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The Essential Tawfiq al-Hakim by Denys Johnson-Davies
epub |eng | 2008-02-23 | Author:Denys Johnson-Davies [Johnson-Davies, Denys]

The Donkey Market Cast TWO UNEMPLOYED MEN FARMER FARMER’S WIFE SCENE ONE Near the donkey market. From afar is heard the braying of donkeys. Outside the market sit two men ...
( Category: Performing Arts February 24,2020 )
Selected Letters of William Empson by John Haffenden
epub |eng | 2011-07-07 | Author:John Haffenden

Sir,—What Mr Burgess says about ‘the penultimate episode of Finnegans Wake’ is very interesting, and one day if I am spared I will try to decide what the episode means. ...
( Category: Arts & Literature February 24,2020 )
The Wild Swans at Coole (The Best of Yeats) by W.B. Yeats
epub |eng | 2019-01-20 | Author:W.B. Yeats [Yeats, W.B.]

A THOUGHT FROM PROPERTIUS She might, so noble from head To great shapely knees, The long flowing line, Have walked to the altar Through the holy images At Pallas Athene’s ...
( Category: Arts & Literature February 24,2020 )
The Collected Poems by W. B. Yeats
epub |eng | 2015-04-14 | Author:W. B. Yeats [Yeats, W. B.]

The Three Monuments They hold their public meetings where Our most renownèd patriots stand, One among the birds of the air, A stumpier on either hand; And all the popular ...
( Category: European February 24,2020 )
Tales of an Actors' Agent by Michael Whitehall
epub |eng | 2013-03-09 | Author:Michael Whitehall [Whitehall, Michael]

6. The Dilettantes of St James’s In the old days, agents were the butt of music hall jokes, characterised as ill-bred, barely literate low-lifers, working out of grubby one-room offices ...
( Category: Performing Arts February 24,2020 )
The Gershwins and Me by Michael Feinstein
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Feinstein

George and Ira arriving in Los Angeles in 1936. As in all things, interpretation comes down to a matter of taste, on the part of both the performer and the ...
( Category: Composers & Musicians February 24,2020 )
Cinema Sex Sirens by Dave Worrall & Lee Pfeiffer
epub |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Dave Worrall & Lee Pfeiffer [Worrall, Dave]

Following her move to America, Ekberg soon became a major pin-up. Russ Meyer was often quoted as saying she was the most beautiful woman he had ever photographed and that ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers February 24,2020 )
Making All Black Lives Matter by Barbara Ransby
epub |eng | | Author:Barbara Ransby

BLACK FEMINIST INFLUENCES This generation of activists has been profoundly influenced directly and indirectly by the radical Black Feminist tradition that emerged in the 1970s, transmitted through books, poetry, images, ...
( Category: African-American Studies February 24,2020 )
The Long Recessional by David Gilmour
epub |eng | 2019-09-04 | Author:David Gilmour

Free Trade was thus the ‘direct parent’ of socialism because ‘the workman cannot live on the wage which his European and Asiatic protected fellow workers – not the capitalist – ...
( Category: European February 24,2020 )
Recollections of a Picture Dealer by Ambroise Vollard
epub |eng | 2012-10-22 | Author:Ambroise Vollard [Vollard, Ambroise]

Another day, when I got to Gervex’s, I found him quite upset, as the result of a singular adventure. Two days earlier, during dinner, the maid had come in to ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers February 24,2020 )
A Colorful Way of Living by Barbara Bradley Baekgaard
epub |eng | 2017-02-21 | Author:Barbara Bradley Baekgaard

More than just the company’s namesake, Vera was a valuable member of our team. Here she is with Pat. None of us was trained to sell but we learned quickly, ...
( Category: Work Life Balance February 24,2020 )
Deal: My Three Decades of Drumming, Dreams, and Drugs With the Grateful Dead by Bill Kreutzmann & Benjy Eisen
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-05-04 | Author:Bill Kreutzmann & Benjy Eisen

13 The hiatus officially began on October 21, 1974. There were points during the hiatus when I honestly didn’t think the Grateful Dead, as we knew it, would ever get ...
( Category: Rock February 24,2020 )
Discourse on Colonialism by Aimé Césaire
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-12-29 | Author:Aimé Césaire

- 15 - accurate perception of the emotional disturbances that the population of the high plateaux was going through. Obviously, it is only a step from this to absolving the ...
( Category: African February 24,2020 )
The Love Lives of the Artists by Daniel Bullen
epub |eng | 2011-10-02 | Author:Daniel Bullen

Le Bon said in an interview that “the Beaver often used to tell me that she had been very cautious with me. She felt she had made mistakes in the ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers February 24,2020 )
Dave Brubeck by Philip Clark
epub |eng | 2020-02-17 | Author:Philip Clark

We Indians are familiar with the usage that allows each artist to display his skill vis-à-vis the particular music being performed. Placing Brubeck as the principal artist, the pattern ran ...
( Category: Jazz February 24,2020 )

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