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пятница, 01 апреля 2011
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Orphans of the Storm is a 1921 film by D.W. Griffith set in late 18th century France, before and during the French Revolution.
This was the last Griffith film to feature Lillian and Dorothy Gish, and is often considered Griffith’s last major commercial success (after Birth of a Nation, Intolerance, and Broken Blossoms).
Like his earlier films, this used historical events to comment on contemporary events, in this case the French Revolution and the rise of Bolshevism. The film is about class conflict and a plea for inter class understanding and against destructive hatred. At one point in front of the Committee of Public Safety a main character pleas, “Yes I am an aristocrat, but a friend of the people.”
Starring;
Lillian Gish
Dorothy Gish
Joseph Schildkraut
Frank Losee
Katherine Emmett
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Captain Foulenough was a fictional character who featured in the popular Daily Express column, By the Way, which ran from 1919 to 1975.
Having been educated at Narkover school (which specialised in card-playing, horse racing and bribery), Captain Foulenough had a penchant for gate-crashing upper-class social events, which he then proceeded to wreck.
The column had many different authors over the course of its 56 years, some of whom used the nom de plume, Beachcomber.
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““Yes,” he said, “I caught him, with an unseen hook and an invisible line which is long enough to let him wander to the ends of the world, and still to bring him back with a twitch upon the thread.””
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Father Brown in G.K. Chesterton’s Queer Feet
Father Brown is a character in a series of short stories by G.K. Chesterton.
This particular quotation comes from a story entitled The Queer Feet.
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On the dust jacket of the original 1944 edition of Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh described the purpose of the novel as: nothing less than an attempt to trace the working of a Divine Purpose in a pagan world. In his prologue to a revised version, published in 1960, he described the theme of Brideshead Revisited as: the operation of divine grace on a group of diverse but closely connected characters. The quotation from Queer Feet, therefore, may be seen as encapsulating the central theme of the novel: Waugh’s belief in God’s inestimable power to instigate, and restore, faith; thus offering salvation to sinners.
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“[The purpose of the novel is] nothing less than an attempt to trace the working of a Divine Purpose in a pagan world.”
- Evelyn Waugh
- Evelyn Waugh
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Notes on Evelyn Waugh`s Brideshead Revisited Methuen Notes Study-Aids Series Bunnell, W. S.
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Decline and Fall ; Black Mischief ; A Handful of Dust ; Scoop ; Put Out More Flags ; Brideshead Revisited
(ISBN: 0905712153 / 0-905712-15-3)
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The Church Of The Immaculate Conception Farm Street:
The official address is 114 Mount Street, Mayfair, London, but the church can be entered from Farm Street.
четверг, 31 марта 2011
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…which I knew I must read before going to Garsington
- says Antoin.
Garsington Manor, in the village of Garsington near Oxford, was the country home between 1914 and 1928 of Lady Ottoline Morrell and her husband, the Liberal M.P. Philip Morrell.
(Bookdrum)
All about Lady Ottoline Morrell: Biography, Life facts, Information, Pictures, Timeline, Childhood