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From:New Criterion (Vol. 27, Issue 1)The death at age ninety-two of Eric "Digger" Dowling on July 21 provided the occasion for the British national tongue to wag--and yet again to seek out a favorite cavity in one of its formerly sturdiest molars. This...
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From:Journal of the History of Ideas (Vol. 69, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis essay seems to make two central claims: the first, implied by the phrase "moral turn," invites us to accept that recently there has been a growing interest among historians in utilizing morality; the second is that...
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From:Journal of the History of Ideas (Vol. 69, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn Moliere's Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (1670), Monsieur Jourdain is stunned to learn that "For more than forty years," he has "been talking prose without any idea of it." (1) Perhaps, as some of the commentators suggest,...
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From:Philological Quarterly (Vol. 83, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn the final scene of the medieval morality play Mankind, the character Mercy employs a dramatic piece of stage violence in order to insure Mankind's repentance and salvation. Having promised the audience that he will...
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From:Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 (Vol. 57, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract In various forms across the long eighteenth century, the story of George Barnwell was used often for a didactic message of how young apprentices could best use their time to live as virtuous subjects....
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From:ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Vol. 77, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedAnton, Corey. How Non-Being Haunts Being: On Possibilities, Morality, and Death Acceptance. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2021. "To be or not to be" is not the question this book seeks to answer...
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From:Commentary (Vol. 129, Issue 5)Most every man in the known world has at least glimpsed a Playboy centerfold, and thereupon has vowed to go out and get himself something similar in a real live girl, or perused the luscious goods until the magazine has...
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From:Commonweal (Vol. 139, Issue 2)What should we say, amid a culture in which marriages evaporate like mist, about the sacramental status of divorced and remarried Catholics? What should we do? Though our era is rife with failed marriages, the...
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From:Commonweal (Vol. 135, Issue 19)How should we talk about the financial crisis? Right now, emotional language is pervasive. Fear is a natural almost inevitable reaction to the apparent disappearance of over $8 trillion in retirement savings. Anger...
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From:Criticism (Vol. 47, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIN AN ESSAY ON Oliver Goldsmith's The Deserted Village, the Quaker poet and commentator John Scott told the following anecdote: "The late Earl of Leicester, being complimented upon the completion of his great design at...
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From:African American Review (Vol. 33, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIssues discussed concern the plays written by Georgia Douglas Johnson that deal with the history of race relations and lynching in the US. Topics addressed include a synopsis of the plays 'And Yet They Paused,' and 'A...
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From:Existential Analysis (Vol. 24, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis paper offers a comparative account of the relationship between freedom and morality in the thought of William James and Simone de Beauvoir. By combining elements of the thought of each, a compelling--albeit tragic...
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From:Queen's Quarterly (Vol. 123, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAccording to Norm, our tour leader, "Everyone has a different portal to history, an entry point connecting them to the past." For Jim Spazcher, that portal is represented by the lives of a few Canadian soldiers he has...
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From:African American Review (Vol. 46, Issue 2-3) Peer-ReviewedWith few exceptions, contemporary criticism reads nineteenth-century sentimental fiction as a literature of love. (1) When Harriet Beecher Stowe famously asserted that the moral growth of the nation depended on each...
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From:Philosophy East and West (Vol. 71, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedI. Introduction The most characteristic and recurrent feature of Mengzi's moral theory is no doubt his idea that the process of human moral development is akin to the natural growth of wholesome plants. All humans have...
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From: Time[(review date 17 March 1986) In the following review, Leo raises objections to Coles' methods of presenting his subjects and questions the importance of his findings.] If the world offered Oscars for interviewing...
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From: Ellen Glasgow: New Perspectives[(essay date 1995) In the following essay, Hall deems The Romantic Comedians “intellectual high comedy,” emphasizing the narrative control—as well as the humor—Glasgow could create in her works.] In her preface to The...
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From: European Studies Journal[(essay date 1986) In the following essay, Arico compares Fallaci's style and techniques with those of the documentary film genres cinéma vérité and direct cinema.] Although Oriana Fallaci is best known as a political...
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From:St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers (4th ed.)Robert Silverberg has won five Nebula Awards, four Hugo Awards, a Jupiter Award, and the Prix Apollo. As one of science fiction's most popular and durable writers, he has produced consistently professional work for five...
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From: The University Review--Kansas City[(essay date 1969) In the following essay, Tees contends that the Common Man in A Man for All Seasons is a "tragic non-hero" who "serves as a thematic counterpoint to the central figure of the play." Tees also notes the...