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  • What the Twilight Says (work by Walcott)
    The essays in What the Twilight Says (1998) are literary criticism. They examine such subjects as the intersection of literature and politics and the art of translation....
  • What Time Is the Next Swan? (work by Slezak)
    ...interpretations. In later years he abandoned singing and became known as a film comedian in Austria. His son, Walter Slezak (1902–83), a well-known American actor, wrote an autobiography, What Time Is the Next Swan? (1962); the title refers to his father’s famous ad-lib in Richard Wagner’s Lohengrin, when the swan moved offstage without him....
  • What Was It? (story by O’Brien)
    His best-known stories include “The Diamond Lens,” about a man who falls in love with a being he sees through a microscope in a drop of water; “What Was It?” in which a man is attacked by a thing he apprehends with every sense but sight; and “The Wondersmith,” in which robots are fashioned only to turn upon their creators. These three stories appeared in.....
  • What Work Is (poetry collection by Levine)
    Levine won the 1991 National Book Award for his collection What Work Is, an honour that did not stem his valiant outpourings but may have partly inspired the backward look that he achieves in The Bread of Time: Toward an Autobiography (1994), a series of autobiographical essays that one critic called both elegant and tough-minded. Among his......
  • Whately, Richard (English author and archbishop)
    Anglican archbishop of Dublin, educator, logician, and social reformer....
  • Whatever Gods May Be (work by Maurois)
    ...and the British character in Les Silences du Colonel Bramble (1918; The Silence of Colonel Bramble). His novels, including Bernard Quesnay (1926) and Climats (1928; Whatever Gods May Be), focus on middle-class provincial life, marriage, and the family. As a historian he demonstrated his interest in the English-speaking world with his popular histories:......
  • Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera) (song by Evans and Livingston)
    ...King and IMusic Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture: Victor Young for Around the World in 80 DaysScoring of a Musical Picture: Ken Darby and Alfred Newman for The King and ISong: “Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)” from The Man Who Knew Too Much; music and lyrics by Ray Evans and Jay LivingstonHonorary Award: Eddie Cantor...
  • Whatizit (Olympic mascot)
    ...or animals especially associated with the host country. Thus, Moscow chose a bear, Norway two figures from Norwegian mythology, and Sydney three animals native to Australia. The strangest mascot was Whatizit, or Izzy, of the 1996 Games in Atlanta, Georgia, a rather amorphous “abstract fantasy figure.” His name comes from people asking “What is it?” He gained more fea...
  • whatnot (furniture)
    series of open shelves supported by two or four upright posts. The passion for collecting and displaying ornamental objects that began in the 18th century and was widespread in the 19th stimulated the production in England and the United States of this whimsically named piece of furniture. The French version was called the étagère. Some examples contain drawers at the base; others ha...
  • What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (film by Hallström)
    ...in 1992 when he beat out 400 other hopefuls to act opposite Robert De Niro in This Boy’s Life (1993). DiCaprio earned rave reviews, and for his next film, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), he received an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor for his realistic portrayal of a mentally disabled teenager. Several indepen...
  • What’s Going On (recording by Gaye)
    ...by overdubbing (building sound track by track onto a single tape) his own voice three or four times to provide his own rich harmony, a technique he would employ for the rest of his career. What’s Going On was a critical and commercial sensation in spite of the fact that Gordy, fearing its political content (and its stand against the Vietnam War), had argued against its release....
  • What’s Love Got to Do with It? (film by Gibson)
    ...’n the Hood (1991), Deep Cover (1992), and Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993). His portrayal of musician Ike Turner in What’s Love Got to Do with It (1993) earned him an Academy Award nomination for best actor. In 1995 he became the first African American to play Shakespeare’s Othello in...
  • What’s the 411? (album by Blige)
    ...Records in 1988, the rhythm-and-blues label put Blige, who had dropped out of high school, under contract. She sang backup for various artists until the 1992 release of her first solo album, What’s the 411?, produced primarily by rapper Sean “Puffy” Combs (Diddy)....
  • wheal-and-flare reaction (allergic reaction)
    ...acute asthma. If the antigen is injected beneath the skin—for example, by the sting of an insect or in the course of some medical procedure—the local reaction may be extensive. Called a wheal-and-flare reaction, it includes swelling, produced by the release of serum into the tissues (wheal), and redness of the skin, resulting from the dilation of blood vessels (flare). If the......
  • wheat (plant)
    cereal grass of the Gramineae (Poaceae) family and of the genus Triticum and its edible grain, one of the oldest and most important of the cereal crops....
  • Wheat Belt (region, Western Australia, Australia)
    principal crop-growing region of Western Australia, occupying about 60,000 square miles (160,000 square km) in the southwestern section of the state. Served by the Perth-Albany Railway, the crescent-shaped belt is delineated on the west by a line drawn from Geraldton south through Moora, Northam, and Katanning to the western end of the Great Australian Bight. The eastern boundary of the belt bulg...
  • Wheat Belt (region, North America)
    the part of the North American Great Plains where wheat is the dominant crop. The belt extends along a north-south axis for more than 1,500 miles (2,400 km) from central Alberta, Can., to central Texas, U.S. It is subdivided into winter wheat and spring wheat areas. The southern area, where hard red winter wheat is grown, includes parts of the states of Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Nebraska, and Color...
  • wheat bread (food)
    baked food product made of flour or meal that is moistened, kneaded, and sometimes fermented. A major food since prehistoric times, it has been made in various forms using a variety of ingredients and methods throughout the world. The first bread was made in Neolithic times, nearly 12,000 years ago, probably of coarsely crushed grain mixed with water, with the resulting dough probably laid on hea...
  • wheat bug (insect)
    Many wheats in central Europe and the Middle East have shown evidence of attacks from the wheat bug (Weizen-wanze, or blé punaisé). The two main varieties are the Aelia and the Eurygaster. The eggs are laid in the spring, and the new generation appears in the summer. When the wheat is harvested, the bugs leave the stubble field and migrate to nearby......
  • wheat flake (food)
    The manufacture of wheat flakes is similar to that of corn flakes. Special machinery separates the individual grains so that they can be flaked and finally toasted....
  • Wheat Mother (anthropology)
    ...rice that is ritually cut and dressed as a woman. This is believed to contain the concentrated soul-stuff of the field (analogous customs occur in peasant Europe, where the last sheaf is designated Wheat Mother, Barley Mother, and other grain names)....
  • Wheatbelt (region, Western Australia, Australia)
    principal crop-growing region of Western Australia, occupying about 60,000 square miles (160,000 square km) in the southwestern section of the state. Served by the Perth-Albany Railway, the crescent-shaped belt is delineated on the west by a line drawn from Geraldton south through Moora, Northam, and Katanning to the western end of the Great Australian Bight. The eastern boundary of the belt bulg...
  • wheatear (bird)
    (genus Oenanthe), any of a group of 19 species of thrushes belonging to the family Turdidae. They resemble wagtails in having pied plumage and the tail-wagging habit (with body bobbing). Wheatears are about 15 cm (6 inches) long and have comparatively short tails, often with T-shaped markings. Most are black and white or black and gray; some have yellow touches; and each has a white rear (...
  • Wheatfields (painting by Ruisdael)
    ...St. Petersburg), recall his earlier interest in forest scenes. But more often his late works, such as the “Windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede” (c. 1665; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam), “Wheatfields” (c. 1670; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City), and his numerous views of Haarlem display panoramas of the flat Dutch countryside. The horizon is invariably low....
  • wheatgrass (plant)
    (genus Agropyron), any of a number of species of wheatlike grasses in the family Poaceae, found throughout the North Temperate Zone. The plants are perennials, 30 to 100 cm (about 12 to 40 inches) tall; many have creeping rhizomes (underground stems)....
  • Wheatland (house, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States)
    (genus Agropyron), any of a number of species of wheatlike grasses in the family Poaceae, found throughout the North Temperate Zone. The plants are perennials, 30 to 100 cm (about 12 to 40 inches) tall; many have creeping rhizomes (underground stems).......
  • Wheatley, John (British politician)
    British Labourite politician, champion of the working classes....
  • Wheatley, Paul (American author)
    Continuing Redfield and Singer’s concern for the cultural role of cities within their societies, Paul Wheatley in The Pivot of the Four Quarters (1971) has taken the earliest form of urban culture to be a ceremonial or cult centre that organized and dominated a surrounding rural region through its sacred practices and authority. According to Wheatley, only later did economic prominen...
  • Wheatley, Phillis (American poet)
    the first black woman poet of note in the United States....
  • Wheaton (Illinois, United States)
    city, seat (1867) of DuPage county, northeastern Illinois, U.S. It is a suburb of Chicago, located about 25 miles (40 km) west of downtown. The first settlers (1837) were Erastus Gary and brothers Warren and Jesse Wheaton, all of whom came from New England. The site was laid out in 1853 after the arrival (1849) of the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, which s...
  • Wheaton College (college, Wheaton, Illinois, United States)
    private, coeducational liberal arts college in Wheaton, Illinois, U.S. Wheaton College began as a preparatory school, the Illinois Institute, built by Wesleyan Methodists in 1854. It became a college in 1860 and was renamed for an early donor, Warren L. Wheaton, who also cofounded the city of Wheaton. Its educational programs are informed by Evangelical Christ...
  • Wheaton College (college, Norton, Massachusetts, United States)
    private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Norton, Massachusetts, U.S. It is a liberal arts college offering bachelor’s degree programs in such areas as biological and physical sciences, computer science, economics, music, psychology, and humanities. Students may create interdisciplinary majors; five-year dual-degree programs are offered i...
  • Wheaton Female Seminary (college, Norton, Massachusetts, United States)
    private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Norton, Massachusetts, U.S. It is a liberal arts college offering bachelor’s degree programs in such areas as biological and physical sciences, computer science, economics, music, psychology, and humanities. Students may create interdisciplinary majors; five-year dual-degree programs are offered i...
  • Wheaton, Henry (American jurist)
    American maritime jurist, diplomat, and author of a standard work on international law....
  • Wheatstone bridge (electrical instrument)
    ...Christie and popularized in 1843 by Sir Charles Wheatstone, measures resistance by comparing the current flowing through one part of the bridge with a known current flowing through another part. The Wheatstone bridge has four arms, all predominantly resistive. A bridge can measure other quantities in addition to resistance, depending upon the type of circuit elements used in the arms. It can......
  • Wheatstone, Sir Charles (British physicist)
    English physicist who popularized the Wheatstone bridge, a device that accurately measured electrical resistance and became widely used in laboratories....
  • wheel
    a circular frame of hard material that may be solid, partly solid, or spoked and that is capable of turning on an axle....
  • wheel and axle (machine)
    basic machine component for amplifying force. In its earliest form it was probably used for raising weights or water buckets from wells. Its principle of operation is demonstrated by the large and small gears attached to the same shaft, as shown at A in the . The tendency of a force F applied at the radius R on the large gear to turn the shaft is sufficient to overcome the larger fo...
  • wheel animalcule (aschelminth class)
    any of the approximately 2,000 species of microscopic, aquatic invertebrates that constitute the phylum Rotifera. Rotifers are so named because the circular arrangement of moving cilia (tiny hairlike structures) at the front end resembles a rotating wheel. Although common in freshwater on all continents, some species occur in salt water or brackish water, whereas others live in damp moss or lichen...
  • wheel bug (insect)
    The wheel bug (Arilus cristatus) is recognized by the notched crest on the top of the thorax. The adult is gray and quite large (about 25 mm); the nymph is red with black marks. Wheel bugs occur in North America, are predaceous on other insects, and have a painful bite if handled. The venomous saliva is pumped into a victim through one channel in the wheel bug’s beak. The digested bo...
  • wheel farthingale (clothing)
    ...more like a tub or drum. The fashion persisted in most European courts until 1620, with variations such as the French farthingale—which descended from a round padded bolster—and the Italian, or wheel, farthingale—which tilted upward at the back....
  • wheel feat (sport)
    sport of throwing a weight for distance or height. Men have long matched strength and skill at hurling objects. The roth cleas, or wheel feat, reputedly was a major test of the ancient Tailteann Games in Ireland. The competition consisted of various methods of throwing: from shoulder or side, with one or two hands, and with or without a run. The implements used varied......
  • wheel lock (firearm ignition device)
    device for igniting the powder in a firearm such as a musket. It was developed in about 1515. The wheel lock struck a spark to ignite powder on the pan of a musket. It did so by means of a holder that pressed a shard of flint or a piece of iron pyrite against an iron wheel with a milled edge; the wheel was rotated and sparks flew. The principle was used in th...
  • wheel train (clock mechanism)
    The wheelwork, or train, of a clock is the series of moving wheels (gears) that transmit motion from a weight or spring, via the escapement, to the minute and hour hands. It is most important that the wheels and pinions be made accurately and the tooth form designed so that the power is transferred as steadily as possible....
  • wheel tree (plant)
    Despite the primitive wood, both species have flowers that are considered quite specialized. Trochodendron aralioides, of South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan, is a small broadleaf evergreen tree up to 12 metres (about 40 feet) in height with pinnately veined leaves (i.e., the leaves have a midrib from which lateral veins arise, comblike) with toothed margins and flowers in clusters at the......
  • wheel window (architecture)
    in Gothic architecture, decorated circular window, often glazed with stained glass. Scattered examples of decorated circular windows existed in the Romanesque period (Santa Maria in Pomposa, Italy, 10th century). Only toward the middle of the 12th century, however, did the idea appear of making a rich decorative motif out of a round window. At this time the simple rose window be...
  • wheelchair fencing (sport)
    One of fencing’s most recent developments is that of wheelchair fencing. German-born English neurosurgeon Sir Ludwig Guttman introduced wheelchair fencing at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Aylesbury, England. Fencing was one of many sports therapies introduced by Guttman for WWII veterans who had suffered spinal cord injuries. In 1948 Guttman inaugurated Olympic-type competitions for disabled...
  • Wheeldon, Christopher (British dancer and choreographer)
    To many knowledgeable balletomanes the premiere of Scènes de ballet in 1999 by students of the School of American Ballet, the official school of the New York City Ballet, was just one more in a series of reasons to consider Christopher Wheeldon, a talented NYCB soloist, to be also one of the finest young choreographers on the current dance scene. He was, in addition, one of ...
  • wheeled armoured carrier (military vehicle)
    In addition to tracked armoured carriers or infantry fighting vehicles, which were intended to cooperate closely with tanks, most armies also developed wheeled armoured carriers for more general use. Examples included the VAB of the French army and the BTR-60, -70, and -80 of the Soviet army....
  • wheeled plow (agricultural tool)
    The wheeled plow, gradually introduced over several centuries, further reinforced communal work organization. Earlier plows had merely scratched the surface of the soil. The new plow was equipped with a heavy knife (colter) to dig under the surface, thereby making strip fields possible. Yet because the new plow required a team of eight oxen—more than any single peasant owned—plowing....
  • wheeler (horse)
    ...harness, or, less commonly, one following the other in a tandem. Four horses, or a four-in-hand, are harnessed in two pairs, one following the other, and called, respectively, the leaders and the wheelers. Three horses, two wheelers and a single leader, are known as a unicorn team. In Russia and Hungary three horses are driven abreast, the centre horse trotting and the outside horses......
  • Wheeler, Ella (American poet and journalist)
    American poet and journalist who is perhaps best remembered for verse tinged with an eroticism that, while rather oblique, was still unconventional for her time....
  • Wheeler, George M. (American surveyor)
    ...Civil War: the survey of the 40th parallel led by Clarence King (1867–78), the geologic survey of Nebraska and Wyoming led by Ferdinand Hayden (1867–78), the 100th-meridian survey led by George Wheeler (1872–79), and the expeditions to the Green and Colorado rivers in Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, and southern Nevada led by John Wesley Powell (1871–79). The maps and prelim...
  • Wheeler, Harvey (American political scientist)
    American political scientist and writer (b. Oct. 17, 1918, Waco, Texas—d. Sept. 6, 2004, Carpinteria, Calif.), was the author of numerous nonfiction political science books but was best known for the work of fiction he co-wrote with Eugene Burdick, Fail-Safe (1962), which—with its theme of accidental nuclear attack—struck a chord with a nervous public upon its release a...
  • Wheeler, John Archibald (American physicist)
    physicist, the first American involved in the theoretical development of the atomic bomb. He also originated a novel approach to the unified field theory and came up with the term black hole....
  • Wheeler, John Harvey (American political scientist)
    American political scientist and writer (b. Oct. 17, 1918, Waco, Texas—d. Sept. 6, 2004, Carpinteria, Calif.), was the author of numerous nonfiction political science books but was best known for the work of fiction he co-wrote with Eugene Burdick, Fail-Safe (1962), which—with its theme of accidental nuclear attack—struck a chord with a nervous public upon its release a...
  • Wheeler, Joseph (Confederate general)
    Confederate cavalry general during the American Civil War....
  • Wheeler, Laura (American artist)
    American painter and educator who often depicted African American subjects....
  • Wheeler, Lyle (American art director)
    ...Goes to WashingtonCinematography, Black-and-White: Gregg Toland for Wuthering HeightsCinematography, Color: Ernest Haller and Ray Rennahan for Gone with the WindArt Direction: Lyle Wheeler for Gone with the WindOriginal Score: Herbert Stothart for The Wizard of OzScoring: Richard Hageman,......
  • Wheeler, Lyle R. (American art director)
    ...Goes to WashingtonCinematography, Black-and-White: Gregg Toland for Wuthering HeightsCinematography, Color: Ernest Haller and Ray Rennahan for Gone with the WindArt Direction: Lyle Wheeler for Gone with the WindOriginal Score: Herbert Stothart for The Wizard of OzScoring: Richard Hageman,......
  • Wheeler, Mount (mountain, New Mexico, United States)
    ...Mountains. The Sangre de Cristo range in the eastern portion of the county features high, aspen-covered mountainsides; much of it is more than 10,000 feet (3,000 m) above sea level, culminating in Mount Wheeler (13,161 feet [4,011 m]), the highest point in New Mexico. Western Taos county is a plateau region with isolated mountains, including Ute Peak (10,093 feet [3,076 m]). The Rio Grande......
  • Wheeler Peak (mountain peak, Nevada, United States)
    ...southwestern United States, occurring usually at elevations above 1,700 metres (5,500 feet). P. longaeva has the longest life-span of any conifer known. A stand of western bristlecone pine on Wheeler Peak in eastern Nevada is known to contain several trees over 3,000 years old, and one of them is thought to be about 5,000 years old....
  • Wheeler Peak (mountain peak, New Mexico, United States)
    highest point (13,161 feet [4,011 metres]) in New Mexico, U.S. The peak is located in Taos county, 70 miles (113 km) north-northeast of Santa Fe, in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and within Carson National Forest. It was named for Major George M. Wheeler, who surveyed the area during the 1870s. It is accessible by both trail and road....
  • Wheeler, Sir Mortimer (British archaeologist)
    British archaeologist noted for his discoveries in Great Britain and India and for his advancement of scientific method in archaeology....
  • Wheeler, Sir Robert Eric Mortimer (British archaeologist)
    British archaeologist noted for his discoveries in Great Britain and India and for his advancement of scientific method in archaeology....
  • Wheeler, William A. (vice president of United States)
    19th vice president of the United States (1877–81) who, with Republican President Rutherford B. Hayes, took office by the decision of an Electoral Commission appointed to rule on contested electoral ballots in the 1876 election....
  • Wheeler, William Almon (vice president of United States)
    19th vice president of the United States (1877–81) who, with Republican President Rutherford B. Hayes, took office by the decision of an Electoral Commission appointed to rule on contested electoral ballots in the 1876 election....
  • Wheeler, William Morton (American entomologist)
    American entomologist recognized as one of the world’s foremost authorities on ants and other social insects. Two of his works, Ants: Their Structure, Development, and Behavior (1910) and Social Life Among the Insects (1923), long served as standard references on their subjects....
  • Wheeler-Hill, James (American political leader)
    In 1939 the Bund’s national leader, Fritz Julius Kuhn, was prosecuted for grand larceny (misappropriating Bund money) and forgery; in 1940 its national secretary, James Wheeler-Hill, was convicted of perjury. After the United States’ entry into World War II, the Bund disintegrated....
  • Wheeler-Howard Act (United States [1934])
    (June 18, 1934), measure enacted by the U.S. Congress, aimed at decreasing federal control of American Indian affairs and increasing Indian self-government and responsibility. In gratitude for the Indians’ services to the country in World War I, Congress in 1924 authorized the Meriam Survey of the state of life on the reservations. The shocking conditions under the regimen established by th...
  • Wheeling (West Virginia, United States)
    city, seat of Ohio county, in the northern panhandle of West Virginia, U.S., on the Ohio River (there bridged to Martins Ferry, Bridgeport, and Bellaire, Ohio). The site was settled in 1769 by the Zane family. The name Wheeling supposedly is derived from a Delaware Indian term meaning “head...
  • Wheeling Conventions (United States history)
    ...War fueled new desires for a politically separate western area. At the Virginia secession convention of April 1861, a majority of the western delegates opposed secession. Subsequent meetings at Wheeling (May 1861), dominated by the western delegates, declared the Ordinance of Secession to be an illegal attempt to overthrow the federal government, although the ordinance was approved by a......
  • Wheelock College (college, Boston, Massachusetts, United States)
    ...of the League of Nations. She retired as director of the Wheelock School in 1939. The school, which then had 325 students and 23 faculty members, was incorporated in that year, and in 1941 it became Wheelock College....
  • Wheelock, Eleazar (American educator)
    American educator who was founder and first president of Dartmouth College....
  • Wheelock, John (American educator)
    ...could not be impaired by the New Hampshire legislature. The charter vested control of the college in a self-perpetuating board of trustees, which, as a result of a religious controversy, removed John Wheelock as college president in 1815. In response, the New Hampshire legislature passed an act amending the charter and establishing a board of overseers to replace the trustees. The trustees......
  • Wheelock, Lucy (American educator)
    American educator who was an important figure in the developmental years of the kindergarten movement in the United States....
  • Wheelock School (college, Boston, Massachusetts, United States)
    ...of the League of Nations. She retired as director of the Wheelock School in 1939. The school, which then had 325 students and 23 faculty members, was incorporated in that year, and in 1941 it became Wheelock College....
  • wheelwork (clock mechanism)
    The wheelwork, or train, of a clock is the series of moving wheels (gears) that transmit motion from a weight or spring, via the escapement, to the minute and hour hands. It is most important that the wheels and pinions be made accurately and the tooth form designed so that the power is transferred as steadily as possible....
  • Wheelwright, William (American businessman and promoter)
    U.S. businessman and promoter, responsible for opening the first steamship line between South America and Europe and for building some of the first railroad and telegraph lines in Argentina, Chile, and Peru....
  • wheeze (pathology)
    ...between the fingers next to the ear. They are caused by fluid in the small passageways that adheres to the walls during respiration. Crackles are heard in congestive heart failure and pneumonia. Wheezes, musical sounds heard mostly during expiration, are caused by rapid airflow through a partially obstructed airway as in asthma or bronchitis. Pleural rubs sound like creaking leather and are......
  • Whelan, John Francis (Irish author)
    Irish writer best known for his short stories about Ireland’s lower and middle classes. He often examined the decline of the nationalist struggle or the failings of Irish Roman Catholicism. His work reflects the reawakening of interest in Irish culture stimulated by the Irish literary renaissance of the early 20th century....
  • Wheldon, Sir Huw Pyrs (British executive)
    British broadcasting producer and executive who oversaw the British Broadcasting Corporation’s (BBC’s) television programming from 1965 to 1975....
  • whelk (marine snail)
    any marine snail of the family Buccinidae (subclass Prosobranchia of the class Gastropoda), or a snail having a similar shell. Some are incorrectly called conchs. The sturdy shell of most buccinids is elongated and has a wide aperture in the first whorl. The animal feeds on other mollusks through its long proboscis; some also kill fishes and crustaceans caught in commercial traps. Whelks occur wo...
  • whelping (parturition)
    The normal gestation period is 63 days from the time of conception. This may vary if the bitch has been bred two or three times or if the eggs are fertilized a day or two after the mating has taken place. Eggs remain fertile for about 48 hours. Sperm can live in the vaginal tract for several days. In order to determine if a bitch is pregnant, a veterinarian can manually palpate her abdomen at......
  • When Giants Learn to Dance: Mastering the Challenge of Strategy, Management, and Careers (work by Kanter)
    ...The Change Masters: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the American Corporation (1984) investigates the factors that promote corporate growth in contrast to those that suppress initiative. When Giants Learn to Dance: Mastering the Challenge of Strategy, Management, and Careers (1989) resulted from a five-year study of top American corporations; it documents the changing management...
  • When I Survey the Wondrous Cross (work by Watts)
    in poetry, a quatrain in iambic tetrameter with the second and fourth lines rhyming and often the first and third lines rhyming. An example is the following stanza from the poem “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross” by Isaac Watts: See, from his head, his hands, his feet,Sorrow and love flow mingled down;Did e’er such love and sorrow meet,......
  • When I Was a Child (work by Moberg)
    In his autobiographical novel, Soldat med brutet gevär (1944; When I Was a Child), Moberg considers it his calling to give a voice to the illiterate class from which he came. His most widely read and translated works include the Knut Toring trilogy (1935–39; The Earth Is Ours) and his four-volume epic of the folk migration from Sweden to America in the 1850s,......
  • When It Was a Game (American documentary film)
    ...and A League of Their Own (1992), the story of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Two notable documentary films appeared in the 1990s: When It Was a Game (1991) is an intimate portrait of ballplayers and fans from the 1930s through the 1950s, and Ken Burns’s Baseball (1994) is a rich cultural his...
  • When Johnny Comes Marching Home (song by Gilmore)
    ...band arrangements of W.A. Mozart, Franz Liszt, and Gioacchino Rossini, in addition to the popular songs, marches, and dance tunes that made up the typical band repertoire. Gilmore reputedly composed “When Johnny Comes Marching Home” (1863) under the pen name Louis Lambert....
  • When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d (work by Whitman)
    ...awareness of suffering, no less effective for its quietly plangent quality. The Sequel to Drum Taps, published in the autumn of 1865, contained his great elegy on President Abraham Lincoln, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d.” His horror at the death of democracy’s first “great martyr chief ” was matched by his revulsion from the barbariti...
  • When Rain Clouds Gather (work by Head)
    Head’s novels evolved from an objective, affirmative narrative of an exile finding new meaning in his adopted village in When Rain Clouds Gather (1969) to a more introspective account of the acceptance won by a light-coloured San (Bushman) woman in a black-dominated African society in Maru (1971). A Question of Power (1973) is a frankly autobiographical account of......
  • When the Levees Broke (film by Lee)
    ...Denzel Washington and Jodie Foster, centres on the negotiations between the police and the bank robbers engaged in a hostage situation. In 2006 Lee also released the documentary When the Levees Broke, a four-part HBO series outlining the U.S. government’s inadequate response to Hurricane Katrina. The mystery Miracle at St. Anna (2008) foc...
  • When the War Was Over (work by Frisch)
    ...being assassinated by German Nazis. His other historical melodramas include Die chinesische Mauer (1947; The Chinese Wall) and the bleak Als der Krieg zu Ende war (1949; When the War Was Over). Reality and dream are used to depict the terrorist fantasies of a responsible government prosecutor in Graf Öderland (1951; Count Oederland), while......
  • When We Dead Awaken (work by Ibsen)
    ...Lille Eyolf (1894; Little Eyolf), John Gabriel Borkman (1896), and Naar vi døde vaagner (1899; When We Dead Awaken). Two of these plays, Hedda Gabler and The Master Builder, are vitalized by the presence of a demonically idealistic and totally......
  • When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor (work by Wilson)
    ...City, the Underclass, and Public Policy (1987), Wilson maintained that class divisions and global economic changes, more than racism, created a large black underclass. In When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor (1996), he showed how chronic joblessness deprived those in the inner city of skills necessary to obtain and keep jobs....
  • When You Wish upon a Star (song by Harline and Washington)
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