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Dean began his acting career with a Pepsi-Cola television commercial followed by a stint as a stunt tester in the game show Beat the Clock. He quit college to focus on his budding career but struggled to get jobs in Hollywood and succeeded in paying his bills only by working as a parking lot attendant at CBS studios. Following the advice of friends Dean moved to New York City to pursue live stage acting, where he was accepted to study under Lee Strasberg in the storied Actors Studio. His career picked up and Dean did several ep ...

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James Dean, James Dean - Childhood and education, James Dean - Acting career, James Dean - East of Eden, James Dean - Rebel Without a Cause, James Dean - Giant, James Dean - Death, James Dean - Porsche 550 Spyder, James Dean - Legacy, James Dean - Sexuality, James Dean - Memorial, James Dean - Filmography, James Dean - Stage, James Dean - Television, James Dean - Footnotes

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The original work was published in several volumes between 1913 and 1927, the last few posthumously and without the final corrections and revisions that Proust would no doubt have accomplished had he lived long enough. A late typescript of La Fugitive, corrected and annotated by Proust, was discovered in 1986. The revisions therein have not been incorporated into any English translation of the entire work. The first volume was Du côté de chez Swann (variously translated as Swann's Way or The Way by Swann'sSee also:

In Search of Lost Time, In Search of Lost Time - Introduction, In Search of Lost Time - French publishing history, In Search of Lost Time - English publishing history, In Search of Lost Time - Major English-language translations, In Search of Lost Time - Themes, In Search of Lost Time - Main characters, In Search of Lost Time - Adaptations

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Sartre was born in Paris to parents Jean-Baptiste Sartre, an officer of the French Navy, and Anne-Marie Schweitzer, cousin of Albert Schweitzer. When he was 15 months old, his father died of a fever and Anne-Marie raised him with help from her father, Charles Schweitzer, who taught Sartre mathematics and introduced him to classical literature at an early age. As a teenager in the 1920s, Sartre became attracted to philosophy upon reading Henri Bergson's Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness. He studied in Paris at the eli ...

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Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean-Paul Sartre - Early life and thought, Jean-Paul Sartre - La Nausée and Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre - Sartre and World War II, Jean-Paul Sartre - Sartre and Communism, Jean-Paul Sartre - Sartre and literature, Jean-Paul Sartre - Sartre after literature, Jean-Paul Sartre - Critiques, Jean-Paul Sartre - Munich 1972 and Israel, Jean-Paul Sartre - Works, Jean-Paul Sartre - Quotes

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Twentieth century French literature was profoundly shaped by the historical events of the century and was also shaped by -- and a contributor to -- the century's political, philosophical, moral, and artistic crises. This period spans the last decades of the Third Republic (1871-1940) (including World War I), the period of World War II (the German occupation and the Vichy Regime (1940-1944)), the provisional French government (1944-1946) the Fourth Republic (1946-1958) and the Fifth Republic (1959-). Important historical events for Fre ...

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French literature of the 20th century, French literature of the 20th century - Overview, French literature of the 20th century - From 1895 to 1914, French literature of the 20th century - From 1914 to 1945, French literature of the 20th century - Literature after World War II

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Central to Maurras' political ideas were an intense nationalism (what he described as "integral nationalism") and a belief in an ordered, elitist society. These were the bases of his support for both the monarchy and the Roman Catholic Church (he had no personal loyalty to the house of Bourbon-Orléans and was an agnostic for most of his life). Like many people in Europe at the time, he was haunted by the idea of decadence, partly inspired by reading Taine and Renan. He felt that France had lost its grandeur during the Revolution of 1 ...

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Charles Maurras, Charles Maurras - Life, Charles Maurras - Maurras' political thought, Charles Maurras - Works

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Tammsaare's early works are characterized by rural "poetic" realism. Some of his stories also reflect the atmosphere of the revolutionary year of 1905. During what is sometimes classified as his second period, from 1908 to 1919, he wrote several short urban novels and collections of miniatures. In "Poiss ja liblik" (1915, The Boy and the Butterfly), Tammsaare shows the influence of Oscar Wilde. Internationally best known ...

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Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Anton Hansen Tammsaare - Biography, Anton Hansen Tammsaare - Bibliography, Anton Hansen Tammsaare - Selected works

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Les Éditions de Minuit was founded by writer and illustrator Jean Bruller and writer Pierre de Lescure (1891-1963) in 1941 in Paris, during the German occupation of northern France (by November 1942, German forces occupied all of France). At the time, the media and all forms of publishing were controlled and censored by the Nazi occupiers. Les Éditions de Minuit was started to circumvent the censorship, and so was a secret, or underground, publisher ...

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Les Éditions de Minuit, Les Éditions de Minuit - History, Les Éditions de Minuit - 21st century, Les Éditions de Minuit - External link

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Groups include: Conseil National de la Résistance (CNR - Clandestine central underground committee, organised by Jean Moulin, to coordinate every inland resistance group, with patriotic political parties, and syndicates). CNR supported de Gaulle against Giraud for the unification of the French Empire forces, under the authority of Comité français de la Liberation nationale (CFLN), in Algiers Agir Armée Secrète (AS or Secret Army) - Gaullist resistance group of Cha ...

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French Resistance, French Resistance - History of the Legion, French Resistance - List of groups, French Resistance - Activities, French Resistance - Notable Persons

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Much controversy surrounds whether Nietzsche advocated a single or comprehensive philosophical viewpoint. Many charge Nietzsche with propounding contradictory thoughts and ideas. Here are Nietzsche's main ideas. Friedrich Nietzsche - Nihilism and the death of God. After the skepticism in his early works towards the old foundations of philosophy, religion, and morality, Nietzsche experienced the absence of any meaning or purpose to the world and human existence. Nietzsche did not attribute this nihilism to ...

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Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Nietzsche - Life, Friedrich Nietzsche - Youth 1844–1869, Friedrich Nietzsche - Professor at Basel 1869–1879, Friedrich Nietzsche - Free philosopher 1879–1889, Friedrich Nietzsche - Mental breakdown and death 1889–1900, Friedrich Nietzsche - Key concepts, Friedrich Nietzsche - Nihilism and the death of God, Friedrich Nietzsche - Amor fati and the eternal recurrence, Friedrich Nietzsche - Overman, Friedrich Nietzsche - Master morality and slave morality, Friedrich Nietzsche - Christianity as an institution and Jesus, Friedrich Nietzsche - The Will to Power, Friedrich Nietzsche - Style, Friedrich Nietzsche - Place in contemporary ethical theory, Friedrich Nietzsche - Political views, Friedrich Nietzsche - Gender views, Friedrich Nietzsche - Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, Friedrich Nietzsche - Criticism of Nietzsche, Friedrich Nietzsche - Nietzsche's influence, Friedrich Nietzsche - Works, Friedrich Nietzsche - Writings and philosophy, Friedrich Nietzsche - Major English translations, Friedrich Nietzsche - Philology, Friedrich Nietzsche - Poetry, Friedrich Nietzsche - Music, Friedrich Nietzsche - Note

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Much controversy surrounds whether Nietzsche advocated a single or comprehensive philosophical viewpoint. Many charge Nietzsche with propounding contradictory thoughts and ideas. Here are Nietzsche's main ideas. Friedrich Nietzsche - Nihilism and the death of God. After the skepticism in his early works towards the old foundations of philosophy, religion, and morality, Nietzsche experienced the absence of any meaning or purpose to the world and human existence. Nietzsche did not attribute this nihilism to ...

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Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Nietzsche - Life, Friedrich Nietzsche - Youth 1844–1869, Friedrich Nietzsche - Professor at Basel 1869–1879, Friedrich Nietzsche - Free philosopher 1879–1889, Friedrich Nietzsche - Mental breakdown and death 1889–1900, Friedrich Nietzsche - Key concepts, Friedrich Nietzsche - Nihilism and the death of God, Friedrich Nietzsche - Amor fati and the eternal recurrence, Friedrich Nietzsche - Skepticism Over Individual identity, Friedrich Nietzsche - Overman, Friedrich Nietzsche - Master morality and slave morality, Friedrich Nietzsche - Christianity as an institution and Jesus, Friedrich Nietzsche - The Will to Power, Friedrich Nietzsche - Style, Friedrich Nietzsche - Place in contemporary ethical theory, Friedrich Nietzsche - Political views, Friedrich Nietzsche - Gender views, Friedrich Nietzsche - Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, Friedrich Nietzsche - Criticism of Nietzsche, Friedrich Nietzsche - Reception of Nietzsche, Friedrich Nietzsche - Works, Friedrich Nietzsche - Writings and philosophy, Friedrich Nietzsche - Major English translations, Friedrich Nietzsche - Philology, Friedrich Nietzsche - Poetry, Friedrich Nietzsche - Music, Friedrich Nietzsche - Note

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List of French people - A. Isabelle Adjani Renée Adorée Anouk Aimée Arletty Antonin Artaud Fanny Ardant Jeanne Aubert Jean-Pierre Aumont Claude Autant-Lara Daniel Auteuil Charles Aznavour List of French people - B-C. Brigitte Bardot Emmanuelle Béart Jean-Paul Belmondo Charles Berling Sarah Bernhardt Suzanne Bianchetti ...

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List of French people, List of French people - Actors/actresses, List of French people - A, List of French people - B-C, List of French people - D-L, List of French people - M-V, List of French people - Architects, List of French people - Authors, List of French people - A, List of French people - B, List of French people - C-E, List of French people - F-J, List of French people - L, List of French people - M-N, List of French people - P-R, List of French people - S-Z, List of French people - Aviators, List of French people - Business, List of French people - Chefs, List of French people - Colonial administrators, List of French people - Composers, List of French people - Criminals, List of French people - Dancers, List of French people - Economists, List of French people - Fashion, List of French people - Fictional characters, List of French people - Filmmakers, List of French people - Humorists, List of French people - Monarchs, List of French people - Musicians singers, List of French people - Painters, List of French people - Philosophers, List of French people - Politicians, List of French people - Popes, List of French people - Resistance workers, List of French people - Scientists, List of French people - A-C, List of French people - D-M, List of French people - P-V, List of French people - Sculptors, List of French people - Social Activists, List of French people - Soldiers, List of French people - Sports people, List of French people - Theologians, List of French people - Others

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The record of pederastic practices, whether as a continuation of the Mediterranean traditions or as independent native traditions, as in China and Japan, expands greatly, dur to the better preservation of more recent literary and historical materials. Pederasty - Non-Western examples. Before the 20th century, relationships with a more or less pederastic element were the usual pattern of male same-sex love. In tenth-century China courting male couples consisted of the older ch’i hsiungSee also:

Pederasty, Pederasty - Etymology and usage, Pederasty - The Ancient World, Pederasty - The Greeks, Pederasty - Other venues, Pederasty - Post-classical and modern forms, Pederasty - Non-Western examples, Pederasty - Western models, Pederasty - Modern constructs, Pederasty - Historical pederastic relationships, Pederasty - Proverbs and sayings, Pederasty - Filmography, Pederasty - Footnotes

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Although more recent translations were available, Satie preferred Victor Cousin's then antiquated French translation of Plato's texts: he found in them more clarity, simplicity and beauty. The translation of the libretto of Socrate that follows is taken from Benjamin Jowett's translations of Plato's dialogues that can be found on the Gutenberg Project website: Socrate - P ...

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Socrate, Socrate - Commission - composition, Socrate - The musical form, Socrate - The music, Socrate - The text, Socrate - Part I - Portrait of Socrates, Socrate - Part II - On the banks of the Ilissus, Socrate - Part III - Death of Socrates, Socrate - The whiteness, Socrate - Reception history, Socrate - First performances, Socrate - Reception in music theatre and art history, Socrate - Recordings, Socrate - Notes

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In the following list the couples are listed in chronological order, and the name of the older partner precedes that of the younger. Though many more men are known to have engaged in such relationships, only those instances in which the name of the younger partner is known are included. In keeping with the Socratic tradition which allows (and actually privileges) the existence of chaste pederastic relationships (See Platonic love), included below are relationships in which there is e ...

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Historical pederastic couples, Historical pederastic couples - Problematics of the pederastic record, Historical pederastic couples - Typology of relationships, Historical pederastic couples - Known or presumed pederastic couples, Historical pederastic couples - Antiquity, Historical pederastic couples - Middle Ages, Historical pederastic couples - Pre-modern period, Historical pederastic couples - 20th and 21st centuries, Historical pederastic couples - Sources

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1951 - January. January 9 - United Nations headquarters officially opens (New York City). January 15 - Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald," wife of the Commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment in a court in West Germany. January 17 - Korean War: Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul. January 20 - Avalanches in the Alps - 240 die and 45.000 are buried for a time in Switzerland, Austria and Italy January 27 - Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flats, northwe ...

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In addition to his short stories for which he is most famous, Borges also wrote poetry, essays, several screenplays, and a considerable volume of literary criticism, prologues, and reviews, edited numerous anthologies, and was a prominent translator of English-, French- and German-language literature into Spanish (and of Old English and Norse works as well). His blindness (which, like his father's, developed in adulthood) strongly influenced his later writing. Paramount among his intellectual interests are elements of mythology, mathematics, ...

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Jorge Luis Borges, Jorge Luis Borges - Life, Jorge Luis Borges - Youth, Jorge Luis Borges - Early writing career, Jorge Luis Borges - Maturity, Jorge Luis Borges - International recognition, Jorge Luis Borges - Work, Jorge Luis Borges - Borges as Argentine and as World Citizen, Jorge Luis Borges - Multicultural influences on Borges' writing, Jorge Luis Borges - Borges as specialist in the history culture and literature of Argentina, Jorge Luis Borges - Borges Martín Fierro and tradition, Jorge Luis Borges - Limits to universalism, Jorge Luis Borges - International themes in Borges, Jorge Luis Borges - Religious themes in Borges: Mainline heretical and mystical, Jorge Luis Borges - Quotations

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The Red and the Black is the story of Julien Sorel, the aesthete son of a carpenter in the fictional French village of Verrières, and his attempts to overcome his poor birth through posturing and telling people what they want to hear. The novel comprises two “books,” but each book has two major stories within it. The first book introduces Julien, who would rather spend his time with his nose in books or daydreaming about being in Napoleon’s (by then defunct) army than work with his carpenter father and brothers, who beat ...

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The Red and the Black, The Red and the Black - Plot summary, The Red and the Black - Literary significance, The Red and the Black - Trivia

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The manifestation of sexual orientation is subject to a considerable variability. Thus it is common for homosexual individuals in heteronormative societies to love, marry, and have children with individuals of the opposite sex, a practice that may be done primarily for social reasons in societies which reject same-sex relations, as a cover for one's orientation (such relationships are known as "beards"). The opposite situation seems to obtain in homonormative societies, where men whose primary attraction may be to the opposite sex nonetheles ...

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Homosexuality, Homosexuality - Etymology and usage, Homosexuality - Academic study, Homosexuality - Anthropology, Homosexuality - Biology, Homosexuality - Psychology, Homosexuality - Nature versus nurture, Homosexuality - Societal attitudes, Homosexuality - Modern law, Homosexuality - Understudied phenomena, Homosexuality - Political aspects, Homosexuality - Military, Homosexuality - Youth groups, Homosexuality - Religion, Homosexuality - Polemic, Homosexuality - Historical and geographical practices, Homosexuality - Africa, Homosexuality - Americas, Homosexuality - East Asia, Homosexuality - Europe, Homosexuality - Middle East and Central Asia, Homosexuality - South Pacific, Homosexuality - Modern Developments, Homosexuality - Art and literature, Homosexuality - Articles, Homosexuality - Categories

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Central African Republic - Prehistory. Between about 1000 BCE and 1000 CE, Adamawa-Eastern-speaking peoples spread eastward from Cameroon to Sudan and settled in most of the territory of the CAR. During the same period, a much smaller number of Bantu-speaking immigrants settled in southwestern CAR and some Central Sudanic-speaking populations settled along the CAR's northern borderlands with Chad. The majority of the CAR's inhabitants thus speak Adamawa-Eastern languages or Bantu languages belonging to the Niger- ...

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Central African Republic, Central African Republic - History, Central African Republic - Prehistory, Central African Republic - Exposure to the outside world, Central African Republic - French Colonialism, Central African Republic - Independence, Central African Republic - Politics, Central African Republic - Prefectures, Central African Republic - Geography, Central African Republic - Economy, Central African Republic - Demographics, Central African Republic - Culture, Central African Republic - Miscellaneous topics

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1952 - January. January 8 - West Germany has 8 million refugees inside its borders. January 24 - Sudden heavy snowfall in Algeria. January 24 - Vincent Massey sworn in as first Canada-born Governor-General of Canada. 1952 - February. February 2 - A tropical storm forms just north of Cuba moving northeast. The storm makes landfall in southern Florida the next day. It is the earliest reported landfall from a tropical storm, and the earliest fo ...

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1952, 1952 - Events, 1952 - January, 1952 - February, 1952 - March, 1952 - April, 1952 - May, 1952 - June, 1952 - July, 1952 - August, 1952 - September, 1952 - October, 1952 - November, 1952 - December, 1952 - Undated events, 1952 - Births, 1952 - January, 1952 - February, 1952 - March, 1952 - April, 1952 - May, 1952 - June, 1952 - July, 1952 - August, 1952 - September, 1952 - October, 1952 - November, 1952 - December, 1952 - Deaths, 1952 - January, 1952 - February, 1952 - March, 1952 - April, 1952 - May, 1952 - June, 1952 - July, 1952 - September, 1952 - October, 1952 - November, 1952 - December, 1952 - Unknown date, 1952 - Nobel Prizes

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Alexander von Zemlinsky - Orchestral Works. Symphony (No. 1) for orchestra (1891, fragment) Symphony No.1 (No. 2) for orchestra (1892/1892) Suite for Orchestra (c.1895) Symphonie No.2 (No. 3) for orchestra (1897) Drei Ballettstücke. Suite from Der Triumph der Zeit for orchestra (1902) Die Seejungfrau (The Little Mermaid) for orchestra (1902/03, premiered in Vienna in 1905) Lyric Symphony for soprano, baritone and orchestra op.18 (after poems by Rabindranath Tagore) (1922/23) Sinfonietta ...

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Alexander von Zemlinsky, Alexander von Zemlinsky - Early Life, Alexander von Zemlinsky - Alma Mahler and in his later career, Alexander von Zemlinsky - Work, Alexander von Zemlinsky - List of selected Works, Alexander von Zemlinsky - Orchestral Works, Alexander von Zemlinsky - Operas, Alexander von Zemlinsky - Other Works for the stage, Alexander von Zemlinsky - Choral Works, Alexander von Zemlinsky - Voices and orchestra, Alexander von Zemlinsky - Songs for voice and piano, Alexander von Zemlinsky - Chamber Music, Alexander von Zemlinsky - Works for piano, Alexander von Zemlinsky - External link

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