10 QUOTES WITH «THE TURN»
Famous quotes and sentences with the word
the turn.
You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses.
My grandfather had been on the New York City force with his 11 brothers around the turn of the century. He was killed in the line of duty. My father, who was 16, was the oldest son, so he had to quit school and go to work to support his mother.
I wanted to be a classical actress. I plodded along. I went to junior college in San Francisco, I was in a Repertory Company. My hero was Eva Le Gallienne, who was a great theater actress at the turn of the century who created her own company, and she wrote these hilarious autobiographies at the time.
As parties began to develop around the turn of the 19th century, you had party nominees for President nominated in caucuses made up of party members in Congress.
The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything.
It's not magic! It's physics. The speed of the turn is what keeps you upright. It's like a spinning top.
To some extent, we've always had an admiration for extroversion in our culture. But the extrovert ideal really came to play at the turn of the 20th century when we had the rise of big business.
Here I am at the turn of the millennium and I'm still the last man to have walked on the moon, somewhat disappointing. It says more about what we have not done than about what we have done.
My dad had an aunt at the turn of the century who died from diabetes, but she was the closest affected relative in my family.
I noticed in the late 1990s that my friends and I were already nostalgic for the 1980s, and by the turn of the century, VH1's 'I Love the '80s' gave all of us an accelerated nostalgia for our generation.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THE TURN»
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the turn in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
the turn and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Turn: Integration of Information Seeking and Retrieval ...
The Turn represents a wide-ranging perspective of IS&R by providing a novel unique research framework, covering both individual and social aspects of information behavior, including the generation, searching, retrieval and use of ...
Peter Ingwersen, Kalervo Järvelin,
2006
2
Philosophy and
the Turn to Religion
This study argues that a turn to religion in philosophy anticipates and accompanies this development in the contemporary world.
Henry James. In the first weeks the days were long; they often, at their finest,
gave me what I used to call my own hour, the hour when, for my pupils, teatime
and bedtime having come and gone, I had, before my final retirement, a small
interval ...
What kind of turn is the turn to ethics? A Right turn? A Left turn? A wrong turn? A U-turn? Ethics is back in literary studies, philosophy, and political theory.
Marjorie B. Garber, Beatrice Hanssen, Rebecca L. Walkowitz,
2000
5
Men's Fashion Illustrations from
the Turn of
the Century
Includes variety of accessories: canes, gloves, spats. Images have been selected from rare issues of The Sartorial Art Journal, published between 1900 and 1910.
6
Benjamin Britten:
The Turn of
the Screw
This book is designed to introduce the non-specialist music lover to Britten's opera, The Turn of the Screw.
7
The Urban Generation: Chinese Cinema and Society at
the Turn ...
DIVAn anthology that explores film works by the "urban generation,"--filmmakers who operate outside of "mainstream" (officially sanctioned) Chinese cinema -- whose impact has been enormous./div "An essential addition to contemporary Chinese ...
8
Staging
the World: Chinese Nationalism at
the Turn of
the ...
DIVIn Staging the World Rebecca E. Karl rethinks the production of nationalist discourse in China during the late Qing period, between China’s defeat in the Sino-Japanese War in 1895 and the proclamation of the Republic in 1911.
9
Boomerang: Health Care Reform and
the Turn Against Government
How did the debate on health reform turn into the most concerted attack on government in recent American history?
10
New Essays on 'Daisy Miller' and '
The Turn of
the Screw'
The introduction to this 1993 volume places James's fiction in the context of the family that conditioned his concern with the sexual politics of intimate experience.
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THE TURN»
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the turn is used in the context of the following news items.
Egyptians Turn to Facebook to Highlight Decrepit Public Facilities
Like its predecessors, the government of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi offers few ways for the public to make its concerns heard by decision-makers. The turn to ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
Turn exclusive: George Washington greets the famous Frenchman …
In fact, “Providence,” which airs on Memorial Day, might just be the turning point that Washington needs. Some of that credit has to go Washington himself and ... «Entertainment Weekly, May 15»
'Hard Boiled'
One is the turning of a crucial American officer who can help end the war. General Charles Lee seems like a willing accomplice, but André's current measure of ... «Entertainment Weekly, Apr 15»