Today's pep rallies, yesterday's battlegrounds by Beth Rowen Protesters Shannon Collins and Olivia Christian at the 2008 Democratic National Convention. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith…
television producerBorn: 1911Birthplace: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania A broadcasting executive who developed radio documentaries on social and political issues, Saudek is best remembered for producing…
DAVIS, Susan A., a Representative from California; born in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Mass., April 13, 1944; B.A., University of California, Berkeley, Calif., 1965; M.S. W., University of North…
CLOVER, Benjamin Hutchinson, a Representative from Kansas; born near Jefferson, Franklin County, Ohio, December 22, 1837; attended the common schools; moved to Kansas in 1871 and located in…
(Encyclopedia) Sessions, Roger, 1896–1985, American composer and teacher, b. Brooklyn, N.Y. Sessions was a pupil of Horatio Parker at Yale and of Ernest Bloch. He taught (1917–21) at Smith, leaving…
(Encyclopedia) universals, in philosophy, term applied to general or abstract objects such as concepts, qualities, relations, and numbers, as opposed to particular objects. The exact nature of a…
(Encyclopedia) Barbour, JohnBarbour, Johnbärˈbər [key], c.1316?–1395, Scottish poet. He was archdeacon of Aberdeen from 1355 until his death. His romance, The Bruce (1375), celebrating Scotland's…
(Encyclopedia) Social Credit, economic plan in Canada, based on the theories of Clifford Hugh Douglas. The central idea is that the problems fundamental to economic depression are those of unequal…
