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The Club or Literary Club [1] is a London dining club founded in February 1764 by the artist Joshua Reynolds and essayist Samuel Johnson. [2] Description.
Directrix is a spaceship in the Lensman series of novels by E. E. Smith. Directrix is the name of an alternative punk band in Chicago. Directrix - a feminine form of director in the context of grammatical gender
Verna Jean (later Verna Smith Trestrail), born August 25, 1920, in Michigan, was his literary executor until her death in 1994. (Her son Kim Trestrail is now the executor. [15]) Robert A. Heinlein in part dedicated his 1982 novel Friday to Verna. [16] Clarissa M. (later Clarissa Wilcox), was born December 13, 1921, in Michigan. [17]
Adenoid Hinkle (played by Charlie Chaplin) and Napaloni (played by Jack Oakie) parody of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, respectively, in The Great Dictator. In fiction, dictatorship has sometimes been portrayed as the political system of choice for controlling dystopian societies in books, video games, TV and movies.
Ancient History is really rather like a connect-the-dot puzzle stretched out over 300 pages: and it is to McElroy's credit that the reader wants to find the pattern embedded in all the cleverness and sticks with the novel, encountering along the way some dazzling literary designs and images. —
In the United States, the oldest surviving literary society is the Literary Club of Cincinnati, formed in 1849. [8] The second oldest is the Literary Society of Washington, which was organized in 1874. [9] Another example is the Romney Literary Society (1819–1886), which was established in Romney, West Virginia. [10]
A literature review from 2023 of 31 peer-reviewed articles acknowledged that "there is still no uniformly accepted definition of mental labor in the context of unpaid work," and proposed the ...
This is a fine example of the architecture of Portuguese Romanticism. The interior has an eclectic range of artistic styles, including a variety of textile coverings on the ground floor; the Green Room with an imperial style; a Victorian bar; a smoking room with carved wooden panelling; and a room in a neo- Louis XV style .