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Brewer's: Alms-house

A house where paupers are supported at the public expense; a poor-house. Also a house set apart for the aged poor free of rent. “Only, alas! the poor who had neither friends nor attendants…

Significant Videos of 1996–1997

Austin Powers: International Man of MysteryBasquiatBastard out of CarolinaBeautiful ThingBeavis and Butt-head Do AmericaBig NightBreaking the WavesCitizen RuthThe CrucibleDead ManDrunksEmmaThe…

1995–1996 Obie Awards

Best PlayAdrienne Kennedy, June and Jean in Concert and Sleep Deprivation ChamberPlaywritingAin Gordon, Wally's GhostDonald Margulies, The Model ApartmentSuzan-Lori Parks, VenusDoug Wright,…

Brewer's: Ryot

A tenant in India who pays a usufruct for his occupation. The Scripture parable of the husbandmen refers to such a tenure; the lord sent for his rent, which was not money but iruits, and…

The Magna Carta

JOHN, by the grace of God King of England, Lord of Ireland, Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, and Count of Anjou, to his archbishops, bishops, abbots, earls, barons, justices, foresters…

Poems: Gerontion

by T. S. Eliot Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleis...Gerontion Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both. Here I am, an old man in a dry…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: To Constantia, Singing

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Marianne's DreamTo ConstantiaTo Constantia, Singing Published by Mrs. Shelley in "Posthumous Poems", 1824. Amongst the Shelley manuscripts at the Bodleian is a…