While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

Perhaps the most powerful and most frequently recurring literary influence on the Western world has been that of the Old and New Testament.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

Only a native New Yorker could believe that New York is now or ever was a literary center.

In his fulminating against the literary world, Krim is really struggling with the New Yorker in himself, but it's a losing battle.

Only '' a New York hick would expect to find the literary life in Greenwich Village, at any point, later than Walt Whitman's day.

He also drew precise crisp spots, which he sold to various literary and artistic journals, The New Yorker, for instance, or Esquire.

The novelist Raymond Chandler criticised her in his essay, " The Simple Art of Murder ", and the American literary critic Edmund Wilson was dismissive of Christie and the detective fiction genre generally in his New Yorker essay, " Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?

DeMille's parents met while they were both members of a local music and literary society in New York.

In the 1940s and 1950s, New Criticism had tried to analyze literary texts purely internally.

Reviewing the novel in the New York Times, Carlos Fuentes called Grossman's translation a " major literary achievement " and another called it the " most transparent and least impeded among more than a dozen English translations going back to the 17th century.

Best recognized for his essays and unsigned " Notes and Comment " pieces, he gradually became the most important contributor to The New Yorker at a time when it was arguably the most important American literary magazine.

Stuart Little initially received a lukewarm welcome from the literary community due in part to the reluctance to endorse it by Anne Carroll Moore, the retired but still powerful children's librarian from the New York Public Library.

" In these examples pardes clearly means " orchard " or " park ", but in the apocalyptic literature and in the Talmud, " paradise " gains its associations with the Garden of Eden and its heavenly prototype, and in the New Testament " paradise " becomes the realm of the blessed ( as opposed to the realm of the cursed ) among those who have already died, with literary Hellenistic influences.

About the Fiennes Hamlet Vincent Canby wrote in The New York Times that it was "... not one for literary sleuths and Shakespeare scholars.

The Algonquin Hotel in New York City is famed as the meeting place of the literary group, the Algonquin Round Table, and Hotel Chelsea, also in New York City, has been the subject of a number of songs and the scene of the stabbing of Nancy Spungen ( allegedly by her boyfriend Sid Vicious ).

The books which later came to form the New Testament, like other Christian literature of the period, originated in a literary context that reveals relationships not only to other Christian writings, but also to Graeco-Roman and Jewish works.

Turning to literary work as a way to overcome his losses and channel his ambitions, he began writing a series of well-received articles for a prominent New England newspaper justifying and praising the American Revolution and arguing that the separation from Britain was permanent.

Nash was regarded respectfully by the literary establishment, and his poems were frequently anthologized even in serious collections such as Selden Rodman's 1946 A New Anthology of Modern Poetry.

He has had some influence on twentieth century art ( including the New Zealand painter Melvin Day ) and literary criticism ( e. g., in the " Vies imaginaires " by Marcel Schwob, " Uccello le poil " by Antonin Artaud and " O Mundo Como Ideia " by Bruno Tolentino ).

Robert Penn Warren ( April 24, 1905 – September 15, 1989 ) was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism.

In the 1960s and early 1970s, writers like Frank Herbert, Samuel R. Delany, Roger Zelazny, and Harlan Ellison explored new trends, ideas, and writing styles, while a group of writers, mainly in Britain, became known as the New Wave for their embrace of a high degree of experimentation, both in form and in content, and a highbrow and self-consciously " literary " or artistic sensibility.

New Wave is a term applied to science fiction produced in the 1960s and 1970s and characterized by a high degree of experimentation, both in form and in content, a " literary " or artistic sensibility, and a focus on " soft " as opposed to hard science.

Thomas Edison began his career as an inventor in Newark, New Jersey, with the automatic repeater and his other improved telegraphic devices, but the invention that first gained him notice was the phonograph in 1877.

The work of the laboratory culminated in the creation of several atomic devices, one of which was used in the first nuclear test near Alamogordo, New Mexico, codenamed " Trinity ", on July 16, 1945.

In The New Rebellion, Threepio, along with Artoo and a young mechanic named Cole Fardreamer, is instrumental in stopping Kueller from regaining power by disabling the explosive devices he had placed in a large number of droids.

Important plot devices in the film, such as the death of James Earp ( who actually died in 1926 ), the death of Old Man Clanton ( who actually died in New Mexico two months before the O. K.

Wood was hired by the Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans in 1899 to try to improve the flood-prone city's drainage, Wood invented " flapgates " and other hydraulic devices, most notably efficient low maintenance high volume pumps, including the Wood Screw Pump ( 1913 ) and the Wood Trash Pump ( 1915 ).

The New Jersey Supreme Court issued a ruling in 1942 upholding a Teaneck ordinance that had banned pinball machines on the grounds that they were gambling devices rather than a form of amusement.

New York Times critic Bosley Crowther praised the film's conception, acting and color scheme, noting the design team " consciously made the flow of color and the interplay of compositions and hues the most forceful devices for conveying a motion picture comprehension of van Gogh.

In his account of the “ First New Deal ” Raymond Moley stated Roosevelt was “ sympathetic ” to the 1933 Banking Act “ but had no active part in pressing for its passage .” Moley also wrote that most of “ the people who were close to the White House were so busy with their own legislative programs that Glass was left to his own devices .”

Corbelled beehive domes were used as granaries in Ancient Egypt from the first dynasty, in mastabas of the Old Kingdom, as pressure-relieving devices in private brick pyramids of the New Kingdom, and as kilns and cellars.

Noteworthy for its format, the book comprises a philosophical work of fiction whose style often lightheartedly imitates that of the New Testament and of the Platonic dialogues, at times resembling pre-Socratic works in tone and in its use of natural phenomena as rhetorical and explanatory devices.

During the return to New York from this expedition, Beebe continued to dredge animals from the sea, using a pair of new devices he had devised to assist himself with this: a " pulpit ", an iron cage affixed to the bow of the ship that enabled its occupant to examine the surface of the sea more closely ; and a " boom walk ", a boom jutting from the side of the ship from which he suspended himself.

John Richard Hersey ( June 17, 1914 – March 24, 1993 ) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer and journalist considered one of the earliest practitioners of the so-called New Journalism, in which storytelling devices of the novel are fused with non-fiction reportage.

Later published by Alfred A. Knopf as a book, Hersey's work is often cited as one of the earliest examples of New Journalism in its melding of elements of non-fiction reportage with the pace and devices of the novel.

YKK's first US office opened in New York City in 1960 and now is the country's top supplier of zippers and other fastening devices such as snaps and buttons.

Conflux 2004 featured a full program of events over the course of four days, including experimental walks using altered maps and navigational aids ; high-tech drifts through the city using wearable computing devices ; a walking presentation of an urban documentary project commissioned by the New Museum of Contemporary Art ; a gallery exhibition ; a series of temporary installations, lectures, audio and video works and more.

Scottie watches Sesame Street on TV as a sibling adjusts the TV antenna on the roof, when the show is suddenly replaced by white noise ; suddenly, a San Francisco news anchor appears onscreen, saying they have lost their New York signal and there were explosions of " nuclear devices there in New York, and up and down the East Coast.

The company donated some of these devices to the New York City police, who responded favorably to them.

The devices were placed in two central Birmingham pubs: the Mulberry Bush at the foot of the Rotunda, and the Tavern in the Town – a basement pub on New Street.

New devices were recently developed to substitute the external ligature by expandable ring allowing use in acute ascending aorta dissection, providing airtight ( i. e. not dependent on the coagulation integrity ), easy and quick anastomosis extended to the arch concavity Less invasive endovascular techniques allow covered metallic stent grafts to be inserted through the arteries of the leg and deployed across the aneurysm.

* United States: 1, 054 tests by official count ( involving at least 1, 151 devices, 331 atmospheric tests ), most at Nevada Test Site and the Pacific Proving Grounds in the Marshall Islands, with 10 other tests taking place at various locations in the United States, including Amchitka Alaska, Colorado, Mississippi, and New Mexico ( see Nuclear weapons and the United States for details ).

Automatic devices were already beginning to be deployed on newer installations of the New York City Subway system in the early 20th century.

The technologies that were most commonly used in 1895 are identified in an 1895 description of the New York Business College's course program: " All important letters or documents are copied in a letter-book or carbon copies made, and instruction is also given in the use of the mimeograph and other labor-saving office devices.

When he died on January 30, 1910 in New York City he had become an admired and well respected inventor, having sold a number of his devices to such giants as Westinghouse, General Electric and American Engineering-more importantly the world knew him as the Black Thomas Edison