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b0e80f27c0e3b7286f03514d191d2cea | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Dance-by-Carpeaux | The Dance | The Dance
His most famous work, The Dance (completed 1869), a sculptural group for the facade of the Paris Opéra, created a sensation and was attacked as immoral. His works were the subject of some of the most significant debates about sculpture during the mid-19th century. In order to allay the…
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79eaf192cdf5cd0e2f4e7b69dd200839 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Dancing-Mouse | The Dancing Mouse | The Dancing Mouse
…mammals, and his first book, The Dancing Mouse (1907), helped establish the use of mice and rats as standard laboratory subjects in psychological testing. He became interested in the psychological testing of humans, and he contributed much to the development of multiple-choice testing and a widely us... |
b7abbf7921bd780597a58fff3a6c6747 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Dating-Game | The Dating Game | The Dating Game
…the iconic 1960s game shows The Dating Game and The Newlywed Game but was perhaps best remembered as the creator and host of the comic talent show The Gong Show, which originally aired from 1976 to 1978.
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b4cab96aa58fd09fc9519001e679bfc7 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-David-Letterman-Show | The David Letterman Show | The David Letterman Show
…him an NBC mid-morning show, The David Letterman Show. However, his unconventional humour—exemplified by the time he sent an audience member out to fetch him coffee—failed to engage daytime viewers. Although it received two Emmy Awards, the show was canceled after three months.
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77a805710ffb6afda02637b652004d50 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Day-by-Parini | The Day | The Day
…Horatian odes and particularly for Il giorno, (4 books, 1763–1801; The Day), a satiric poem on the selfishness and superficiality of the Milanese aristocracy.
In Il giorno (published in four parts, 1763–1801; “The Day”), an ambitious but unfinished social satire of inherited wealth and nobility, he described a... |
dad04de30f9d6d4138f47773b484c8c7 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Dead-Lecturer | The Dead Lecturer | The Dead Lecturer
The Dead Lecturer, collection of verse by Amiri Baraka, published in 1964 under the name LeRoi Jones. The collection marked a separation for Baraka from the style and literary philosophy of the Beats, with whom he had previously been associated. In the poem “Rhythm & Blues” he used the structures of ... |
fb449cabc69911cfb2222913b6a93b9b | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Dead-Zone-film | The Dead Zone | The Dead Zone
Beginning with The Dead Zone (1983), a straightforward adaptation of a horror novel by Stephen King, Cronenberg moved closer to the mainstream. The gory horror remake The Fly (1986), in which a scientist gradually metamorphoses into an enormous grotesque insect, was widely considered superior to the 1958…... |
510bc2869688c6ef6020af1a2ff2bb23 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Dean-Martin-Show | The Dean Martin Show | The Dean Martin Show
His television variety show, The Dean Martin Show, began an eight-year run in 1965 and was followed by The Dean Martin Comedy Hour (1973–74), the latter a series of celebrity “roasts.” He continued to host celebrity roasts occasionally through 1984. Although Martin often seemed to be intoxicated du... |
7b4c59e38dc484f511b33602c785be0c | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Death-of-Balder | The Death of Balder | The Death of Balder
…the ode; Balders død (1775; The Death of Balder), a lyric drama on a subject from Saxo and Old Norse mythology; and the first chapters of his memoirs, Levnet og meninger (written c. 1774–78: “Life and Opinions”), explaining his enthusiasm for the adventurous and fantastic. In 1775 he was transferre... |
16525c8a47a0594dd87c98819516d87e | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Death-of-Ivan-Ilyich | The Death of Ivan Ilyich | The Death of Ivan Ilyich
The Death of Ivan Ilyich, novella by Leo Tolstoy, published in Russian as Smert Ivana Ilyicha in 1886, considered a masterpiece of psychological realism. The protagonist’s crisis is remarkably similar to that of Tolstoy himself as described in Ispoved (1884; My Confession).
The first section o... |
21f6ad285154bb795d49b860b9c76b51 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Death-of-the-Virgin-by-Poussin | The Death of the Virgin | The Death of the Virgin
The Notre-Dame painting, The Death of the Virgin (1623), went missing following the French Revolution and was known until the 21st century only by a preparatory drawing. The painting was discovered in a small church in the town of Sterrebeek outside Brussels and restored. The works for the…
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9e3a6f5cbdc55d701935a485a11289e9 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Decay-of-the-Angel | The Decay of the Angel | The Decay of the Angel
…Dawn), and Tennin gosui (The Decay of the Angel)—is set in Japan, and together they cover the period from roughly 1912 to the 1960s. Each of them depicts a different reincarnation of the same being: as a young aristocrat in 1912, as a political fanatic in the 1930s, as…
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6b023ee713b1461e3624bfa29f2566ac | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Decline-of-Western-Civilization | The Decline of Western Civilization | The Decline of Western Civilization
…scene chronicled in the documentary The Decline of Western Civilization (1981). Capable of matching the fury of other punk bands, X excelled at melancholy ballads and flirted with pop music throughout its career, though its efforts to reach a broader audience on a major label were l... |
cb22519cd71d98602068d584bb6c6f7d | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Denationalization-of-Money | The Denationalization of Money | The Denationalization of Money
…in the 1970s Hayek’s monograph The Denationalization of Money was published by the Institute of Economic Affairs in London, one of the many classical liberal think tanks that Hayek, directly or indirectly, had a hand in establishing.
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d6b62ad757e6322d2390f42ff8c9ab98 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Deportees | The Deportees | The Deportees
The Deportees (2007) and Bullfighting (2011) are short-story collections. Doyle also wrote a number of books for children, including Wilderness (2007) and A Greyhound of a Girl (2011).
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a61b77dc81144874f63c335548e688c3 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Des-Moines-Register | The Des Moines Register | The Des Moines Register
The Des Moines Register, morning daily newspaper published in Des Moines, Iowa, one of the most influential regional newspapers in the United States.
It was founded in 1860 and absorbed its older competitor, the Des Moines Leader (founded as the Iowa Star in 1849), in a merger in 1902, becoming... |
f18f26347076855ef5973e8529c45f6f | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Descendants-by-Das | The Descendants | The Descendants
…included Summer in Calcutta (1965), The Descendants (1967), and The Old Playhouse, and Other Poems (1973). Subsequent English-language works included the novel Alphabet of Lust (1976) and the short stories “A Doll for the Child Prostitute” (1977) and “Padmavati the Harlot” (1992). Notable among her man... |
159fb35b6ae81e161d769e5cc0fc76bd | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Desert-Fox | The Desert Fox | The Desert Fox
Just as exciting was The Desert Fox (1951), which included a noteworthy turn by James Mason as German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. Hathaway’s success continued in 1952 with Diplomatic Courier, which starred Power as an American up against communist agents, and O. Henry’s Full House, to which he contribute... |
ad71a2e60c2cbaf15fc6b816df289250 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Desert-of-the-Exodus | The Desert of the Exodus | The Desert of the Exodus
Both journeys he described in The Desert of the Exodus, 2 vol. (1871). The same year he published Jerusalem, the City of Herod and of Saladin, a Muslim view of the history of the city. He was professor of Arabic at Cambridge during 1871–81. In 1882 he was asked by…
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e49ac2dd7ffca15e63ce10f4f8c81fe8 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Designated-Mourner | The Designated Mourner | The Designated Mourner
The Designated Mourner (1996; film 1997) touched on similar ground, telling the story—through actionless narrations by the three characters—of educated and privileged people who grapple with their humanity during a chaotic civil war in an unnamed country.
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474ca3092104e199c6f2dfd3364a40b6 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Desperate-Hours | The Desperate Hours | The Desperate Hours
The Desperate Hours, American crime film, released in 1955, that is noted for the war-of-wills tension between a ruthless killer and a terrorized family held captive.
Three escaped convicts led by Glenn Griffin (played by Humphrey Bogart) hide out in a suburban middle-class home owned by Dan Hillia... |
38e88e56734926d07f1d5d06f78c02e1 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Deuce | The Deuce | The Deuce
…next project was the series The Deuce (2017–19), which he cocreated with frequent collaborator George Pelecanos. The drama, which aired on HBO and was also cowritten by Simon, centres on the pornography industry in 1970s New York City. He then created (with Burns) the HBO miniseries The Plot Against America…... |
a26adb54ecdccd5342c216d2ca5035b9 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Devil-and-Daniel-Webster-by-Benet | The Devil and Daniel Webster | The Devil and Daniel Webster
The Devil and Daniel Webster, often-anthologized short story by Stephen Vincent Benét, published in 1937. Two years later it reappeared as a one-act folk opera by Benét and composer Douglas Moore.
Jabez Stone, a New Hampshire farmer, receives a decade of material wealth in return for selli... |
1600ccea5269ddaa33d346d5f2fd7403 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Devil-Is-a-Sissy | The Devil Is a Sissy | The Devil Is a Sissy
…Dyke had more success with The Devil Is a Sissy (1936), a dramedy that cast young stars Mickey Rooney, Freddie Bartholomew, and Jackie Cooper as boys from differing backgrounds who end up attending the same school in New York. Love on the Run (1936) featured Gable and Franchot Tone as…
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120d7957f5496101dd6f9be412316b43 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Love-Song-of-J-Alfred-Prufrock | The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock | The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, dramatic monologue by T.S. Eliot, published in Poetry magazine in 1915 and in book form in Prufrock and Other Observations in 1917. The poem consists of the musings of Prufrock, a weary middle-aged man haunted by the feeling that he has lost both... |
b1a8696e59bc76ec8a6fd76d933edcc2 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Love-Suicides-at-Sonezaki | The Love Suicides at Sonezaki | The Love Suicides at Sonezaki
Sonezaki shinjū (1703; The Love Suicides at Sonezaki), for example, was written within a fortnight of the actual double suicide on which it is based. The haste of composition is not at all apparent even in this first example of Chikamatsu’s double-suicide plays, the archetype of his other…... |
a7647be47e0ed6611126d33149c772e5 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Loved-One-novel-by-Waugh | The Loved One | The Loved One
The Loved One, in full The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy, satiric novel by Evelyn Waugh, published in 1948. The novel relates the experiences of a young Englishman in southern California who observes the clash between English and American cultures. Among other targets, it attacks what Waugh percei... |
01f3ec1b5a683f76f424ad2b62d616ff | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Loves | The Loves | The Loves
…first poems, the Amores (The Loves), were published at intervals, beginning about 20 bce, in five books. They form a series of short poems depicting the various phases of a love affair with a woman called Corinna. Their keynote is not passion but the witty and rhetorical exploitation of…
In the Amores he is ... |
9d3de55f7f85485b03e03455ce330cdf | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Lovin-Spoonful | The Lovin' Spoonful | The Lovin' Spoonful
The Lovin’ Spoonful, American folk rock band with a string of hits in the mid 1960s. The original members were John Sebastian (b. March 17, 1944, New York, New York, U.S.), Zal Yanovsky (b. December 19, 1944, Toronto, Ontario, Canada—d. December 13, 2002, Kingston, Ontario), Steve Boone (b. Septemb... |
925445bce703d1cf5a86d75609261e26 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Low-Spark-of-High-Heeled-Boys | The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys | The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
…earning continued commercial success with The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys (1971), Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory (1973), and When the Eagle Flies (1974). Both on tour and in the studio, the group added and subtracted a number of additional musicians during these years before final... |
8bcd1ae35b4e0efbe249f1eb169cdf9f | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Luck-of-Ginger-Coffey | The Luck of Ginger Coffey | The Luck of Ginger Coffey
The Luck of Ginger Coffey, novel by Brian Moore, published in 1960. The story concerns an Irish-born Canadian immigrant whose self-deluded irresponsible behaviour nearly breaks up his family.
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250d19ee7529230cda651630a5be8154 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Lucky-Ones | The Lucky Ones | The Lucky Ones
…Fire (2006), the war comedy The Lucky Ones (2008), the superhero movie Green Lantern (2011), the romance mystery Marjorie Prime (2017), and the legal thriller Dark Waters (2019). His television credits from this period included the HBO series The Brink (2015), a comedy in which he starred as the U.S.…
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ada1eaff2703a26ab8dc77f6e25478de | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Lyre-of-Orpheus | The Lyre of Orpheus | The Lyre of Orpheus
The Lyre of Orpheus, novel by Robertson Davies, published in 1988. The book is the third in the so-called Cornish trilogy, which also includes The Rebel Angels (1981) and What’s Bred in the Bone (1985). This fable about the nature of artistic creation has two major plot lines. One thread concerns t... |
9521248349d07d206add45065b031a60 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Magazine-of-Fantasy-andand-Science-Fiction | The Magazine of Fantasy and& Science Fiction | The Magazine of Fantasy and& Science Fiction
Francis McComas founded The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (F&SF), which aimed to publish work at a higher literary level than had previously existed in the genre. F&SF encouraged a new generation of science fiction authors that included Philip K. Dick and Alfred Best... |
4890333569157578e1b68747e398b6d2 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Magic-Flute | The Magic Flute | The Magic Flute
The Magic Flute, German Die Zauberflöte, singspiel in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with a German libretto by Austrian actor and theatrical producer Emanuel Schikaneder. The opera, Mozart’s last, premiered at the rustic Theater auf der Wieden near Vienna on September 30, 1791, not long before Mo... |
f509c88a63880d0b3f680f480646f3e6 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Magic-Mountain | The Magic Mountain | The Magic Mountain
The Magic Mountain, novel of ideas by Thomas Mann, originally published in German as Der Zauberberg in 1924. It is considered a towering example of the bildungsroman, a novel recounting the main character’s formative years.
The Magic Mountain tells the story of Hans Castorp, a young German engineer,... |
a223edddfd1c27d4266daa5ea132ca92 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Magicians-Assistant | The Magician’s Assistant | The Magician’s Assistant
The Magician’s Assistant (1997) relates the discoveries of the widow of a homosexual magician named Parsifal. The woman, who also had been her husband’s assistant, visits the family he had never told her of and learns about his past.
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ff0b11a6f7843fba0efdf3cbaebf3494 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Magnetic-Fields | The Magnetic Fields | The Magnetic Fields
…authored Les Champs magnétiques (1920; The Magnetic Fields), known as the first major Surrealist work. Soupault soon abandoned automatic writing to produce carefully crafted verses such as those in Westwego (1922) and Georgia (1926). As the Surrealist movement became increasingly dogmatic and polit... |
d6b8c5f8a7a8d32cab5648bf615456c3 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Man-Made-World | The Man-Made World | The Man-Made World
…included What Diantha Did (1910); The Man-Made World (1911), in which she distinguished the characteristic virtues and vices of men and women and attributed the ills of the world to the dominance of men; The Crux (1911); Moving the Mountain (1911); His Religion and Hers (1923); and The Living of…
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c4306c218880a866ec9a063f02f7c957 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Man-That-Corrupted-Hadleyburg | The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg | The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg , short story by Mark Twain satirizing the vanity of the virtuous. It was first published in Harper’s Magazine in 1899 and collected in The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Sketches in 1900. The story reflects Twain’s disillusionmen... |
9b8338bcc5564aa0670f4c9012d6173a | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Man-Who-Would-Be-King-short-story-by-Kipling | The Man Who Would Be King | The Man Who Would Be King
The Man Who Would Be King, short story by Rudyard Kipling, first published in The Phantom Rickshaw, and Other Tales in 1888. The piece, which is narrated by a British journalist in India, is about a pair of comic adventurers who briefly establish themselves as godlike leaders of a native trib... |
8a546edab56f0ec63e99b7d74f5924a7 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Man-with-the-Golden-Gun | The Man with the Golden Gun | The Man with the Golden Gun
…and the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), in which he starred as Bond’s nemesis Scaramanga. Appearances in a steady series of unremarkable films were punctuated by a well-received turn as Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, in Jinnah (1998).
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a3de5387f0512cddd6bed97db5943b14 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Man-Without-a-Face | The Man Without a Face | The Man Without a Face
…made his directorial debut with The Man Without a Face, in which he also starred. Gibson next directed the epic Braveheart (1995), in which he portrayed the Scottish national hero Sir William Wallace. The film won five Academy Awards, including best picture and best director.
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7fe2a5bbd3dbe7a9eac95c51eb29f151 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Manchurian-Candidate-film-1962 | The Manchurian Candidate | The Manchurian Candidate
The Manchurian Candidate, American Cold War thriller, released in 1962, that catapulted John Frankenheimer to the top ranks of Hollywood directors.
A platoon of American soldiers led by Maj. Bennett Marco (played by Frank Sinatra) is captured, taken to Manchuria, and brainwashed by communists ... |
7e1fabdcb7b5dfe8c5b6907ce1a3dcc0 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/the-Mandarin | The Mandarin | The Mandarin
…crime cartel; and his archenemy, the Mandarin. The Mandarin was a sinister mastermind who rivaled Stark in scientific genius, and he wielded 10 rings of alien origin that granted him an array of powers.
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8c631e372d1d3bc3b6b66990c5d74ddc | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Marquise-of-O | The Marquise of O | The Marquise of O
The Marquise of O, novella by German writer Heinrich von Kleist, published in 1808 in the literary journal Phöbus (which he coedited) as Die Marquise von O. It was collected in Erzählungen (1810–11; “Stories”).
Like much of Kleist’s fiction, this work is suffused with ambiguity, irony, paradox, and i... |
9793f30dfc957cf9ad890161f253315a | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Marriage-of-Figaro-play-by-Beaumarchais | The Marriage of Figaro | The Marriage of Figaro
The Marriage of Figaro, comedy in five acts by Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais, performed in 1784 as La Folle Journée; ou, le mariage de Figaro (“The Madness of a Day, or the Marriage of Figaro”). It is the sequel to his comic play The Barber of Seville and is the work upon which Mozart based the o... |
ddadd7ade0bbb7b2b29274878ca3c75b | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Marriage-of-Opposites | The Marriage of Opposites | The Marriage of Opposites
The Marriage of Opposites (2015) imagines the life of painter Camille Pissarro’s mother, a Creole Jew living on the island of St. Thomas who, following the death of her first husband, scandalizes her community by marrying his nephew. The Rules of Magic (2017) and Magic…
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a479c266d3a7974482ff25e2ac7226a5 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Marriage-of-Philology-and-Mercury | The Marriage of Philology and Mercury | The Marriage of Philology and Mercury
Manuscripts give the title De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii to the first two books and entitle the remaining seven De arte grammatica, De arte dialectica, De arte rhetorica, De geometrica, De arithmetica, De astrologia, and De harmonia. Mercury gives his bride, who is
…nuptiis Ph... |
5c0da0a02a141c6afc0ef84f033aba3b | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Mass-and-the-Lords-Supper | The Mass and the Lord’s Supper | The Mass and the Lord’s Supper
…his Messe und Herrenmahl (1926; The Mass and the Lord’s Supper), which detected a possible fusion of two distinct types of 1st- and 2nd-century prayer services. His extensive research on St. Peter and St. Paul provided insights into the development of the church’s organization in 1st-cen... |
85a85d8f657b1fa425b9b8ff6d7e51a3 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Mass-Strike-the-Political-Party-and-the-Trade-Unions | The Mass Strike, the Political Party, and the Trade Unions | The Mass Strike, the Political Party, and the Trade Unions
…Massenstreik, Partei und Gewerkschaften (1906; The Mass Strike, the Political Party, and the Trade Unions). Luxemburg advocated the mass strike as the single most important tool of the proletariat, Western as well as Russian, in attaining a socialist victory. ... |
f653642670add6786fd25beb304542e6 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Masses | The Masses | The Masses
The Masses, American monthly journal of arts and politics, socialist in its outlook. It was known for its innovative treatment of illustration and for its news articles and social criticism.
The Masses was founded in 1911 in New York City by the Dutch immigrant Piet Vlag; his goal was to educate the working... |
e1b7f50d1cea9cda87dc846aa8399f3c | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Mating-Game | The Mating Game | The Mating Game
…and the Bachelor (1957); and The Mating Game (1959). Reynolds reached the height of her popularity in the late 1950s, during which time she was involved in a scandalous divorce from Fisher, who left her for actress Elizabeth Taylor.
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9b396939e48c661c1cc8f4583e217a1b | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Meaning-of-Geneva | The Meaning of Geneva | The Meaning of Geneva
…pit of his stomach; and The Meaning of Geneva, depicting a dove speared by a bayonet in front of the League of Nations headquarters, which is flying a Swiss flag whose cross has morphed into a swastika. The former image was so powerful that it was produced as a political…
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d56ee160dfc3a2599f681b293764bde6 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Medium-opera-by-Menotti | The Medium | The Medium
…first opera of this type, The Medium (1946), was a tragedy about a medium who becomes a victim of her own fraudulent voices. It was followed by a one-act comic opera, The Telephone (1946). In 1947 the two operas were paired in an unprecedented Broadway run. In 1951 The Medium…
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f93f3fe70df9c26735310931d6175fbe | https://www.britannica.com/topic/the-Melvins | The Melvins | The Melvins
…the local “sludge rock” band the Melvins (who would themselves go on to earn a measure of national fame in the 1990s). In 1985 he created a homemade tape of some songs with the drummer of the Melvins that later caught the attention of local bassist Krist Novoselic. Cobain and…
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474eec2c4fd39da2d87ff9d208163790 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Member-of-the-Wedding-novel-by-McCullers | The Member of the Wedding | The Member of the Wedding
The Member of the Wedding, novel by Carson McCullers, published in 1946. It depicts the inner life of a lonely person, in this case 12-year-old Frankie Addams, a Georgia tomboy who imagines that she will be taken by the bride and groom (her brother) on their honeymoon. Frankie finds refuge in... |
9608cbc6c3b0125ae4a7add093d90941 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Memoirs-of-a-Survivor | The Memoirs of a Survivor | The Memoirs of a Survivor
The Memoirs of a Survivor (1975) is a prophetic fantasy that explores psychological and social breakdown. A master of the short story, Lessing has published several collections, including The Story of a Non-Marrying Man (1972) and Stories (1978); her African stories are collected in This…
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24b125457c53f4e7d94024d355f0211f | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Mental-State-of-Hystericals | The Mental State of Hystericals | The Mental State of Hystericals
…L’État mental des hystériques (1892; The Mental State of Hystericals, 1901), in which he attempted to classify forms of hysteria. Charcot, in his introduction to the thesis, concurred with Janet’s plea to unite the efforts of clinical and academic psychology.
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dbca1574fa97c048db456ec39db66c3d | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Merchants-Tale | The Merchant's Tale | The Merchant's Tale
The Merchant’s Tale, one of the 24 stories in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.
The story draws on a folktale of familiar theme, that of an old man whose young wife is unfaithful. Old Januarie is deceived by his young wife, May, and her lover, Damyan, after Januarie suddenly goes blind. The... |
b285ee50f7db0f3663ca63ae32ab9c1b | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Merry-Wives-of-Windsor | The Merry Wives of Windsor | The Merry Wives of Windsor
The Merry Wives of Windsor, comedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written sometime between 1597 and 1601 (probably near the earlier of these dates), that centres on the comic romantic misadventures of Falstaff. The Merry Wives of Windsor was published in a quarto edition in 1602 from a... |
8b00ad2f72cb3dd41399b93abbf391bf | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Message-in-the-Bottle | The Message in the Bottle | The Message in the Bottle
…also wrote such nonfiction as The Message in the Bottle (1975), a sophisticated philosophical treatment of semantics, and Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book (1985), an offbeat amalgam of a self-help-book parody and a philosophical treatise.
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2a5157ba5d4fb8442d3e9fbfc2e62890 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Metamorphosis | The Metamorphosis | The Metamorphosis
The Metamorphosis, symbolic story by Austrian writer Franz Kafka, published in German as Die Verwandlung in 1915.
The opening sentence of The Metamorphosis has become one of the most famous in Western literature: “As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in hi... |
b602ce2824350f23e851a5699ce75e90 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Method-of-Fluxions-and-Infinite-Series | The Method of Fluxions and Infinite Series | The Method of Fluxions and Infinite Series
…methodis serierum et fluxionum (“On the Methods of Series and Fluxions”). The word fluxions, Newton’s private rubric, indicates that the calculus had been born. Despite the fact that only a handful of savants were even aware of Newton’s existence, he had arrived at the point ... |
dad0f46fc21438ded0fa1c36b6ded071 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Miami-Herald | The Miami Herald | The Miami Herald
The Miami Herald, daily newspaper published in Miami, generally considered the dominant paper in southern Florida and recognized for its coverage of Latin America.
The Herald was established in 1910 and was known in its early years as a “reporter’s paper” because of the freedom of expression it gave m... |
3d8a1db8140b0d759dd9fcdc69d5204d | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Mill-on-the-Floss | The Mill on the Floss | The Mill on the Floss
The Mill on the Floss, novel by George Eliot, published in three volumes in 1860. It sympathetically portrays the vain efforts of Maggie Tulliver to adapt to her provincial world. The tragedy of her plight is underlined by the actions of her brother Tom, whose sense of family honour leads him to ... |
0953e6d3847ddba2a422d575fe2a6fcc | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Monkey-Wrench-Gang | The Monkey Wrench Gang | The Monkey Wrench Gang
Abbey’s novel The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975) recounts the exploits of a band of guerrilla environmentalists; both it and Desert Solitaire became handbooks of the environmental movement. The strain of cynicism that runs through much of Abbey’s writing is leavened by a bracing prose style and mischi... |
aeb325d41d1d510f637752ba9c8f649b | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Monks-Tale | The Monk's Tale | The Monk's Tale
The Monk’s Tale, one of the 24 stories in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, published 1387–1400.
The brawny Monk relates a series of 17 tragedies based on the fall from glory of various biblical, classical, and contemporary figures, including Lucifer and Adam; Nero and Julius Caesar; Zenobia, a... |
379d985d08e66d46f1071fa5da0dcf30 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Montessori-Method | The Montessori Method | The Montessori Method
…metodo della pedagogia scientifica (1909; The Montessori Method, 1912), The Advanced Montessori Method (1917–18), The Secret of Childhood (1936), Education for a New World (1946), To Educate the Human Potential (1948), and La mente assorbente (1949; The Absorbent Mind, 1949).
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c7ff4902a4439f279c5937270c65c0c9 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Moral-Basis-of-a-Backward-Society | The Moral Basis of a Backward Society | The Moral Basis of a Backward Society
…political culture study, Edward Banfield’s The Moral Basis of a Backward Society (1958), argued that poverty in southern Italy grew out of a psychological inability to trust or to form associations beyond the immediate family, a finding that was long controversial but is now accep... |
dada173090c57ca0ebf58c0c7100b59f | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Most-Ancient-and-Most-Noble-Order-of-the-Thistle | The Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle | The Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle
The Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, the Scottish order of knighthood whose modern period dates from King James VII of Scotland (James II of England), who revived it in 1687, and Queen Anne, who revived it again in 1703.
As with many orders of chiva... |
9fefafe460a086cfb921abf8ef1b1ef5 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Most-Noble-Order-of-the-Garter | The Most Noble Order of the Garter | The Most Noble Order of the Garter
The Most Noble Order of the Garter, English order of knighthood founded by King Edward III in 1348, ranked as the highest British civil and military honour obtainable. Because the earliest records of the order were destroyed by fire, it is difficult for historians to be certain of it... |
09cd136173efba23c62cf9232935a395 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Murder-of-Gonzago | The Murder of Gonzago | The Murder of Gonzago
…comes to Elsinore and performs The Murder of Gonzago before the Danish court. Once arrived at the Danish palace, the players are servants, and their low social status determines their treatment by the king’s councillor, Polonius; but Hamlet greets them warmly: “You are welcome, masters; welcome, ... |
83e22f484cd9606600b20bb4fb7b8a4f | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Murders-in-the-Rue-Morgue | The Murders in the Rue Morgue | The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Murders in the Rue Morgue, short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in Graham’s magazine in 1841. It is considered one of the first detective stories.
The story opens with the discovery of the violent murder of an old woman and her daughter. No grisly detail is spared in the de... |
ba3fc3d23f00819cc38324ee182e55e4 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Mystery-of-Marie-Roget | The Mystery of Marie Roget | The Mystery of Marie Roget
…well as the less-successful “The Mystery of Marie Roget” (1845), Dupin is depicted as an eccentric, a reclusive amateur poet who prefers to work at night by candlelight and who smokes a meerschaum pipe—foreshadowing the nocturnal Sherlock Holmes. Like Holmes, Dupin is accompanied by a rather... |
143bf2ff56742badd382540ec9f4fd8f | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Myth-of-Fingerprints | The Myth of Fingerprints | The Myth of Fingerprints
…roots with the family drama The Myth of Fingerprints (1997), which was directed by future husband Bart Freundlich (they married in 2003). That performance, however, was eclipsed by her turn as kindly pornographic actress Amber Waves in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights (1997); her complex a... |
265cd7a6e9b9425947f7974d5dd31f27 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Mythic-Being | The Mythic Being | The Mythic Being
…performed confrontational pieces such as The Mythic Being (1972–81), for which she was filmed walking the streets of New York City and Cambridge, Massachusetts, as a light-skinned African American man with a mustache and an afro and wearing sunglasses. She repeated memorized phrases from her personal ... |
ec999754b7cf6771baf0c944acbc9b1b | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Nag | The Nag | The Nag
…broadens in Di klyatshe (1873; The Nag), an allegorical novel that compares the Jewish condition in Russia to the lot of a broken-down nag. The mare, unwilling to fight against her tormentors, represents passive Jews who show little interest in efforts at reform. Other elements of the allegory indict the…
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f7259a8684a03090cd3c59f01f17b609 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Naked-City | The Naked City | The Naked City
…and even more influential, was The Naked City (1948), a quasi-documentary police procedural filmed in New York City and starring Barry Fitzgerald and Howard Duff; it would be imitated dozens of times over the next 10 years, both in the cinema and on television. For Twentieth Century-Fox, Dassin next dir... |
810da9a10ebd8490c33d29e547cc85dd | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Nation-Irish-newspaper | The Nation | The Nation
…patriot, McGee was associated with The Nation (1846–48), the literary organ of the Young Ireland political movement (which called for the study of Irish history and the revival of the Irish language). He was implicated in the abortive Irish rebellion of 1848 and fled to the United States, where he…
… and Th... |
182bc1d427fd8864f72b1c528ea031e5 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-National-Museum-of-Archaeology-Anthropology-and-History-of-Peru | The National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of Peru | The National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of Peru
The National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of Peru, Spanish El Museo Nacional de Arqueología, Antropología, e Historia del Perú, museum in Lima, Peru, noted for its historical artifacts that showcase Peru’s cultural history.
The N... |
a0b197ce25c2ec2698253a6e5f746d43 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Natural-Mind-A-New-Way-of-Looking-at-Drugs-and-the-Higher-Consciousness | The Natural Mind: A New Way of Looking at Drugs and the Higher Consciousness | The Natural Mind: A New Way of Looking at Drugs and the Higher Consciousness
…drugs on the mind in The Natural Mind: A New Way of Looking at Drugs and the Higher Consciousness (1972). In this book Weil suggested that altered states of consciousness were innate to the human nervous system and that drugs or other stimuli... |
da7a9709e22ae2e0895381123b04d8e7 | https://www.brookings.edu/research/banking-on-wealth-americas-new-retail-banking-infrastructure-and-its-wealth-building-potential/?shared=email&msg=fail | Banking on Wealth: America’s New Retail Banking Infrastructure and Its Wealth-Building Potential | Banking on Wealth: America’s New Retail Banking Infrastructure and Its Wealth-Building Potential Executive Summary The $100 billion size of the high-cost non-bank basic financial services industry, including check cashers, payday lenders, and pawnshops, points to the high demand for basic financial services among low-... |
72e0d449755118b21434a84b5f09917a | https://www.brookings.edu/research/benefits-and-best-practices-of-safe-city-innovation/ | Benefits and best practices of safe city innovation | Benefits and best practices of safe city innovation According to UNICEF, 70 percent of people around the world will live in cities by the year 2050. This trend toward urbanization will necessitate new operating models and pose challenges in terms of how to protect residents. Public safety, of course, is an important as... |
2081d7cc84e3681c5367e75968c57b03 | https://www.brookings.edu/research/betsy-devos-for-profit-colleges-education-america/ | Betsy DeVos and her cone of silence on for-profit colleges | Betsy DeVos and her cone of silence on for-profit colleges Not all that long ago, Republicans believed that career programs that used billions of federal dollars to train college students in specific job fields ought to be held accountable for ensuring that their programs did, in fact, prepare their graduates for gainf... |
b7df9da2170213318031724337c8e9d1 | https://www.brookings.edu/research/bridging-the-digital-divide-through-digital-equity-offices/ | Bridging the digital divide through digital equity offices | Bridging the digital divide through digital equity offices The American economy continues to digitalize at an astounding pace, but tens of millions of American households cannot access the digital economy due to physical gaps in local broadband networks, unaffordable subscription plans and personal devices, and a lack ... |
ca2f3d5d5fd4a58378639f7fbe2245d8 | https://www.brookings.edu/research/chinas-rise-as-a-regional-and-global-power-the-aiib-and-the-one-belt-one-road/ | China’s rise as a regional and global power: The AIIB and the ‘one belt, one road’ | China’s rise as a regional and global power: The AIIB and the ‘one belt, one road’ CHINA has been growing extremely rapidly for a long time, but an important shift in its growth pattern occurred at the time of the global financial crisis. During the six years up to 2007 China’s GDP grew at an average rate of 11 percent... |
8b2cc936fd8cb5b4b5675182e53bb610 | https://www.brookings.edu/research/competition-and-custom-in-economic-contracts-a-case-study-of-illinois-agriculture/?shared=email&msg=fail | Competition and Custom in Economic Contracts: A Case Study of Illinois Agriculture | Competition and Custom in Economic Contracts: A Case Study of Illinois Agriculture Abstract A customary contract is a set of terms that is standard in a given locale for a given economic purpose. Once established, such a standard tends to perpetuate itself because it creates expectations about what is fair and appropr... |
e8ba915cf5cd0641e5f8685f27fb7650 | https://www.brookings.edu/research/covid-19-and-school-closures-what-can-countries-learn-from-past-emergencies/ | COVID-19 and school closures: What can countries learn from past emergencies? | COVID-19 and school closures: What can countries learn from past emergencies? As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads around the world, and across every state in the U.S., school systems are shutting their doors. To date, the education community has largely focused on the different strategies to continue schooling, including ... |
b8298badc7f881e7840ac7ea561df0fa | https://www.brookings.edu/research/covid-19-exposes-a-changed-world-a-prescription-for-renewing-us-global-partnership/ | COVID-19 exposes a changed world: A prescription for renewing US global partnership | COVID-19 exposes a changed world: A prescription for renewing US global partnership The world of 2021 that awaits the Biden-Harris administration no longer resembles the relatively simple and stable post-World War II international system, nor the dominant position the U.S. briefly held in the post-Cold War period of th... |
df84aabc77d129aa6cafe257491bbb16 | https://www.brookings.edu/research/covid-19s-legacy-of-debt-and-debt-service-in-developing-countries/ | COVID-19’s legacy of debt and debt service in developing countries | COVID-19’s legacy of debt and debt service in developing countries The economic outlook for developing countries is grim in the wake of COVID-19. Total output in developing countries, sans China, is projected to fall by 5.7 percent in 2020, with a recovery of 5 percent in 2021.1 Compared to pre-COVID projections, this ... |
493c5cf239b6e20dba4dc5f0a9bd883e | https://www.brookings.edu/research/credit-denial-in-the-age-of-ai/ | Credit denial in the age of AI | Credit denial in the age of AI Banks have been in the business of deciding who is eligible for credit for centuries. But in the age of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and big data, digital technologies have the potential to transform credit allocation in positive as well as negative directions. Giv... |
47843d08122be155f2a608d2dfeb733d | https://www.brookings.edu/research/credit-rating-agency-reform-is-incomplete/ | Credit rating agency reform is incomplete | Credit rating agency reform is incomplete In the on-going controversy over how strictly to regulate financial institutions and markets in the wake of the financial crash of 2008, regulation of credit rating agencies (CRAs) has dropped out of sight. Inflated ratings on securities that turned toxic played a major role in... |
130263b7865d3a80194a6767087b8edb | https://www.brookings.edu/research/criminal-justice-reform-issues-and-options-for-the-next-president/ | Criminal justice reform: Issues and options for the next president | Criminal justice reform: Issues and options for the next president In recent years, the future course of the American criminal justice system has come under immense scrutiny. The White House indicated that substantial reform would be a leading priority for President Obama’s last year in office, both chambers of Congres... |
45cd221626c054fa1f830606e83d9eb0 | https://www.brookings.edu/research/critical-reflection-forced-migration-and-transitional-justice-advancing-the-research-agenda/ | Critical Reflection: Forced Migration and Transitional Justice – Advancing the Research Agenda | Critical Reflection: Forced Migration and Transitional Justice – Advancing the Research Agenda Displacement is intrinsically linked to the abuses transitional justice processes seek to address. Crimes such as torture, rape and the killing of friends and family are almost invariably followed by survivors’ flight, whethe... |
cddb3172bad112bbe8b15dba3d434971 | https://www.brookings.edu/research/cuan-peligrosos-son-los-deficits-fiscales-en-america-latina-y-el-caribe/?language_slug=es | ¿Cuán peligrosos son los déficits fiscales en América Latina y el Caribe? | ¿Cuán peligrosos son los déficits fiscales en América Latina y el Caribe? A lo largo de la última década, los déficits fiscales se han convertido en uno de los problemas macroeconómicos más urgentes en todo el mundo, tanto en los países desarrollados como en aquellos en vías de desarrollo. De hecho, en la región de Amé... |
cd032574149ae7435c05a02e819972c9 | https://www.brookings.edu/research/cubas-forgotten-eastern-provinces/ | Cuba’s forgotten eastern provinces | Cuba’s forgotten eastern provinces The five provinces of eastern Cuba (Oriente) have played central roles in the forging of the island’s history. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, sugarcane plantations generated fabulous wealth and Santiago de Cuba boasted a thriving middle class, even as most of the peasantry were... |
e7139982359fe028080ebe9606c98fde | https://www.brookings.edu/research/delivering-on-sustainable-infrastructure-for-better-development-and-better-climate/ | Delivering on sustainable infrastructure for better development and better climate | Delivering on sustainable infrastructure for better development and better climate 2015 was a milestone year in which the world set clear and ambitious objectives through the Third International Conference on Financing for Development in Addis in July; the UN Summit in September that adopted the Sustainable Development... |
6c5158fb021cf3b9edb27316498bd7c2 | https://www.brookings.edu/research/designing-thoughtful-minimum-wage-policy-at-the-state-and-local-levels/ | Designing Thoughtful Minimum Wage Policy at the State and Local Levels | Designing Thoughtful Minimum Wage Policy at the State and Local Levels Rising wage inequality and stagnant real wages have contributed to inequality in family incomes during the past three decades. While the expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) have h... |
914bfdbe33e38e8c4bf6f74dff09ba13 | https://www.brookings.edu/research/different-degrees-of-debt-student-borrowing-in-the-for-profit-nonprofit-and-public-sectors/ | Different degrees of debt: Student borrowing in the for-profit, nonprofit, and public sectors | Different degrees of debt: Student borrowing in the for-profit, nonprofit, and public sectors Over the past ten years, the volume of outstanding college student loan debt has tripled, reaching more than $1 trillion and raising concerns for both students and policymakers. At the same time, enrollments in for-profit coll... |
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