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2 May 2016, 6:54 pm
Many believe that these public shaming tactics harken back to the “Scarlett Letter” days of Nathaniel Hawthorne. [read post]
18 Mar 2007, 10:59 am
" The list of skeptics reads like a Who's Who of the English-speaking world: Washington Irving, James Joyce, Sigmund Freud, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Helen Keller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles, Malcolm X, Leslie Howard, Sir John Gielgud, Sir Derek Jacobi, Michael York, Jeremy Irons, Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, and many more. [read post]
10 Nov 2011, 2:53 pm
Which judge had Nathaniel Hawthorne as his brother-in-law? [read post]
30 Jun 2022, 12:57 pm
"('My shaggy ally' was how [Emily] Dickinson referred to her own Newfie, Carlo.) [read post]
1 May 2013, 9:09 am
It's like Nathaniel Hawthorne was a Boomer. [read post]
27 Dec 2019, 4:33 am
Baym noted, Nathaniel Hawthorne, for one, complained in 1855 about the 'damned mob of scribbling women' whose inexplicably popular work he feared would hurt his own book sales. [read post]
30 Sep 2007, 9:30 am
Usually made from two hinged boards with holes cut for the head and hands, this technical upgrade to the stocks was used to expose convicts to public scorn.In his novel, "The Scarlet Letter," Nathaniel Hawthorne described one of the machines, and said, "There can be no outrage, methinks ... more flagrant than to forbid the culprit to hide his face for shame. [read post]
23 Nov 2019, 12:01 am
” His wife Jane died of tuberculosis in Andover, Massachusetts in December 1863, and Pierce was further grieved by the death of his close friend Nathaniel Hawthorne in May 1864. [read post]
12 Jun 2019, 8:00 am
Mark Catron, Nathaniel A. [read post]
1 Aug 2010, 5:11 am
” In it, she compares the way the adulteress in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter ” was treated to the way we treat folks convicted of a DUI. [read post]
11 May 2012, 7:18 am
Conan Doyle (Mugar PR 4622 .L6 F12) The Man Who Would be King by Rudyard Kipling (Mugar PR 4854 .M16 1987) Lord of the Flies by William Golding (Mugar PR 6013 .O56 L6 F62) Classics A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (available as an e-book through the library catalog) The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper (Education: Young Adult PS 1408 .A25 1950) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey (Mugar PS 3561 .E667 O5 2003) Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis… [read post]
21 Mar 2012, 7:23 pm
What burned more than the transient physical pain was the humiliation of public shaming, particularly in small, tightly knit communities, as Nathaniel Hawthorne describes in The Scarlet Letter. [read post]
9 Oct 2009, 12:47 pm
The latter is nothing new, with historical roots in the mark of Cain, Jesus's crucifixion, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and the Nazis' yellow stars during the Holocaust -- quite the range right there. - Funny how when the Nazi's are mentioned with sex offender issues, it's ignored, and here, they mention the same thing! [read post]
8 Oct 2012, 12:16 pm
Nathaniel Hawthorne spoke to the multiple Mitt problem: “No one man can, for any considerable time, wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which is the true one. [read post]
8 Jun 2009, 12:02 am
Without the stratagems of art, which are rarely spontaneous and unmediated, even the most heartfelt utterances not only sound banal, but are banal.It may have been that Nathaniel Hawthorne, the consummate artist, rereading his wife's ''maiden'' letters, decided to burn them as much for aesthetic as for personal reasons; for nothing leaves us more exposed and vulnerable, like a mollusk pried out of its shell, than heartfelt declarations, especially when… [read post]
12 May 2016, 5:00 am
“I think at some point Hester Prynne gets to take the scarlet letter off,” says attorney Justin Dillon, referring to the A (for “adulteress”) worn by the character in the Nathaniel Hawthorne novel The Scarlet Letter. [read post]
15 Sep 2021, 10:57 pm
Who wrote this, Nathaniel Hawthorne? [read post]
5 Jan 2018, 12:51 pm
(Then again, RAND somehow failed to include my references to Chicken Little and Nathaniel Hawthorne). [read post]
18 Mar 2007, 9:42 am
"The list of skeptics reads like a Who's Who of the English-speaking world: Washington Irving, James Joyce, Sigmund Freud, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Helen Keller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles, Malcolm X, Leslie Howard, Sir John Gielgud, Sir Derek Jacobi, Michael York, Jeremy Irons, Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, and many more. [read post]
9 Jan 2024, 3:46 pm
If you are interested in some of the titles on Wigmore and Weisberg’s lists, here is an abridged list of some of the more popular novels: Charles Dickens‘ Oliver Twist and Bleak House Nathaniel Hawthorne‘s The Scarlet Letter Harper Lee‘s To Kill A Mockingbird Jean Paul Sartre‘s No Exit Richard Wright‘s Native Son R. [read post]
