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That is particularly true of sovereignty when it is applied to democratic societies, in which `` popular '' sovereignty is said to exist, and in federal nations, in which the jobs of government are split.
Not all recent science fiction, however, is dystopian, for the optimistic strain is still very much alive in Mission Of Gravity and Childhood's End, as we have seen, as well as in many other recent popular novels and stories like Fred Hoyle's The Black Cloud ( 1957 ) ; ;
No other popular idol is accorded even that much grace.
But by comparison with the railroad, the motor car is a relatively new object of popular worship, so it is too much to hope that it may be brought within the bounds of civilized usage quickly and easily.
Taking account of the fact that such a move on our part would be unpopular in world opinion, he argued that the responsibility of the United States is `` to do, confidently and firmly, not what is popular, but what is right ''.
But as the popular response suggests, the potentiality of the Peace Corps is very great.
A salad with greens and tomato is a popular and wonderfully healthful addition to a meal, but add an avocado and you have something really special.
For decades it was the most popular dish served in the Ladies' Grill at breakfast, and it is one of the few old Palace dishes that still survive.
In California is located one of the most popular of the national parks -- Yosemite.
Easy to get to, and becoming more popular every year, it is only fourteen hours from New York by Pan American World Airways jet, four hours from Rome.
For those who need or want and can afford another car, buying one and driving it on the grand tour, then shipping it home, is one popular plan for a do-it-yourself pilgrimage.
Leasing a car is not as common or as popular as renting a car in Europe, but for long periods it will be unquestionably more economical and satisfactory.
The data is now interpreted in conjunction with a price chart, usually of a popular stock average.
Again, contrary to popular belief, there is nothing crazy or frantic about Parker either musically or emotionally.
Continuity exits, but like the neo-swing music developed from Lester Young, it is a continuity sustained by popular demand.
A political scientist writes of the growth of `` alienated voters '', who `` believe that voting is useless because politicians or those who influence politicians are corrupt, selfish and beyond popular control.
About that same time John Crosby's TV series on the popular arts proved again that giving jazz ample breathing space is one of the most sensible things a producer can do.
No reference is made to the possibility of recording other than popular music in this manner, and it would not seem to lend itself well to serious music.
But for all the manifest intention to `` show off '', this was a circus with a difference, for instead of descending in quality to what is known as a popular level, it added further to the evidence that this is a very great dancing company.

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* In episode 4, season 1 of " Family Guy ", " Mind Over Murder ", Lois Griffin is rocking a sleeping and teething Stewie Griffin while her piano student plays a lullaby.
The English term lullaby is thought to come from " lu, lu " or " la la " sound made by mothers or nurses to calm children, and " by by " or " bye bye ", either another lulling sound, or a term for good night.
The Roman nurses ' lullaby, " Lalla, Lalla, Lalla, aut dormi, aut lacta ", is recorded in a scholium on Persius and may be the oldest to survive.
" Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star " is a popular English lullaby.
* Nana, (“ grandma ” or “ lullaby ”, in Apache: Kas-tziden-“ Broken Foot ” or Haškɛnadɨltla-“ Angry, He is Agitated ”), ( 1800?
Blind Willie Johnson is not a true overtone singer, according to the National Geographic, but his ability to shift from guttural grunting noises to a soft lullaby is suggestive of the tonal timbres of overtone singing.
A lullaby is a soothing song, usually sung to young children before they go to sleep, with the intention of speeding that process.
Typically a lullaby is in triple metre, or in a compound metre like 6 / 8.
" – begone " which is a possible origin of the English word " lullaby ".
Lullabies written by established classical composers are often given the form-name berceuse, which is French for lullaby, or cradle song.
The most famous lullaby is Johannes Brahms ' " Brahms ' Lullaby " (" Wiegenlied ", 1868 ).
The English composer Nicholas Maw's orchestral nocturne, The World in the Evening, is subtitled " lullaby for large orchestra ".
In the Tamil language, a lullaby is called a thaalattu ( thal means " tongue ").
This lullaby is from the east of Moravia, where the dialect is influenced by the Slovak language, and also folk songs are similar to the Slovak ones from across the border.
This lullaby is considered the most popular lullabies in Denmark.
This lullaby has sleeping time as theme: The day is over and we must sleep and rest so we will be fresh again in the morning.
This lullaby originated from south Jutland, and is very old ( year of composition, unknown ), it is not well known in Denmark.
Also the child is spoken to in this lullaby.
" How I Hate the Night ", also known as " Marvin's lullaby ", was published in the book Life, the Universe and Everything, where it is described as " a short dolorous ditty of no tone, or indeed tune.
The version of the melody that is generally sung today differs slightly ( particularly in the final strain ) from Gruber's original, which was a sprightly, dance-like tune in 6 / 8 time, as opposed to the slow, meditative lullaby version generally sung today.
" Kid A " is among the more unusual works of Radiohead, and featured distorted vocals that were reminiscent of " Climbing Up the Walls ", and a lullaby like melody It featured electronic organs among other different sounds, and a syncopated, electronic drum kick pattern for the majority of the song.

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Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.
I seized the rack and made a western-style flying-mount just in time, one of my knees mercifully landing on my duffel bag -- and merely wrecking my camera, I was to discover later -- my other knee landing on the slivery truck floor boards and -- but this is no medical report.
Meredith was irritated when the Grafin knocked at his door and told him, `` She is a great beauty!!
He speaks your language too, for he is the grandson of a chieftain on Taui who made much magic and was strong and cunning.
There was a measure of protection in its concrete walls and ceiling, but the engineers who hastily installed it were well aware that concrete is not much better than prayer, if as efficacious, when a direct hit comes along.
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.
Theirs is no mere lack of sympathy, but something closer to the passionate hatred that was directed against Fascism.
It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.
He was, and is, with the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit pool of thinkers financed by the U.S. Air Force.
One's impulse is to say that the smell was a stink and unpleasant.
Unfortunately, it was Muzak, which automatically is piped into the public rooms, and which nolens volens had to be endured.
All but the most rabid of Confederate flag wavers admit that the Old Southern tradition is defunct in actuality and sigh that its passing was accompanied by the disappearance of many genteel and aristocratic traditions of the reputedly languid ante-bellum way of life.
One is tempted to say that, on the difference between the concepts of sovereignty in these two preambles, the worst war of the Nineteenth century was fought.
To my knowledge, Lincoln remains the only Head of State and Commander-in-Chief who, while fighting a fearful war whose issue was in doubt, proved man enough to say this publicly -- to give his foe the benefit of the fact that in all human truth there is some error, and in all our error, some truth.
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.
Though sex in some form or other enters into all human activity and it was a good thing that Freud emphasized this aspect of human nature, it is fantastic to explain everything in terms of sex.
The street that is full now of traffic and parked cars then and for many years drowsed on an August afternoon in the shade of the curbside trees, and silence was a weight, almost palpable, in the air.
The slave is owner, And ever was.
It is true that New England, more than any other section, was dedicated to education from the start.
Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??
It is from this unpromising background that the fictional private detective was recruited.
There is only one catch to this idyllic arrangement: Adam Smith was wrong.

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