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...Jill Felicity Durey This article discusses John Galsworthy’s activist writing and beliefs concerning animal welfare within the context of modern twentieth-and twenty-first-century theoreticians, commentators, and leaders from a range of different disciplines, including Christian and secular...

...Liu Kang This article assesses the Chinese intellectual scene through sketching four groups of Chinese intellectuals: state strategists, the (politically) scandalous, professionals, and the weibo (microblogging) opinion leaders. The Chinese intellectual scene today is filled with excitement...

... remember. Every season it is a little different: sometimes taller and more terrible, other times solid, snowed over and comforting. We call it the anvil. The previous leader liked to stand atop the anvil, especially when he spoke. He would clamber up its south face and get as high up as he...

... an official slogan of the Communist Party of the United States (CP) nor an aesthetic criterion of Communist critics, it pervaded the working atmosphere of Communist or fellow-traveling writers in the United States. Party leader Earl Browder told the second American Writers Congress in June 1937...

... are the alpha. They need you to be a leader. I am the alpha. They need me to be a leader. I cannot be a leader any longer. My world has begun to betray me. It is the whale, I whisper. It’s coming for us. Enok shakes his head. He doesn’t believe there is a whale. But the glove, I...

... Wayman, Maureen Hynes, and Susan Eisenberg served as judges with an extensive and world-class poetry background. The contest supplemented their poetics with the abilities of the leaders from three of the larger Industrial Unions in North America, that included Basil “Buzz” Hargrove...

... articulated the conundrum of Fuchs's actions in terms of a historical comparison with another UF leader: Charles E. Young, who was UF president from 1999 to 2003. In 1969, while serving as the chancellor of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Young “made his reputation” in a “test of wills...

... of charisma,” that process whereby the initially revolutionary charismatic message of the prophetic leader “becomes part of the established social structure” (Weber 1139). Weber’s key examples are the originators of institutionalized religions. For Jameson...

... refuses to join the rural cooperative society. Despite persuasion and pressure from his wife, children, neighbors, village leaders, and leaders of higher ranks, he does not give in. His reason for doing so is very simple, for he only wants to cultivate his own piece of land and does not believe...

... the leader of men, driving Victory through the river, urging my boys to follow, when a whole horde of the heathen rise from the brush of the banks and train their rifles and arrows on us, so I fire my carbine till the barrel tip glows and my cheek burns and my ear becomes a ringing hollowed bell...

... faded. The ability of governments to respond to the hurricanes differed. In terms of eco- nomic capacity, the United States was unquestionably the strongest in the world. Mexico ranked among the leaders of developing econo- mies. Cuba’s largely unreformed command economy was far behind most...

...). Shlaes roughly follows Jim Powell’s FDR’s Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression (2003), arguing that Roosevelt’s aggressive and unpredictable experimentation paralyzed business leaders and thus stalled private-sector growth. Shlaes enacts the neoconservative logic...

... outside, see cloud that looks like anvil going to drop on neighbors? I have recipe for happiness, and it is this: forget blueprints, rubber masks, bombs like great, black cherries. Forget even Fearless Leader and his dusty monocle. Let us go, let us take walk and I...

... in the political arsenal of ideas animating current international indigenous politics. Indigenous leaders and their allies have invoked the language of the commons to assert their stakes in struggles over traditional forms of knowledge and over key resources, including land, water, and even the climate...

... as a nonproductive, esoteric institution. Over the next hundred years, these business leaders essentially took over the field of higher education and imposed their values on the university. As the university continues to go corporate, Donoghue predicts that the humanities...

... movement. Williams If the market is god of everything, then it makes sense why kids would not be keen on reading, since there's no profit (money) in it. It's hard not to relate the decline of reading to the tenor of current politics, whereby we have major leaders—and I know that you're...

.... Olson, Gary A., and John W. Presley. The Future of Higher Education: Perspectives from America’s Academic Leaders. Boulder: Paradigm, 2009. Pinn, Anthony B., and Benjamín Valentín, eds. Creating Ourselves: African Americans and Hispanic Americans on Popular Culture...

... and discussed in English and French. This work was connected with the Russian Formalist movement in criticism, which was having a vogue in the West as a precursor of structuralism. Shklovsky even enjoyed a moment of fame as the de facto leader of the Formalists, in which context his name still appears...

... becomes even more muddied when we note that some of the field’s leaders themselves were engaged in the type of work one might call cultural studies well before they self-identified — ​if they ever did self-identify — ​as cultural studies practitioners. As Gar­ cía Canclini explained in a 1996...

... city of Kars, where he encoun- ters a range of Islamic practices and performances among the obser- vant members of the population: a Kurdish sheikh, the Islamist mayoral candidate, young men labeled radicals and terrorists, and the leader of a group of girls protesting the ban on headscarves...