TOLSTOY, L.: War and Peace (Abridged)Tolstoy, Leo
(This is the much-abridged version of a conference at the XII Seminar of Political Solidarity at the University of Zaragoza, Spain, March 27, 2012.) The early 21st century is addicted to war porn, a prime spectator sport consumed by global couch and digital potatoes. War porn took the ...
Circus Takes Tolstoy to Hay, Seeing 'War and Peace' through the Eyes of Children; What Do Tolstoy, Hay-on-Wye and a Performing Goose Called Brian All Have in Common? Nathan Bevan Speaks to Nell Gifford about Her Ambitious Idea to Bring War and Peace to the Circus Newspaper article ...
It was, she writes, “a queer thing” that came on top of years of queer things: finding herself an outcast in her own country (Jewish in Nazi Germany); having to uproot herself and navigate the bureaucratic and financial challenges of leaving Germany; making her way to a new country (...
Towards the Rogers Peace Initiative By the end of the year, his defences in ruins, his army helpless in the face of the Israeli aerial onslaught, Nasser had no choice but to admit that it had all gone horribly wrong. His hope that the war would gradually wear ... M Gat - Palgrave Ma...
This category of unprotected speech encompasses words that when spoken aloud instantly “inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace.” No advocacy can constitute fighting words unless it is “likely to provoke the average person to retaliation.” Offensive statements made gener...
Adams, John Quincy. Memoirs of John Quincy Adams, Comprising Portions of His Diary from 1795 to 1848. Ed. by Charles Francis Adams 12 vols. Philadelphia, 1874–1877. Abridged version, The Diary of John Quincy Adams, 1794–1845: American Diplomacy, and ...
who participates in both the attack on Pearl Harbor and the Battle of Midway. It was barely released in the United States in a dubbed, abridged version, under the sensationalized title I Bombed Pearl Harbor. The miniature and pyrotechnic effects were considered by Universal Studios to be good ...
At War with the Planet is the opening chapter of Making Peace with the Planet, a book published in 1990 by Barry Commoner, a leading environmentalist in the United States. The text is an abridged one. For Commoner, World War II represents a watershed1. Before the War, there was no ...
I spent time thinking of projects to get involved in when I was released. Projects like helping Peter Rodrick make Tacoma Ave. into a peace-pole avenue; and helping Jose Mercado make the walls and sides of buildings on Tac [Tacoma] Ave into a mural walk of peace and resistance. Planning...