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...ustice to his training and general getting up, without too much individual personality of his own. He looked only so much of a man as was needful for ...

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...tion. He does not betray his name to the reader or what he has done. He describes his life in prison, everything from what his cell looks like to the personality of the prison priest....

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...The Fair Rewards by Thomas Beer . . . is a really distiguished novel. The writing is far above the average: it has style and sophistication and personality, intermingled with a truly vivid show of imagination. It even borders on brilliancy, but it is a hard, cold, cynical sort of brilliancy that chills. It almost hurts . . . The title itself is indicative of cynicism...

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...es, concealed accents, stolen passports, impoverished counts and impertinent ladies' maids.... Trollope's most serious attempt to escape from his own personality. - Walpole (Summary by )...

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...sney in her career from stenographer, then drummer (traveling salesman) to owner of her own company. (The first was Roast Beef, Medium and the second Personality Plus both in the catalog). Edna Ferber first gained success with these stories and later went on to write Show Boat, Giant and other well known books. First published in 1915, Emma's son, Jock, has moved to Chicag...

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...ches as Austen suggests complications of identity and the way in which that identity is based on interaction rather than on solitary constructions of personality. (Summary from Wikipedia)...

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... comical (The Mutability of Literature), but the common thread running through The Sketch Book — and a key part of its attraction to readers — is the personality of Irving's pseudonymous narrator, Geoffrey Crayon. Erudite, charming, and never one to make himself more interesting than his tales, Crayon holds The Sketch Book together through the sheer power of his personalit...

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...to have a sense of the subtle influences that moderate and qualify a man’s personality; that personality is no longer thrown out in unnatural isolatio... ...ct sympathy between the author and the subject, between the critic and the personality under criticism. Hence an inorganic, if not an incoherent, pres... ...ad no genteel timidities in the conduct of his life. He loved to force his personality upon the world. He would please himself, and shine. Had he live... ...of the poet’s help, and not sufficient taste to moderate his grossness and personality. We may judge of their surprise when Holy Willie was put into t... ... and forward, in time and space; to focus all this about his own momentary personality; and then, drawing the ground from under his feet, as if by som... ...that it endures this knowledge without change. It required a cold, distant personality like that of Thoreau, perhaps, to recognise and certainly to ut... ...nsitive in the modern humour, that tends more and more to withdraw a man’s personality from the lessons he inculcates or the cause that he has espouse...

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...friends can measure strength, and enjoy that amicable counter-assertion of personality which is the gauge of relations and the sport of life. A good t...

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...evelop a serum in time, but this requires the cooperation of the elusive native Trailmen, the brilliant parasitologist Dr. Jay Allison, and his split personality. (Introduction by Mark Nelson)...

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...Lucy Maud Montgomery's classic children's novel, Anne of Green Gables tells the story of a red headed orphan girl with a personality you can't help but love. Despite her tragical past, Anne's optimism and imagination have helped her to always see the best in things. Anne's life changes considerably when she is accidentally adopted by the Cuthbe...

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...mail. The truth is worse than he could have imagined. Jekyll’s ‘full statement of the case’, the final chapter of the book, explores the idea of dual personality that led him to his experiments, and his inexorable and finally fatal descent into evil. (Summary by David Barnes)...

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...er. But, if he'd known how the information had been obtained--if he'd known it had been guessed at by a discharged spaceport employee, and a paranoid personality, and a man who used a hazel twig or something similar--if he'd known that , he'd never have dreamed of accepting it. He'd have dismissed it flatly! (Summary from the Gutenberg text)...

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... Truscott was a changed man. He didn't seem the same personable Jim Truscott that Betty had promised herself to, and Dave was a bit suspicious of his personality alterations as well. Now, Betty had to decide whether to hold herself to her promise, and Dave had to determine whether or not he should also keep himself to the promise he had made to his friend. There is plenty ...

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...d something to be glad about in every situation, and to always do without delay whatever she thinks is right. With this philosophy, and her own sunny personality, she brings so much gladness to her aunt's dispirited New England town that she transforms it into a pleasant, healthy place to live. Eventually, however, even Pollyanna's robust optimism is put to the test when s...

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...pabilities, the tech-folk behind World Weary Avengers, Incorporated moved on to develop such gadgets as one capable of recording an individual's very personality and replaying it back into another person. Devices with even more sinister potential are in the pipeline. Only a small band of software quality assurance engineers stands between these audacious inventors and your...

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...ly portrayed from the author's own personal experiences. During his tenure as an officer, Penrose slowly asserts himself; the war takes a toll on his personality, but he begins to live up to his early dreams of heroism. However, his creeping self-doubt grows by degrees; following Gallipoli, he is reassigned from his post as scouting officer once on the Somme, knowing he ca...

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...n physical as well as mental health. Since the arrival of Sharad's wife into the family, as a result of marriage, he had begun noticing in his wife's personality, certain qualities and weaknesses commonly found in women. Though seemingly maintaining neutrality, he always had a soft corner for the young girl whom he always considered his daughter. ……………… Since his yout...

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...Lucy Maud Montgomery’s classic children’s novel, Anne of Green Gables tells the story of a red headed orphan girl with a personality you can’t help but love. Despite her “tragical” past, Anne’s optimism and imagination have helped her to always see the best in things. Anne’s life changes considerably when she is accidentally adopted by the Cuth...

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... of Rob Roy MacGregor. Though Rob Roy is not the lead character (in fact the narrative does not move to Scotland until half way through the book) his personality and actions are key to the development of the novel. (Summary from Wikipedia)...

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...ion was that Lady Beldonald hadn?t only seen and admired certain examples of my work, but had literally been prepossessed in favour of the painter?s ?personality.? Had I been struck with this sketch I might easily have imagined her ladyship was throwing me the handkerchief. ?She hasn?t done,? my visitor said, ?what she ought.?...

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...f my work, but had literally been prepossessed in favour of the painter’s “personality.” Had I been struck with this sketch I might easily have imagin...

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...Lucy Maud Montgomery’s classic children’s novel, Anne of Green Gables tells the story of a red headed orphan girl with a personality you can’t help but love. Despite her “tragical” past, Anne’s optimism and imagination have helped her to always see the best in things. Anne’s life changes considerably when she is accidentally adopted by the Cuth...

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...malleable material. Time stamps its features upon it and producers remodel its structure. Actors, as factors from the literary system, influence the "personality" of the characters through their own personalities. ...

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...ches as Austen suggests complications of identity and the way in which that identity is based on interaction rather than on solitary constructions of personality. Lady Susan’s character is also built by the descriptions of the other letter-writers; but even though their opinions of this heroine coincide with the image that develops from her own letters, Austen demonstrates...

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...ha) can easily come about by paying small amount of money to the Emperor’s men in Istanbul, without taking into consideration the characteristics and personality of the person who would they send to become ‘Pasha’ of Baghdad. The story contains harsh scenes about the life of Baghdad’s inhabitants, and heavily relies on the true history of the city of Baghdad, including ...

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...n physical as well as mental health. Since the arrival of Sharad's wife into the family, as a result of marriage, he had begun noticing in his wife's personality, certain qualities and weaknesses commonly found in women. Though seemingly maintaining neutrality, he always had a soft corner for the young girl whom he always considered his daughter. ……………… Since his yout...

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...was provided to us: 70 A certain kind of speech: 72 The Fonfoist Society: 83 “We will live here in abundance”: 87 The multilateral development of personality: 93 The Police and the Revolution: 95 Imposing buildings of prisons: 97 Football: 99 Public genuflection: 100 The contemporary history: 102 Hon Hyn’s visit to Paris: 103 The National Museum: 104 The Manage...

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...ans and sociologists have all wrestled with the questions relating to ‗why we are who we are.‘ Do our genes predispose us to a certain type of person... ... students of human nature have expressed each of these theories. ―Perhaps by understanding some of the various psychological theories of person... ...Studies indicate that a great deal of our behavior can be attributed to our heredity,. Some criminal activity, some homosexual behavior, some person... ... 23 ―A person's attempts to love are bound to fail, according to Fromm, ‗unless he tries most actively to develop his total person... ...ationalization. A person who can‘t get a job may blame it on affirmative action when the real reason may be his lack of skill or his offensive person... ...s right. And if you don‘t believe it, I‘ll sue you for defamation of character!‖ —―I read about her. She had written books and was a TV person... ...all are sometimes seen among our young. We have to teach our young that these ‗organ inferiorities‘ are not the essentials of the people. The person... ...can do this in influencing small groups or large countries. Others control by manipulating others. They lean on them. A third type of problem person... ...ecially by avoiding other people. If it progresses to a psychosis the person withdraws totally from the world. On the other hand, the healthy person...

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...RE VIII THE DIVIDED SELF, AND THE PROCESS OF ITS UNIFICATION Heterogeneous personality—Character gradually attains unity—Ex- amples of divided self—Th... ... “survival” of primitive thought?— Modern science rules out the concept of personality— Anthropomorphism and be- 9 William James lief in the personal... ...was accompanied with no determinate localiza- tion. It was rather as if my personality had been transformed by the presence of a spiritual spirit. But... ...ay that for primitive thought everything is conceived of under the form of personality. The savage thinks that things operate by personal forces, and ... ...ce’s con- ceptions practically, they will say, the conceptions that ignore personality altogether, and you will always be corroborated. The world is s... ...entance and of effort to re- pair misdemeanors and mistakes. Heterogeneous personality has been explained as the result of inheritance—the traits of c... ...—it certainly needs corroboration. But whatever the cause of heterogeneous personality may be, we find the extreme examples of it in the psychopathic ... ...it is thoroughly pronounced, we have exquis- ite examples of heterogeneous personality. Bunyan had an obsession of the words, “Sell Christ for this, s... ... mysteriously the heir. Let me quote from some typical cases of discordant personality, with melancholy in the form of self-con- demnation and sense o...

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...ve originated this esti- mate; but a kind Providence furnishes the limpest personality with a little gunk or starch in the form of tradition. “Let me ... ...y is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves. Will went along with a small book under h... ...ike ugliness and errors—becomes a totally new thing when we attach our own personality to it, and measure it by that wide difference which is manifest...

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...EREBELLUM ______ 80 WITH HALF MEASURE _________________ 80 PERFUNCTORY _____ 80 HUBBUB ___________ 81 COLUMNED ________ 81 RAGAMUFFIN ______ 81 PERSONALITY ______ 81 RIVAL _____________ 81 INSIGNIFICANT _____ 81 „ ≤ ” _______________ 81 AMNESIA __________ 81 WISE ______________ 82 AMENDMENT ______ 82 ORDINARY _________ 82 MISERY ____________ 82 ANALOGY ____...