This retelling by Louis Zara of the brief, anguished life of Stephen Crane -- poet and master novelist at 23, dead at 28 -- is in novelized form but does not abuse its tragic subject.

* Absalom is the name of Stephen Kumalo's son in " Lost in the Stars ", Kurt Weil's play based on the novel " Cry the Beloved Country ".

This episode is also found in Clement of Alexandria, in Stephen of Byzantium ( Kopai and Argunnos ), and in Propertius, III with minor variations.

In the meantime I am in excellent hands and so is the Stephen Joseph Theatre.

Stephen, one of the first deacons, is arrested for blasphemy, and after a trial, is found guilty and executed by stoning by the Jews, thereby becoming the first known Christian martyr.

In a lecture in 2001, Stephen Hawking stated " The reason most scientists don't believe in astrology is because it is not consistent with our theories that have been tested by experiment.

She is the subject of a poem ( Peregrine White and Virginia Dare ) by Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benet, and the North Carolina Legend of the White Doe.

Cuyp probably first encountered a painting by van Goyen in 1640 when van Goyen was, as Stephen Reiss points out “ at the height of powers .” This is noticeable in the comparison between two of Cuyp ’ s landscape paintings inscribed 1639 where no properly formed style is apparent and the landscape backgrounds he painted two years later for two of his father ’ s group portraits that are distinctly van Goyenesque.

A Little Night Music is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler.

" He noted that " the real triumph belongs to Stephen Sondheim ... the music is a celebration of 3 / 4 time, an orgy of plaintively memorable waltzes, all talking of past loves and lost worlds ... There is a peasant touch here.

Anyone Can Whistle is a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents and music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart.

M. H. Abrams and Stephen Greenblatt assert in their introduction to Beowulf in the Norton Anthology of English Literature that, " The poet was reviving the heroic language, style, and pagan world of ancient Germanic oral poetry it is now widely believed that Beowulf is the work of a single poet who was a Christian and that his poem reflects well-established Christian tradition.

General Melchett ( Stephen Fry ) rallies his troops from a French château thirty-five miles from the front, where he is aided and abetted by his assistant, Captain Darling ( Tim McInnerny ), pencil-pusher supreme and Blackadder's nemesis, whose name is played on for maximum comedic value.

It is set on the turn of the millennium, and features Lord Blackadder placing a bet with his friends – modern versions of Queenie ( Miranda Richardson ), Melchett ( Stephen Fry ), George ( Hugh Laurie ) and Darling ( Tim McInnerny ) – that he has built a working time machine.

* With 164 catches, He is the fourth all-time catch-taker of non-Wicketkeepers, behind Rahul Dravid, Mark Waugh and Stephen Fleming.

Stephen Cook asserts that the prophetic efforts of this book can be summed up in this passage " I have been the Lord your God ever since the land of Egypt ; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no savior " () Hosea's job was to speak these words during a time when that had been essentially forgotten.

According to Stephen Frederic Dale, the name Babur is derived from the Persian word babr, meaning " tiger ", a word that repeatedly appears in Firdawsī's Shāhnāma and had also been borrowed by the Turkic languages of Central Asia.

Stephen Sackur appears on Hardtalk, which is aired weeknights and at weekends, while Badawi, Gracie and Sarah Montague provide cover for him.

Anglo-Norman warfare during the reign of Stephen was characterised by attritional military campaigns, in which commanders tried to seize key enemy castles in order to allow them to take control of their adversaries ' territory and ultimately win a slow, strategic victory.

On his death the county of Boulogne was inherited by his daughter, Matilda, and her husband Stephen de Blois, count of Mortain, afterwards king of England, and at the death of Matilda in 1152 it was inherited by their son, Eustace IV of Boulogne, later their second son William and ultimately by their daughter Marie of Boulogne, since both sons died without children.

Following Henry's death, the English throne was taken not by his daughter Matilda, but by Stephen of Blois, ultimately resulting in civil war.

Aziz Ansari, Maya Rudolph and Stephen Colbert were rumored to appear but ultimately did not.

Moving to federal politics, he was a candidate for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada after its formation from the merger of the Progressive Conservative and Canadian Alliance parties in 2003, but ultimately lost to Stephen Harper.

The seat ultimately went to Stephen Breyer.

He turned it down ( the job ultimately went to Richard Burton ) and, on 1 November 1952, left on a ten week national tour with John Brown's Body, a three-person dramatic reading of Stephen Vincent Benét's narrative poem, adapted and directed by Charles Laughton, and featuring Power, Judith Anderson and Raymond Massey ; which culminated in a run of 65 shows between February and April 1953 at the New Century Theater on Broadway.

The concept was used to push Hungary toward a rightist regime intent on re-securing the Lands of Saint Stephen, a course which ultimately tied the country to Hitler's Third Reich and ended in severe World War II destruction.

Roger Ebert, in a typical review, noted " Temptress Moon is a hard movie to follow -- so hard, that at some point you may be tempted to abandon the effort and simply enjoy the elegant visuals ..." The New York Times also praised the film's sumptuous production values, but critic Stephen Holden also found the film to lack emotional weight, arguing that Temptress Moon ultimately " has the feel of a chic, kink-ornamented romantic pageant, unfolding at a distance.

In 1860, Fitzpatrick was nominated for vice president of the United States by the wing of the Democratic Party that had nominated Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois for President, but refused the nomination, and ultimately Herschel V. Johnson of Georgia was nominated in his stead.

The Florida legislature considered the issue and ultimately adopted it as the state anthem while retaining " Old Folks at Home " as the state song, replacing its original lyrics with a bowdlerized version approved by scholars at the Stephen Foster Memorial at the University of Pittsburgh.

A fourth brother, Stephen of Lexington, became a Cistercian monk and administrator, ultimately serving as Abbot of Clairvaux.

Borotsik ultimately chose to sit with the merged Conservative Party of Canada until the next election, but made no secret of his opposition to Stephen Harper and the new party's social conservatism.

Stephen Korns, an Amherst, MA-based artist, working with the New York lighting firm L ’ Observatoire, conceived of the color phase shifting which will ultimately include the entire Buffalo Bayou greenway.

The deciding opinion was that of Ninian Stephen, who ultimately agreed with Mason, Murphy and Brennan on the facts, but took a somewhat narrow middle path in order to arrive at the same conclusion.

Jack redeems himself in the book, while in Kubrick's film he succumbs to his demons and is ultimately damned ( much to Stephen King's chagrin ).

According to roadkill taxidermy artist Stephen Paternite, Dirty Jobs filmed a segment featuring him in 2003, which was ultimately cut by the Discovery Channel as " too gross ".

According to the late 13th century chronicler Martin of Opava, Stephen VIII was described as being a German, who was elected pope due to the power and influence of his royal relative, the German king Otto I. Martin states that Otto ignored the will of the cardinals in imposing Stephen upon them, and because Stephen was hated for being a German, he was taken by supporters of Alberic II, who proceeded to maim and disfigure him to such an extent that Stephen was unable to appear in public again.

When the Empress and Robert invaded in 1139, however, Stephen was unable to rapidly crush the revolt, which took hold in the south-west of England.

Events in England meant that Stephen was unable to travel to Normandy himself, so Waleran de Beaumont, appointed by Stephen as the lieutenant of Normandy, and Theobald led the efforts to defend the duchy.

Pope Stephen IX, who was unable to take actual possession of Rome due to the Roman aristocracy's election of an antipope, Benedict X, sent Hildebrand of Sovana and Anselm of Lucca ( respectively, the future Popes Gregory VII and Alexander II ) to Germany to obtain recognition from Agnes.

Events in England meant that Stephen was unable to travel to Normandy himself, so Waleran de Beaumont, appointed by Stephen as the lieutenant of Normandy, and Theobald led the efforts to defend the duchy.

Czerny's fees were so steep that some students, such as Stephen Heller, were unable to afford it and had to switch teachers.

As a broadcaster, Price was the original " No. 1 " in charge of the crew of HMS Troutbridge in the first series of the long-running radio comedy series The Navy Lark in 1959, but unable to continue the role in the second series because of other work commitments, he was replaced by Stephen Murray.

* On the October 18, 2006, episode of The Colbert Report, host Stephen Colbert asked his viewers to send in suggestions for bad things to say about Owen Sound, being unable to think of any himself.

In the DVD commentary, film scholar Stephen Prince mentions that Mifune's natural beard had to be maintained through the lengthy production, so he was unable to act in other films.

Today, Stephen Uroš V is viewed mostly in contrast to his able and strong-willed father, as a lacking and indecisive ruler, unable to keep the Serbian nobility under his control, whose weak and unassertive personality greatly contributed to the fall of the Empire and the eventual destruction of the Serbian state by the Ottomans.

Stephen Fry ( who is the comedic partner of House's actor, Hugh Laurie ) was to play him, but was unable to due to other commitments, and the plan was scrapped.

Much irresolution was caused by distrust of each other, arising from suspicions of treachery, by the absence of a chief and leader of the war ( for their sovereign, king Stephen, encompassed by equal difficulties in the south of England, was just then unable to join them ), and by their dread of encountering, with an inadequate force, so great a host However, urged by the 70-year-old Thurstan (' Lieutenant of the North ' in addition to his ecclesiastical duties ; Walter Espec was High Sheriff of Yorkshire ), to stand and fight and if needs be die in a holy cause, they agreed to gather their forces and return to York, where they were joined by reinforcements from Nottinghamshire under William Peverel and Geoffrey Halsalin, and from Derbyshire led by Robert de Ferrers.

At the Crucible he managed to reach the second round for the first time, beating Marco Fu 10 – 9 in a high quality match, but he was unable to progress further, going down 13 – 7 to Stephen Hendry.

On September 21st 2010, film director Guillermo Del Toro announced that he would like to direct new adaptations of Stephen King novels, It and Pet Sematary but stated that he is very busy with a line of other projects and he's unable to make them any time soon.

Dedalus is a passionate Irish nationalist and follower of Parnell, and a fine drinking companion, but proves a poor pater familias, unable to care for his large family, and is seen as an inadequate father to Stephen, who, in Ulysses, must seek out Bloom as a surrogate father figure, despite Simon's frequent presence throughout the book.

The Moldavian prince Stephen the Great was unable to aid in its defence, being under threat of a Polish invasion.

The proposed signing of Stephen Larkham fell through after the SRU were unable to honour the terms of the agreement.

This date had originally been scheduled for Stephen Stills but when he was unable to play Bob Marley filled the date.

He was often left to play a mere token leadership role to the new batch of young talent, a role which McManaman was arguably unable to excel in, and which resulted in criticism from fans for being " all talk and not enough action ", although youngsters Wright-Phillips, Joey Barton, Stephen Ireland and Lee Croft did cite McManaman as a major motivating influence on them.