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Brewer's: Idiot

meant originally a private person, one not engaged in any public office. Hence Jeremy Taylor says, “Humility is a duty in great ones, as well as in idiots” (private persons). The Greeks…

Brewer's: Utilitarians

A word first used by John Stuart Mill; but Jeremy Bentham employed the word “Utility” to signify the doctrine which makes “the happiness of man” the one and only measure of right and wrong…

Brewer's: Golden Chain

“Faith is the golden chain to link the penitent sinner unto God” (Jeremy Taylor). The allusion is to a passage in Homer's Iliad (i. 19-30), where Zeus says, If a golden chain were let down…

The Harry Potter Haiku Archive, Part VI

Wizardry poetry from our readers! On to the Haiku Archive, Parts I, II, III, IV, V, VII, and other kinds of Harry poems! All About Harry Haikus Emerald green eyes?…

2004–2005 Obie Awards

The 2004–2005 Obie Awards, honoring distinguished achievement in Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway productions, were presented on May 16, 2005, at New York's Webster Hall.Direction: Dan…

King Walter

Career PBA Tour money leader Walter Ray Williams Jr. continued to shine in 1998 with another monster year.PBA Tour He was the PBA Player of the Year in 1996 and 1997. He had 24 titles to his…

1996 Men's Olympic Swimming Medalists

50-meter Freestyle     Time 1 Aleksandr Popov, RUS 22.13 2 Gary Hall Jr., USA 22.26 3 Fernando Scherer, BRA 22.29 100-meter Freestyle     Time 1…

2008 Men's Track & Field

      Event   Time  100m Usain Bolt, Jamaica 9.69   Richard Thompson, Trinidad and Tobago 9.89   Walter Dix, USA 9.91  200m Usain Bolt, Jamaica 19.30…

Mamet's <i>Boy</i> Wonder

An Interview with playwright and filmmaker David Mamet by Peter Keough Related Links The Winslow Boy: Official SiteSony Pictures ClassicsThe only constants, it would seem, in the creative world of…