This is puzzling to an outsider conscious of the classic tradition of liberalism, because it is clear that these Democrats who are left-of-center are at opposite poles from the liberal Jefferson, who held that the best government was the least government.

In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.

Had the situation been reversed, had, for instance, England been the enemy in 1898 because of issues of concern chiefly to New England, there is little doubt that large numbers of Southerners would have happily put on their old Confederate uniforms to fight as allies of Britain.

But it is more than irony: one of the main reasons why nationalism is no longer a tenable concept is because it has spread throughout the planet.

The `` approximate '' is important, because even after the order of the work has been established by the chance method, the result is not inviolable.

Often it is recognized that all the details of the pattern may not be essential to the outcome but, because the pattern was empirically determined and not developed through theoretical understanding, one is never quite certain which behavior elements are effective, and the whole pattern becomes ritualized.

Yet often fear persists because, even with the most rigid ritual, one is never quite free from the uneasy feeling that one might make some mistake or that in every previous execution one had been unaware of the really decisive act.

Or is it relevant because it teaches us something useful to know about ourselves??

I knew that a conversation with the author would not settle such questions, because a man is not the same as his writing: in the last analysis, the questions had to be settled by the work itself.

I suggested that one must let it in because it is the truth, but Beckett did not take to the word truth.

That is why the form itself becomes a preoccupation, because it exists as a problem separate from the material it accommodates.

It is because there is not only darkness but also light that our situation becomes inexplicable.

If they avoid the use of the pungent, outlawed four-letter word it is because it is taboo ; ;

Jazz is good not only because it promotes wholeness but because of its decided sexual effect.

It is worth dwelling in some detail on the crisis of this story, because it brings together a number of characteristic elements and makes of them a curious, riddling compound obscurely but centrally significant for Mann's work.

Microserfs, published by HarperCollins in 1995, is an epistolary novel by Douglas Coupland.

Girlfriend in a Coma is a novel by Canadian writer and artist Douglas Coupland.

* 2010 – Douglas Coupland, Player One: What is to Become of Us

This classic series is included in the collection of Canadian icons in the 2006 feature film " Souvenir of Canada " based on the book by Douglas Coupland.

This is exemplified by the influence of Canadian Douglas Coupland ’ s 1990 novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, which explored the economically-bleak and apocalypse-fixated worldview of Coupland's age group.

Life After God is a collection of short stories by Douglas Coupland, published in 1994.

City of Glass is a book by Canadian author Douglas Coupland, published by Douglas and McIntyre in 2000, featuring short essays and photographs of his home town of Vancouver, British Columbia.

is a novel by Douglas Coupland centred around a fictional 1988 school shooting in suburban Vancouver, British Columbia and its aftermath.

Coupland has expressed his concern that the killers of the Columbine received more focus than the victims ; this is his story about the victims of tragedy.

The Blacksmiths Arms on the site of the blacksmith's shop run by William Coupland, at the point where London Road forks into Sleaford Road ( A15 ) and Grantham Road ( A607 ) is now derelict and awaits decision as to future use.

It is a thematic followup to Coupland ’ s first novel, Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture.

He is obsessed with his haircare products, having a collection of different brand name products, most featuring names invented by Coupland.

Yet, the novel suffers from comparison to Generation X. Coupland has claimed that the novel is too contrived.

Coupland is a small village in Cumbria, England in the civil parish of Warcop.

Coupland Beck is a minor river that flow into the river Eden south of Coupland.

Coupland Beck Viaduct ( also called Hilton Beck Viaduct ) is a five arched, single track railway viaduct that carried the Eden Valley Railway over the stream.

Coupland is a village in Northumberland, England.

* Douglas Coupland is a Canadian writer, author of the book Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

Eleanor Rigby is a 2004 novel by Douglas Coupland, about a lonely woman at ages 36 and 42.

A similar use is when the author injects himself into his own third-person-narrative story as a character, such as Charlie Kaufman in Adaptation, Douglas Coupland in JPod, and commonly done by Clive Cussler in his novels, beginning with Dragon.

Everything's Gone Green is a 2006 Canadian comedy film directed by Paul Fox and written by Douglas Coupland.

( The best evidence is that he received a monthly wage of about $125, very good money in an era when top hands worked for $30 and found.

The personal quality of Samuel Beckett is similar to qualities I had found in the plays.

In the work of every artist, I suppose, there may be found one or more moments which strike the student as absolutely decisive, ultimately emblematic of what it is all about ; ;

And it is precisely in this poorer economic class that one finds, and has always found, the most racial friction.

but when the bird is found at last, it turns out to be a fake.

This is important to understanding the position that doctrinaire liberals found themselves in after World War 2, and our great democratic victory that brought no peace.

Since a civilizational crisis involves also a crisis in private interests and in the ruling class, reaction is normally found among those who feel themselves to be among the ruling class.

The basic truth in the reactionary response is to be found in its realistic assumption of the primacy of the real over the ideational.

A characteristic expression of such concern and inquiry is found in Joseph P. Lyford's Introduction To The Agreeable Autocracies, a recent paperback study of the institutions of modern democratic society.

Ptolemy's problem is to forecast where, against the inverted bowl of night, some particular light will be found at future times.

Although it is constantly made to look foolish ( too simple to come in out of the rain, people say, who have found in the innocent an impediment ), it does not mind looking foolish because it is not concerned with how it looks.

In his effort to stir the public from its lethargy, Steele goes so far as to list Catholic atrocities of the sort to be expected in the event of a Stuart Restoration, and, with rousing rhetoric, he asserts that the only preservation from these `` Terrours '' is to be found in the laws he has so tediously cited.

If `` Jack the Courtier '' is really to be taken as Swift, the following remark is obviously Steele's comment on Swift's change of parties and its effect on their friendship: `` I assure you, dear Jack, when I first found out such an Allay in you, as makes you of so malleable a Constitution, that you may be worked into any Form an Artificer pleases, I foresaw I should not enjoy your Favour much longer ''.

Some historians have found his point of view not to their taste, others have complained that he makes the Tory tradition appear `` contemptible rather than intelligible '', while a sympathetic critic has remarked that the `` intricate interplay of social dynamics and political activity of which, at times, politicians are the ignorant marionettes is not a field for the exercise of his talents ''.

What evidence is available would seem to indicate that Brooks, unlike his older brother Henry, had most of the methodological vices usually found in the amateur.

Softness is found in crushed textures.

Just the barest suggestion of a heel is found on teenage pumps.

An illustration of this attitude is found in John A. McCone's letter to Dr. Thomas Lauritsen, reported in a note elsewhere in this issue of The New Republic.

One indication of the merits of the new management is found in the fact that during the period 1951-1956, while total annual mileage put on the vehicles increased 35%, the total maintenance cost increased only 11%.

No satisfactory solution has been found, but this is due more to the difficulties inherent in the problem than to a lack of interest or diligence on the part of the assessors.

Several germanium resistors have been thermally cycled from 300 to 4.2 Af and their resistances have been found to be reproducible within 1/3 millidegree when temperatures were derived from a vapor pressure thermometer whose tubing is jacketed through most of the liquid helium.

if such person is deceased or is under a legal disability, payment shall be made to his legal representative: Provided, That if the total award is not over $500 and there is no qualified executor or administrator, payment may be made to the person or persons found by the Comptroller General of the United States to be entitled thereto, without the necessity of compliance with the requirements of law with respect to the administration of estates ; ;