study of the elements of wisdom , the modern psychometrician Robert Sternberg identified perspicacity ..., perspicacity was described as quote ...has intuition can offer solutions that are on the side of right ..., the quality most needed by a scientist astronaut is perspicacity. He must, the brochure says, be able ... Perspicacity as Adaptive Not Depressive Realism Or Where Three Theories Meet ref The quality is needed ... in his 1936 painting Perspicacity . The picture shows an artist at work who studies his subject ... more details
Context date April 2011 John the Prophet , known also as Venerable John , practiced a life of silence and earned the gifts of prophecy and perspicacity , for which he received the designation of prophet. During 18 years, up to his death, he lived near the Barsanuphius . Knowing the date of his demise and in response to Abba Elianus request he postponed his death for two weeks in order to instruct him how to run the cloister. External links cite web url http www.orthodoxphotos.com readings instructions barsanuphius.shtml publisher Orthodox Photos title Elders Barsanuphius and John accessdate April 09, 2011 Christian theologian stub Category Egyptian hermits Category Year of birth unknown pt Jo o, o Profeta ... more details
Mergeto Early 18th Century Whig Plots discuss Talk Bandbox Plot date May 2009 The Bandbox Plot of November 4, 1712 was an attempt on the life of Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford , the then British Lord Treasurer , which was foiled by the perspicacity of Jonathan Swift author of Gulliver s Travels , who happened to be visiting the Earl of Oxford. A bandbox was a lightweight hat box this particular one had been configured to fire a number of loaded and cocked pistols on opening, much as a modern day parcel bomb might be arranged to detonate on opening. In this case, the triggers were attached to a thread Swift, perceiving the thread, seized the package and cut the thread thus disarming the device. The attack was laid at the door of the British Whig Party Whig party and threw enormous popular sympathy behind Harley. The event was widely written about in the broadsheets of the time Swift himself wrote about the occurrence in his Letters to Stella http etext.library.adelaide.edu.au s swift jonathan s97s letter55.html . Category 1712 in Great Britain Category History of the British Isles Category Assassination attempts ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Subhan Ali Khan Kamboh b. 1766 was an Indian Muslim scholar, son of Ali Hussain Khan Kamboh of Bareilly in Rohilkhand . He completed his education under Dildar Ali Naseerabadi Ghufran Ma ab Sayyid Dildar Ali Nasirabadi and excelled his fellow students in perspicacity and scholarly achievements. Subhan Ali Khan Kamboh specialized in logic, philosophy, literature and Qur anic exegesis, hadis and fiqh, etc. He also learnt English and Hebrew languages ref A Socio intellectual History of the Isn Ashar Sh s in India 16th to 19th century A.D., 1986, p 176, Saiyid Athar Abbas Rizvi. ref . He was closely associated with Shaikh Ali Hazin. He rose to become Deputy Prime Minister of Awadh during Roshan ud Daula s Prime Ministership in the reign of Ghazi ud Din Haider. He wielded immense influence in Awadh and is said to have been the de facto Prime Minister during Roshan ud Din s Prime Minisrship ref Two kings of Awadh Muhammad Ali Shah and Amjad Ali Shah, 1837 1847, p 25, fn 25, Safi Ahmad. ref . He had also been the Prime Minister of Agha Mir. Mirza Ghalib received an invitation to a reception in audience by the ruler s Deputy Prime Minister i.e Subhan Ali Kamboh but the meeting did not happen because Mirza Ghalib stipulated two pre conditions to his meeting with the formers 1 , that he be granted due honor and 2 , that he should be excused from making the customary peshkash . Benefactors did not like pre conditions being laid down by the supplicants hence the meeting failed ref British Aggression in Avadh,1969, p 14, Safi Ahmad Khan, M. M. Uddin Khan. ref . References references Category Kamboj ... more details
Image JohannHeinrichMerck.jpg thumb Johann Heinrich Merck 1741 1791 Johann Heinrich Merck April 11, 1741 &ndash June 27, 1791 , Germany German author and critic , was born at Darmstadt , a few days after the death of his father, a chemist. He studied law at Gie en , and in 1767 was given an appointment in the paymaster s department at Darmstadt, and a year later himself became paymaster. For a number of years he exercised considerable influence upon the literary movement in Germany he helped to found the Frankfurter gelehrte Anzeigen in 1772, and was one of the chief contributors to Christoph Friedrich Nicolai Nicolai s Allgemeine Bibliothek . In 1773 he accompanied the Landgravine Karoline of Hesse Darmstadt to Saint Petersburg , and on his return was a guest of the Carl August, Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar Eisenach duke Charles Augustus of Weimar in Wartburg Castle the Wartburg . Unfortunate speculations brought him into pecuniary embarrassment in 1788, and although friends, notably Goethe were ready to come to his assistance, his losses combined with the death of five of his children so preyed upon his mind that he committed suicide on June 27, 1791. Merck distinguished himself mainly as a critic his keen perception, critical perspicacity and refined taste made him a valuable guide to the young writers of the Sturm und Drang . He also wrote a number of small treatises, dealing mostly with literature and art, especially painting, and a few poems, stories, narratives and the like but they have not much intrinsic importance. Merck s letters are particularly interesting and instructive, and throw much light upon the literary conditions of his time. Merck s Ausgew hlte Schriften zur sch nen Literatur und Kunst were published by A Stahr in 1840, with a biography. See also Merck family References Briefe an JH Merck von Goethe, Herder, Wieland und andern bedeutenden Zeitgenossen 1835 Briefe an und von JH Merck 1838 , edited by K Wagner Briefe aus dem Freundeskreise von Goet ... more details
For the Canadian politician William James Henderson politician William James Henderson December 4, 1855&ndash June 5, 1937 was an United States American musical critic and scholar, born at Newark, New Jersey . Biography He graduated from Princeton University Princeton in 1876 and immediately began work as a journalist, later as a reporter, then as the musical critic of The New York Times , and in 1902 of The New York Sun historical The New York Sun . He wrote perceptive press reviews of the performances of the Metropolitan Opera s star singers which remain valuable for today s scholars. Henderson s perspicacity as a musical reviewer and evaluator was recognised when he was appointed lecturer on musical history in the New York College of Music . He was also elected a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1914. Three days after the death of his longtime friend and fellow newspaper music critic, Richard Aldrich , he committed suicide with a .38 calibre revolver in his West Side Manhattan hotel room. Publications Sea Yarns for Boys Afloat with the Flag The Last Cruise of the Mohawk Preludes and Studies 1891 The Story of Music 1889 12 enlarged ed., 1912 Elements of Navigation 1895 What is Good Music? 1898 How Music Developed 1899 The Orchestra and Orchestral Music 1902 Richard Wagner, His Life and His Dramas 1901 Modern musical Drift 1904 The Art of the Singer 1906 Some Forerunners of Italian Opera 1911 The Soul of a Tenor 1912 a novel Early History of Singing 1921 References Baker, Theodore and Remy, Alfred, Ed. http books.google.com books?id H2kNAAAAIAAJ&pg PA385&img 1&zoom 3&hl en&sig ACfU3U3zX Fce0hPGmzzT5teb5Y12YGDpw&ci 74 2C815 2C403 2C397&edge 0 Henderson, William James , Baker s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, third edition , New York, 1919. Slonimsky, Nicolas, Ed. Baker s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, sixth edition , New York, 1978. http www.time.com time magazine article 0,9171,757930,00.html Music Silenced Oracles , Time , June ... more details
Infobox nrhp name Tubbs Carlisle House nrhp type image tubbs house.jpg caption Queen Anne on the High Plains of Texas location 602 Fulton Ave br Lubbock, Texas nearest city Lubbock, Texas lat degrees 33 lat minutes 35 lat seconds 56 lat direction N long degrees 101 long minutes 56 long seconds 24 long direction W area High Plains Llano Estacado built 1907 8 architect Unknown Carpenter was itinerant from E Texas architecture Queen Anne added November 2, 1990 TxHCR October 29, 2002 visitation num 1500 visitation year 150 refnum 90001719 mpsub governing body Nell Revier Tubbs Carlisle House or Tubbs House or Tubbs Revier House is an historic house in Lubbock, Texas . It is a memorial to the perspicacity, work ethic and dedication of the Pioneers who tamed, settled and developed the last frontier known as The Great American Desert , referred to generally as The Great Plains of the United States and Canada. Construction Isham and Texana Tubbs began to think of caring for Texana s sister Lizzie Spikes Carlisle who had cared for the sisters mother Lucinda Pelts Carter Spikes until her death at age 85 in 1902. This called for the sale of developed homesteads in Wolfforth, Texas and a move 10 miles across the prairie onto 1 1 2 sections adjoining W. A. Gus Carlisle s homesite. The timber for use in construction of this house was cut from trees selected by Isham Tubbs while on a return trip to their prior home in Kaufman County, Texas some 500 miles to the East. After milling, the lumber was railed to Colorado City, Texas Colorado City , Childress, Texas Childress and Amarillo, Texas , as the Railway neared Lubbock, and hauled to the site from those railheads by horse and wagon. There it cured onsite until construction was begun in 1907 and finished in 1908. The House was modeled after one found in a magazine picture or catalog fancied by Texana Tubbs. As the house began to take shape in framing, Uncle Gus and Aunt Lizzie expressed a desire to live there also, so they helped ... more details
Albert Cuny May 16, 1869 March 21, 1947 was a France French linguistics linguist known for his attempts to establish phonology phonological correspondences between the Indo European languages Indo European and Semitic languages Semitic languages and for his contributions to the laryngeal theory . He was a student of the French Indo Europeanist Antoine Meillet Edmond Faral Faral 1947 277 . From 1910 until his formal retirement from teaching in 1937 he was a professor of Latin and historical linguistics comparative grammar at the University of Bordeaux ib. 278 . He continued teaching Sanskrit at the University however for the rest of his life ib. . He was a correspondent of the Acad mie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres Acad mie des inscriptions et belles lettres ib. 277 . Cuny s place in the development of the laryngeal theory is described as follows by mile Benveniste 1935 148 quote The necessary precondition for any Indo European reconstruction was provided by the brilliant discovery of Ferdinand de Saussure F. de Saussure relative to the consonantal nature of the phoneme . Accepted and enriched by Hermann M ller M ller , by Holger Pedersen linguist Pedersen and Cuny, this theory can pass for established today thanks to the perspicacity of Jerzy Kury owicz J. Kury owicz , who was able to recognize two of the three varieties of Indo European in Hittite . See also Hermann M ller Indo Semitic languages Laryngeal theory Bibliography Selected works by Albert Cuny 1914. Notes de phon tique historique. Indo europ en et s mitique. Revue de phon tique 2 101 132. 1924. Etudes pr grammaticales sur le domaine des langues indo europ ennes et chamito s mitiques. Paris Champion. 1924, co authored with Michel F ghali. Du genre grammatical en s mitique. Paris Geuthner. 1943. Recherches sur le vocalisme, le consonantisme et la formation des racines en nostratique , anc tre de l indo europ en et du chamito s mitique. Paris Adrien Maisonneuve. 1946. Invitation l tude comparat ... more details
Infobox character colour DEDEE2 name William of Baskerville series image caption first last creator Umberto Eco portrayer alias gender Male speciality Deductive reasoning, Specialist in Semiotics and Theology occupation Franciscan Friar , Former Inquisitor title Brother family spouse children relatives nationality English William of Baskerville Italian language Italian Guglielmo da Baskerville is a fictional Franciscan friar from the novel Il nome della rosa The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco . Brother William was an inquisitor , who presided at some trials in England and Italy , where he distinguished himself by his wiktionary perspicacity perspicacity along with great humility . br In numerous cases he decided the accused was innocent. Later he left the job as an inquisitor. In the 1986 movie The Name of the Rose film The Name of the Rose , Sean Connery played the role of Brother William of Baskerville. Name and allusion The fictional friar , William of Baskerville, alludes both to the fictional sleuth Sherlock Holmes and to William of Ockham . The name itself is derived from William of Ockham and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle s The Hound of the Baskervilles book The Hound of the Baskervilles . Another view is that Eco has created Brother William as a combination of Roger Bacon , William of Occam and Sherlock Holmes. ref Haft, Adele J., Jane G. White, and Robert J White, The Key to the Name of the Rose , The University of Michigan Press, 1999 ref William of Ockham , who lived during the time of the novel, first put forward the principle known as Ockham s Razor often summarised as the dictum that one should always accept as most likely the simplest explanation that accounts for all the facts a method used by William of Baskerville in the novel , which William applies in a manner analogous to that in which Sherlock Holmes applies his familiar and arguably related dictum that when one has eliminated the impossible, whatever remains however improbable must be the truth. Cha ... more details
orphan date March 2010 File Gabriel S nac de Meilhan 1736 1803 , French School around 1780.jpg thumb Gabriel S nac de Meilhan ca. 1780 Gabriel S nac de Meilhan May 7, 1736 August 16, 1803 was a France French writer . Biography Son of Jean S nac , physician to Louis XV of France Louis XV , he was born in Versailles . He entered the civil service in 1762 two years later he bought the office of master of requests , and in 1766 further advanced his position by a rich marriage. He was successively intendant of La Rochelle , of Aix en Provence and of Valenciennes . In 1776 he became intendant general for war , but was soon compelled to resign. He had hoped to be made Controller General of Finances Minister of Finance , and was disappointed by the nomination of Jacques Necker Necker , of whom he became a bitter opponent. He was intimate with the comtesse de Tess , sister of the tienne Fran ois, duc de Choiseul duc de Choiseul , and in 1781 met Madame de Cr quy , then sixty seven years of age, and began a long friendship with her. His first book was the fictitious M moires d Anne de Gonzague, princesse palatine 1786 , thought by many people at the time to be genuine. In the next year followed the Consid rations sur les richesses et le luxe , combating the opinions of Necker and in 1788 the more valuable Consid rations sur l esprit et les m urs , a book which abounds in sententious, but often excessively frank, sayings. S nac witnessed the beginnings of the French Revolution in Paris, but emigrated in 1790, making his way first to London , and then, in 1791, to Aachen , where he met Pierre Alexandre de Tilly , who asserts in his Memoirs that S nac attributed the misfortunes of Louis XVI of France Louis XVI to the refusal of his own services. In 1793, while his recollections of the Revolution were still fresh, he wrote a novel, L migr Hamburg, 4 vols., 1797 , which shows perspicacity and good judgment in its treatment of events. It was reprinted in 1904 in an abridged form ... more details
Infobox writer for more information see Template Infobox writer doc name Nicholas Boyle image imagesize 150px caption birth name birth date Birth date and age 1946 06 18 df yes birth place nationality United Kingdom British occupation academic and biographer notableworks influences website Nicholas Boyle Fellow of the British Academy FBA born June 18, 1946 is the Schr der Professor of German at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge . He has written widely on German literature, intellectual history and religion and is known particularly for his award winning extensive biography of Goethe of which two of a projected three volumes have been published . ref http www.mml.cam.ac.uk german staff nb215 Staff profile Professor Nicholas Boyle Bot generated title ref Boyle became a fellow of the British Academy in 2000. ref http www.britac.ac.uk fellowship directory archive.asp?fellowsID 1371 Accessed 24th June 2008 ref Boyle s biography of Goethe currently runs to two volumes and he is writing the third. George Steiner has called him a critic of vivacious perspicacity and compares the scope of his work to Alan Bullock Lord Bullock s double portraits of Hitler and Stalin , Richard Holmes biographer Richard Holmes s Samuel Taylor Coleridge Coleridge , David Cairns writer David Cairns s Berlioz , Michael Holroyd s George Bernard Shaw Shaw , John Richardson art historian Richardson s Picasso , whilst The New York Times Book Review describes his biography as a remarkable achievement , adding that there is nothing comparable to this study in any language . ref http books.guardian.co.uk critics reviews 0,5917,130858,00.html Accessed 24th June 2008 and http www.oup.com us catalog general subject LiteratureEnglish WorldLiterature Germany dmlldz11c2EmY2k9OTc4MDE5OTI1NzUxNQ Accessed 24th June 2008 ref The biography has been translated into German by Holger Fliessbach. The Goethe Institut awarded Boyle their Goethe Medal in 2000. The second volume was s ... more details
Infobox film name Juke Joint image image size caption Theatrical poster for Juke Joint director Spencer Williams actor Spencer Williams producer Alfred N. Sack br Bert Goldberg br Inez Newell writer True T. Thompson narrator starring br Spencer Williams br July Jones br Inez Newell music Red Calhoun release cinematography George Sanderson editing released 1947 USA runtime 69 minutes country Cinema of the United States United States of America language English budget gross preceded by followed by website distributor Sack Amusement Enterprises Juke Joint is a 1947 in film 1947 race film directed by and starring Spencer Williams actor Spencer Williams and produced and released by Sack Amusement Enterprises. Plot Bad News Johnson, a con artist from Memphis, Tennessee , arrives in Dallas, Texas , accompanied by his dim sidekick July Jones with only twenty five cents between them. Johnson is constantly exasperated at Jones deficient perspicacity, and at one point he comments Jones is so dense that he probably thinks Veronica Lake is some kind of summer resort. The duo arrange to become boarders at the home of Louella Mama Lou Holiday, who is fooled into believing Johnson is an acting teacher named Whitney Vanderbilt Jones takes the alias of Cornbread Green. Mrs. Holiday agrees to give the men free room and board if they will provide poise lessons to her daughter, an aspiring beauty queen named Honey Dew. The lessons pay off and Honey Dew wins the beauty contest, but problems arise when Mrs. Holiday s husband, Papa Sam, decides to hold a party for the new beauty queen at a disreputable juke joint . ref http www.tcm.com tcmdb title.jsp?stid 5822 Overview for Juke Joint, Turner Classic Movies ref Production history Juke Joint was the last in a series of films directed by Spencer Williams, an African American actor and writer, for production by Sack Amusement Enterprises, a white owned Dallas based company that distributed all black race films to segregated theaters across th ... more details
Mangesh Vitthal Rajadhyaksha Marathi 7 June 1913 19 April 2010 was a Marathi writer and critic. He studied at Elphinstone College in Mumbai, where he won the prestigious Wordsworth Prize for the best student in English Literature. Rajadhyaksha later taught English Literature at Elphinstone College, Gujarat College Ahmedabad and Rajaram College Kolhapur . ref Cite web url http rajacollkop.org Departments.html title Rajaram College Departments publisher Rajacollkop.org date 1970 07 24 accessdate 2010 08 18 ref He also served on several prestigious committees, including the National Book Trust and the Jnanpith Trust that gives the Jnanpith Award . He was closely involved with Abhiruchi , a Marathi literary journal that was the launching pad for some of the greatest writers in the post independence era. ref name timesofindia1 Cite web url http epaper.timesofindia.com Repository ml.asp?Ref VE9JTS8yMDEwLzA0LzIxI0FyMDA5MDM &Mode HTML&Locale english skin custom title Noted critic, writer passes away at 96 publisher Epaper.timesofindia.com date 2010 04 21 accessdate 2010 08 18 ref The Times of India reported at the time of his death His essays, collected in seven volumes, brought to Marathi literary criticism a rare perspicacity, candour and impatience with cant. His style was economical, precise and always lined with irony. He also coauthored a seminal history of Marathi literature with Kusumavati Deshpande. Panch Kavi, a selection of the works of five poets who represented the new and modern in poetry at the turn of the 19th century, became a literary classic. His preface to the volume remains one of the most lucidly argued pieces of literary criticism. ref name timesofindia1 The Marathi daily Loksatta, in an editorial, described his death as the passing away of a , and one who was a scholar in the English critical tradition as well as a Marathi intellectual. ref http www.loksatta.com index.php?option com content&view article&id 638 ... more details
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