Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "George Woodcock" ¶ 1
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

Woodcock and was
George Woodcock was manager and troubleshooter ; ;
" Woodcock finds that " The most ambitious contribution to literary anarchism during the 1890s was undoubtedly Oscar Wilde The Soul of Man under Socialism " and finds that it is influenced mainly by the thought of William Godwin.
For anarchist historian George Woodcock " Although ( Pierre Joseph ) Proudhon was the first writer to call himself an anarchist, at least two predecessors outlined systems that contain all the basic elements of anarchism.
For Woodcock a more elaborate sketch of anarchism, although still without the name, was provided by William Godwin in his Enquiry Concerning Political Justice ( 1793 ).
In the epilogue to his novel The Devils of Loudon published earlier that year, Huxley had written that drugs were “ toxic short cuts to self-transcendence ” For the Canadian writer George Woodcock, Huxley had changed his opinion because mescaline was not addictive and appeared to be without unpleasant physical or mental side-effects, further he had found that hypnosis, autohypnosis and meditation had apparently failed to produce the results he wanted.
More recently, Vittorio Emanuele was arrested on June 16, 2006, following an investigation started by Henry John Woodcock of the Public Prosecutor's Office in Potenza, Italy, on charges of criminal association, corruption and exploitation of prostitution.
The settlement was attacked during King Philip's War, with two killed and one home burned, but the garrison house which Woodcock had built survived the attack.
George Woodcock ( May 8, 1912 – January 28, 1995 ) was a Canadian writer of political biography and history, an anarchist thinker, an essayist and literary critic.
Though his family was quite poor, Woodcock had the opportunity to go to Oxford University on a partial scholarship ; however, he turned down the chance, because he would have had to become a member of the clergy.
Woodcock was honoured with several awards, including a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Canada in 1968, the UBC Medal for Popular Biography in 1973 and 1976, and the Molson Prize in 1973.
Said Dr. Putt ," Unless we are prepared to say that Tommy Woodcock was a downright liar, which even today, decades after the loveable and respected horseman's death, would ostracise us with the Australian racing public, we must accept him on his word ," Dr Putt says.
The party was reduced to three seats on the city school board and two on the parks board, newcomer Spencer Herbert ( who was elected an NDP MLA in Vancouver-Burrard at a by-election in 2008 ), and Loretta Woodcock.
Cable and Woodcock continued northward until they came upon a spot that they agreed was the best situated of them all: modern-day Springfield, Massachusetts.
The writer-director was Steven Woodcock.
* In 2009, he was awarded the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award.
The Eurasian Woodcock was given its current scientific name by Linnaeus in his Systema naturae in 1758.
A study of spectrograms of the vocalisations of male Eurasian Woodcock showed that 95 % of calls could be attributed correctly to individual birds, and concluded that counting roding males was a suitable method of monitoring the population.
Bingley wrote that the United Kingdom " Few birds are so much in esteem for the table as these ", although he also reported that Woodcock meat was not eaten in Sweden or Norway as it was thought unwholesome, but that the eggs were taken and sold in " great numbers " in Stockholm and Gothenburg.
In the United Kingdom, the early arrival of migrant Woodcock in autumn was said to mean a good harvest, especially if they stayed until spring.
An old folk name for the Goldcrest was the " Woodcock pilot " because of the mistaken belief that the warblers rode in the feathers of migrating woodcock.
In a letter to George Woodcock on 28 September 1946, Orwell noted that there were two or three books he was ashamed of and called A Clergyman's Daughter an even worse one than Keep the Aspidistra Flying and said " it was written simply as an exercise and I oughtn't to have published it, but I was desperate for money ".

Woodcock and born
* January 28-George Woodcock, poet, essayist, critic, biographer and historian ( born 1912 )
Woodcock was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1911, the son of Ernest Woodcock and Mary Freel.
Woodcock was born to a 17-year-old Peterborough factory worker who gave him up for adoption.
Anthony Stewart " Tony " Woodcock ( born 6 December 1955 ) is a retired English international footballer who played professionally in both England and Germany as a striker.
Patrick Ian Woodcock ( born April 27, 1977 in Ottawa, Ontario ) is a Canadian football wide receiver who is currently a free agent.

Woodcock and with
Anarchist historian George Woodcock reports the incident in which the important Italian social anarchist Errico Malatesta became involved " in a dispute with the individualist anarchists of Paterson, who insisted that anarchism implied no organization at all, and that every man must act solely on his impulses.
Telford did not agree with this decision and refused to go, so Davis sent Tommy Woodcock.
However – at least in modern heraldry texts, such as Friar and Woodcock & Robinson ( see below ) – the fylfot differs somewhat from the archetypal form of the swastika: always upright and typically with truncated limbs, as shown in the figure at right.
2011: Sir John Gilbert: Art and Imagination in the Victorian Age by Spike Bucklow and Sally Woodcock with contributions by Mark Bills, Nicola Bown, Spike Bucklow, Kathleen Froyen, Paul Goldman, Vivien Knight, Caroline Oliver, Neil Rhind, Libby Sheldon, Timothy Wilcox and Sally Woodcock ( Lund Humphries ) 978-1-84822-079-9
* The History of the TUC ( Trades Union Congress ) 1868-1968: A pictorial Survey of a Social Revolution — Illustrated with Contemporary Prints, Documents and Photographs edited by Lionel Birch ; published in large paperback by Hamlyn / General Council of Trade Union Congress in 1968 with a foreword by George Woodcock
The Eurasian Woodcock has cryptic camouflage to suit its woodland habitat, with intricately patterned reddish-brown upperparts and buff underparts.
About one third of the world's Eurasian Woodcock breed in Europe, with more than 90 % of the continent's population breeding in Russia and Fennoscandia.
Habitat: Białowieski Park Narodowy, PolandThe Eurasian Woodcock has a large range, with an estimated Global Extent of Occurrence of 10 million square kilometres and a population of an estimated 15 million to 16 million birds.
Eurasian Woodcock are crepuscular ( most active at dawn and dusk ) and rarely active during the day unless flushed, when they fly off with a whirring wing noise.
The flight is somewhat owl-or bat-like ; Woodcock fly fast and direct while migrating or crossing open country, but fly erratically with twisting and fluttering once in woodland.
Anyone shooting a witnessed ' right and left ' - in which two Woodcock are killed with consecutive shots from a shotgun, without the gun being lowered or reloaded-can be admitted to the Shooting Times Woodcock Club.
It is larger and darker than Eurasian Woodcock but with small reddish spots.
The Moluccan Woodcock ( Scolopax rochussenii ), also known as Obi Woodcock, is a medium-sized, approximately 40 cm long, forest wader with long and dark bill, orange buff below and black barred upperparts.
They are dressed like the Woodcock, with their intestines ; and, when killed at the critical time, say the Epicures, are reckoned the most delicious of all morsels.
Image: Scotch Woodcock. jpg | Scotch woodcock, scrambled eggs on toast garnished with anchovy fillets and parsley
He famously celebrated his 70th birthday by hosting an evening show in front of 2000 paying " guests " at the Royal Albert Hall, with appearances on stage by old friends such as fellow TMS commentator Jonathan Agnew, who narrated the event live, West Indian commentator Tony Cozier, TV personality Stephen Fry, cricket journalist John Woodcock, TV celebrity Christine Hamilton and his elder brother, former High Court Judge Sir John Blofeld.
John Woodcock writes that he seemed to possess great intuition, for example playing mystery spinners Ramadhin and Iverson with ease.

0.253 seconds.