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Thomas Fuller, in his Ornitho-Logie, or Speeches of Birds, published in 1655, agreed with Pliny on the uniqueness of the species. Because the bird is truly a rarissima avis, its own sole exemplar, Fuller extracts considerable drama from a dialogue in which the one extant Phoenix must plead for her life before the Hawk who would prefer to kill and eat her on the spot. According to one character, the flock has \"food enough in it to keep the army of Xerxes for a month, and feathers enough to make beds for the whole country\".16 Xerxes wept over the ineluctable mortality of his massed army, all of whom - regardless of the fortunes of war - would be dead with the lapse of a single century. [...]Gibson's juxtaposing of his protagonist's monetary furor mathematicus with the Crystal Palace may deliberately recall the criticism of Dostoevsky's 1864 Underground Man (technically a contemporary of Robert Fraser's), who demurred from utopian projects (of which the Crystal Palace is an emblem) because he disbelieved in the human capacity to follow the ideal directives of rational self-interest. DuPont's name appears below the bear with the slogans \"From fibres to pharmaceuticals\" and \"The miracles of science\". Since the Polar Bear is plainly anaesthetized, its comfort (assumed by the advertisement) can only remain speculative.

This book examines Anglican missionary work in nineteenth-century British Columbia at several scales: the local ethnographic literature; histories of contact and conflict in mainland B.C. from the early nineteenth century; the theology and sociology of mission; and the recent critical literature on European colonialism.

Shortly after President Abraham Lincoln's assassin was killed on April 26, 1865, a formal inquest was held to positively identify the body. Dr. John Frederick May, a leading surgeon in the District of Columbia, was summoned to examine the remains. Two years earlier, Dr. May had removed a fibroid tumor from the back of the assassin's neck and an identifiable large ugly scar resulted when the wound inadvertently opened and healed by granulation. Based upon the recognition of the scar made by his scalpel, Dr. May made a positive identification.

Si la question des rapports entre l’éthique et la littérature a longtemps été confinée dans les limites étroites de l’approche autoréférentielle du sens et des valeurs – la littérature n’avait de compte à rendre qu’à elle-même parce qu’elle était perçue comme un univers autonome, sans commune mesure avec celui de la communication ordinaire –, on commence aujourd’hui, à la suite des travaux des théoriciens de la réception, puis d’auteurs comme Ricœur (1986), Miller (1987), Booth (1988), Nussbaum (2010), Maingueneau …

Ces données du passé ont déja, semble-t-il, besoin de séquences séparées, vu l'âge des protagonistes vingt ans avant l'intrigue au présent, l'ordre social différent, les chevaux dominant encore les toutes premieres et cahotantes voitures a essence, et autres signes visibles de l'orientation du séparé a cette époque, a savoir la splendeur des Amberson au regard du peu d'éclat des Morgan. Car la question du visible domine le cinéma, qui y exprime le temps, cependant que le roman peut injecter dans la fluidité de l'écriture un régime disparate de l'image, et imposer un tempo subjectivé hors du visible : celui de la lecture. Ce n'est pas un hasard si romans et théátre ont hanté son cinéma : c'est que la dialectique du temps et de l'espace, certes inscrite dans le maniement spatio-temporel du plan-séquence, ne pouvait etre entierement lisible et accomplie qu'avec la puissance d'anticipation et de rappel, de répétition et de surplomb, que la voix comme telle introduit, a la fois liée et séparée de l'image, dans la compréhension des contradictions qui organisent la dramaturgie, et nous forcent a admettre ce qu'il y a d'implacable dans le monde, tel que l'art de Welles nous le présente.

Examines the efforts of John Grierson for Canada's Film Board, which he developed. Informs that looming large over Grierson's 1938 investigation of government film activities in Canada were the inquiries of the Royal Commission on Dominion-Provincial Relations, established by the federal government in 1937, and the resulting Rowell-Sirois Report presented in 1940. States that in practice, his enactment of a film policy for the Canadian state was also concerned differences between the public and commercial sectors, and significantly, separations of departmental interests within the federal bureaucracy. Indicates that gaps between government departments and the relations of government film activity and the private sector figure prominently in the case of \"Heritage\" (1939, J. Booth Scott), a 16-minute documentary produced as Grierson made his report on Canadian film activities and distributed as he set the Film Board in motion.

We got started, Mrs. Booth \"testing\" last year's investment in illumination -those icicle lights that seemingly took the world by storm, although I do believe there are remote villages in South America where they are still using the quaintly old-fashioned red, blue, green strands. Amazingly, the lights worked, at least in our \"test kitchen\", which is where my wife insisted was the only place lights should be tested. My idea was the garage floor, but that would have been bad, I was informed. The ladder is set up. The lights are hooked to the gutter (usually, but not always after the gutter is nailed back up, allegedly from the birds deciding to \"spread their wings\" just a little too aggressively.)

[J. ARTHUR BOOTH], 56, of East Stroudsburg R.2, died Saturday in Easton Hospital. He was the husband of Mary (Broad) Booth. Born in East Stroudsburg, he was a son of Emma Booth of East Stroudsburg.