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• Writers and English literature

  - 2007-03-22

  Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918. Philip Waller. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]85.00. xiii + 1181 pages. ISBN 0-19-820677-1. The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature. David Scott Kastan, editor in chief. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]330.00. Five volumes: xxxiii + 478; v + 522; v + 518;...

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• Social gospel still needed

  - 2006-04-04

  SOCIAL GOSPEL STILL NEEDED: TV news reporter Sam Donaldson once said that there was a basic conflict between Ronald Reagan the man and President Reagan the politician. If you were down on your luck, Reagan would give you the shirt off his back. But then he'd sit in the Oval...

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• Television scrambles the evidence.

  - 2005-09-12

  Byline: Rowan Hooper Sep 12, 2005 (New Scientist - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Certain TV shows can make police work much more difficult. Peter Bull, a forensic sedimentologist...

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• The early 20th century.(recent publications)(Brief Article)(Bibliography)

  - 2002-05-01

  A Brief History of The Boxer Rebellion by Diana Preston (Constable and Robinson, 7.99 [pounds sterling]) explains the uprising of Chinese peasants against foreigners in Beijing and the Chinese countryside at the turn of the century. Meanwhile in South Africa, a...

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• The warden of english: The life of H. W Fowler - Review

  - 2001-11-01

  The Warden of English: The Life of H. W Fowler. Jenny McMorris. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]19.99. 242 pages. ISBN 0-19-866254-8. Generations of Englishmen perplexed with a point of grammar have said, 'I'll just check to see what Fowler says.' Fowler's Modern English Usage, published 75 years ago by...

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• the diary: Big Bro's talk show

  - 2001-09-30

  DURING his time in the Big Brother house Stuart Hosking never came across as an intellectual heavyweight. However, he has been invited to speak at an Oxford University debate about reality TV.

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• Fringe benefits.

  - 2001-01-01

  Colin Ward on the urban fringe `Edgelands of promise' Plenty of us have vivid memories of the TV version of Marion Shoard's book This Land is Our Land (Paladin, 1987, re-published with an update by Gaia Books, 1997), and the sight of her facing...

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• Funeral Flowers - Gennifer Flowers - Brief Article

  - 1999-10-01

  "We've had enough of these people," Gennifer Flowers complained to Chris Matthews on his Hardball talk show in August. The people we had had enough of were President and Mrs. Clinton, and the reason we'd had enough of them was that they were, as she put it, "criminals," "liars," and...

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• Wandering Koreans and Exiled Armenians: When the Diaspora Becomes a

  - 1995-10-06

  Shalom Goldman Forward 10-06-1995 Wandering Koreans and Exiled Armenians: When the Diaspora Becomes a Model. for a Multiplicity of Cultures The Penguin Atlas of Diasporas By Gerard Chaliand and Jean-Pierre Rageau Viking Penguin 183 pages, $34.95....

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