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and in her forthright way, Henrietta, who in her story of Sara had indicated her own unwillingness `` to think of men as the privileged '' and `` women as submissive and yielding '', felt obliged to defend vigorously any statement of hers to which Morris Jastrow took the slightest exception -- he objected to her stand on the Corbin affair, as well as on the radical reforms of Dr. Wise of Hebrew Union College -- until once, in sheer desperation, he wrote that he had given up hope they would ever agree on anything.
This story portrays the confused courtship of the title character, a free-spirited American girl, by Winterbourne, a compatriot of hers with much more sophistication.
( Compare the story of Barbara Allen and sweet William: They buried Barbara in the old church yard / They buried Sweet William beside her / Out of his grave grew a red, red rose / And out of hers a briar.
Heather, apologizes to Romy and Michele for unintentionally revealing their story and tells them that while the A-Group made their lives miserable, the two of them managed to made hers bad as well, for she was in love with Sandy.
He also collaborated on a story with Leigh Brackett, " Lorelei of the Red Mist ", based on an idea of hers, which appeared in the Summer of 1946.
' In the 1930s, Shirley Temple arrived accompanied by her parents amid rumours that she had fled from California because of kidnapping threats, a story borne from the presence of two huge bodyguards who took the room opposite hers and always left their door open.

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`` The Rocking Horse Winner '' is also a story about a boy's love for his mother.
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.
`` Speaking of nonism: the other day, in a story about a sit-down demonstration, the Paris Herald Tribune wrote, ' The non-violence became noisier.
I wrote a few years ago that one of the cardinal rules of writing is that the reader should be able to get some idea of what the story is about.
There is a humorous but revealing story about a rancher who owned a large slice of Texas and who wanted to have on it everything that was necessary for a completely pleasant community.
`` There are things about me that I can't tell you now, Mary Jane '', I said, `` but if you'll go out to dinner with me when I get out of Hanover, I'd like to tell you the whole story.
If you're really serious about working on that story, I'd better take you home ''.
Right now, however, he was still too worried about Jerry Burton, and the gun that had no bullets, and the story Burton had told him, to care too much about Tony Calenda.
You want from me the story, but a story is about ' why ' and then, perhaps, about how.
I visited the bank in March and wrote a story about the situation.
I make this observation about the lady, Miss Judy Garland, because she brought up the subject herself in telling a story about a British female reporter who flattered her terribly in London recently and then wrote in the paper the next day:
`` I heard a story once about a rookie who got excited when the captain stepped outside and he couldn't get an encephalographic reading on him.
The traditional story about his departure reports that he was disappointed with the direction the academy took after control passed to Plato's nephew Speusippus upon his death, although it is possible that he feared anti-Macedonian sentiments and left before Plato had died.
* Absalom is the name of a short science fiction story by Henry Kuttner about the conflict between a father and son over the son's education.
The most significant of these is the story about Ambrosius, Vortigern, and the two dragons beneath Dinas Emrys, " Fortress of Ambrosius " in Chapters 40 – 42.
As the story would later be told by the Anglo-Saxon monk and historian Bede, Gregory was struck by the unusual appearance of the slaves and asked about their background.
In the introduction, Socrates muses about the perfect society, described in Plato's Republic ( c. 380 BC ), and wonders if he and his guests might recollect a story which exemplifies such a society.
The passage in question has been represented in the modern literature either as claiming that Crantor actually visited Egypt, had conversations with priests, and saw hieroglyphs confirming the story or as claiming that he learned about them from other visitors to Egypt.
Research conducted by the National Museum of American History notes that the story of Betsy Ross making the first American flag for General George Washington entered into American consciousness about the time of the 1876 centennial celebrations.

story and unsigned
The unsigned opinions of " The Crimson Staff " are decided at tri-weekly meetings that are open to any Crimson editor ( except those editors who plan to write or edit a news story on the same topic in the future ).
Caragiale reportedly took little interest in editing Timpul over that period, but it is assumed that several unsigned chronicles, covering foreign events, are his contributions ( as are two short story adaptations of works by the American author Edgar Allan Poe, both published by Timpul in spring-summer 1878 ).
During his short stay, he printed an unsigned sketch story, Cum se înţeleg ţăranii (" How Peasants Communicate "), which mockingly recorded a lengthy and redundant dialog between two villagers, as well as a portrait of the deceased politician Mihail Kogălniceanu, and a fairy tale inspired by the writings of Anton Pann.
The second, and main element of the novel was based on a story Scott claimed to have received in an unsigned letter.

story and note
As a side note, writer Paul Krassner published a story in the February 1981 issue of High Times, relating how Groucho prepared for the LSD-themed movie by taking a dose of the drug in Krassner's company, and had a moving, largely pleasant experience.
His official records note that Yoakum was born in Missouri, but he told a story of being born in Arizona, in 1888, as a Navajo Indian on the Window Rock Navajo reservation.
Other eyewitness reports of Truth's speech told a calm story, one where all faces were " beaming with joyous gladness " at the session where Truth spoke ; that not " one discordant note " interrupted the harmony of the proceedings.
Poe was familiar with Sale, and even mentioned him by name in a note in his story " The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade ".
It is curious to note that the original French play of Le Barbier de Séville endured a similar story, hated at first only to become a favorite within a week.
On a more secular note, feminist author Margery Hourihan has described the book as a " banal and mechanistic story which is written in flat, impoverished prose " and dismissed the central character from the movie adaptation of the book as " the girl-woman of Hollywood ".
Of note is the story The Hollow in the Woods because it uses Shoggoths, and thus can be considered a mythos effort.
The story is told in the form of a note addressed to Holmes, posing the question of where these lines came from.
" Of note is the ten-minute " Frankie Teardrop ", which tells the story of a poverty-stricken young factory worker, pushed to the edge.
Another note Lovecraft made to himself later in 1919 refers to an idea for a story: " A terrible pilgrimage to seek the nighted throne of the far daemon-sultan Azathoth.
The summaries consist of paragraph-length Associated Press reports highlighting one story of note in each state, the District of Columbia, and one U. S. territory.
This Borges story had already been translated and published by the three main Borges translators: Anthony Kerrigan, Anthony Bonner and James E. Irby and it is interesting to note the difference of styles amongst these four different translations.
Because of his use of himself and his real occupation, real locations and real people, Card had to append a special note stating that the story is fictitious.
In his last two seasons, he introduced another recurring gag where he would read a news story and then record a " note to self " on a tape recorder, regarding the story he had just read.
The earlier story has a humorous tone, but takes a philosophical note as members of another alien race describe living stoically alongside the shapeshifters.
Versions of the story vary, but they all agree that when the young man had turned in the note and had drawn his ample pay for the work, he found that his companion was Napoleon and the latter had given him a house and farm so that he could marry his sweetheart.
When an inaccurate and bawdy anecdote about Chaloner's death is found to be about James Chaloner, rather than Thomas, Aubrey lets the initial story stand in the text, while marking it as such in a marginal note.
Particularly worthy of note is Starevich's 41-minute 1913 film The Night Before Christmas, an adaptation of the Nikolai Gogol story of the same name.
" But when other editors suggest that the paper needs to back down, Bradlee writes a note that says " We stand by our story ," which he calls " My non-denial denial "; then he adds, " Fuck it, we'll stand by the boys.
Onofrio Panvinio, in the revised edition of Bartolomeo Platina's book about the popes, added an elaborate note indicating that the legend of Pope Joan may be based on a mistress of John XII: Panvinius, in a note to Platina's account of pope Joan, suggests that the licentiousness of John XII, who, among his numerous mistresses, had one called Joan, who exercised the chief influence at Rome during his pontificate, may have given rise to the story of " pope Joan.
The last note to Borges's short story " The Library of Babel " briefly imagines a similar book, and links it to the work of the well-known mathematician Bonaventura Cavalieri:
Jean's story was inspired by a short story by the American-British author Rachel Ingalls, according to a note in the film's credits.

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