a new romance that pretends to be short and sweet ," writes Riley, " but it's an example of how Dylan begins using uncommon word couplings to evoke the mysteries of intimacy ... her ' rattling drums ' play off his ' restless palms '; her ' pearly eyes ' and ' flashing diamond teeth ' off his ' pale face.
As it has already been said, standard Croatian writes trigraph ije at the place of old long yat, which is in standard pronunciation manifested monosyllabically ( diphthongally ), and writes je at the place of short yat.

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