In Inside Africa, John Gunther describes one of these, the Societe Generale, as `` the kind of colossus that might be envisaged if, let us say, the House of Morgan, Anaconda Copper, the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and various companies producing agricultural products were lumped together, with the United States government as a heavy partner ''.

The legend connected with its foundation is given by Peter Damiani in his Life of St Odilo: a pilgrim returning from the Holy Land was cast by a storm on a desolate island.

During this period he also completed two woodcut series, the Great Passion and the Life of the Virgin, both published in 1511 together with a second edition of the Apocalypse series.

Lerner worked with Kurt Weill on the stage musical Love Life ( 1948 ) and Burton Lane on the movie musical Royal Wedding ( 1951 ).

Camelot was a hit nonetheless, with a poignant coda ; immediately following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, his widow told Life magazine that JFK's administration reminded her of the " one brief shining moment " of Lerner and Loewe's Camelot.

* Life of the Party ( 1942 ), with Frederick Loewe

* Love Life ( 1948 ), with Kurt Weill

He also appeared as himself on The Ed Sullivan Show, Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows, The Red Skelton Show, The Merv Griffin Show, The Mike Douglas Show, and guested on Ralph Edwards ' This Is Your Life on February 12, 1961 with honoree Peter Palmer.

The Devil, death, hell, and those not found written in the Book of Life are then thrown into Gehenna ( the Lake of Fire burning with brimstone ).

His other important works include his Letters to Serapion, which dealt with the divinity of the Holy Spirit, and his classic Life of St Anthony, which was translated into several languages and played an important role in the spreading of the ascetic ideal in Eastern and Western Christianity.

The Life of Benjamin Franklin the most detailed scholarly biography, with very little interpretation ; 3 volumes appeared before the author's death in 2008

Bede would also have been familiar with more recent accounts such as Eddius Stephanus's Life of Wilfrid, and anonymous Lives of Gregory the Great and Cuthbert.

The college's mission, the charter stated, was to prepare students " for discharging the Offices of Life with usefulness & reputation " by providing instruction " in the Vernacular and Learned Languages, and in the liberal Arts and Sciences.

" Burt Ward, who portrayed Robin in the 1960s television show, has also remarked upon this interpretation in his autobiography Boy Wonder: My Life in Tights ; he writes that the relationship could be interpreted as a sexual one, with the show's double entendres and lavish camp also possibly offering ambiguous interpretation.

* The History and Life of Job: A man with great patience

* peermusic presents Maria Elena: My Life with Buddy

The " H-H-L " team impressed Hollywood with its success ; as Life wrote in 1957, " fter the independent production of a baker's dozen of pictures it has yet to have its first flop ... ( They were also good pictures.

He is well known as a player in the original Twilight Zone ( 1959 to 1964 ), especially in the episode " It's a Good Life " ( November 1961 ), where he played a child who terrorizes his town with his psychic powers.

The greatest successes, however, came with the films of the Monty Python team, including And Now for Something Completely Different ( 1971 ), Monty Python and the Holy Grail ( 1975 ) and Monty Python's Life of Brian in 1979.

* Lucy Chesser, Parting with My Sex: Cross-dressing, Inversion and Sexuality in Australian Cultural Life, Sydney University Press, Sydney, 2008.

In 1956 Life magazine reported, " Wearing white pajamas and a yellow gnomelike cap, Brâncuși today hobbles about his studio tenderly caring for and communing with the silent host of fish birds, heads, and endless columns which he created.

Though controversial ( with many traditional herpetologists still using Bufo marinus ) the binomial Rhinella marina is gaining in acceptance with such bodies as the IUCN, Encyclopaedia of Life, Amphibian Species of the World and increasing numbers of scientific publications adopting its usage.

Simple, even stark, paintings of common household items ( Still Life with a Smoker's Box ) and an uncanny ability to portray children's innocence in an unsentimental manner ( Boy with a Top ) nevertheless found an appreciative audience in his time, and account for his timeless appeal.

* Margaret S. Drower, Flinders Petrie: A Life in Archaeology, ( 2nd publication ) University of Wisconsin Press, 1995.

* The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders by Ernest Scott ; published in 1914.

* Sir Charles Petrie, The Life and Letters of the Right Hon.

* The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne ( 1967 ) editor with Graham Petrie

He took over editorship of Life and Letters Today in 1935, when it was purchased by Bryher, and held it for about 15 years, working initially with Petrie Townsend.

The earlier of them was an unofficial enterprise, sponsored by Life magazine, under the title of The National Purpose.

By her eighteenth birthday her bent for writing was so evident that Papa and Mamma gave her a Life Of Dickens as a spur to her aspiration.

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

As the total number of incepting bachelors in 1629 was, according to Masson ( Life, 1:218 ) and n, two hundred fifty-nine, the twenty-four names listed in the ordo senioritatis for that year constitute slightly less than one tenth of the total number of bachelors who then incepted.

Life was a short play of tenebrous shadows.

the `` sober opinion '' of his letter to Noyes, written when Hardy was eighty years old, is essentially that of his first `` philosophical '' notebook entry, made when he was twenty-five: `` The world does not despise us: it only neglects us '' ( Early Life, p. 63 ).

It may seem strange that a poet should come to full fruition in his seventies, but we have it on Hardy's own authority that `` he was a child till he was sixteen, a youth till he was five-and-twenty, and a young man till he was nearly fifty '' ( Early Life, p. 42 ).

Miss Betsy Parker was one of the speakers on the panel of the Eastern Women's Liberal Arts College panel on Wednesday evening in the Security Life Bldg..

After a few hours, Life hadn't showed, and I was crocked.

The Country Life Movement was a loose grouping of social reformers, church leaders, and urban progressives ; they sought solutions for rural economic decline, social stagnation, and the depopulation of the countryside.

Rogers stated that " one may see that Solitude and Retirement from the World is not such an unsufferable State of Life as most Men imagine, especially when People are fairly call'd or thrown into it unavoidably, as this Man was ".

He gave lectures on category theory in the forests surrounding Hanoi while the city was being bombed, to protest against the Vietnam War ( The Life and Work of Alexander Grothendieck, American Mathematical Monthly, vol.

A Life of Saint Ælfheah in prose and verse was written by a Canterbury monk named Osbern, at Lanfranc's request.

This manuscript, which Jack Sharrar recovered in 1982 during his research for Avery Hopwood, His Life and Plays, was published July, 2011.

According to the Vita Ansgarii (" Life of Ansgar "), when the little boy learned in a vision that his mother was in the company of Saint Mary, his careless attitude toward spiritual matters changed to seriousness (" Life of Ansgar ", 1 ).

Lerner and Loewe's first collaboration was a musical adaptation of Barry Conners's farce The Patsy called Life of the Party for a Detroit stock company.

" The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else ," Capp philosophically wrote ( in Life magazine on May 23, 1960 ), " was to be indifferent to that difference.