A more complete list would also include Bradbury's `` The Pedestrian '' ( 1951 ), Philip K. Dick's Solar Lottery ( 1955 ), David Karp's One ( 1953 ), Wilson Tucker's The Long Loud Silence ( 1952 ), Jack Vance's To Live Forever ( 1956 ), Gore Vidal's Messiah ( 1954 ), and Bernard Wolfe's Limbo ( 1952 ), as well as the three perhaps most outstanding dystopias, Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth's The Space Merchants ( 1953 ), Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano ( 1952 ), and John Wyndham's Re-Birth ( 1953 ), works which we will later examine in detail.

Somewhat to his surprise he found that one girl, whom he would never have considered for the job since she had appeared somewhat mousy and also had been in the office a relatively short time, did the most outstanding job of playing the role of receptionist, showing wit, sparkle, and aplomb.

While in the view of most American academics the two were as diametrically opposed as good and evil, Sakharov believed that in this " tragic confrontation of two outstanding people ," both deserved respect, because " each of them was certain he had right on his side and was morally obligated to go to the end in the name of truth.

Despite the outstanding victories, Germany was near defeat, which meant that Bulgaria would be left without its most powerful ally.

The most outstanding attempts in support of annexation were made by former Spanish Army General Narciso López, who prepared four filibuster expeditions to Cuba in the US.

We investigate the most challenging, fundamental problems in science and technology in a singularly collegial, interdisciplinary atmosphere, while educating outstanding students to become creative members of society.

Missions in the Oriente were abandoned, and many of the best schools and the most efficient haciendas and obrajes lost the key that made them outstanding institutions in colonial Ecuador.

The dictator's most outstanding critic was the liberal journalist, Juan Montalvo, who exclaimed, " My pen killed him!

The new era brought in liberalism, the most outstanding was Eloy Alfaro, under his direction the government headed out to aid those in the rural sectors of the coast.

The series was extremely popular through its run, winning a Logie award for Most Outstanding Achievement in Comedy in 1995, and a Logie for Alison Whyte as most outstanding actress in 1997.

Perhaps the most outstanding example of this genre is Leabhar na nGenealach / The Great Book of Irish Genealogies, by Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh ( d. 1671 ), published in 2004.

In November 2003, to celebrate UEFA's Jubilee, he was selected as the Golden Player of Romania by the Romanian Football Federation as their most outstanding player of the past 50 years.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ( 22 January 172915 February 1781 ) was a German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist and art critic, and one of the most outstanding representatives of the Enlightenment era.

Hippocrates of Cos or Hippokrates of Kos (; Hippokrátēs ; c. 460 BC – c. 370 BC ) was an ancient Greek physician of the Age of Pericles ( Classical Greece ), and is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine.

The propaganda value of her films made during the 1930s repels most modern commentators, but many film histories cite the aesthetics as outstanding.

It is one of the most outstanding and modern Islamic architecture examples in the world.

For their part, the Vanir send to the Æsir their most " outstanding men "; Njörðr, described as wealthy, and Freyr, described as his son, in exchange for the Æsir's Hœnir.

They are, in my opinion, the most outstanding figures ( among the youngest ones ), and the following must be borne in mind about them: Bukharin is not only a most valuable and major theorist of the Party ; he is also rightly considered the favourite of the whole Party, but his theoretical views can be classified as fully Marxist only with great reserve, for there is something scholastic about him ( he has never made a study of the dialectics, and, I think, never fully understood it )...

The most outstanding member of the Pitigliano line was Niccolò, one of the major condottieri of the time.

Perhaps the most outstanding facet of the monumental work is its sheer length: a full performance of the cycle takes place over four nights at the opera, with a total playing time of about 15 hours, depending on the conductor's pacing.

The most outstanding feature of WebRACE is that, while most crawlers start with a set of " seed " URLs, WebRACE is continuously receiving new starting URLs to crawl from.

He was also able to increase the faculty from 112 to 174, most of whom he selected himself on the basis of their records as outstanding teachers.

According to many scholars the most outstanding work of Gombrowicz is Dziennik ( Diaries ), which was published in serial form in Kultura in 1953 – 1969.

Dürer's introduction of classical motifs into Northern art, through his knowledge of Italian artists and German humanists, has secured his reputation as one of the most important figures of the Northern Renaissance.

Many early typefaces were modelled on local forms of writing or derived from the various European forms of Gothic script, but there were also some derived from documentary scripts ( such as most of Caxton's types ), and, particularly in Italy, types modelled on handwritten scripts and calligraphy employed by humanists.

The labors of past generations from the humanists onwards resulted in an enormous collection of materials in the form of text-editions, dictionaries, and grammars, although most of it was uncritical and untrustworthy.

His house in Rome became a center of Renaissance culture, and he himself corresponded with most of the leading humanists

Historian Hugh Trevor-Roper said in 1977 that More was " the first great Englishman whom we feel that we know, the most saintly of humanists, the most human of saints, the universal man of our cool northern renaissance.

In several surveys, Unitarian Universalists in the United States most often identified themselves as humanists, while smaller numbers identified themselves as earth-centered, agnostic, theistic, atheistic, Buddhist, Christian, or pagan.

Beyond their efforts to write better Latin, to copy and preserve patristic and classical texts and to develop a more legible, classicizing script, the Carolingian minuscule that Renaissance humanists took to be Roman and employed as humanist minuscule, from which has developed early modern Italic script, the secular and ecclesiastical leaders of the Carolingian Renaissance for the first time in centuries applied rational ideas to social issues, providing a common language and writing style that allowed for communication across most of Europe.

Since humanists place human progress, not God, at the center of their considerations, they pushed American culture in all manner of ungodly directions, the most visible results of which included legalized abortion and the secularization of the public schools.

The most important humanists living in Matthias ' court were Antonio Bonfini, Galeotto Marzio, Pietro Ranzano, Marsilio Ficino, Aurelio Lippo Brandolini and the Hungarian poet Janus Pannonius.

Many humanists were churchmen, most notably Pope Pius II ( Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini ), Sixtus IV and Leo X, and there was often patronage of humanists by senior church figures.

Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco studied under notable Florentine Renaissance humanists Marsilio Ficino, Angelo Poliziano and Giorgo Antonio Vespucci ( uncle of the navigator Amerigo Vespucci ; Amerigo was a fellow-student and, from the 1483, became an employee and friend of Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco ; in the early 1500s, Amerigo Vespucci would send most of his famous letters on the " New World " to Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco ).

Although, like most of the German humanists, essentially conservative in his religious views, Brant's eyes were open to the abuses in the church, and the Narrenschiff was a most effective preparation for the Protestant Reformation.

He was one of the most eminent Greek scholars in the West and also contributed to Italian Renaissance literature and was the last of the Greek humanists who taught Greek literature at the great universities of the Italian Renaissance ( Padua, Florence, Milan ).

After 1945, most of the mathematicians, humanists and biologists joined the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, while a number of the medical faculty formed the core of the newly-founded Medical University of Gdańsk.

The Académie originated as a council of five humanists, " scholars who were the most versed in the knowledge of history and antiquity ": Jean Chapelain, François Charpentier, Jacques Cassagne, Amable de Bourzeys, and a M. Douvrier.

After the death of Luigi d ' Este on December 30, 1586, Marenzio was without a patron, but probably continued to freelance in Rome ; and sometime in 1587 he went to Verona where he met Count Mario Bevilacqua and attended the prestigious Accademia Filarmonica, one of the associations of musicians and humanists, dedicated to cultivating the most progressive trends, typical of the late Renaissance.

The iconograhic program of frescoes expressing the glory of the Farnese were worked out by the humanists in Farnese's court, notably his secretary, Annibale Caro ; The fresco cycles portray the exploits of Alexander the Great, and of course of the Farnese themselves: in the Sala dei Fasti Farnesiani ( the Room of Farnese Deeds ), decorated by the brothers Taddeo and Federico Zuccari, the Farnese are depicted at all their most glorious moments, from floor to coffered ceiling.

One of the most important characteristics in the book is the didactic-satiric line ( as well as other books of the picaresque novel, as Lazarillo de Tormes conceived as a strong critic done by the humanists ), because it unveils the moral decadence of Rome, and all the characters displayed — from the bishops to the villains — appear surrounded by a world of corruption, prostitution and violence.

This latter, stated in article fourteen, proved to be the most controversial, even among humanists, in its opposition to " acquisitive and profit-motivated society " and its call for an egalitarian world community based on voluntary mutual cooperation.

Holders of the post included some of the most famous scholars, political thinkers and humanists of the Renaissance.

Several Renaissance humanists ( working with publishers ) proposed reforms in French orthography, the most famous being Jacques Peletier du Mans who developed a phonemic-based spelling system and introduced new typographic signs ( 1550 ).