In his study Samuel Johnson, Joseph Wood Krutch takes this line when he says that what Aristotle really means by his theory of catharsis is that our evil passions may be so purged by the dramatic ritual that it is `` less likely that we shall indulge them through our own acts ''.

Firewater's album Get Off the Cross, We Need the Wood for the Fire seventh track is named " Balalaika " but does not appear to contain one.

This film is part of what Wood aficionados refer to as " The Kelton Trilogy ", a trio of films featuring Paul Marco as " Officer Kelton ", a whining, reluctant policeman.

Wood is associated with 巽 Xùn (☴, the wind: 風 / 风 fēng ) and with 震 Zhèn (☳, the arousing / thunder: 雷 léi ).

The five major planets are associated with and even named after the elements: Jupiter 木星 is Wood ( 木 ), Mars 火星 is Fire ( 火 ), Saturn 土星 is Earth ( 土 ), Venus 金星 is Metal ( 金 ), and Mercury 水星 is Water ( 水 ).

Cheddar Wood is one of only a few English stations for Starved Wood-sedge ( Carex depauperata ).

By the same token, Mu is thought of as " Tree " rather than " Wood ".

Thomas ' poetry is notable for its musicality, most clear in " Fern Hill ", " In Country Sleep ", " Ballad of the Long-legged Bait " and " In the White Giant's Thigh " from Under Milk Wood.

Kaye starred in several movies with actress Virginia Mayo in the 1940s, and is well known for his roles in films such as The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ( 1947 ), The Inspector General ( 1949 ), On the Riviera ( 1951 ) co-starring Gene Tierney, Knock on Wood ( 1954 ), White Christmas ( 1954, in a role originally intended for Fred Astaire, then Donald O ' Connor ), The Court Jester ( 1956 ), and Merry Andrew ( 1958 ).

However, the topography other than coastlines and major rivers is quite different, and the only apparent reference to the real world besides the map may be the Blood Wood, known as " Wyrm Wood " before the Scourge and similar in location and extent to the Chernobyl ( Ukrainian for " wormwood ") Zone of alienation.

Wood is laid on the altars.

It has also been demonstrated experimentally ( R. W. Wood, 1909 ) that a " greenhouse " with a cover of rock salt ( which is transparent to infra red ) heats up an enclosure similarly to one with a glass cover.

Moreover, the Bricket Wood coven today is well known for its many members from academic or intellectual backgrounds, who contribute to the preservation of Wiccan knowledge.

As Gardner had no objection to this change suggested by the Brickett Wood coven, this collective decision resulted in what is now the standard eight festivities in the Wiccan Wheel of the year.

Glen or Glenda is a 1953 exploitation film written, directed by, and starring Ed Wood, and featuring Bela Lugosi and Wood's then-girlfriend Dolores Fuller.

Wood himself was a crossdresser, and the film is a plea for tolerance.

In the theatrical trailer, included in laserdisc and DVD editions, the scene in which Fuller hands over her angora sweater, is a different take than the one in the release version — in the trailer, she tosses it to Wood in a huff, while the release version shows her handing it over more acceptingly.

There is also a shot of Wood in drag, mouthing the word " Cut!

The most important Canadian theorist was an American immigrant, Henry Wise Wood, president of the United Farmers of Alberta ( UFA ) during that movement's time as the governing party of the province ( 1921 – 1935 ).

Edward Wood MP, better known as the future Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax, rejected force and urged the British government to make an offer to the Irish " conceived on the most generous lines ".

He also includes Ed Wood's claim that one of his films made a profit and surmises that it was most likely Bride of the Monster, but that Wood had oversold the film and could not reimburse the backers.

Council meetings occur at Dublin City Hall, while most of its administrative activities are based in the Civic Offices on Wood Quay.

Though Shays ' Rebellion is often cited as the event that forced the rewriting of the national charter, Wood argues that many at the time saw it as only the most extreme example of democratic excess.

Gordon Wood, however, argues that Madison's frustrating experience in the Virginia legislature years earlier most shaped his constitutional views.

Wood argues that, like most national politicians of the late 1780s, Madison believed that the problem was less with the Articles of Confederation than with the nature of the state legislatures.

Grant Wood, George Bellows, Alphonse Mucha, Max Kahn, Pablo Picasso, Eleanor Coen, Jasper Johns, David Hockney, Susan Dorothea White and Robert Rauschenberg are a few of the artists who have produced most of their prints in the medium.

Wood was used for most castles until 1066.

Blondlot repeated his most recent experiments and got the same results — despite the fact that Wood had reached over and covertly sabotaged the N-ray apparatus by removing the prism.

The most accurate early plan of Stonehenge was that made by Bath architect John Wood in 1740.

Other guests they admired ( and in most cases had worked with before ) included Muddy Waters, Dr. John, Van Morrison, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Ronnie Wood, Paul Butterfield, and Neil Diamond.

The most prolific have included Don Pardo, Johnny Olson, John Harlan, Jay Stewart, Gene Wood and Johnny Gilbert.

In 1954, Burton took his most famous radio role, as the narrator in the original production of Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood, a role he would reprise in the film version twenty years later.

A side finding of this was that the Antelope Island Bison Herd appears to be most closely related to the Wood Buffalo National Park Bison Herd, though the Antelope Island bison are actually plains bison.

Their attempt to do so created the most famous cavalry action of the Battle of the Somme, when the 7th Dragoon Guards and the 2nd Deccan Horse attempted to capture High Wood.

After Sam and Rose's first child was born it was revealed that Frodo would leave Middle-earth, along with Bilbo ( Sam's old hero ), Gandalf and most of the remaining High Elves ( Wood Elves had no part of this exodus from Middle-earth ), for the Undying Lands.

While most of the artistic community gathered here were struggling to eke out an existence, well-heeled American socialites such as Peggy Guggenheim, and Edith Wharton from New York City, Harry Crosby from Boston and Beatrice Wood from San Francisco were caught in the fever of creativity.

The most influential tenant has been Major Peter Wood, who looked after the island from 1949 to 1980, after which Adrian and Pennie Wood Heyworth took over.

A " ciconiiform " fossil fragment from the Touro Passo Formation found at Arroio Touro Passo ( Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil ) might be of the living Wood Stork M. americana ; it is at most of Late Pleistocene age, a few 10. 000s of years.

The same characters recur in David Eddings ' The Belgariad, where dryads live in seclusion in the Wood of the Dryads within the Tolnedran Empire, and among the most prominent in the storyline is Ce ' Nedra.

Harold Wood ward came under the control of the vestry of Romford chapelry, which also included Collier Row and Noak Hill, however most of the current area of Harold Wood was in the North End ward which remained under Hornchurch parish vestry.

The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica remarks that ' hood ' was a common dialectical form of ' wood '; and that the outlaw's name has been given as " Robin Wood ".

Fulda promotes itself as the " Home of the Wood Duck " due to the large number of colorful wood ducks that migrate through the region, and man-made nests attached to trees are a common sight in the area.

Wood is also very common for large, life-size standing images of the Buddha.

Wood pulp is the most common raw material in papermaking.

The Wood Warbler ( Phylloscopus sibilatrix ) is a common and widespread leaf warbler which breeds throughout northern and temperate Europe, and just into the extreme west of Asia in the southern Ural Mountains.

When Peace River MLA William Archibald Rae introduced legislation to allow Imperial Oil to build a pipeline in the province, UFA President Henry Wise Wood sent Stewart a telegram of protest, as he believed that pipelines should be common carriers ; Stewart read it in the legislature, and Rae's bill was withdrawn.

* BBC News article: Wood Pigeon ' most common UK bird '

The Green Wood Hoopoe is a common resident breeder in the forests, woodlands and suburban gardens of most of sub-Saharan Africa.

Widespread and common throughout its large range, the Green Wood Hoopoe is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

Some birds more common to Turkana are the Little Stint, the Wood Sandpiper, and the Common Sandpiper.

The working Bearded Collie has become less common in the last few decades and might have died out ; however, thanks to the efforts of a few shepherds like Tom Muirhead and Peter Wood ( and breeders like Brian Plummer ) the " working Beardie " has survived and is becoming more popular.

Wood heat is still common throughout much of the world.

The name Lundwood is therefore a tautology ( meaning Wood wood ), a common feature of place-names where two languages are combined as in this case.

Exotic pest species such as the European Carp, Redfin Perch and trout have greatly reduced native fish populations like the Big Headed gudgeon ( Philypnodon grandiceps ) but native waterfowl are common along the river with Pacific Black Ducks, Australian Wood Ducks, Black Swans, ibis, egrets and herons amongst the more than 100 species seen.

In Penkridge manor, for example, there were Clay Field, Prince Field, Manstonshill, Mill Field, Wood Field, and Lowtherne or Lantern Field, Fyland, Old Field, and Whotcroft, and also common grazing areas, Stretton Meadow and Hay Meadow.

He described the origin of Kenwood as being the combination of " Ken ", a name common to Japan and America that had been tested and proven acceptable to American consumers in the name of Kenmore Appliances, and " Wood ", referring to the durable substance as well as suggesting a relation to Hollywood.

Wood is a common material for plugs and other shapes.

Wood itself is considered to be hypo-allergenic and its smooth surfaces prevent the buildup of particles common in soft finishes like carpet.

* Wood ( surname ), also spelled Wode, Woode, Woodde, or Wad is a surname that is common throughout the world

Native birds such as the kookaburra, magpie, galah, sulphur crested cockatoo, magpie-lark, purple swamphen, eurasian coot, pacific black duck and Australian Wood Duck are a common sight in both the parklands and backyard gardens.

The " Wood " is Godshill Inclosure which separates the village from the rest of the New Forest ; " Green " is a common name in southern England for a secondary settlement.

Wood attributes to him on the faith of common rumour the authorship of An Antidote against Poison.

Wood is also very common for large, life-size standing images of the Buddha.

Chaloupka directs Impacteen, a collaboration funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation which investigates common threats to adolescent health, such as obesity, substance abuse, tobacco use.