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AFCNoBruce Smith, Buf.14.0Michael Sinclair, Sea.12.0Peter Boulware*, Bal.11.5Dan Footman, Ind.10.5Dan Williams, KC10.5Bryce Paup, Buf.9.5Derrick Thomas, KC9.5Michael McCrary, Bal.9.0Chris…

Sacks

AFCNoMichael Sinclair, Sea.16.5Michael McCrary, Bal.14.5Derrick Thomas, KC12.0Jason Gildon, Pit.11.0Lance Johnstone, Oak.11.0Trace Armstrong, Mia.10.5Darrell Russell, Oak.10.0Bruce Smith, Buf…

Wharton, Edith Newbold Jones

(Encyclopedia) Wharton, Edith Newbold Jones, 1862–1937, American novelist, b. New York City, noted for her subtle, ironic, and superbly crafted fictional studies of New York society at the turn of…

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

(Encyclopedia) Singer, Isaac BashevisSinger, Isaac Bashevisbäshĕvˈĭs [key], 1904–91, American novelist and short-story writer in the Yiddish language, younger brother of I. J. Singer, b. Leoncin,…

translation

(Encyclopedia) translation [Lat.,=carrying across], the rendering of a text into another language. Applied to literature, the term connotes the art of recomposing a work in another language without…

New York Times Company v. Sullivan

(Encyclopedia) New York Times Company v. Sullivan, case decided in 1964 by the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1960, the Times ran a fundraising advertisement signed by civil-rights leaders that criticized,…

Ionesco, Eugène

(Encyclopedia) Ionesco, EugèneIonesco, Eugèneözhĕnˈ yŏnĕsˈkō [key], 1912–94, French playwright, b. Romania. Settling in France in 1938, he contributed to Cahiers du Sud and began writing avant-garde…

Ponca

(Encyclopedia) Ponca, Native North Americans whose language belongs to the Siouan branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock (see Native American languages). According to tradition the group lived…