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1. George Eliot -- Daniel Deronda
   In "Daniel Deronda" the cheerless philosophy of George Eliot is fully brought out. Mordecai, in his obscure and humble life, is a good representative of a patient sufferer, but "in his views and aspirations is a sort of Jewish Mazzini." The hero of the story is Mordecai's disciple, who has discovered his Hebrew origin, of which he is as proud as his aristocratic mother is ashamed The heroine is a spoiled woman of fashion, who makes the usual mistake of most of George Eliot's heroines, in violating conscience and duty. She marries a man whom she knows to be inherently depraved and selfish; marries him for his money, and pays the usual penalty,--a life of silent wretchedness and secret sorrow and unavailing regret. But she is at last fortunately delivered by the accidental death of her detested husband,--by drowning, of course. Remorse in seeing her murderous wishes accomplished--though not by her own hand, but by pursuing fate--awakens a new life in her soul, and she is redeemed amid the throes of anguish and conscious guilt.
2. Lyric -- Miscellaneous
   In the early years of the twentieth century rhymed lyric poetry, usually expressing the feelings of the poet, was the dominant poetic form in America.[21] This dominance was challenged by American experimental modernists such as Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, H.D. and William Carlos Williams, who rejected the English lyric form of the nineteenth century, feeling that it relied to heavily on melodious language, rather than complexity of thought.[22] Wallace Stevens and Hart Crane... were modernists who also worked within the tradition of post-Romantic lyric poetry.
3. Andrew Lloyd Webber -- Practical Cats
   Lloyd Webber and Rice parted ways in the early 1980s and Lloyd Webber’s first solo production Cats was based on the collection of comic verses by T.S. Eliot, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats; opening in London in 1981 and in New York in 1982, it closed in New York in 2000 and in London on its 21st anniversary in May 2002. It, in turn, became the longest-running musical in history. Through its success, Lloyd Webber became the first person to have three shows running simultaneously both in the West End and on Broadway. Next came Starlight Express, unusually a non-narrative show that relied largely on the spectacle of its elaborate, built-in sets and the roller-skating cast. It opened in the West End in 1984, and ran for 7,406 performances, becoming the longest-running musical in history after Cats.
4. News Nbc News -- Tom Brokaw
   NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw: "He had not been seen in public until that very brief appearance he made in the closing days of the invasion of Baghdad, and then he disappeared. Uh, and now, this is the return of Saddam Hussein, uh, to quote T.S. Eliot, this is how his role ends, not with a bang -- because he fired no shots -- but with kind of a whimper for this megalomaniacal tyrant of the Iraqi people for the last 30 years."
5. Symbolism in Literature -- Russian Symbolism
   Russian Symbolism had begun to lose its momentum in literature by the second decade of the twentieth century. Its major practitioners frequently conflicted in the pages of the journals Vesy, Zolotoe runo and Pereval. Others wrestled for control of key printing houses. Meanwhile, many younger poets were drawn to the Acmeist movement, which distanced itself from excesses of Symbolism. Others joined the ranks of the Futurists, an iconoclastic group which sought to recreate art entirely, eschewing all aesthetic conventions.
6. Graham Greene -- Affair Catherine
   After graduation, Greene unsuccessfully took up journalism, first in the city of Nottingham (recurring in his novels as the epitome of mean provincial life), and then as a sub-editor on The Times. While in Nottingham he started corresponding with Vivien Dayrell-Browning, a Roman Catholic convert who had written him to correct him on a point of Catholic doctrine. Greene converted to Catholicism in 1926 (described in A Sort of Life) and was baptised in February the same year [1], they married in 1927, and had two children, Lucy (b. 1933) and Francis (b. 1936; d. 1987). In 1948, Greene abandoned Vivien for Catherine Walston, yet remained married to her.
7. Political Correctness -- Bill Lind
   Political correctness all too quickly morphs into practical suicide, no matter what the continent. Right here at home nothing underscores such deadly dopiness than Bill Clinton’s justice department during the years when Osama Bin Laden gained his murderous momentum. Clinton instituted a policy shift that prohibited US law enforcement and intelligence agencies from sharing information. The reasoning behind the change was pure political correctness. Exchanged computer checks on those stopped for traffic violations might ... turn up immigration violations. And nothing was more sacred for the Clintons than protecting the cow of illegal immigration.
8. England -- James Milner
   Only two rulers of England have borne the name James. The hatred felt for the second of these, because of his attempts to rule despotically and to restore the Roman Catholic religion, is probably the most important reason why the name fell into disuse.
9. Richard Kelly -- World
   Film school beckoned, where Kelly cut his teeth on student projects. These films gave an early indication of the direction Kelly was heading for - a demonstration of audacity and ambition, handled by a bit of an outsider. Nowhere is this made more clear than with The Vomiteer, a self-explanatory piece that was one of Kelly's first efforts. He refers to it as a 'reaction to the pretension' he experienced through his peers, who seemed focused on solving the world's problems or making people weep through their work. As Kelly notes, sadness is very much self-absorbing, whereas laughter is something to be shared with others. the hardest thing to do is get a good laugh out of someone."
10. Irene Worth -- Portrait of Edith Wharton
    During the mid 1960s in New York, Worth and Gielgud had collaborated in a series of dramatic readings first from T. S. Eliot and Edith Sitwell and then from Shakespeare. It was a form of theatre at which she became more adept as she grew older, drawing from Virginia Woolf, Ivan Turgenev and Noel Coward among others. She referred to them as "her recitals". In the mid 1990s, she devised and performed a two-hour monologue, Portrait of Edith Wharton, based on Wharton's life and writings. Using no props, costumes or sets, she created characters entirely through vocal means.

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