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"Question authority" is a popular slogan often used on bumper stickers, T-shirts and as graffiti.The slogan was popularized by controversial psychologist Timothy Leary, [1] although some people have suggested that the idea behind the slogan can be traced back to the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates. [2]
Despite Hearst's attempts to destroy the film, since 1941 references to his life and career have usually included a reference to Citizen Kane, such as the headline 'Son of Citizen Kane Dies' for the obituary of Hearst's son. [144] In 2012, the Hearst estate agreed to screen the film at Hearst Castle in San Simeon, breaking Hearst's ban on the film.
Portrait of Michael Cusack, on whom The Citizen is based.. The Citizen is a fictional character in James Joyce's novel Ulysses.In part, he is a satirical portrait of Irish nationalist (and Gaelic Athletic Association founder) Michael Cusack (1847–1906) [1] and Joyce's portrayal operates to expose what one critic called the "xenophobic ideologies of radical Celticists". [2]
Citizen: An American Lyric is a 2014 book-length poem [1] and a series of lyric essays by American poet Claudia Rankine. Citizen stretches the conventions of traditional lyric poetry by interweaving several forms of text and media into a collective portrait of racial relations in the United States . [ 2 ]
In the 2018 adaptation of Dr. Seuss' beloved children's storybook, Benedict Cumberbatch brings the mean ol' Grinch to life in the best retelling since Boris Karloff's original 1958 animated special.
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The Unknown Citizen" is a poem written by W. H. Auden in 1939, shortly after he moved from England to the United States. The poem was first published on January 6, 1940 in The New Yorker , and first appeared in book form in Auden's collection Another Time ( Random House , 1940).
You can have too much of a good thing; You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink; You can never/never can tell; You cannot always get what you want; You cannot burn a candle at both ends. You cannot have your cake and eat it too; You cannot get blood out of a stone; You cannot make a silk purse from a sow's ear