Nearing the end of the Roman Republic and the beginning of the Roman empire, many Roman aristocrats had private libraries in their home.

Nearing his destination in the Carpathian mountains, Hutter stops at an inn for dinner.

Nearing's grandfather, Winfield Scott Nearing, had arrived in Tioga County with his family in 1864, at the age of 35, when he accepted a job as a civil and mining engineer.

Despite an upbringing in a life of privilege made possible at some level by the harsh anti-union politics of his patriarchal grandfather, young Scott Nearing nevertheless developed a social conscience, which one of his biographers describes as " a burr under his skin that none of his relatives acquired and that no interpretation satisfactorily explains.

From 1908 until 1915 while living in Arden, Delaware, Nearing himself taught economics and sociology at the Wharton School and Swarthmore College, authoring a stream of books on the economics and social problems.

Nearing packed up his things and moved to New York City, where he became a founding member of the People's Council of America for Democracy and Peace, a national pacifist organization established at the First American Conference for Peace and Democracy, held May 30 – 31, 1917.

On July 1, 1917, Nearing joined the Socialist Party and began a new job, working for the next six years as a lecturer in Economics and Sociology at the Socialist Party's Rand School of Social Science.

But at the end of the trial, Nearing addressed the jury and made a key point:

Nearing searched his soul in a lecture delivered in January 1923 at the Rand School, later published in the Socialist press, posing the question " What Can the Radical Do?

According to at least one historian, Nearing was formally expelled from the CPUSA in 1930 in connection with this decision.

While there Nearing rather boldly gave a speech at Yenching University on his book, The American Empire, in a room darkened so that audience members could not be later identified and denounced.

" Through the decades, Nearing wrote thousands of pages of news and commentary on these themes, retiring from this activity only in 1970, at the age of 87.

During his 1919 trial for allegedly obstructing American military recruitment during World War I, at which he testified in his own defense, the prosecution asked Scott Nearing whether he was a " pacifist socialist.

This view, that Nearing chose to " drop out " of politics and society itself and live life as a rugged agrarian individualist at one with nature, is a common interpretation — and certainly one with some merit.

Debate Held at the Lexington Theatre, Sunday Afternoon, February 12, 1922: Affirmative, John Haynes Holmes, Minister of the Community Church ; Negative, Scott Nearing, Lecturer in the Rand School.

* The Scott and Helen Nearing Papers housed at the Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods

Nearing the end of the book, Mulch discovers that Artemis has cleared him of all charges and tasked him with restoring Artemis ' memory, which is wiped at the end.

The article also belied many impressions the film gave of Van Doren: it portrayed him as a bachelor when he was actually engaged ; it suggested he had a fascination with the burgeoning, popular television quiz shows when in fact he did not even own a television set ; that the only reason he became even mildly acquainted with Twenty-One was because co-producer Al Freedman shared a mutual acquaintance with one of Van Doren's friends ; and, that he had been offered his job with The Today Show promptly after losing to Vivien Nearing when, in fact, NBC was not sure at first what to do with him, until he did work for Dave Garroway's Sunday afternoon cultural show, Wide Wide World, which then led to the invitation to join Today.

Nearing the end of his life, he was among the richest magnates in the Commonwealth, with his estates estimated at about 4 million zlotys.

Nearing retirement, and perhaps a bit exhausted after 40 + summers at camp, Mr. Rothchild and Mr. Martin ( as Bomze was then known ) were ready to sell.

Nearing the end of his career Green led the Mond excavation of the Bucheum at Armant from 1929 to 1930.

* 1883 – Scott Nearing, American writer and educator ( d. 1983 )

Studies by Pruski and Nearing indicated that, other factors such as land use not considered, we can expect approximately a 1. 7 % change in soil erosion for each 1 % change in total precipitation under climate change.

Nearing and Elizabeth A. Phelps the amygdala were affected both when subjects observed someone else being submitted to an aversive event, knowing that the same treatment awaited themselves, and when subjects were subsequently placed in a fear-provoking situation.

Nearing the end of her career, which ranged from Noël Coward comedies to Shakespearean tragedies, she observed, " It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.

The film also features, as " witnesses ," interviews with the 98-year old radical educator and peace activist Scott Nearing ( 1883 – 1983 ), author Dorothy Frooks ( 1896 – 1997 ), reporter and author George Seldes ( 1890 – 1995 ), civil liberties advocate Roger Baldwin ( 1884 – 1981 ), and the American writer Henry Miller ( 1891 – 1980 ), among others.

Nearing death from advanced age, a desperate Scytale trades his precious cell samples for permission to grow his own ghola ; Duncan and the Bene Gesserit group subsequently grow gholas of Paul, Chani, Jessica, and others.

Nearing completion of her degree in French, Davis realized her major interest was in philosophy.

Nearing the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989, the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast boasted a population of 145, 593 Armenians ( 76. 4 %), 42, 871 Azerbaijanis ( 22. 4 %), and several thousand Kurds, Russians, Greeks, and Assyrians.

Nearing the end of Cassandra's song, Frankie Sharp and Benjamin enter the basement.

The local business Cochecton Mills, owned by the Nearing family, gave the group, called the " Cochecton Preservation Society ", one year to dismantle the ancient building and get it off their property, so that business could continue.

Helen Nearing, who had known Krishnamurti in the 1920s, stated, in Loving and Leaving the Good Life, that Krishnamurti's attitudes were conditioned by privilege.

Nearing the age of sixty, Jordaens ' paintings became more the work of his assistants following the direction of Jordaens, and the production of his work began to decline.

From the 1920s, a number of modern authors articulated both the theory and practice of living simply, among them Gandhian Richard Gregg, economists Ralph Borsodi and Scott Nearing, anthropologist-poet Gary Snyder, and utopian fiction writer Ernest Callenbach.

Others, like Scott Nearing, are skeptical about how humanity will use new technology, citing destructive inventions such as nuclear weapons.

Scott Nearing ( August 6, 1883 – August 24, 1983 ) was an American radical economist, educator, writer, political activist, and advocate of simple living.

Nearing was born in Morris Run, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, the heart of the state's coal country.

In his memoirs written late in his life, Scott Nearing would recall his grandfather as one of the four most influential figures in his life.

Nearing's father was a small businessman and stockbroker, his mother a vigorous, energetic, and idealistic woman who Nearing later credited for providing an appreciation of the higher things in life — nature, books, and the arts.

and, as in the March home, any young man who called on the Szolds found himself confronted with a phalanx of femininity which made it rather difficult to direct his particular attention to any one of them.

And the election of President Kennedy has attracted new attention to the ethical climate of his home state.

The huge post-season crowds at their temporary home, Municipal Stadium, caught the attention of the big league brass and helped open the door to the return of major league baseball to Baltimore.

Once Chuck Peddle had taken over engineering at Commodore, he convinced Jack Tramiel that calculators were already a dead end and that they should turn their attention to home computers.

The question having attracted the attention of Agassiz, he not only discussed it with Charpentier and Schimper and made successive journeys to the alpine regions in company with them, but he had a hut constructed upon one of the Aar Glaciers, which for a time he made his home, in order to investigate the structure and movements of the ice.

Having listened with rapt attention to his story, the Phaeacians, who are skilled mariners, agree to help Odysseus get home.

It was in this season that both Sosa and Mark McGwire were involved in the " home run record chase ", when both players ' prowess for hitting home runs drew national attention as they attempted to pass Roger Maris ' single season home run mark of 61 home runs that had stood since.

The road to Hungary and Austria lay open, but Suleiman diverted his attention to the Eastern Mediterranean island of Rhodes, the home base of the Knights Hospitaller.

One of the features of Total War in Britain was the use of government propaganda posters to divert all attention to the war on the home front.

Ironically, Kobe, the home city of the largest yakuza syndicate Yamaguchi-gumi, is one of the safest cities in Japan, because " cheap " criminals such as street gangs and thugs are afraid to attract the yakuza's attention so they avoid being active in the city.

During this series, several Hurricanes fan traditions drew hockey-wide media attention for the first time: fans met the team at the airport on the return from every road trip, and echoed football-season habits honed for games across the parking lot by hosting massive tailgate parties before each home game, a relative novelty in the cold-weather-centric NHL.

At home where Shaft is getting medical attention from a doctor working underground with him ( Shaft refuses to go to any hospital because the hospital will notify police about his gunshot wound.

His election to the presidency in 1976 brought the small town considerable attention from journalists and tourists, which it continues to receive as the former president and his wife, and much of their family, still make Plains their home.

In 2011, Killeen got media attention from a new television series called Surprise Homecoming, hosted by Billy Ray Cyrus, about military families that have loved ones over seas returning home.

Spokane's neighborhoods are gaining attention for their history, as illustrated by the city being home to 18 recognized National Register Historical Districts.

Longley spent two lackluster seasons with Phoenix, where he gained less attention for his play than for being stung twice by a scorpion while sitting on the floor of his home sorting through his CD collection .< sup > 1 </ sup > ( Longley also had difficulties with bodysurfing-he managed to separate his shoulder and miss 18 games in 1997.

Despite the prestige connected with the title of Governor-General, Bencoolen was a colonial backwater whose only real export was pepper and only the murder of a previous Resident, Thomas Parr, gained it any attention back home in Britain.

His trial brought attention to the girls ' involvement with Ward's social set, and intimacy with many powerful people, including the then Viscount Astor at whose stately home of Cliveden Keeler met the War Minister John Profumo.

Academic attention to the character has frequently come in the form of gender studies or with a focus on social class, reflecting Xander's working class home life and his fears of inadequacy.

After sending multiple demo tapes to nearby radio stations in his home state of California, the band began to receive considerable attention ; especially after Crosby sent a demo to Elektra Records, who eventually signed a contract with the budding musician.

She first gained widespread attention at age 14 when she was kidnapped from her home and recovered nine months later.