Download or read book Nine Decades Of Memories written by Orville Helm and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memories are short, pop up out of nowhere, do not come in chronological order, or any order at all and do not come with characters dressed in pin-striped suits or polka-dot shirts! Memories are recollections of events that have occurred during your lifetime. They deal with sickness, health, the weather, tornadoes, your family, friends, childhood, job, and more. Some memories are warm and make you smile; some bring tears, and other brings laughter. Ninety years has left many memories with me, and in this book, I have jotted down dozens of memories as I recall them to share with you. Memories are short; therefore, the chapters are short, making this book an easy read.
Download or read book Nine Decades of Making the Best Better written by Karliana Brooks Sakas and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of 4-H in Fairfax County, Virginia.
Download or read book Nine Decades with Jesus written by William Alvis Patrick and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-05-13 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine Decades with Jesus was chosen as the title because I believe, without a doubt, that Jesus has been with me from before my birth and throughout the nine decades of my life. Closer than a brother, Christ was always there to pull me back during my weakest moments. Knowing that Jesus is at the right hand of the Father would mean that Jesus's right hand is free. There are times when I could feel his hand in my left hand. I can't explain it any better than that. His never-failing words are beyond words. I have attempted to write this in a way that all who read my writing will somehow be drawn closer to the Lord and they too might have an enduring walk that would carry them through their own nine decades.
Download or read book The Ninth Decade written by Carl H. Klaus and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ninth Decade is a path-breaking and timely book on aging: the first to focus explicitly and at length on eighty-somethings, the fastest-growing demographic in the industrialized world. Covering eight years in lively six-month installments, Klaus tells a vivid story not only of his own ninth decade and survival routines, but also of his loving companion, Jackie, who is strikingly different from him in her physical well-being, practical outlook, sociable temperament, and vigorous workouts. Cameos of their octogenarian friends and relatives near and far add to a wide-ranging and revelatory portrayal of advanced aging, as do bios of notable octogenarians. The multi-year scope of his chronicle reveals the numerous physical and mental problems that arise during octogenarian life and how eighty-year-olds have dealt with those challenges. The Ninth Decade is a unique, first-hand source of information for anyone in their sixties, seventies, or eighties, as well as for persons devoted to care of the aged. Though the challenges of octogenarian life often require specialized care, The Ninth Decade also shows the pleasures of it to be so special as to have inspired Lillian Hellman’s paradoxical description of “longer life” as “the happy problem of our time.”
Download or read book Love Thee Notre Dame written by Richard Libowitz and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How About A Martini written by Don Morrow and published by First Edition Design Pub.. This book was released on 2017-05-26 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Opa Stories written by Gert Volpp and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-08 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chance has played a large role in my life. When I was 15 working on a farm, I nearly fell 50 feet through a pile of hay covering the rafters of a barn. I instinctively reached out both arms and fortunately found a rafter under each arm. If either of the beams had been positioned 90 degrees to the left or right, I would have fallen down through the hay.On my examination before graduation in high school, had I gotten the question about Tirpitz that my best friend received, since I knew nothing about Prussian politics, I would have failed the exam. I drew a question about the American Declaration of Independence, however. It just so happened that I had read about the Declaration of Independence in a magazine and become very interested in it. I knew the introduction to the Declaration of Independence by heart in German, so after a few sentences, it was clear that I knew more than the examiners, and I did well on the exam. Riding my motorcycle on a wintry day, the tires skid and I was run over by a beer truck. If I had been three feet to either side of where I fell, the tires of the beer truck would have crushed me. However, the wheels were in a straight position, which means that I happened to fall right in front of the truck. It ran over me, but I was unhurt and the truck came to a stop with me lying on the ground looking up at the oil pan beneath the truck. I was able to ride away from the accident more or less unscathed.Going to Harvard to work with Woodward was another thing that happened because of chance - my mentor in Basel knew him and Woodward had a place open at the time. I almost didn't get an immigration visa, but the Vice-Consulate in Stuttgart came from Harvard, and despite a technicality that could have meant no visa, he wanted me to go to Harvard and made it possible.Where you find employment is very much a matter of chance. You may have an employer in mind, but they don't necessarily hire when you want the job. That was the case with Sandoz. Sandoz was paying me a full salary for a beginning chemist as a graduate student, with no other agreement than that I would interview with them after I finished. When I eventually looked for a job as I was leaving Harvard, I went to Sandoz in New Jersey and interviewed with them. They were re-organizing, however, and didn't want to hire. The averted disaster stories could go under one heading, "Learning the Hard Way." Other stories have to do with having a sense of values and not compromising. I have a willingness to admit that I can't do something. My favorite example of this was the mass spectroscopy story from when I was an undergraduate. I know that I'm as bright as the other guy, so if I cannot do it, others presumably cannot do it either. That almost all the students in the intro class on physics in Basel were cheating for five semesters - two and a half years - is almost unbelievable. To me, the miraculous thing is that my willingness to admit that I can't do something, in other words, my unwillingness to cheat, somehow ended up influencing my life trajectory. That is why Professors Tamm and Reichstein at the University of Basel did not have to worry about where they were going to send me.
Download or read book 90 Years in Singapore written by Irene Lim and published by Pagesetters Services Pte Ltd. This book was released on with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irene Lim writes vividly about her life, family and friends over a period of 90 years. Except for a few years spent in Bukit Mertajam, Penang during the Japanese Occupation, Irene’s account is also a small Singapore Story.
Download or read book Sunny Memories of Three Pastorates written by William Elliot Grifffis and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If I were to say that in looking over my life as a pastor, it seemed to me that I had but one charge, and that was in Schenectady, I might be doing injustice to my fellow-Christians in Boston and Ithaca, who were co-workers with me; and yet I should not be far from the truth in uttering my feelings thus; for, apart from the freshness of first love, there was, between the edifice itself and my boyhood dreams, a providential link of endearment of which I shall tell.-from "In the Home Land Again-Schenectady"Cosy and intimate, these recollections of a life in the service of God make up a warm and heartfelt professional autobiography of a man who dedicated his life to faith and education. William Elliot Griffis served as a pastor and teacher in Schenectady (from 1877-1886), Boston (1886-1893), and Ithaca (1893-1903), where he drew around him a wide circle of dedicated students and devoted friends, and his cheerful stories of them and his work are a joy to read. First published in 1903, this lovely book also includes an inspiring collection of Griffis's sermons and essays on such topics as camaraderie, community, and Christ.Also available from Cosimo Classics: Griffis's The Religions of Japan.American author, educator, and theologian WILLIAM ELLIOT GRIFFIS (1843-1912) was born in Philadelphia. He is also the author of Welsh Fairy Tales, The Firefly's Lovers, The Unmannerly Tiger, Brave Little Holland, and Bonnie Scotland.
Download or read book Memory written by Frederick Welton Colegrove and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Journal of Psychology written by Granville Stanley Hall and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Collective Traumas written by Conny Mithander and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collective Traumas is about the traumatic European history of the 20th century - war, genocide, dictatorship, ethnic cleansing - and how individuals, communities and nations have dealt with their dark past through remembrance, historiography and legal settlements. Memories, and especially collective memories, serve as foundations for national identities and are politically charged. Regardless whether memory is used to support or to challenge established ideologies, it is inevitably subject to political tensions. Consequently, memory, history and amnesia tend to be used and abused for different political and ideological purposes. From the perspectives of historical, literary and visual studies the essays focus on how the experiences of war and profound conflict have been represented and remembered in different national cultures and communities. This volume is a vital contribution to memory studies and trauma theory. Collective Traumas is a result of the multidisciplinary research project on Memory Culture that was initiated in 2002 at Karlstad University, Sweden. A previous publication with Peter Lang is Memory Work: The Theory and Practice of Memory (2005).
Download or read book Magician of the Modern written by Eugene R. Gaddis and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2011-11-09 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Chick Austin is the story, in Virgil Thomson's words, of "a whole cultural movement in one man." Becoming director of Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum at the age of twenty-six, Austin immediately set about to introduce modern art to America and to transform this conservative insurance capital into a cultural mecca that would become the talk of the art world during the yeasty years between the two world wars. The first in the United States to mount a major Picasso retrospective, Austin was soon acquiring works by Dalí, Mondrian, Miró, Balthus, Max Ernst, and Alexander Calder. In the museum's new theater (which he designed), he staged the premiere of the revolutionary Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson opera Four Saints in Three Acts (with an all-black cast). At Lincoln Kirstein's instigation, he brought Balanchine to America. And he embraced all the new art forms, making film, photography, architecture, and contemporary music part of the life of his museum. For his own family he built a Palladian villa (now a recently restored national historic landmark), filling it with the baroque and the Bauhaus and inviting all the locals in to see how it felt to be modern. Austin's instinct for quality proved infallible. Whether acquiring a matchless Caravaggio or a startling Dalí, he balanced the old masters with the modern. Mounting provocative shows that linked the past to the present, he created dramatic installations--and he threw himself into everything, hanging fabrics, creating backdrops, stitching up costumes. He loved to teach, to paint, to act, to give lavish costume balls, and to dazzle audiences of all ages with his performances as a magician, the Great Osram. Brilliant at using his magician's sleight of hand, he could manipulate his conservative trustees to get what he wanted--but only up to a point. One more purchase of an incomprehensible abstract canvas, one outrageous party too many, one more shocking theatrical role, eventually led to a crisis. Never one to be idle for long, Austin left Hartford and took on a new challenge--to make an artistic triumph of the pink-and-white palace in Sarasota, Florida, known as the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, which housed the circus king's moldering but magnificent collection. Here is the colorful life of Chick Austin, and as we relish his audacious career--the risks he took, the successes he enjoyed along with the inevitable setbacks--we understand what a far-reaching influence he had on the way Americans look at and think about art. Not only a brilliant portrait of an extraordinary man, this wonderfully American story gives us a fascinating behind-the-scenes glimpse into the art world as it was then--and in many ways still is today.
Download or read book Reminiscences of Nine Decades written by Burr W. Jones and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memories Of May Tarrin s Bay 5 written by Juliet Madison and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They say that truth is stranger than fiction, but in Tarrin's Bay, she's about to find that love is stronger than time... By day, single mother Olivia Chevalier runs the family's bookstore and raises her nine–year–old daughter. By night, she escapes into a world of fiction where there is excitement, romance, and happy endings. Both of her roles are endlessly rewarding, but Olivia's life has not been without challenges, hard work, and disappointment. So when enigmatic travel writer Joel Foster walks into her bookstore – and her life – with his mantras of trying new things and taking risks, Olivia knows that nothing will change. But when a family dilemma surfaces, Olivia is compelled to enroll in Joel's writing course to tell the story of her grandmother's life. With each new day and each new page, Olivia discovers secrets about her family and truths about herself, and finds herself yearning to rewrite the story she has planned and seek a life as intriguing as fiction.
Download or read book Can Art History be Made Global written by Monica Juneja and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-03-20 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book responds to the challenge of the global turn in the humanities from the perspective of art history. A global art history, it argues, need not follow the logic of economic globalization nor seek to bring the entire world into its fold. Instead, it draws on a theory of transculturation to explore key moments of an art history that can no longer be approached through a facile globalism. How can art historical analysis theorize relationships of connectivity that have characterized cultures and regions across distances? How can it meaningfully handle issues of commensurability or its absence among cultures? By shifting the focus of enquiry to South Asia, the five meditations that make up this book seek to translate intellectual insights of experiences beyond Euro–America into globally intelligible analyses.
