It’s Me, Margaret(1970), told from the perspective of Margaret Simon, an 11-year-old girl whose family has moved to a new town, depicts Margaret’s struggles to understand her developing body and her relationship withreligion. (Margaret’s mother isChristian, and her father isJewish.) Blu...
Another remarkable connection between these dates is how the ancient Maya themselves recognized a direct link between the number thirteen and the years 1776 and 2012 in cycles and illustrations in a way that academic Richard N. Luxton found to be similar to prophecies of the “Christian Last Judg...
Robert Walters, English Horn Release Date: January 15, 2024 Label: Oberlin Music This two-CD-syinget, STRING THEORY, includes two compositions by Thomas: Pilgrim Soul (2011), for English horn and two violins Stefan Hersh and Stephen Rose, violin Stardust (2021), for English horn and string...
They were certainly in the advanced stages of that condition to which the long voyage around Cape Horn (with its extended period of enforced sexual abstinence) was later to give its name. " . . . [N]either did we care for any of theirs."? This is such a bare-faced unlikelihood, and...
Big Mahlerian trombone solo (or horn?). Imaginative use of the orchestra and of creating suspense. March gestures to get the music moving, on a track. A counterpart to Poeme of Ecstasy — here the intoxication of dark impulses. Anti-ecstasy. ...
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A vacation in the west may seem like no big deal today. But 1887 was only 11 years after Jack McCall shot Wild Bill Hickock, and Custer had been bested at the Little Big Horn. It was also only six years after Pat Garrett had killed Billy the Kid and the Earp brothers and Doc Holli...
On the whole, a thing will propagate itself as it can. We do not find, of the Christian Religion either, that it always disdained the sword, when once it had got one. Charlemagne’s conversion of the Saxons was not by preaching. I care little about the sword: I will allow a thing...
We hear the series wanted someone who, likeTimothy Busfieldas Benjamin Franklin, could play the Declaration of Independence’s primary author as quite a commanding presence. No word yet on when we’ll first meet Weber’s Jefferson or what circumstances will introduce him into the supernatural fra...
This etext was prepared by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk from the 1887 Cassell & Company edition. CROTCHET CASTLE by Thomas Love Peacock INTRODUCTION Thomas Love Peacock was born at Weymouth in 1785. His first poem, "The Genius of the Thames,"