Article: Geulincx, Arnold

Article: Prof Peter Butter
The Scotsman;  July 19, 1999 ;     419 words ......an eminent scholar of English literature who taught and wrote extensively on its poets with compelling enthusiasm. He was also the...back to Muir's own unhappy childhood) of his verse. Butter wrote extensively on Muir's obsession of seeing life as a dream journey through...

Article: Bigger, Francis Joseph
The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature;      51 words ......and educated at the Royal Academical Institution, he organized with Roger Casement and others cultural events such as the Glens of Antrim feis (festival). He wrote extensively on local history, notably in The Ulster Land War of 1770 (1910).

Article: (book review)
Notes;  December 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......monographs on Richard Wagner, Gustav Mahler, and Alban Berg and wrote extensively on Arnold Schoenberg in The Philosophy of Modern Music...an important article on Beethoven's Missa solemnis and wrote extensively on his music in numerous essays and collected short remarks...

Article: Mary McCarthy
Archive Photos;  January 1, 1996 ;     218 words ......essayist in her later years, she also wrote extensively about her unhappy Catholic girlhood...essayist in her later years, she also wrote extensively about her unhappy Catholic girlhood...essayist in her later years, she also wrote extensively about her unhappy Catholic girlhood...

Article: Al-Farabi, Abu Nasr
The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy;      95 words ......Islamic philosophy. Al-Farabi was one of the first philosophers to transmit Aristotelian logic to the Islamic world. He wrote extensively on logic, and expanded Aristotle's description of the intellect. He also exhibits the influence of Neoplatonism : creation...

Article: Titmuss, Richard
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics;      137 words ...Titmuss, Richard (1907–73) British sociologist who wrote extensively, both descriptively and normatively, on the welfare state . His main works, written during and in the decade after the Second World...

Article: Lindbergh's widow dies at 94
Charleston Daily Mail;  February 8, 2001 ;     179 words ...MONTPELIER, Vt. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, the wife of aviator Charles Lindbergh, who became his co-pilot and wrote extensively about their pioneering adventures in flight, died Wednesday. She was 94. Lindbergh published 13 books of memoirs, fiction...

Article: Gaius
The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature;      185 words ...Gaius (second century AD), one of the most distinguished Roman jurists, who lived in Rome and wrote extensively but whose full name and origins are unknown; he was never quoted by contemporary or near-contemporary jurists. It is likely therefore...

Article: Also noted.(NEWS)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  April 4, 2000 ;     152 words ......72, a children's book publisher who established the Atheneum youth imprint, edited award-winning books and wrote extensively, died Thursday in Lancaster, Pa. She had retired from Atheneum in 1985 but continued to edit books until...

Article: Sick secret of partners in abuse
Evening News - Scotland;  January 12, 2001 ;     229 words ......social services. Bus driver Manning, 28, was described in court by his counsel, Nigel Rumfitt QC, as a "classic nerd". He wrote extensively about bus routes in his diary and watched pornography on his computer, and was proud of his tiny bedsit . Manning, who...

Article: James L. George
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  August 28, 2000 ;     99 words ......writer who was an authority on natural security affairs, died of cancer Thursday at his home in nearby Potomac, Md. He wrote extensively on naval issues and was the author of "History of Warships," published in 1998, and "U.S. Navy in the 1990s: Alternatives...

Article: Subject of education
Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME;  November 8, 2003 ;     144 words ......comment by Neil Postman. Postman, whose obituary was published recently in your newspaper, was an educator himself. He wrote extensively on the subjects of education, technology, language and the communications media. In his book, "Conscientious Objections...

Article: Bridgman, Percy William
The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy;      85 words ...Bridgman, Percy William (1882–1962) American physicist and Nobel prize-winner (1946). Bridgman wrote extensively on the philosophical implications of modern physics. He is inseparably linked with operationalism , or the view that each scientific...

Article: Lewis, Clarence Irving
The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy;      106 words ......philosopher. After teaching briefly in California, Lewis taught at Harvard from 1920 until his retirement. Although he wrote extensively on most central philosophical topics, he is remembered principally as a critic of the extensional nature of modern logic...