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Report on Orphaned Works

By: Marybeth Peters

...nregistered works. It is true that today’s ephemera represent tomorrow’s social history, and that works of scholarly value, which are now falling i... ...rship, commentary and research ways). 137 American University Center for Social Media, Documentary Filmmakers’ Statement of Best Practices in Fair ... ...r argued that requiring every owner to register would impose a very large social cost, but only a tiny fraction of the works registered will ever be... ...7 See NOI (125 licenses between 1990 and January 2005). Generally, the critics of the Canadian system felt that it would impose an undue administ... ...n obtaining permission for subsequent creators and users to use works in socially productive ways, such as by incorporating these works in new cr...

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Report on Orphaned Works

By: Marybeth Peters

...nregistered works. It is true that today’s ephemera represent tomorrow’s social history, and that works of scholarly value, which are now falling i... ...rship, commentary and research ways). 137 American University Center for Social Media, Documentary Filmmakers’ Statement of Best Practices in Fair ... ...r argued that requiring every owner to register would impose a very large social cost, but only a tiny fraction of the works registered will ever be... ...7 See NOI (125 licenses between 1990 and January 2005). Generally, the critics of the Canadian system felt that it would impose an undue administ... ...n obtaining permission for subsequent creators and users to use works in socially productive ways, such as by incorporating these works in new cr...

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Words to Wright By

By: Robin Bayne

...ent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; t... ...rld a bit better , whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung wit... ...erything. I’m not afraid of heights or airplanes or water. I am introverted. Social situations can make me incredibly anxious and the thought of getti...

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The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty

By: Juan Josafat Ben Ezra

...are to follow. And this truly, which was so much laughed at by the sapient order of the critics, is to my mind the most solid and well-grounded part ... ...ural man, and can present a stronger pleading to his mind, and to his heart, and to his social affections, and to his political well-being, than any... ... hyssop that groweth on the wall: and the mystery of that mighty ocean of political and social wisdom, which is recorded in the book of the Proverbs;...

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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...wn for 2 months in 1961 in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Not one of the art critics, journalists, 116,000 visitors, or curators has noticed ... ... Despite his connections with leading painters, gallery owners, art professors and critics - his brother owned a successful art dealership in Paris... ...sts, it is not futile to continue to look for Atlantis. http://dmoz.org/Science/Social_Sciences/Archaeology/Alternative/Lo st_Civilizations/Atlan... ...tp://wekker.seagull.net/bolivar/biograf_menu.html Bra Mary Phelps Jacob - a rich socialite - received the first patent for a bra in 1914. Her cor... ...99 and 1906 Gorky lived in St. Petersburg and participated in the activities of the Social Democratic Party. When it split in 1903, he, indeed, supp... ...he opposed the 1917 October Revolution (the Bolshevik coup against the post-Tsarist Social Democratic government). So damaging was his criticism of ... ...n raised by gay or lesbian parents exhibit the same level of emotional, cognitive, social and sexual functioning as children raised by heterosexual...

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Ultrapolemici

By: Florentin Smarandache

...inspirat din situa ţia pe dos care exista în ţar ă. Am pornit din politic, social şi - treptat - am ajuns în literatur ă, art ă, filozofie şi chiar ... ...pside- down situation” that existed in the country. I started from politic, social, and immediately got to literature, art, philosophy, even science.... ...o invertida que existia no país [NT: na Romênia]. Eu comecei com politica, social e imediatamente fui a literatura, arte, filosofia a até mesmo ciên... ...situation à l`envers qui existait dans le pays. Je suis parti du politique, social et immédiatement je suis arrivé à la littèrature, l`art, la philos... ...n la “situació al revés” que existía en el país. Yo empecé con la política social e immediatamente fui a la literatura, arte, filosofia, incluso cie... ...nian) (The Paradoxist Literary Movement), USA, 1992. A group of literary critics (J. – M. Levenard, I. Rotaru, A. Skemer) collected all multicultu...

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The Suffering of Being Kafka

By: Sam Vaknin

...me to his bookstore to inspect a new shipment. I used to spend all weekends there, reading, socialising, and devouring unwholesome food in the adjac... ...er public places. I cherish the risk of being found excreting in these urns – the potential social condemnation, the forced commitment to a madhouse... ...ted to immutable classification. This forced admission would undermine the pillars of their social order. It's better to pretend that they do believ... ...d, thrifty person to have chosen such accommodation. It sort of placed us both, despite his social inferiority, on equal footing. He solemnly infor... ...vered. The radio reported his passing and lengthy obituaries adorned tomorrow's press. The critics cloaked with affected objectivity the overpoweri... ...ia and the Czech Republic. Collaborated with the Agency of Transformation of Business with Social Capital. Economic commentator in "Nova Makedonija...

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An Apostate: Nawin of Thais

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...xpressed little beyond the awkward fidgetiness of wanting to withdraw from social interaction. Tightened into the hook of memory, he unwillingly recal... ... alone, without the disparaging meanings pretentious and sanctimonious art critics gave to it, the word, "distinguished," was more good than bad. Stil... ...merely think that over the past few years he had aged so tremendously that critics and commissioners of his work alike had lost interest in him entire... ...commissioners of his work alike had lost interest in him entirely. The art critics had been writing about him, albeit less frequently, until he ran ou... ... stiffened out with Botox. He flexed his muscles into the mirror that like social interaction and painting reflected consciousness and reminded him of... ...ked up in one rat infested Thai jail or another as one more of life's anti-social miscreants, would have vitiated his humanity. He made his erroneous ... ...or entirely--a being that existed regardless of changing years, names, and social-economic status. He could not recall anything much of those very ear... ...t into the irises of his eyes--eyes that, when not sparkling and jovial in social exchange or lustful and burning from carnal angels that set them abl... ...rdid, dejected whores to which ideas and representation of forms were, for critics and buyers alike, secondary considerations. This suggested to him a...

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Zitlik Ve Momentum Stratejileri - Teori Ve Uygulama

By: Selçuk Bali

...Eksi Büyük) SPK : Sermaye Piyasası Kurulu SPSS : Statistical Package for the Social Sciences SSRN : The Social Science Research Network SVFM : Se... ...xcel kullanılarak elde edilen WML oJ,K sonuçları Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) programında işlenerek ortalama ile t-testi değer... ... Company, Inc. ------------ (2003); “The Efficient Market Hypothesis and Its Critics”, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 17/1, s.59-82. McLa...

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The Author of Beltraffio

By: Henry James

...him—quite as if he had been an orphan or a changeling or stamped with some social stigma. It was impossible to be in fact more ex- empt from these mis... ... tation serving between people who meet in drawing-rooms as the solvent of social disparities, the medium of transi- tions; but her appearance was—wha... ... a full consistency or sincerity, and therefore dealt instead with certain social topics, treating them with extraordinary humour and with a due play ... ...aying that he meant some day to do an immense and general, a kind of epic, social satire. Miss Ambient’s per- petual gaze seemed to put to me: “Do you... ...ps and regarding imperfection not only as an aesthetic but quite also as a social crime, had an extreme dread of scandal. There are critics who regret... ...t quite also as a social crime, had an extreme dread of scandal. There are critics who regret that having gone so far he didn’t go further; but I regr... ...en what one writes becomes a great responsibility.” “Children are terrible critics,” I prosaically answered. “I’m really glad I haven’t any.” “Do you ...

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The New Machiavelli

By: H. G. Wells

...dication of all those I burnt last night, was to no single man, but to the socially constructive passion—in any man… . There is, moreover, a second gr... ...isation arose. I have long since come to believe it necessary that all new social institutions should be born in confusion, and that at first they sho... ...of men after a day or so of disregard, talking to me of history perhaps or social organisation, or summarising some book he had read. He talked to me ... ...he ever used that word, I suppose many people nowadays would identify with Socialism,—as the Fabians expound it. He was not very definite about this S... ... strung out on the London and Dover Road, a little mellow sample unit of a social order that had a kind of com- pleteness, at its level, of its own. A... ...one of the odd social developments of the great suburban growths— unkindly critics, blind to the inner meanings of things, call them, I believe, Monke...

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Pierre Grassou

By: Honoré de Balzac

...crities to whom are intrusted in these days the election of leaders in all social classes; who proceed, naturally, to elect themselves and who wage a ... ... a book is wanting. There was this difference, how- ever, between literary critics and Fougeres; he was eminently sensitive to beauties; he felt them,...

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The Lesson of the Master

By: Henry James

...gain and descended the steps. He was but slenderly supplied with a certain social boldness—it was really a 5 Henry James weakness in him—so that, con... ...- ral, toward the wife of his bosom, even to a writer ac- cused by several critics of sacrificing too much to man- ner. Lastly Paul Overt had a vague ... ... that he liked the measured mask much bet- ter at inscrutable rest than in social agitation; its almost convulsive smile above all displeased him (as ... ... they were an honourable image of success, of the material rewards and the social credit of literature. Such things were not the full measure, but he ... ...now what he was talking about and should have shown you he did, as foreign critics like to show it) were to say to you: ‘He’s the one, in this country... ...bilities and duties and burdens and sorrows and joys -all the domestic and social initiations and complications. They must be immensely suggestive, im...

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Diana of the Crossways

By: George Meredith

...his ‘handsome, lively, witty’ apparition as a woman having po- litical and social views of her own, he would not, one fan- cies, have been so stingles... ...lent gen- eral manager, if no genius in statecraft. But he was careless of social opinion, unbuttoned, and a laugher. We know that he could be chivalr... ...educed her to think so positively. Her main personal experience was in the social class which is primitively venatorial still, canine under its polish... ... ancestral plea of ‘the pas- sion for his charmer’ had not been altogether socially quashed down among the provinces, where the bottle maintained a so... ...quick-witted and had a talkative hus- band; she knew a little of the upper social world of her time. She was heartily glad to have Diana by her side a... ...cally, he thought. He read them with a watchful eye to guard them from the critics. ANTONIA, whatever her faults as a writer, was not one of the order... ...d for the public. What is good for the public should be recommended by the critics. It should be. How then to come at them to, get it done? As he was ... ..., of course, 155 George Meredith with filthy coin slid into sticky palms. Critics are human, and exceedingly, beyond the common lot, when touched; an... ...al sketches. The book’s a piece of literature. Only it must have competent critics!’ So he talked while Rainer ejaculated: ‘W arwick? W arwick?’ in th...

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Glasses

By: Henry James

...now why unless because of the motive I felt in the stare he fixed on me when I asked Miss Saunt to come away. He struck me a little as a young man pra... ...y friend appeared now to have embarked. I remember too making up my mind about the cleverness, which had its uses and I suppose in impen- etrable shad... ... of their provocations. I nursed in short the thought that it was probably open to him to develop as one of the types about whom, as the years go on, ...

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The Wheels of Chance a Bicycling Idyll

By: H. G. Wells

...opened his mouth in a silent laugh. It was having a decent cut did it. His social superiority had been so evident that even a man like that noticed it... ...was in the world of Romance and Knight-errantry, divinely forgetful of his social position or hers; forgetting, too, for the time any of the wretched ... ...was always speaking of herself as one I martyred for truth,’ be- cause the critics advertised her written indecorums in col- umn long ‘slates’),—consi... ...” “Don’t say that,” said the lady. “Not deliberately. I try and think that critics are honest. After their lights. I was not thinking of critics. But ... ...tablished order. Bernard Shaw, you know, has explained that with regard to Social- ism. We all know that to earn all you consume is right, and 110 Th... ...st add, implicated Mr. Hoopdriver. It indicated an entire disbelief in his social standing. At a blow, it shattered all the gorgeous imaginative fabri... ...society and among gentlemen’s servants) the good old tradition of a brutal social exclusiveness is still religiously preserved. He had an almost intol...

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Babbitt

By: Sinclair Lewis

...horescent dial. Babbitt was proud of being awakened by such a rich device. Socially it was almost as creditable as buying expensive cord tires. He sul... ... she was alive. After a rather thorough discussion of all the domestic and social aspects of towels she apologized to Babbitt for his having an alcoho... ...d her dad are millionaires! I suppose you’re trying to rub in your exalted social position! Well, let me tell you that your revered paternal ancestor,... ... at the same time stay right here in Zenith and be some blooming kind of a socialist agitator or boss charity-worker or some damn thing! Lord, and Ted... ...- work and recreation is nothing in God’s world but the entering wedge for socialism. The sooner a man learns he isn’t going to be coddled, and he nee... ...ome highbrow hired-man when it’s neces- sary for him to answer the crooked critics of the sane and efficient life. He’s not dumb, like the old-fashion... ...Royal Good Fellows, who plays hard and works hard, and whose answer to his critics is a square- toed boot that’ll teach the grouches and smart alecks ... ... the daintiest you could imagine and the music is indescribably beautiful. Critics are agreed that it will sweep the country. May be made into a charm... ...y’ve brought ole George F. Babbitt into camp, and that’s the answer to the critics! “The more manly and practical a fellow is, the more he ought to le...

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Seraphita

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ngs 24 Seraphita and forgotten nothing; you who have passed through every social test. Talk to me, amuse me, I am listening.” “What can I tell you th... ...? Besides, the request is ironical. You allow yourself no intercourse with social life; you trample on its conventions, its laws, its cus- toms, senti... ...lity. T o some Christians his descriptions have seemed scandalous. Certain critics have ridiculed the celestial substance of his temples, his golden p... ...e. In fact, his amazing vigor and omniscience are not denied by any of his critics, not even by his enemies. “Nevertheless,” said Monsieur Becker, slo... ...in the city of Manchester alone. Many men of high rank in knowledge and in social position in Germany, in Prussia, and in the Northern kingdoms have p... ... powerful intellect is needed to bring us back, safe and sound, to our own social beliefs. “Swedenborg,” resumed the pastor, “was particularly at- tac... ...fe; but in the very morning of his days he had flung himself into a higher social world, with which his feelings harmonized; study had wid- ened his m...

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Beatrix

By: Honoré de Balzac

...volume, representing the man- ners and customs of the old Breton family, a social state existing no longer except in history, and the transition pe- r... ...ago,— 6 Balzac with one exception; population no longer swarms there; the social movement is now so dead that a traveller wishing to examine the town... ...st, was an immoral combination of woman and philosopher who violated every social law in- vented to restrain or utilize the infirmities of womankind. ... ...nce. Little cared-for by her uncle’s wife, a young woman given over to the social pleasures of the imperial epoch, Felicite brought herself up as a bo... ...; women admired her mind, men her beauty. Her conduct was regulated by all social conventions. Her friendships seemed purely platonic. There was, more... ...ways;” “My dear, that is a thing which is never done,” etc. Many bourgeois critics unjustly deny the innocence and vir- tue of young girls who, like S...

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The Deputy of Arcis

By: Honoré de Balzac

...h of his political ideas, the colonel had lived almost entirely outside of social life. Rising with the sun, he devoted himself to horticulture; he ad... ...er to influence the masses, should say and resay this truth,—to hoard is a social crime. The deliberate hoarding of a province arrests industrial life... ...ll appeared to belong to a man who had dropped upon Arcis from the highest social sphere. The stranger, no doubt fatigued, did not show himself for a ... ...ave, I should give my hand to a count, to a man who would put me in a high social position, and I shouldn’t ask to see the certificate of his birth.” ... ...Vinet, “if we said to each other’s faces what we all say behind our backs, social life wouldn’t be possible. The pleasures of society, especially in t... ... actual position. Hence his real strength. Strong men are always their own critics. Under the Restoration he had made the most of his former condition... ...nd expose the present pious guardian of literary orthodoxy to the wrath of critics. In presence of this diffi- culty, the author would find himself gr... ...Oh! that religious works ought not to be delivered over to the judgment of critics, or to the gaze of a public rotten with scepticism; they ought, he ...

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