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...ure; but she was still a woman down deep even if she denied it just as his American passport and name-change made him abstain from bits of himself. A... ...sed land he did not expect that even if he were to live somewhere in "Euro-American Bangkok" (Banglampool, Silom, and Sukumvit roads with their seven ... ... Then he obfuscated. "Didn't you read in an encyclopedia one time that the American president, Abraham Lincoln, said, 'In the civil war it is quite po... ... inclinations to kill and enlarge their brambly world. They were landscape artists of their personal deserts: hating, destroying, and replanting their... ... airport, she would continue to bury herself in comic books and the latest American sounds when not engrossed in her French palaver with the cassette ... ...t are they: these snowmen? Are they just Englishmen?" "That but also Americans who didn't want to fight against King George... Frenchmen, of co...

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...t had seemed so real! She was relieved to see she only had on her good old American short Tasmanian Devil flannels. She stretched as she got up and he... ...red at one time to ogle the exhibit Therese had wangled compliments of the American Numismatic Society—a collection of coins and medals from around th... ...nown enough of these in his life to know one when he saw one. Ifreet. This American President, Bill Clinton, needed to learn a little self-control and... ...r sculpture. Nothing crazy in and of itself, except that Islam discouraged artists from producing such figures through art. Creation of living things ... ...from Guyana." "And our Dad—" "Auntie's brother is Puerto Rican and African American." "Mom says variety is the spice of life," Zee finished. "Your mot... ...handle her? It was intolerable and Mr. Avatar, unlike Lundquist, the crass American to whom Therese had previously alluded, should have known better. ...

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...ay of the fall, Zodiac declared himself the Lord and Master of the North American continent. The remnants of the government and military had fallen... .... “IDIOT! Always check all angles, especially when it comes to the former American government. Those fools were the greatest liars and hypocrites ev... ...cords, and other stuf. Looks like they were com- piling information on all Americans…Oh, sorry Vincent, didn’t mean to steal your thunder.” Vincent h... ...onnecticut. The town was named afer Samson Occom, who was a famous Native American clergyman from Connecticut. It was completely deserted, except fo... ...ctics would work well as they had in past wars like Vietnam and even the American Revolutionary War. But those wars were diferent. The enemy had de... ...arm. “No, of course not. I just mean that she could give crime lab sketch artists a run for their money.” “Hey, don’t even joke about this psychic s...

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...Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.” “Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®, Copyright © 1960,1962,1963,1968,1971,1972,1973,... ...orks of thine own hands.” God will help us become the writers, painters, the artists, He would have us be. In first grade, I fretted over every paint ... ...ke agents, publishers, editors, authors, copy editors, proofreaders, graphic artists and marketers. We all work like a symphony to deliver quality tho... ...such a difference, then how much more can we accomplish as writers, parents, artists, employees, wives, husbands, sons, daughters, and neighbors? Shor... ...a writer of devotions, personal essays and Christian fiction, is a member of American Christian Fiction Writers, past president of the local chapter, ... ...cluding the Middletown Journal and Journal News (daily newspapers), Bassics, American Songwriter, CCM Magazine, HM Magazine, Relevant Magazine, Living... ...vels from Howard Books/Simon & Schuster. Deb serves on the advisory board of American Christian Fiction Writers. She and her husband, Ken Raney, have ... ...er, novelist, and student in the Christian Writers Guild. She is a member of American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW). Barbara lives in St. Cloud, Fl...

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...Walt Whitman (1819-1892) is widely considered to be the greatest and most influential of all American poets. LEAVES OF GRASS, Whitman's sole book published at his own expense, represents almost the entirety of his poetical output. The first edition of LEAVES OF GRASS, which he would continue to revise over the course...

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...“The Odyssey is not an adventure story. It is, rather, a book of wisdom that explains the art of humanity’s journey toward becoming artists of life and of the life of the universe. It tells the tale of a love story that is based on love as a decision and as a project. It is not a tale of love based on falling in love or, worse, on love as passion, which i...

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... battle; much suffering must be faced and overcome, not as victims, but as artists capable of creating beauty that does not yet exist by extracting ... ..., and 13 they must only decide whether to live as unhappy victims or as artists called to contribute to the life of the entire universe, by creat... ...h those who learn how to perceive them can feel. So far, only the great artists have been able to produce this beauty through their immortal work... ... for ephemeral beauty and a large number of poets, sculptors, painters and artists of all types attempted to create a type of beauty that would be i... ...immortal beauty that is superior to the type of immortal beauty created by artists or attributed to the gods. ***** ... ...is. When, in October of 1994, a bullet killed the little seven-year-old American Nicholas Green while he was traveling with his family in Italy, ... ... first to assert this, and not long ago, Harold Bloom, one of the greatest American literary critics, said this in his most recently published book ...

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...ama of commented art theories, together with experimental digital images using adopted techniques from various fields, in order to inspire the actual artists to choose from, and also to invent or adopt new procedures in producing their artworks. This book presents a short panorama of commented art theories, together with digital art images using adopted techniques from var...

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... Morris utilizing a pile of dirt, and Robert Smithson who filled some boxes with rocks. Some projects demand enormous effort, for example carving the American presidential portraits in Mount Rushmore by Gustom Borglum, or wrapping the Australian coastline in 1969 with plastic and rope by Javacheff and Jeanne-Claude Christo (packed objects). Ephemeral patterns (art) in the ...

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...This work is about a Korean American teaching in his homeland, feeling lost in Korean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single ...

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...world's biggest dummy. Sang Huin gave his typical defense of "Miguk sarem" ("American") which would bring on a confused and critical look--in this cas... ...rica, and so existing as a Korean only by birth and race definitely made him American in every way but a legal one. Most persons under such a scenario... ...ere two sides of the same coin. He loved his mother and she was alone on the American continent as he was in Asia. They were indeed alone in the world... ...mething to him in Korean. "Miguk Sarem imnidad" responded Sang Huin (I am an American). Sung Ki, accompanied by a high school friend, took him to eat ... ...America. Occasionally Korean women also got his attention but not as much as American women. He had trouble believing that such predilections were a s... ...sical prostitution. Before Hallmark removed her from their list of freelance artists for accidentally mailing in one of her profane sketches, she had ... ... She supported her premise with quotations from Emerson, Thoreau, and myriad artists. It was a typical speech presented and specifically catered to t... ...sery was intruding on her contemplation of beauty. It was often that way for artists, for the jungle, beautiful as it might seem from the external vie... ...ble entity that had tossed the chemicals of inchoate matter, then cloistered artists, philosophers, and other contemplatives would be the dominant for...

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...s losing one‘s job. Sex makes us happier, as does enjoying one‘s job. The Americans, who spend much more time working are much higher on the happine... ...ed at home, in your neighborhood or in school is the truth, divine truth. Americans eat with their forks in their right hands, Europeans with the for... ...ies ate their meals together. She was appalled by the poor manners of the American students. Her mother had taught her good table manners at home, r... ... with your fork in your left hand and your knife in your right). But the Americans had very poor manners. They cut all their food first then put the... ...the right hand. The Norwegian assumed that after a few weeks the ignorant Americans would follow her lead of good manners. After two weeks she was ca... ...such a testimony to artistic free expression—and ostensibly to the street artists‘ First Amendment rights of free speech. ―The fact that the yo... ...ka, Eugene O'Neill, Dorothy Parker, Samuel Becket and Tennessee Williams; artists like Claude Monet; musicians like John Lennon, Elton John; and a n...

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...or strawberries. 9 ―World cotton prices have never been lower but American cotton farmers earn nearly twice as much for their crops because... ...fe by the Chinese or the realities of the ill-conceived war in Iraq for the Americans and British—it doesn‟t take long for the truth to be known. The... ... price of their exports up. The Chinese yuppies are following the American way of pursuing money and the things it can bring—less free time... ...ble to love. We continue children‘s nurturing in schools by following your American pattern of teaching children to take turns. They must realize tha... ...ctual statutes rather than on the Common Law that has given Englishmen and Americans so many ways to get around the statutes enacted by their legisl... ...n turn out. Did they become statesmen or thieves, the inventors or tyrants, artists or killers? Parents are, indeed, the creators of destiny. What do... ...fitness. The honor is also sometimes afforded to world class intellectuals, artists and athletes. But more often to people who have shown exceptional...

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...‘t be surprised when young Germans tortured and killed for Hitler, when young Chinese and Cambodians killed for Mao or Pol Pot, or even young Americ... ... in the vitamin D producing sun, could add the A and D to their skim milk. They don‘t, but are finally thinking about it—sixty years after the Americ... ...ental side, wartime British Prime Minister, historian and author Winston Churchill had a father who wrote of him ‗I have an idiot for a son.‘ Americ... ...he worst outcomes of the power drive is using violence to achieve our ends. Either it is the Crips fighting the Bloods, Cain killing Abel, the Americ... ... warlike mentalities the kill ratios went up in World War II. Japanese as yellow bellied slant-eyed sadists who would dive their bombers into Americ... .... When a person finds meaning in life, or searches for meaning, it is a sign of being psychologically healthy and happy. One might look at the artist... ...choose? Maslow quoted Child (21) to back up his thesis that the highest achievers in a ‗human area‘ think similarly. Child found that the best artist... ...ke some basic needs for the love and the esteem of others in order to live alone and quietly meditate on the mysteries of nature. And how many artist...

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...st its role as the scientific and intellectual leader of the world. As an American I am greatly saddened, but as a citizen of the world and of the co... ...ed that the major medical researching country had had its tires shot out. American researchers and other medical leaders streamed into southeast Asia... ...ligent Barak Obama was not enough to keep all of the intelligentsia. The American depression had sapped its economy of the necessary funds for rese... ...esearch are somehow against the will of God. Also, the quick profits that American companies usually seek is not a factor in the minds of the Orienta... ...aying them pensions. ” —“I‟ve seen the statistics on European and American workers between the ages of 50 and 70. At 50 about 90% of men wer... ...ach? “Our major films show the lives of composers, philosophers, artists and others who show courage and intellect. There is violence in so...

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... Poland or Venezuela but would have been considerably less than the poorest American state, Mississippi, with an average per capita income of $18,00... ...hly skilled architects to plan those cathedrals. It needs the truly creative artists, the master musicians, the computer engineering geniuses—and it ... ...ough to go around and give everyone the equivalent income of today’s average American or Brit. The other day I mentioned the wealth of the world when... ...urg would have to give up about $55,000 per year. The average Norwegian and American would have to give up about $35,000 a year. Would they stand st... ...e in one’s Cadillac, when one might take rapid transit, is a basic right of Americans—possibly more prized than the right to free speech. 29... ...e person in Bangladesh. Thirty average Indians use fewer resources than one American. So what is called ‘the carrying capacity’ of the world or the ...

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...and time seemed reassuringly cognate. With the memory of that light, white American, Kimberly Debecrois--or something French--pulling away from his gr... ...ny ways it besot him like orphic sound to a musician, or the tenebrisms of artists (Carvaggios like himself); but nonetheless he continued to project ... ...ully that he began to believe it himself. On canvas, distorting the French-American into an Asian half-breed and a lady of the night, he brought to hi... ...inating, he thought about how each year for his birthday she had fixed her American born, but not raised, angel food cake burnished in icing, and brou... ... of the living room on early into early morning chilling the house like an American winter, and he would snuggle deep under a saffron monk-colored bla... ...ny of his Thai friends often looked at him when finding out that he had an American passport. But then, everything was relative. Perhaps a Somalian wo... ...and now, the beauty of the human frame was there to be shown by discerning artists. He posited that his own artistic proclivities in conjunction with ... ... was a cartographer; and it had always been his hope that collectively all artists (himself included if he were not retired) would in time be able to ... ...riaj Hospital who, despite their slit bodies acting the part of striptease artists of human entrails, had always seemed to him to resemble his own mot...

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...in awards like that without a shitload of talent.” “So he and Otto are both Americans?” Kurt leaned closer to Adam. “Do they travel together?” “N... ...blanket was folded on a chair and littered with pocket castoffs: a mixture of American and Canadian coins, a clump of wrinkled betting tickets and a... ...Well, kind of slow.” His smile faded. “But Mr. Friedman says it takes time for artists to build a customer base. Anyway, the shipments to Antwerp are...

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...an by Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The American by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The American by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas... ...ia State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Henry James The American by Henry James 1877 CHAPTER I O n a brilliant day in May, in the y... ...he truth must be told, he had often admired the copy much more than 4 The American the original. His physiognomy would have sufficiently in- dicated ... ...national mould. The gentleman on the divan was a power- ful specimen of an American. But he was not only a fine American; he was in the first place, p... ...a pianist. It was, in fact, Madame de Cintre’s “authority,” as they say of artists, that especially impressed and fasci- nated Newman; he always came ... ...like the thing,” Valentin rejoined. “Mademoiselle Nioche is like the great artists whose biographies we read, who at the beginning of their career hav...

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...Excerpt: We had been talking about the masters who had achieved but a single masterpiece--the artists and poets who but once in their lives had known the divine afflatus and touched the high level of perfection. Our host had been showing us a charming little cabinet picture by a painter whose name we had never heard, ...

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...en talking about the masters who had achieved but a single masterpiece—the artists and poets who but once in their lives had known the divine afflatus... ...he Madonna of the Future The mystery was suddenly solved; my friend was an American! He must have been, to take the picturesque so prodigiously to hea... ...e was. He confessed with a melancholy but all-respectful head-shake to his American origin. “We are the disinherited of Art!” he cried. “We are con- d... ...mned to be superficial! We are excluded from the magic circle. The soil of American perception is a poor little barren artificial deposit. Yes! we are... ...little barren artificial deposit. Yes! we are wedded to imperfec- tion. An American, to excel, has just ten times as much to learn as a European. We l... ... shrewd Yankee race; but, after all, there could be no better token of his American origin than this high aesthetic fever. The very heat of his devoti... ...e was my subject marvellously realised. I felt like one of the old monkish artists who had had a vision. I rescued the poor creatures, cherished them,...

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...Excerpt: Volume I. Preface: Nothing is more easy than to state the subject of ?The Ambassadors,? which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review (1903) and was published as a whole the same year. The situation involved is gathered up betimes, that is in the second chapter of Book Fifth, for the reader?s benefit, into as few words as possible-- planted ...

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... of “The Ambassadors,” which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review (1903) and was published as a whole the same year. The situ... ...“arranged for”; its first appearance was from month to month, in the North American Review during 1903, and I had been open from far back to any pleas... ...sibly a question of Mr. Waymarsh of Milrose Connecti- cut—Mr. Waymarsh the American lawyer. “Oh yes,” he replied, “my very well-known friend. He’s to ... ...hly nervous—and not at all strong.” 56 The Ambassadors “You mean she’s an American invalid?” He carefully distinguished. “There’s nothing she likes l... ...” he laughed, “if it were the only way to be the other.” “Consent to be an American in order to be an invalid?” “No,” said Strether, “the other way ro... ...— that several members of a band of earnest workers under one of the great artists had taken him right in, making him dine every night, almost for not... ...s, though limits down perhaps rather more than limits up. There are always artists—he’s beauti- ful and inimitable to the cher confrere; and then gros... ...de out, he was sure, the half-dozen other ‘men who were distinguished, the artists, the critics and oh the great dramatist—him it was easy to spot; bu...

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...eral government that was ever devised for a free people. He found that the American people, through their chosen representatives who were instructed b... ...ent country, or among any different people. The pride and comfort that the American people enjoy in the great commentaries of De Tocqueville are far r... ...ment which has afflicted mankind for many ages, that gives joy to the true American, as it did to De T ocqueville in his great triumph. When De Tocque... ...banished all good feeling from the hearts of our people, the States of the American Union, still in com- plete organization and equipped with all thei... ...de departure 8 Democracy in America from the original plan and purpose of American Democ- racy. “Local Self-Government,” independent of general con- ... ...iences made less progress than in the United States; and in few have great artists, fine poets, or celebrated writers been more rare. Many Europe- ans... ...ndred habits. Amongst this people they found distinguished men of science, artists of skill, writers of eminence, and they were enabled to enjoy the t... ...t in the useful arts then takes place in the fine arts; the productions of artists are more numerous, but the merit of each produc- tion is diminished...

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... “I daresay not,” rejoined the other. “Oh, I say!” cried his comrade. This animated discussion was checked by their arrival at the hotel, which had be... ...der of the young English- men unfolded his napkin. His companion took no notice whatever of this decla- ration. “I say,” he resumed in a moment, “I su... ...icent young man with a waxed mustache, and a shirtfront adorned with diamond buttons, who every now and then dropped an absent glance over their multi... ...k that day for En- gland; and then it occured to them that they might find an asylum nearer at hand. The cave of Aeolus became their ideal of comfort,... ...So just please to consider yourselves my property; and if anyone should try to appropriate you, please to say, ‘Hands off; too late for the market.’ B... ...was keen and her curiosity insatiable, and, grateful in general for all her opportunities, she especially prized the privilege of meeting certain cele... ...n apart?” “Why, letting them come only to certain places. You never see them.” Lord Lambeth looked at her a moment. “What people do you mean?” “The em...