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Tommy" is an 1890 poem [1] by Rudyard Kipling, reprinted in his 1892 Barrack-Room Ballads. [2] The poem addresses the ordinary British soldier of Kipling's time in a sympathetic manner. [ 3 ] It is written from the point of view of such a soldier, and contrasts the treatment they receive from the general public during peace and during war.
The Simple Life [50] "That's what she said!" Michael Scott: The Office [54] "The thrill of victory, the agony of defeat" Jim McKay: ABC's Wide World of Sports [49] [50] "The Tribe has spoken." Jeff Probst: Survivor: 2000 [49] [50] "The truth is out there" Fox Mulder: The X-Files [50] "This is the city ..." Joe Friday: Dragnet: 1951 [50]
When fictional television anchor Howard Beale leaned out of the window, chanting, "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!" in the 1976 movie 'Network,' he struck a chord with ...
"I Am – Somebody" is a poem often recited by Reverend Jesse Jackson, and was used as part of PUSH-Excel, a program designed to motivate black students. [ 1 ] A similar poem was written in the early 1940s by Reverend William Holmes Borders , Sr., senior pastor at the Greater Wheat Street Baptist Church and civil rights activist in Atlanta ...
The poem is known as Clare's "last lines" [4] and is his most famous. [5] The poem's title is used for a 2003 collection of Clare's poetry, I Am: The Selected Poetry of John Clare, edited by his biographer Jonathan Bate, [6] and it had previously been included in the 1992 Columbia University Press anthology, The Top 500 Poems. [7]
Two recordings of the song were released. One was recorded in 1990 and was the Pumpkins' first release and first on Limited Potential. This recording was financed with the money from Corgan's college tuition fund left by his grandmother. [4] "I Am One" was re-recorded for Gish and a new single was released on Caroline Records and Hut Recordings.
The best world is the one with the greatest "degree of reality", the greatest "quantity of essence", the greatest "perfection" and "intelligibility". [2] According to this tradition, "evil, though real, is not a 'thing', but rather a direction away from the goodness of the One"; [ 11 ] evil is the absence of good , and accordingly, it is ...
The Best Things in Life Are Free is a 1956 American musical film directed by Michael Curtiz. The film stars Gordon MacRae , Dan Dailey , and Ernest Borgnine as the real-life songwriting team of Buddy DeSylva , Lew Brown , and Ray Henderson of the late 1920s and early 1930s, and Sheree North as Kitty Kane, a singer (possibly based on Helen Kane ).