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Bass, Kingsley, Jr.   Reference library

The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature

...Bass, Kingsley, Jr. , is the pseudonym of Black Theater movement playwright Ed Bullins for the publication of We Righteous Bombers in the anthology New Plays from the Black Theatre ( 1969 ) and the play's production at the New Lafayette Theatre in Harlem in May of 1969. New Plays from the Black Theatre lists Kingsley B. Bass, Jr. , as “a 24-year-old Black man murdered by Detroit police during the uprising,” but in a panel discussion of We Righteous Bombers at the New Lafayette Theatre ( 11 May 1969 ), playwright Marvin X reported that Bullins in...

Bullins, Ed (2 July 1935)   Reference library

The Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre

...Ed [pseud. Kingsley B. Bass, Jr. ] (b. Philadelphia, Pa. , 2 July 1935 ) Playwright . He turned from novel-writing to theatre and was inspired by Baraka 's plays. An integral force in the emergence in the 1960s of Black theatre in the united states , in 1967 he became resident playwright at Harlem's New Lafayette Theater and edited its magazine Black Theatre . His plays are rooted in naturalism, yet he experiments in form, using jazz , blues and ritual . A prolific writer, his best-known titles include Clara's Ole Man ( 1965 ), Goin'a...

shipwrecks   Reference library

Aaron Beek and Alkiviadis Ginalis

The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity

...Aaron Beek ; Alkiviadis Ginalis D. G. Bartoli , Marble Transport in the Time of the Severans: A New Analysis of the Punta Scifo A Shipwreck at Croton, Italy (diss. Texas A and M University, 2008). G. F. Bass and F. H. van Doornick Jr , ‘A Fourth-Century Shipwreck at Yassi Ada’, AJA 75 (2011), 27–37. G. F. Bass and F. H. van Doornick Jr , eds., Yassi Ada: A Seventh- Century Byzantine Shipwreck (1982). D. N. Carlson , J. Leidwanger , and S. M. Kampbell , eds., Maritime Studies in the Wake of the Byzantine Shipwreck at Yassiada (2015). Y....

Men   Reference library

Encyclopedia of Social Work (20 ed.)

...The concept of masculinity in Asian American males. In G. R. Brooks & G. E. Good (Eds.), The new handbook of psychotherapy and counseling with men: A comprehensive guide to settings, problems, and treatment approaches , Vol. 2 (pp. 780–795). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Thompson, E. H., Jr. , & Pleck, J. H. (1986). The structure of male role norms. American Behavioral Scientist , 29, 531–543. Tudiver, F. , & Talbot, Y. (1999). Why don't men seek help? Family physicians' perspectives on help-seeking behavior in men . Journal of Family Practice ,...

Electronic instruments   Reference library

Hugh Davies

The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments

...c 1937 V. Karapetoff, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY cello ? c 1937 Benjamin F. Miessner, Millburn, NJ double bass c 1933 A.E. Allen and V.A. Pfeil, Orange NJ double bass c 1934 Lloyd Loar, Acousti-Lectric Co., Kalamazoo, MI Radio Bull-Fiddle c 1935 Ivan Eremeeff, Philadelphia double bass 1936 Electro String Instrument Co., Los Angeles (under the Rickenbacker marque) double bass ? c 1937 Benjamin F. Miessner, Millburn, NJ Radiotone (keyboard ‘hurdy-gurdy’) c 1930 Gabriel Boreau, Paris ...

Expeditions, World Exploration   Reference library

The Oxford Companion to World Exploration

...the great lakes and mountains of Africa's interior inspired expeditions in 1855–1876 by Burton, John Hanning Speke , James Augustus Grant , Samuel Baker , Cameron, Henry Stanley , Joseph Thomson , and—above all—by Livingstone. Harry Johnston, Frederick Lugard , and Mary Kingsley were among later British African travelers to achieve fame. British interest in South America was much less marked, although the scientific travels of Charles Darwin or the lesser-known Henry Bates should be noted, as well as the work of Robert Schomburgk in the Guiana...

Human Needs   Reference library

Encyclopedia of Social Work (20 ed.)

...and politics . Social Work , 41, 306–312. Moss, B. (2005). Religion and spirituality . Dorset, U.K.: Russel House Publishing. Nash, M. , & Stewart, R. (Eds.). (2002). Spirituality and social care: Contributing to personal and community well-being . London: Jessica Kingsley. National Association of Social Workers. (2002). NASW priorities on faith-based human services initiatives [Electronic version]. Retrieved November 15, 2007, from http://www.socialworkers.org/advocacy/positions/faith.asp Nelson-Becker, H. , Nakashima, M. , & Canda, E. R. ...

Libraries and collections   Reference library

Mary Wallace Davidson, D.W. Krummel, and James P. Cassaro

The Grove Dictionary of American Music (2 ed.)

...E.A. Bowles: “A Checklist of Musical Instruments in Fifteenth-century Illuminated Manuscripts at the Pierpont Morgan Library,” Notes , xxx (1973–4), 759–65; The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection (New York, 1978); J.R. Turner: Nineteenth-century Autograph Music MSS in the Pierpont Morgan Music Library (New York, 1982); J.R. Turner: “‘Infinite Riches in a Little Room’: the Music Collections in the Pierpont Morgan Library,” Notes , lv (1998–9), 288–326, 547–82 Poughkeepsie. Vassar College (PO) . At Vassar College, George Sherman Dickinson ...

horse n.   Reference library

Green's Dictionary of Slang

...What Price Glory? I ii: What's Cooper doing now? Boy, following the ponies, following the ponies. He's out collecting apples. c. 1930 (ref. to 1868 ) N. Kimball Amer. Madam ( 1981 ) 65: Me walking around the sparrows fighting over fresh dropped horse apples. 1935 S. Kingsley Dead End Act I: It's a dried up hawse-ball. 1957 (con. 1944 ) A. Myrer Big War 333: Pills, which were the oval and the size of horse-beans. 1958 E. Gilbert Vice Trap 37: I won't kick any horse apples down the street. 1960 R.M. Rogers Long White Cloud 37:...

Bibliography, Selected   Reference library

Green's Dictionary of Slang

... Collected Prose ed. Colin Roderick (Sydney 1972) —— Collected Verse ed. Colin Roderick 3 vols. (Sydney 1967–9) —— Complete Prose Works (Sydney 1948) Lay Jr, Bierne and Bartlett, Sy Twelve O'Clock High (New York 1948) [South Yarmouth, MA 1975] ‘L.B.’ New Academy of Complements (London 1671) Lea, George Somewhere There's Music (New York 1958) Leader, Zachary (ed.) The Letters of Kingsley Amis (London 2000) Leavitt, A.J. The Body Snatcher s (New York 1879) [New York 1879] —— and White, Charles The Lost Will (New York 1864) [New York 1875]...