* Knowlson, James ( 2004 ).

In comparison to Sartre's concepts of the function of literature, Samuel Beckett's primary focus was on the failure of man to overcome " absurdity "; as James Knowlson says in Damned to Fame, Beckett's work focuses " on poverty, failure, exile and loss — as he put it, on man as a ' non-knower ' and as a ' non-can-er '.

* Knowlson, James.

To comply with the law Beckett “ was obliged to be in residence in Folkstone for a minimum of two weeks to allow him to be married in the Registry Office there ” and this time spent there observing the locals may well have influenced the “ middle class, English, ‘ Home Counties ’” setting of Play though James Knowlson also point to two visits to Sweetwater about the same time.

Beckett tasked himself with re-reading all of Racine ’ s plays in the mid-1950s and James Knowlson suggests that “ this daily diet of Racinian claustrophobia forced Beckett to concentrate on the true essentials of theatre: Time, Space and Speech pointed him in the direction that made a tightly focused, monologic play like Happy Days or Play possible.

to Magee reading extracts from Molloy and From an Abandoned Work on the BBC Third Programme in December 1957 .< ref > University of Reading Library MS 1227 / 7 / 7 / 1, as cited in James Knowlson, " Krapp's Last Tape: the evolution of a play ", Journal of Beckett Studies 1. 1.

( Beckett explained to James Knowlson that when he was composing Catastrophe, “ In my mind was Dupuytren ’ s contracture ( from which I suffer ) which reduces hands to claws .”) The Director dismisses his Assistant ’ s proposal to have the man gagged (“ This craze for explicitation !”) or to “ show his face … just for an instant .” He also has her make notes to whiten all the exposed flesh.

* Knowlson, James, Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett.

* James Knowlson, Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett

James Knowlson in his biography of Beckett, Damned to Fame, suggests that the names may echo Richard Aldington's Enter Bim and Bom, the epilogue to his 1931 novel The Colonel's Daughter, on an English football field to comment upon the degeneration of English society.

Evidence is plentiful that early and later also he has been indebted to the Gothic romancers, who deal in extravagant horror, to the symbolists writing at the end of the preceding century, and in particular to the stream-of-consciousness novelists, Henry James and James Joyce among them.

Dr. James B. Conant has earned a nationwide reputation as a moderate and unemotional school reformer.

Since it was issued in the spring of 1611, the King James Version has been most generally considered the most poetic and beautiful of all translations of the Bible.

The New English Bible ( the Old Testament and Apocrypha will be published at a future date ) has not been planned to rival or replace the King James Version, but, as its cover states, it is offered `` simply as the Bible to all those who will use it in reading, teaching, or worship ''.

If this new Bible does not increase in significance by repeated readings throughout the years, it will not survive the ages as has the King James Version.

The mechanism of this coupling has been studied in some detail with non-enzymatic systems in vitro and can be simulated by certain di-iodotyrosine analogues ( Pitt-Rivers and James, 1958 ).

`` All too frequently '', points out James O'Gara, managing editor of Commonweal, `` Catholics run roughshod over Protestant sensibilities in this matter, by failure to consider the reasoning behind the Protestant position and, particularly, by their jibes at the fact that Protestant opinion on birth control has changed in recent decades ''.

The panel's action depends on the return of Representative James W. Trimble, Democrat of Arkansas, who has been siding with Speaker Sam Rayburn's forces in the Rules Committee in moving bills to the floor.

Tailback James Saxton already has surpassed his rushing total for his brilliant sophomore season, when he netted 271 yards on 55 carries ; ;

To his Harvard colleague, Josiah Royce, whose philosophic position differed radically from his own, James could write, `` Different as our minds are, yours has nourished mine, as no other social influence ever has, and in converse with you I have always felt that my life was being lived importantly ''.

According to the studies of James Curran, the system of shared values among editors in Britain has generated a pressure among authors to write to fit the editors ' expectations, removing the focus from the reader-audience and putting a strain on the relationship between authors and editors and on writing as a social act.

Azerbaijan has formal involvement with senior ex-U. S. government officials including James Baker and Henry Kissinger as they serve on the Honorary Council of Advisors of the U. S .- Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce ( USACC ).

Author James Basker states that the song has been employed by African Americans as the " paradigmatic Negro spiritual " because it expresses the joy felt at being delivered from slavery and worldly miseries.

More recently, James Page has suggested that aesthetic ethics might be taken to form a philosophical rationale for peace education.

James Tobin's ( winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics ) proposal for a tax on financial transactions ( called, after him, the Tobin tax ) has become part of the agenda of the movement.

Celebrity biographer James Spada has claimed that similar allegations were made by actress Grace Kelly.

Noted statistician Bill James has argued that unless a player can steal a high percentage of the time, then the stolen base is not useful, and can even be detrimental to a team.

It is written in English, very similar to the Early Modern English linguistic style of the King James Version of the Bible, and has since been fully or partially translated into 108 languages.

More recently, British artist James Mylne has been creating photo-realistic artwork using mostly black ballpoints, sometimes with minimal mixed-media color.

James Davey has suggested that the common themes of sailing and naval battles may also have prompted the use of popular ballads as naval recruitment tools

The university requires use of the King James Version ( KJV ) of the Bible in its services and classrooms, but it does not hold that the KJV is the only acceptable English translation or that it has the same authority as the original Hebrew and Greek manuscripts.

" ( King James Version ) They consider that when Jesus said in John 3: 5 that one has to be born from " water and the spirit " to enter the kingdom of God, it was not a command but a necessity, because the text states " Ye must be born again ".

It has been argued that firearms residue on some deceased may have come from contact with the soldiers who themselves moved some of the bodies, or that the presence of lead on the hands of one ( James Wray ) was easily explained by the fact that his occupation involved the use of lead-based solder.

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd killer was suggested by brother-in-law James Watt.

James Rainwater of Columbia University suggested a model of the nucleus which could explain a non-spherical charge distribution in a 1950 paper.

The name " curl " was first suggested by James Clerk Maxwell in 1871.

) Philosopher Simon Blackburn wrote a rejoinder to Stove, though a subsequent essay by Stove's protegee James Franklin's suggested that Blackburn's response actually " confirms Stove's central thesis that Darwinism can ' explain ' anything.

Radio waves were not detected first from a natural source, but were rather produced deliberately an artificially by the German scientist Heinrich Hertz in 1887, using electrical circuits calculated to produce oscillations in the radio frequency range, following recipies suggested by the equations of James Clerk Maxwell.

John Calvin and others suggested that the author was the Apostle James, son of Alphaeus, who was often identified with James the Just.

Confirmation and clarity came a year later in 1953, when James D. Watson and Francis Crick correctly hypothesized, in their journal article " Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid ", the double helix structure of DNA, and suggested the copying mechanism by which DNA functions as hereditary material.

Additionally, the poet James Whitcomb Riley facetiously suggested that the fierce brawling that took place in Indiana involved enough ear biting that the expression " Whose ear?

It may have been just chance, but historian James Campbell has suggested that Chlothar summoned clergy from Britain to attend in an attempt to assert overlordship over Kent.

Broken windows policing was another, related approach introduced in the 1980s by James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling, who suggested that police should pay greater attention to minor " quality of life " offenses and disorderly conduct.

Radio waves were not detected first from a natural source, but were rather produced deliberately an artificially by the German scientist Heinrich Hertz in 1887, using electrical circuits calculated to produce oscillations in the radio frequency range, following recipes suggested by the equations of James Clerk Maxwell.

James Cook succeeded in circumnavigating the world ( 1768 – 71 ) in HM Bark Endeavour without losing a single man to scurvy, but his suggested methods, including a diet of sauerkraut and wort of malt, were of limited value.

James Henthorn Todd, in his 1855 publication of the Leabhar Imuinn ( The Book of Hymns of the Ancient Church of Ireland ), suggested that it was Finnian of Moville, and that view has gained traction among modern scholars.

Sir James George Frazer in The Golden Bough noted the phallic nature of the spear and suggested that in the Arthurian Legends the spear or lance functioned as a symbol of male fertility, paired with the Grail ( as a symbol of female fertility ).

A Tobin tax, suggested by Nobel Laureate economist James Tobin, was originally defined as a tax on all spot conversions of one currency into another.

Grant's diplomacy failed him, however, when he jokingly suggested to his wife that, perhaps if she met with Mrs. Louise ( James ) Longstreet, they could restore peace.

A particularly fanciful etymology, suggested by James Skene in 1824, derives the word from Baumgericht ( Lit.

It was the need to synchronize the scramblers that suggested to James H. Ellis the idea for non-secret encryption which ultimately led to the invention of both the RSA encryption algorithm and Diffie-Hellman key exchange well before either was reinvented publicly by Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman, or by Diffie and Hellman.

Flash was added at the start of the third season, after James Best suggested to the producers that Rosco have a dog.

In 1761 James Macpherson announced the discovery of an epic written by Ossian ( Oisín ) in the Scottish Gaelic language on the subject of " Fingal " ( Fionnghall meaning " white stranger ": it is suggested that Macpherson rendered the name as Fingal through a misapprehension of the name which in old Gaelic would appear as Finn ).

More generally, James Buchanan has suggested that public choice theory be interpreted as " politics without romance ," a critical approach to a pervasive earlier notion of idealized politics set against market failure.

Following Wilson's return to power, the renegotiations with Britain's fellow EC members were carried out by Wilson himself in tandem with Foreign Secretary James Callaghan, and they toured the capital cities of Europe meeting their European counterparts ( some commentators have suggested that their co-operation in this exercise may have been the source of a close relationship between the two men which is claimed to have assisted a smooth change-over when Wilson retired from office ).