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" John Updike, comparing Abner to a “ hillbilly Candide ,” added that the strip ’ s “ richness of social and philosophical commentary approached the Voltairean .” Charlie Chaplin, William F. Buckley, Al Hirschfeld, Harpo Marx, Russ Meyer, John Kenneth Galbraith, Ralph Bakshi, Shel Silverstein, Hugh Downs, Gene Shalit, Frank Cho, Daniel Clowes and ( reportedly ) even Queen Elizabeth have confessed to being fans of Li ' l Abner.
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The popularity and accessibility of strips meant they were often clipped and saved ; authors including John Updike and Ray Bradbury have written about their childhood collections of clipped strips.
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John and comparing
" In 2006, Professor John Urquhart noted the relevance of the Canon to modern medicine, comparing it to an influential medical work of the 19th century, The Principles and Practice of Medicine ( 1892 ) by Osler himself, and concluded:
In the last page of The Areas of My Expertise, John Hodgman includes a table comparing his " future works " with I, Claudius.
Unlike English, however, when comparing just two things, the superlative must be used, e. g. of two people-John ydy ' r talaf ( John is the tallest ).
Professor John Ermisch at the institute of social and economic research at Essex University and Dr Roger Ingham, director of the centre of sexual health at Southampton University – found that comparing teenage mothers with other girls with similarly deprived social-economic profiles, bad school experiences and low educational aspirations, the difference in their respective life chances was negligible.
In comparing the views of John Calvin and Jan Łaski, Kuyper showed a clear sympathy for the more liberal Łaski.
His name is also mentioned in the dialogue of the show, with John Locke comparing Ben Linus to the Wizard and saying that he is the one orchestrating events and is " The Man Behind the Curtain ".
" John Jones, in his 1969 analysis, emphasises this sexual dimension within the poem by comparing the relationship between " the Eve Adam dreamed of and who was there when he woke up " and the " bridal urn " of " Ode on a Grecian Urn ".
Another theory that has similarities to Psychohistory is " Generational Dynamics " proposed by John J. Xenakis, where he proposes, " Generational Dynamics is a historical methodology that analyzes historical events through the flow of generations, and uses the analysis to forecast future events by comparing today's generational attitudes to those of the past ".
Following his shipwreck off the coast at Cape Horn, Admiral John Byron ( Grandfather of the poet Lord Byron ) traveled across Chile and came back to England with a glowing review of Chilean Muscatel comparing it favorably to Madeira.
Upon comparing the original demos with Sykes singing to the demos with Ray Gillen on vocals, A & R executive John Kalodner encouraged Sykes to handle the vocal duties himself, though Tony Martin ( Who, ironically, replaced Gillen in Black Sabbath ) briefly worked with the band.
During the fight on the cargo ship, John McClane ( Bruce Willis ) repeatedly tries to provoke and mock his opponent, terrorist Mathias Targo ( Nick Wyman ), including by comparing his appearance with Lurch from The Addams Family.
The Council on American Islamic Relations joined 50 other organizations, including Amnesty International, the Sikh Coalition, the Japanese American Citizens League and Unitarian Universalist Service Committee in signing a letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi comparing the hearings to those held by Senator Joe McCarthy in the 1950s and calling them " divisive and wrong ", and " an affront to fundamental freedoms "
They explicitly deny the Logos doctrine in John chapter 1 and they deny Johannine authorship by comparing his Gospel with the synoptic Gospels.
On August 19, 2008, he wrote an article comparing John McCain to George W. Bush, concluding that " I fear to the depth of my being that John McCain is just like him.
Perhaps John and Mary are the only two persons in the list who switched minors three times in college, a fact we found out by exhaustively comparing their lives ' histories.
In William Shakespeare's Henry IV Part I, Sir John Falstaff alludes to the story while insulting his friend Bardolph about his face, comparing it to a memento mori: " I never see thy face ," he says " but I think upon hell-fire and Dives that lived in purple ; for there he is in his robes, burning, burning " ( III, 3, 30-33 ).
John and Abner
* 1969 John Clauser, Michael Horne, Abner Shimony and Richard Holt propose a polarization correlation test of Bell's inequality
William Thornton, Daniel Troutman and Daniel W. Wooliver were among the 1829 settlers, followed by William Blackwell, Elisha Nelson, Jerry Potts, Ephraim Bressie, Robert Leonard, Abner Wingfield, Lewis Dent, Wilson Craddock, Thomas Higginbotham, Jack Berry, Silas Hamby, Smith Wofford, Turkill McNeill, Dr. John Hyer, Samuel Hyer and David Lenox.
The first settlers in Owsley County were John Renty Baker and John Abner.
The exact year of their settlement is unknown, however, a gravestone found in a cemetery on Upper Buffalo Creek reads, " Milly, wife of John Abner, died March 1846.
CHSH stands for John Clauser, Michael Horne, Abner Shimony and Richard Holt, who described it in a much-cited paper published in 1969 ( Clauser et al., 1969 ).
" John Updike, calling Li ' l Abner a " hillbilly Candide ," added that the strip's " richness of social and philosophical commentary approached the Voltairean.
" Charlie Chaplin, William F. Buckley, Al Hirschfeld, Harpo Marx, Russ Meyer, John Kenneth Galbraith, Ralph Bakshi, Shel Silverstein, Hugh Downs, Gene Shalit, Frank Cho, Daniel Clowes and ( reportedly ) even Queen Elizabeth have confessed to being fans of Li ' l Abner.
With John Hodiak in the title role, the Li ' l Abner radio serial ran weekdays on NBC from Chicago, from November 20, 1939 to December 6, 1940.
The contractors were Thomas McKay and John Redpath, plus the firms of Thomas Phillips & Andrew White and Abner Bagg & Oliver Wait.
John Chapman of the Daily News found Li ' l Abner very enjoyable, stating, " I decided I was going to like it all very much soon after the curtain rose and this fetching little Edith Adams sidled up to this big hunk, Peter Palmer, and said, shyly, ' Abner, I brought you some worms.
* 1375-public disputations held at Burgos and Avila by Moses Cohen de Tordesillas with converts from Judaism John of Valladolid and Abner of Burgos.
* Craven County: John Tillman, resigned April 30, 1778 ; Abner Nash elected to replace Tillman, took office August 14, 1778
Other greats signed by the AFL in the years before the common draft included Abner Haynes and Johnny Robinson ( Dallas Texans ); Jim Otto ( Oakland Raiders ); Lance Alworth, John Hadl, and Ron Mix ( San Diego Chargers ), Lionel Taylor ( Denver Broncos ); Billy Shaw ( Buffalo Bills ); Larry Grantham ( New York Titans ); Matt Snell and Joe Namath ( New York Jets ); Nick Buoniconti ( Boston Patriots ) and a host of others.
* John Castle as " Abner "
Its founders were Noble Leslie DeVotie, Nathan Elams Cockrell, John Barratt Rudulph, John Webb Kerr, Samuel Marion Dennis, Wade Foster, Abner Edwin Patton, and Thomas Chappel Cook.
# " At My Front Door " ( Ewart B. Abner, John C. Moore ) – 2: 46
The Buena Vista Mill was built in 1848 by Abner and John Brewer.
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