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It was logical that he would come up with the figure of the modern jazz musician.
In addition to his experiments in reading poetry to jazz, Patchen is beginning to use the figure of the modern jazz musician as a myth hero in the same way he used the figure of the private detective a decade ago.
The conventional symbol Z comes from the German word meaning number / numeral / figure, which prior to the modern synthesis of ideas from chemistry and physics, merely denoted an element's numerical place in the periodic table.
Alexander Grothendieck (; ; born 28 March 1928 ) is a mathematician and the central figure behind the creation of the modern theory of algebraic geometry.
Parshva, the earliest Jain Tirthankara, whom modern Western historians consider to be a historical figure, lived in about the 8th century BCE.
The leading figure of the double bass in the early 20th century was Serge Koussevitzky, best known as conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, who popularized the double bass in modern times as a solo instrument.
In modern terminology, the area of a plane figure is proportional to the square of any of its linear dimensions,, and the volume of a solid to the cube,.
This name for the figure seems rather modern, since " hey " also means certain long, and not circular, objects ( e. g. fences ).
While gun safety in different forms has existed since the creation of firearms, Jeff Cooper ( 1920 – 2006 ), an influential figure in modern firearms training, formalized and popularized the above-listed " Four Rules " of safe firearm handling.
The modern crest has grown out of the three-dimensional figure placed on the top of the mounted knights ' helms as a further means of identification.
A towering figure in the history of medicine was the physician Hippocrates of Kos ( c. 460 – c. 370 BC ), considered the " father of modern medicine.
* In modern times, the historical figure lent his name to Imhotep, the title character of the 1932 film The Mummy and its 1999 remake along with a sequel.
He was an inspirational figure for modern Islamist groups in South Asia and elsewhere.
" The character that Scott gave to Robin Hood in Ivanhoe helped shape the modern notion of this figure as a cheery noble outlaw.
This book analyses the film structure as an hypertext and Brian the Messiah as a modern leader figure.
Although the hare does not represent any particular figure in Greek mythology, Lepus was one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy, and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations.
In modern times and in several genres, she is compared with the figure of the Virgin Mary, La Llorona ( folklore story of the woman weeping for lost children ) and with the Mexican soldaderas ( women who fought beside men during the Mexican Revolution ) for their brave actions.
Because her international fame was triggered by moving images, she is a watershed figure in the history of modern celebrity and, as one of silent film's most important performers and producers, her contract demands were central to shaping the Hollywood industry.
There have also been attempts by modern writers to link the Morrígan with the Welsh literary figure Morgan le Fay from Arthurian romance, in whose name ' mor ' may derive from a Welsh word for ' sea ', but the names are derived from different cultures and branches of the Celtic linguistic tree.
Mormons, though honoring Joseph Smith as the first prophet in modern times, see him as just one in a long line of prophets, with Jesus Christ being the premier figure of the religion.
The 19th-century anarchist and legal theorist, Lysander Spooner, was also a figure in the expression of modern natural law.

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At this period the thirty-year old Helion was ranked `` as one of the mature leaders of the modern movement '', according to Herbert Read, `` and in the direct line of descent from Cezanne, Seurat, Gris and Leger ''.
I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.
On matters of race he was similarly inflexible: `` Most of the modern Latin races seem to have inherited the rigidity of the Roman mind ''.
Perhaps there is more truth than we are wont to admit in the conviction of that ornament of Tarheelia, Robert Ruark's grandfather, who was persuaded that the great curse of the modern world is `` all this gallivantin' ''.
Wilson stressed the fact that clear as this was, they must have a better church, a more business-like conduct of the church organization, and an effort to get this religious center out of its rut of wild worship into a modern church organization.
Never rebuilt, the bridge was strengtened in 1938 by two extra piers, a concrete floor, and a walk-way along the upper side in order to care for modern traffic.
The modern student, who knows what was to come next, is likely to place first the factors of change which are visible in the eighth century.
The old Morse system was replaced locally by the Simplex modern automatic method in 1929, when Ellamae Heckman ( Wilcox ) was manager of the Western Union office.
The latter now furnishes the area with electricity distributed from a modern sub-station at Manchester Depot which was put into operation February 19, 1930 and was improved in January 1942 by the installation of larger transformers.
New, indeed, is Luther's perception, but not modern, as anyone knows who has ever tried to make intelligible to modern students what Luther was getting at.
In their book, American Skyline, Christopher Tunnard and Henry Hope Reed argue that Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal was what made the modern suburb a possibility -- a fine ironical argument, when you consider how suburbanites tend to vote.
Just as Hart Crane had little influence on anyone except very reactionary writers -- like Allen Tate, for instance, to whom Valery was the last word in modern poetry and the felicities of an Apollinaire, let alone a Paul Eluard were nonsense -- so Dylan Thomas's influence has been slight indeed.
The John Harvey arrived in Bari, a port on the Adriatic, on November 28th, making for Porto Nuovo, which, as the name indicates, was the ancient city's new and modern harbor.
That the dream was a reality on the infinite progressions of universal, gradient frequencies, across which the modern professor and the priest of ancient Nippur met??
Left alone while her husband was miles away in the city, the modern wife assumed more and more duties normally reserved for the male.
It was a fairly modern motel with quite a bit of electrical display in front.
It was still a very big world, despite all the modern cant to the contrary.
The house was modern, large, on five acres.
Airy and bright, the apartment was furnished with good modern furniture, rugs, and draperies.
There was a garage and a modern barn in the rear, all of it standing between two large flat fields planted in early potatoes.
Its power unit, however, was derived from the reactor of the more modern American nuclear submarine Skipjack.

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