In a book review of `` The Soviet Cultural Offensive '', he says, `` Long before the State Department organized its bureaucracy into an East-West Contacts Staff in order to wage a cultural counter-offensive within Soviet borders, the sharp cutting-edge of American culture had carved its mark across the Russian steppes, as when the enterprising promoters of ' Porgy And Bess ' overrode the State Department to carry the contemporary ' cultural warfare ' behind the enemy lines.

Long before he reached the protection of the stage door, Andy was recognized.

Long before 1815 the Christian conscience was leading some to declare slavery wrong and to act accordingly.

Long before this, scholars had speculated that Nabonidus ' exile in Teima lay behind the story of Nebuchadnezzar's banishment and madness in Daniel chapter four.

Dorman Long, South Durham and Stewarts and Lloyds had merged as British Steel and Tube Ltd before vesting took place.

The Rump had not agreed to its own dissolution when it was dispersed by Cromwell and legislation from the period immediately before the Civil War — the Act against dissolving the Long Parliament without its own consent ( 11 May 1641 ) -- gave them the legal basis for this view.

The track " Long May You Run " is a different mix to that found on the album of the same name, featuring the harmonies of the full Crosby Stills & Nash before David Crosby and Graham Nash left the recording sessions.

Long before, however, each conquistador had promised to equally split the benefits.

Long before Diocletian, Gallienus ( r. 253 – 68 ) had already chosen Milan as the seat of his headquarters.

Born in Long Island, New York, he attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute, but dropped out before graduating after five years of private advanced research for drug infusion pump AutoSyringe.

Long before any knowledge of electricity existed people were aware of shocks from electric fish.

Long before he had entered politics, he had denounced laissez-faire thinking.

Long before any Roman settlements, Greek navigators settled in what would become Provence.

Long before writing it he regaled friends and dinner parties with macabre tales of a childhood spent in hiding among the Polish peasantry.

# Not Long before the End ( 1969 )

*" Not Long before the End " was adapted by Doug Moench and Vicente Alcazar

Long after both Niggle and Parish have taken their journeys, the lovely field that they built together becomes a place for many travelers to visit before their final voyage into the Mountains, and it earns the name " Niggle's Parish.

Mickey Hart was born in Brooklyn and grew up on Long Island attending Lawrence High School before dropping out as a senior and leaving for Europe.

Long before all possible fission has taken place, the buildup of long-lived neutron absorbing fission byproducts impedes the chain reaction.

Long before the council became a bulwark of democracy, it rendered invaluable aid to the institution of kingship by:

Long before the first photographs were made, Chinese philosopher Mo Di and Greek mathematicians Aristotle and Euclid described a pinhole camera in the 5th and 4th centuries BC.

Long experience proved that there were great drawbacks found generally before they could be got commercial ; but here was something there was no doubt of.

Long before the controversy Charlie Bate, noted Padstow folk advocate, recounted that in the 1970s the content and conduct of the day were carefully reviewed to avoid potential offence.

Long before this confusion was sorted out, the quagga had been hunted to extinction for meat, hides, and to preserve feed for domesticated stock.

" Long before Geoffrey, Arthur's court was well known to Welsh storytellers ; in the romance Culhwch and Olwen, written around 1100, the protagonist Culhwch invokes the names of 225 individuals affiliated with Arthur.

Its upper reaches include an area where it is joined by Loch Long and the Gare Loch.

The highway soon reaches the settlement of Long Lake as it passes south of Raquette Lake.

The river turns southwest into Rainy River District, heads over the Long Rapids and Camp Six Rapids, takes in the left tributary Mercutio River, tumbles over the Islands Falls, reaches Bradshaw Lake and flows into the Marmion Lake and reservoir, where it takes in four right tributaries.

The large barrel volume to chamber volume ratio of a. 22 rimfire rifle means that the powder gasses have expanded as far as they can well before the bullet reaches the muzzle of a normal length rifle barrel, and the light. 22 Long bullet has less inertia than the. 22 Long Rifle.

The River Itchen reaches the large village of Long Itchington ( again named from the river ) and passes close to the church.

When the army of hares reaches Redwall, a brief skirmish takes places in which one hare is killed and the Long Patrol Brigadier Crumshaw is wounded by arrows.

As the group reaches Mansuh's palace, Aminah suddenly cries aloud that " The Long Ships came in the night " and is immediately shot down by a spear.

Xu Ning eventually reaches an inn where he meets Tang Long.

Long shore drift pushes sediment along the beach but when it reaches a turn as in the diagram, the long shore drift does not always easily turn with it, especially near an estuary where the outward flow from a river may push sediment away from the coast.

About half a mile ( almost 1 km ) north of the interstate, in Allamuchy, it turns to the east and enters those flatlands, continuing all the while to weave back and forth through some sharp turns, until it reaches its northern terminus at Long Bridge Road.

They believed it would eventually arrive along New York's coast: " Unless the shark came through the Harbor and went through the north through Hell Gate and Long Island Sound, it was presumed it would swim along the South Shore of Long Island and the first deep water inlet it reaches will be the Jamaica Bay.

Long summer migrations into the upland reaches of rivers like the Murrumbidgee were once an annual event.

Mrs. Long still feels the same unique spirit of Westminster which she stated the present Juniors will experience today but probably will not appreciate in full for a number of years.

Thus the Rump never had more than two hundred members ( less than half the number of the Commons in the original Long Parliament ).

When Hitler's internal purge of the party, the Night of the Long Knives, came in 1934, a large number of Freikorps leaders were targeted for killing or arrest, including Ehrhardt and Röhm.

Small-bore ( e. g.. 22 Long Rifle ) handguns have long been very popular for competitive target shooting, partially due to the low cost of both the firearms and the ammunition, and there is also a rapidly growing number of sporting competitions for larger calibers, including " practical shooting ", the guidelines of which usually require a handgun of caliber in 9mm or greater.

Long was a friend and correspondent of Lovecraft, as well as a fellow fantasist who wrote a number of Lovecraft-influenced Cthulhu Mythos stories ( including The Hounds of Tindalos ).

Kit Carson is included in a number of 20th century novels and pulp magazine stories: Comanche Chaser by Dane Coolidge, On Sweet Water Trail by Sabra Conner, On to Oregon by H. W. Morrow, The Pioneers by C. R. Cooper, The Long Trail by J. Allan Dunn and Peltry by A. D. H. Smith.

Their statements agree in general, but Long notes a number of inconsistencies.

Orbison's second son was born in 1962, and Orbison hit number 4 in the U. S. and number 2 in the UK with " Dream Baby ( How Long Must I Dream?

Cassettes labeled as DV indicate recording time of baseline DV ; another number can indicate recording time of Long Play DV.

Dirk pays a visit to Kate Schechter ( who had first appeared in The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul ) and tells her that prior to the potential client, he had been so bored that he had started a habit of dialling his own phone number and discovered he'd answered his own calls.

Prolonging the Magic, the band's third album, was released in 1998 and went platinum, having shipped over one million units ; this was followed three years later by Comfort Eagle, the band's first album on Columbia Records, featuring the single " Short Skirt / Long Jacket " which hit number 7 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart.

" Short Skirt / Long Jacket " hit number 2 on the Bear Rock Top 10 in Canada and number 7 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks ; the video became one of the 30 most requested tracks on MTV ; Billboard writers later listed the video as the 5th best of 2001.

A number of cat clubs oriented on hybrids were formed, and a few were oriented specifically on what William Engler, a member of the Long Island Ocelot Club and a breeder, called a Bengal.

Long after the photography for the solo dance number " I Want to Be a Dancin ' Man " was completed for the 1952 feature " The Belle of New York ," it was decided that Astaire's humble costume and the threadbare stage set were inadequate and the entire sequence was reshot.

This period also saw a number of side projects, including the live jazz performances of 1996's How Long Has This Been Going On, from the same year Tell Me Something: The Songs of Mose Allison, and 2000's The Skiffle Sessions – Live in Belfast 1998, all of which found Morrison paying tribute to his early musical influences.

Lazarus Long is a fictional character featured in a number of science fiction novels by Robert A. Heinlein.

Bradman was honoured at a number of cricket grounds, notably when his portrait was hung in the Long Room at Lord's ; until Shane Warne's portrait was added in 2005, Bradman was one of just three Australians to be honoured in this way.

The cave has a surveyed length of 4. 4 miles, making it the second longest cave in East Tennessee and number 177 on the USA Long Cave List.

This was a spoof of " Long ago, high on a mountain in Mexico ", the opening words of Angelo, which was a UK number one hit in 1977 for Brotherhood of Man.

In Nashville, Jennings wrote hits with Rodney Crowell, including " Many a Long and Lonesome Highway ", " What Kind of Love ", and " Please Remember Me ", a number one country hit for Tim McGraw.

Once his control over the state's political apparatus was strengthened, Long pushed a number of bills through the 1929 session of the Louisiana State Legislature to fulfill campaign promises.

Being a summer community, Groton Long Point experiences something of an exodus in early September as many of the summer families and the renters exit, leaving only a small number of full-time residents in the fall, winter and spring months.

The population of Long Beach boasts a large number of Irish Catholic descent.