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In the prologue to his classic account of the New Deal, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. suggests Felix Frankfurter and his colleagues were the source for the 1933 Banking Act ( along with the Securities Act of 1933 ) in the tradition of “ trust-busting liberalism .” In his later brief description of the 1933 Banking Act, however, Schlesinger does not mention Frankfurter and focuses on the role of the Pecora Investigation and opposition to deposit insurance, including from Roosevelt, in the debate over the legislation.
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In his opening prologue, Fulgentius claims that the purpose in writing the Mythologies was to strip the classic Greek stories of all their fictitious and meaningless details in order to reveal the obscured truths they contain.
prologue and account
Evidence for this is found in the prologue to the Gospel of Luke, wherein the author alludes to his sources by writing, " Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us, just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word.
The prologue opens with an account of Diamond's conversation with Yali, a New Guinean politician.
The Quranic account of Jesus begins with a prologue, which describes the birth of his mother, Mary, and her service in the Jerusalem temple, while under the care of the prophet and priest Zechariah, who was to be the father of John the Baptist.
In the prologue to La Relación, his account of his shipwreck and travels in North America, Cabeza de Vaca refers to his forefather's service to the King, and regrets that his own deeds could not be as great, as he thought.
Prefaced by a putative autobiography of Borzūya and an account of his voyage to India, the full work was done into Arabic by Ibn al-Muqaffa ', who introduced it with a prologue of his own and may have been responsible for four added stories.
Genesis 1 ): A brief prologue affirming that the account derives from the words of God directly to Moses is added in verse 1.
The prologue of the book explicitly states that whatever might be wrong in the account must be corrected to " that which can be proven to be most true ".
The volume begins with a prologue giving an account of Vann's funeral on June 16, 1972, following his death in a helicopter accident in Vietnam.
prologue and New
2009 also saw the beginning of the new New Mutants volume written by Zeb Wells, with the limited series X-Infernus serving as prologue.
" At the film's premiere in New York City, the film's prologue was preceded by a " brief stage tableau, with sinuous green lighting, which shows a puppet gangster shooting another puppet gangster in the back.
The first paperback edition of New Spring, released on June 13, 2005, gave readers the first look at Knife of Dreams ( Book 11 ), as it featured an advance excerpt of part of the prologue of Knife of Dreams.
In 1943, he took over as narrator of radio's The Adventures of Superman ; it was Beck who intoned the familiar prologue " strange visitor from another planet ..." Decades later, he portrayed Perry White, Clark Kent's boss in Filmation's The New Adventures of Superman animated series and was narrator as well.
Part of the prologue was first made available in the paperback edition of New Spring ( released on June 13, 2005 ); upon the release of the full prologue as an eBook, this partial excerpt was made available online at.
For example, La Vision de Dante ( written in 1853 ) was initially intended for Châtiments, and Les Quatre Jours d ' Elciis ( written in 1857 ) was bumped forward from both the First and the New Series, the prologue dating from perhaps 1880.
In the prologue, set in the South Bronx during the late night to early morning hours on New Year's Eve 1980, three armed assailants attempt a mugging on a supposedly unsuspecting woman, who turns out to be DaSilva in drag for a carefully planned sting operation.
prologue and Arthur
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who appeared in the prologue to the film based on his novel of the same name, reportedly showed a reel of O ' Brien's animation from the film to his friends, claiming it was real footage of living dinosaurs, to try to convince them that his story was based on fact.
He shoots and apparently kills its pilot, Arthur Frayn ( Niall Buggy ), who has already identified himself as an Eternal in the story's prologue.
However, John Dryden accused Blackmore of plagiarizing the idea of an epic on Arthur from him and called him a " Pedant, Canting Preacher, and a Quack " whose poetry had the rhythm of wagon wheels because Blackmore wrote in hackney cabs on his way between patients ( prologue to The Pilgrim ( 1700 )).
He explains in an elaborate prologue how folk desire to read old romances relating to Alexander the Great, Julius Cæsar, Troy, Brutus, King Arthur, Charlemagne etc., and how only those men are esteemed that love " paramours ".
The original text of King Arthur no longer exists but it was to be in three acts with an allegorical prologue.
* The Diary and Copybook of William E. P. Hartnell, Visitador General of the Missions of Alta California in 1839 and 1840, translated by Starr Pait Gurke, edited with annotations, introduction, and prologue by Glenn J. Farris, 153 pages with Index, limited edition of 150 hardcovers and 100 paperbacks published in 2004 by the California Mission Studies Association and the Arthur H. Clark Company, Santa Clara, California and Spokane, Washington, including black and white Frontispiece reproducing another painting of William Edward Petty Hartnell by Ellwood Graham, circa 1943.
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Its prologue, format, illustrations, and text are all very similar to the MS M. 383.
prologue and .
Finally, the prologue to Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, played on horn without the use of valves but equally suited to the alphorn, is a beautiful, inspired example of the lyric possibilities of natural harmonics.
The author opens with a prologue, usually taken to be addressed to an individual by the name of Theophilus ( though this name, which translates literally as " God-lover ", may be a nickname rather than a personal appellation ) and references " my earlier book "— almost certainly the Gospel of Luke.
He included it in the Rosh Hashana mussaf service as a prologue to the Kingship portion of the Amidah.
Book Two consists of a prologue and thirty-eight succinct chapters.
The cyclic pattern set out in the prologue is readily apparent at the beginning, but as the stories progress it begins to disintegrate, mirroring the disintegration of the world of the Israelites.
In the 20th century the first part of the prologue ( chapters 1: 1-2: 5 ) and the two parts of the epilogue ( 17-21 ) were commonly seen as miscellaneous collections of fragments tacked on to the main text, and the second part of the prologue ( 2: 6-3: 6 ) as an introduction composed expressly for the book ; this view has been challenged in the latter decades of the century, and there is an increasing willingness to see Judges as the work of a single individual, working by carefully selecting, reworking and positioning his source material to introduce and conclude his themes.
Job 1 and 2 are the prologue, written in prose.
" The Satan ", meaning literally " the adversary ", appears in the prose prologue of Job, where he is not the devil, as he becomes in later Christian works, but one of the celestial beings who stand before God in the heavenly court.
Job does speak of an adversary on several occasions within the central poem, but it is doubtful that he is referring to " the Adversary " of the prose prologue.
The speeches of Elihu ( who is not mentioned in the prologue ) are claimed to contradict the fundamental opinions expressed by the " friendly accusers " in the central body of the poem, according to which it is impossible that the righteous should suffer, all pain being a punishment for some sin.
It is set in the land of Edom, which has been retained as the background, and in the prologue and epilogue, the name of God is YHWH, a name that even the Edomites used.
Support for this theory can be found in the prologue of the Cantigas.
In 1971, SLON made Le Train en marche, a new prologue to Soviet filmmaker Aleksandr Medvedkin's 1935 film Schastye, which had recently been re-released in France.
According to Aeschylus in the prologue of the Eumenides, it had origins in prehistoric times and the worship of Gaia.
In its prologue, the author gratuitously insulted Cervantes, who not surprisingly took offense and responded ; the last half of Chapter LIX and most of the following chapters of Cervantes ' Segunda Parte lend some insight into the effects upon him ; Cervantes manages to work in some subtle digs at Avellaneda's own work, and in his preface to Part II, comes very near to criticizing Avellaneda directly.
In his prologue to Judith, without using the word canon, he mentioned that Judith was held to be scriptural by the First Council of Nicaea.
There are several covenants in the bible, and in each case they exhibit at least some of the elements found in real-life treaties of the ancient Middle East: a preamble, historical prologue, stipulations, deposition and reading, list of witnesses, blessings and curses, and ratification by animal sacrifice.
It included a prologue about the history of Godzilla, with footage from Monster Zero and Godzilla's Revenge ( itself using stock footage from Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster and Son of Godzilla ).
Although the added prologue was framed for fullscreen television, it was cropped and shown in widescreen on the disc.
Luke may have originally begun with verses 3: 1-7, a second prologue.
After the prologue, the narrative of the gospel begins with verse 6, and consists of two parts.
This prologue is intended to identify Jesus as the eternal Word ( Logos ) of God.
Some scholars argue that the prologue was taken over from an existing hymn and added at a later stage in the gospel's composition.
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