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- 1151: Andy Worhal
- ... t really have and effect." As in the "Jackies," images of the recently assassinated President Kennedys grieving widow, were repeated to reinforce the obsessive ways that our thoughts keep returning to a tragedy, and "stress the flash of fame these little known(suicides) victims achieve in death. This can be said to be consistent with Warhols claim that everyone "will be famous for 15 minutes." In this, does he mean ...
- 1152: Agatha Christie
- ... her divorce from her first husband, Christie disappeared without a trace for a short period of ten days. She was found at a resort hotel, claiming to be a victim of amnesia caused by emotional stress. Agatha Christie had checked into the hotel under the alias Theresa Neele; Neele being the surname of her husbands mistress. After a full memory recovery, Christie claimed for the rest of her life that ...
- 1153: Joshua Larwence Chamberlin
- ... President Andrew Johnson in 1868. On the state level, I faced opposition on two major fronts: the state Liquor Laws, and capital punishment. After many terms as governor politics became overwhelming. In fact, after the stress of my political career, I began to look more favorably on a return to academic life. In early 1871, I was elected as Bowdoin's president. I took the position and made several changes. In ...
- 1154: Neil Simon
- ... may have done so as a result of being denied an active role in society. Frustrated and isolated, some women looked to alcohol as an escape from their boring, repetitive day to day lives. The stress of Nellie's argument for Prohibition was distinct from her approach to other issues. She would often take a humourous or sarcastic tone to make her point. On the subject of alcohol, she became very ...
- 1155: Nathaniel Hawthorne 2
- ... to the change in the political party which controlled the government, Hawthorne resigned this position in 1841. After the death of Hawthorne's mother in 1849, he was put under more financial pressure and emotional stress. Sophia revealed, unbeknownst to Hawthorne, that she had saved money from her allowance for household expenses over the years. With the help of this money, Hawthorne resolved to try once again to earn a living ...
- 1156: Mark Twain 5
- ... Arc (1896), and Tom Sawyer, Detective (1896). In 1895, to help recoup his losses, he embarked on a world lecture tour, later described in Following the Equator (1897). Although his financial situation rapidly improved, additional stress and sorrow came with the deaths of Twain's daughter Susy in 1896 and of his wife in 1904. His writings of the late 1890s and 1900s became more pessimistic than ever: "The Man That ...
- 1157: Kobe Bryant
- ... moment, the weight of the world on his shoulders. He's wearing a black adidas flop hat, a black leather jacket and a pair of horn-rimmed glasses, cool as a muthafucka. There's no stress on his face-even if it's in his brain. "It's hard to put it into words," he says, adjusting his glasses. "When I walked onto the court this morning for shootaround and saw ...
- 1158: John Locke 3
- ... guy, yet a firm person in his beliefs. He loved practically all children. He greatly enjoyed being a guardian and tutor to the children of his friends. Locke was very devout Christian. He tried to stress to his pupils how important God was in their lives. He taught that you should not be very fond of people who accept religious doctrine on blind faith. He also stressed his concern for discovering ...
- 1159: Joseph Haydn
- ... and 20. Haydn's work underwent a transition between the years of 1768 and 1774. This was largely due to a movement in Western Europe's literature known as "Sturm und Drang", or "Storm and Stress", where emotional themes became increasingly important in literature. This movement had an effect on Haydn and his music, and he was particularly inventive in his search for new styles and forms. There are emotional and ...
- 1160: J.p. Morgan
- ... demon the same. He received a honorary degree from Harvard university that read: "Public citizen, patron of literature and art, prince among merchants, who by his skill, wisdom and courage, has twice in times of stress repelled a national danger of financial panic." But Robert LaFollette, the Wisconsin progressive, saw him as "a beefy, red-faced thick-necked financial bully, drunk with wealth and power." Despite conflicting opinion on his persona ...
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