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...st its role as the scientific and intellectual leader of the world. As an American I am greatly saddened, but as a citizen of the world and of the co... ...ed that the major medical researching country had had its tires shot out. American researchers and other medical leaders streamed into southeast Asia... ...ligent Barak Obama was not enough to keep all of the intelligentsia. The American depression had sapped its economy of the necessary funds for rese... ...eate excitement through car crashes and shooting or fighting than through comedy or lessons in ethics. Look at the most popular TV show ever. „Mash.... ...ually showed its absurdity, in a backdrop of humor. „The Cosby Show‟ used comedy to make positive points in ethics and child psychology. „All in the... ...st achievement in a society. The same is true for actors and many popular musicians. But it also holds for many in business or in government. Fame s...

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...‘t be surprised when young Germans tortured and killed for Hitler, when young Chinese and Cambodians killed for Mao or Pol Pot, or even young Americ... ... in the vitamin D producing sun, could add the A and D to their skim milk. They don‘t, but are finally thinking about it—sixty years after the Americ... ... sarcasm make everybody, but the object of the sarcasm, laugh—because they are all better than the goat of the joke. Power, power, power—from comedy... ...ental side, wartime British Prime Minister, historian and author Winston Churchill had a father who wrote of him ‗I have an idiot for a son.‘ Americ... ...r society. And we keep out of our media the Hollywood emphasis on violence for entertainment. Our media writers must be clever enough to write comedy... ...ren are given musical instruments and practice 3 to 4 hours a day with an instructor. It is not enough that they are producing highly skilled musici...

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...d, impressive, highly pictorial.” JOE KNOEFLER in the L.A. Times: “...an American writer gifted with...perception and sensitivity.” FRANK TANNENBA... ... of his work and literary correspondence have now been established at the American Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Bens... ...Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas, and the Rare Books Collect... ...e community...never mentioning that our fleet was rotted! Presently, the musicians and dancers wandered among us and the party went on. After many ... ... be one of us or a Chian, maybe. It was pleasant enough to soak myself in comedy for a while, for right after the play, Charaxos found me and sugges... ...: “the convivialists,” Serfo has named it. To help pamper Gyrinno, we had musicians in the courtyard. The air was so warm, so languid, nobody wished... ...an appreciate it much more. I never miss a play if I can help it, whether comedy or tragedy, SAPPHO’S JOURNAL 53 though I prefer comedy. But ... ... times. Revealing human character through animal traits, he taught us the comedy of our faults and aspirations. Alcaeus has begun writing letters, t...

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...dge but not after truth. For this reason, Dante Alighieri, in his “Divine Comedy”, condemns Ulysses to the inferno, after having him die at sea dur... ...is. When, in October of 1994, a bullet killed the little seven-year-old American Nicholas Green while he was traveling with his family in Italy, ... ... time or from any time after them. This is what Dante did in his “Divine Comedy”, where with absolute liberty he mixed historical fact with imagin... ... first to assert this, and not long ago, Harold Bloom, one of the greatest American literary critics, said this in his most recently published book ... ...ey stay there on the sheet of music so they can guide the director and the musicians who are playing. Here we have both singleness and multiplicity...

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...ersity is an equal opportunity university. 3 George Meredith The Egoist A Comedy in Narrative by George Meredith PRELUDE A CHAPTER OF WHICH THE LAST ... ...eredith PRELUDE A CHAPTER OF WHICH THE LAST PAGE ONLY IS OF ANY IMPORTANCE COMEDY is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals... ...the Comic Spirit, who is after all our own offspring, to relieve the Book. Comedy, they say, is the true diversion, as it is likewise the key of the g... ...moment were in such striv- ing harmony as that to which we hear orchestral musicians bringing their instruments under the process called tuning. It is... ...re not ‘calculating’. More offensive than debris of a midnight banquet! An American tour is in- structive, though not so romantic. Not so romantic as ... ...on woman’s lips, that subservient harmony of another instrument desired of musicians when they have done their solo-playing, came not to wind up the p...

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...W A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Penn... ...or the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by George Bernard Shaw, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...y is an equal opportunity university. 3 Man & Superman MAN AND SUPERMAN A COMEDY AND A PHILOSOPHY by GEORGE BERNARD SHAW EPISTLE DEDICATORY TO ARTHUR... ... and then disparage it as unworthy and indelicate. We laugh at the haughty American nation be- cause it makes the negro clean its boots and then prove... ...ng about our imperial destiny; but our eyes and hearts turn eagerly to the American millionaire. As his hand goes down to his pocket, our fingers go u... ...ighton and the south coast with the Riviera, for the spending money of the American T rusts. What is all this growing love of pag- eantry, this effusi... ...ound break forth: D minor and its dominant: a round of dreadful joy to all musicians]. Ha! Mozart’s statue music. It is your father. You had better di...

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...etimes the workman at his toil. No occasion is too small for the poets and musicians; a death, a visit, the day’s news, the day’s pleasantry, will be ... ...Anglo-Saxon. Here the reader will go forward past the stores of Mr. Moors (American) and Messrs. MacArthur (English); past the English mission, the of... ...sion, the office of the English newspaper, the English church, and the old American consulate, till he reaches the mouth of a larger river, the Vaisin... ...ven theirs are not immaculate. It was an ambiguous business when a private American adventurer was landed with his pieces of artillery from an America... ...ddenly disclosed his acquaintance with German, it attained a high style of comedy; at another, when a pistol was most foolishly drawn, it bordered on ...

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... great livery-stableman’s most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want ... ...nch fiction, and architectural incentives to immorality such as the simple American had never dreamed of. That was how women with lovers lived in the ... ...n Wardian cases, made macrame lace and wool embroidery on linen, collected American revolutionary glazed ware, subscribed to “Good Words,” and read Ou... ...r dreamed of before, and playing the piano in quin- tets with professional musicians. Of course no good could come of this; and when, a few 43 Edith ... ...tially 67 Edith Wharton broken. Two days later Archer had assisted at the comedy of her reinstatement in the van der Luydens’ favour, and had said to... ...rs. Archer’s world lay the almost unmapped quarter inhab- ited by artists, musicians and “people who wrote.” These scat- tered fragments of humanity h... ...d unsettling to think of. Archer knew most of the “fellows who wrote,” the musicians and the painters: he met them at the Century, or at the little mu... ...wife, who, adjusting her gold eye-glasses, read aloud, in the tone of high comedy: “Professor and Mrs. Emerson Sillerton request the pleasure of Mr. a...

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...erned with. I had from far back mentally projected a certain sort of young American as more the “heir of all the ages” than any other young person wha... ...ess!”—those who knew him better said “How does he?” The one stray gleam of comedy just now in his daughter’s eyes was the absurd feeling he mo- mentar... ...panish dancer, understood to be at that moment the delight of the town, an American reciter, the joy of a kindred people, an Hungarian fiddler, the wo... ... in short, that now troubled her—though certainly, as Europe was the great American sedative, the failure was to some extent to be noted: it was the s... ...me ar- rived; and with this call on her attention, the further call of her musicians ushered by Eugenio, but personally and separately welcomed, and t... ...rence enlivened by native humours—things quite in the line of old Venetian comedy. The girl’s idea of music had been happy—a real solvent of shyness, ... ...ober—that night when she was in white, when she had people there and those musicians—she com- 404 The Wings of the Dove mitted him to my care. It was...

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...lin Avenue & 3d St., N.E Zenith Omar Gribble, Esq., 376 North American Building, Zenith. Dear Mr. Gribble: Your letter of the twentieth t... ...f-timbered, with Tudor leaded casements, an oriel, a somewhat musicianless musicians’-gallery, and tapes- tries believed to illustrate the granting of... ...ith you tightwads!” and guided Paul to one of the small tables beneath the musicians’- 54 Babbitt gallery. He felt guilty. At the Zenith Athletic Clu... ...ompson, the old-fashioned, lean Yankee, rugged, traditional, stage type of American business man, and Babbitt, the plump, smooth, efficient, up-to-the... ...uch amused by the antiquated provincialism as any proper Englishman by any American. He knew himself to be of a breeding altogether more esthetic and ... ...d with me, old man, and I’ll show you a good time!” They went to a musical comedy and nudged each other 212 Babbitt at the matrimonial jokes and the ... ... for the two doctors were exactly like the bearded physicians in a musical comedy, both of them rubbing their hands and looking foolishly sagacious. D...

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...e moored everywhere, showing their flags, Rus- sian and English, Austrian, American, and Greek; and along the quays country ships from the Black Sea o... ...tist. As he sits, and endeavours to make a sketch of this plaintive little comedy, a shabby digni- tary of the island comes clattering by on a thirty-... ...issaries, with silver maces shining in the sun. ’Twas the party of the new American Consul-General of Syria and Jerusalem, hastening to that city, wit... ...lem, so as to be on the spot in readiness. When the diachylon Arab saw the American Arab, he straightway galloped his steed towards him, took his pipe... ..., and drink wretched muddy coffee, and to listen to two or three miserable musicians, who keep up a variation of howling for hours together. But the ...

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...-doggy-foxy circle down there. We want enliven- ing. If we had your set of musicians and talkers!’ Nataly smiled in vacuous kindness, at a loss for th... ... He thanked heaven to his wife often, that he had nothing to do with North American or South American mines and pastures or with South Africa and, gol... ...and in- structed Germans not deviously march; whom acute and ad- venturous Americans, with half a cock of the eye in passing, compassionately outstrip... ...nt of commercial matters: rivalries of Banks; Foreign and Municipal Loans, American Rails, and Argen- tine; new Companies of wholesome appearance or s... ...panese erudites. Delphica, with each of the rivals in turn, is very pretty Comedy. She is aware that M. Falarique is her most redoubtable adversary, b... ...h still a little objects to see their born gentle- man acting as leader of musicians. A people of slow move- ment, developing tardily, their country i... ...t earnestness worn as a cloak, but issuing, we see; not simply a leader of musicians, 190 One of Our Conquerors a leader of men. The halo of the mill... ...and contemptuously, to be- come in the active, while it is exacted of hero Comedy of Clowns!—that in the passive she be a rockfortress impreg- nable, ...

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... , and his almond eyes almost closed as he did so. There were two or three American men, in black coats, rather yellow and dry of skin: they were theo... ... tall and slim. He held himself with a deliberate grace. Weeks, one of the American students, seeing him alone, went up and began to talk to him. The ... ...one, went up and began to talk to him. The pair were oddly contrasted: the American very neat in his black coat and pepper-and-salt trou- sers, thin a... ... her arm. “Come and sit by my side, dear child, and let us play the divine comedy of love.” “Fichez-moi la paix,” she said, and pushing him on one sid... ...Philip, brooding over these mat- ters, that in the true painters, writers, musicians, there was a power which drove them to such complete absorption i... ...he play . Philip was a very cultured young man, and he looked upon musical comedy with scorn. He thought the jokes vulgar and the melodies obvious; it... ... her mind; he recalled her vulgar little laugh at the jokes of the musical comedy; and he remembered the little finger carefully extended when she hel...

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...more favored individuals did credit to Miriam’s selection. One was a young American sculptor, of high promise and rapidly increasing celebrity; the ot... ...adle. According to a third statement, she was the off-spring of a Southern American planter, who had given her an elabo- rate education and endowed he... ... time, leaving it to be the thoroughfare of ambassadors, English noblemen, American millionnaires, artists, tradesmen, washerwomen, and people of ever... ... to spread itself instead of cushions. On one of the stone benches sat the musicians, whose strains had enticed our wild couple thitherward. They prov... ...y other pastime. As Miriam and Donatello emerged from among the trees, the musicians scraped, tinkled, or blew, each according to his various kind of ... ... outward means for lead- ing an agreeable life in the old villa. Wandering musicians haunted the precincts of Monte Beni, where they seemed to claim a... ...scone, he went to the Teatro Argentino, and sat gloomily to see an Italian comedy, which ought to have cheered him somewhat, being full of glancing me...

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...ONS of such a place as Albaro, the suburb of Genoa, where I am now, as my American friends would say, ‘located,’ can hardly fail, I should imagine, t... ...es alarmingly gigantic, and almost blots out an actor. They usually play a comedy, and a ballet. The comic man in the comedy I saw one summer night, i... ...sofa! in the regular place, O. P . Second Entrance!) and a proces sion of musicians enters; one creature playing a drum, and knocking himself off his... ...sed to view a little wooden doll, in face very like General Tom Thumb, the American Dwarf: gorgeously dressed in satin and gold lace, and actually bla... ...te Campagna in one direc tion, where it was most level, reminded me of an American prairie; but what is the solitude of a region where men have never...

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...nt ma- niacal gesture, distressed, troubled and uneasy; Osterman, with his comedy face, the face of a music-hall singer, his head bald and set off by ... ...ffices to an empty church—’the voice of one crying in the wilderness.’ You Americans are not good churchmen. Sundays you sleep— you read the newspaper... ...cists, repeated from page to page with wearying insistence. “I, too, am an American Citizen. S. D.,” “As the T wig is Bent the T ree is Inclined,” “Tr... ... joists of the walls; the last lantern hung, the last nail driven into the musicians’ platform. The sun set. There was a great scurry to have supper a... ...ittling a wax candle over the floor to make it slip- pery for dancing. The musicians arrived, the City Band of Bonneville— Annixter having managed to ... ...his hands from his pockets. But abruptly there was an interruption. In the musicians’ corner a scuffle broke out. A chair was overturned. There was a ... ... State and city are, after all, only a little more addle-headed than other Americans.” It was his favourite topic. Sure of the interest of his hearers...

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...cks was very red, the mangle with its put-up board was white-scrubbed, the American oil-cloth on the table had a gay pattern, there was a warm fire, t... ...o quiet, they had the dangerous impassivity of the Bohemian, Pari- sian or American rather than English. “Cigarette, Julia?” said Robert to his wife. ... ...ing that proud, rather stiff bend of her head was. She had some aboriginal American in her blood. But as she looked, she pursed her mouth. The artist ... ... was the long interval. Jim and Josephine gazed down at the orchestra. The musicians were laying aside their instruments and rising. The ugly fire-cur... ...ipped various glasses of the liqueur, and told all his tale as if it was a comedy. A comedy it seemed, too, at that hour. And a comedy no doubt it was... ... “That’s nice of you, anyhow—But you are a musician too.” “Yes—we are both musicians—my wife and I.” Manfredi looked at his wife. She flicked the ash ... ...ds, sat at the near end of the room, or in the smaller salotta, whilst the musicians performed at the further end of the room. The Lillys were there, ...

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...e defections than this disloy- alty to Christian love. Shakespeare wrote a comedy of ‘Much 23 Robert Louis Stevenson Ado about Nothing.’ The Scottish... ... the Orkneys; nor so much as a poor, over-driven, Covenanting slave in the American plantations; but can lay claim to a share in that memorial, and, i... ...arrowly between the weekly and the annual observance. A party of convivial musicians, next door to a friend of mine, hung suspended in this manner on ...

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...amber-Corta, who had an exhibition of puppets, that he made play a kind of comedy. We went once to see them, but could not spare time to go again, bei... ...elves on their enemies by songs; M. d’Aubonne revenged himself on his by a comedy, which he sent to Madam de Warrens, who showed it to me. I was pleas... ...he chasubles of the priests, the mitres of the singers, the persons of the musicians; an old lame car- penter who played the counter-bass, a little fa... ...er mass, M. Venture received the highest com- pliments from the canons and musicians, which he answered jokingly, though with great grace. M. le Maitr... ...ribe my uneasiness, or to own how much I deserved it. Next day, one of the musicians, named Lutold, came to see me and was kind enough to congratulate... ..., and a mind of the same description, speak- ing always like the beau in a comedy, and mingling the man- ners and customs of his former situation with... ... with mine. T o prove this by experience, I taught music gratis to a young American lady, Mademoiselle des Roulins, with whom M. Roguin had brought me... ...ly connected with him to pass his name over in silence. M. du Perou was an American, son to a commandant of Surinam, whose successor, M. le Chambrier,...

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...ve a good time in her. You were—” “Well, I discovered I was too much of an American to be content to be a rich man’s son. You aren’t blaming me for th... ...riage!” Sophie exclaimed, a little awed; for to them the joke, which to an American means work, was only just beginning. “If it’s took in a proper spi... ...as his present keen interest. They set off to look at it, and the imported American scraper which had blighted the none too sunny soul of “Skim” Winsh... ...ation till such time as the A. B. C. should annex them. For side-splitting comedy we would refer our readers to the cor- respondence between the Board... ...ncestors’ banqueting hall. Her grey and silver dress disappeared under the musicians’ gallery; two electrics broke out, and she stood backed against t...