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Falconer (work by Cheever)
...America’s urban homosexual subculture in City of Night (1963). As literary and social mores were liberalized, Cheever himself dealt with homosexuality in his prison novel Falconer (1977) and even more explicitly in his personal journals, published posthumously in 1991....
Falconer, Charles Leslie (British politician)
British politician whose term as lord chancellor (2003–07) was marked by reform of the legal system of the United Kingdom....
Falconer, Etta Zuber (American educator and mathematician)
American educator and mathematician who influenced many African American women to choose careers in science and mathematics....
Falconer, Martha Platt (American social worker)
American social worker who helped transform U.S. institutions for delinquent or displaced and homeless young women from fundamentally a system of incarceration to one based on rehabilitation....
Falconer of Thoroton, Charles Falconer, Lord (British politician)
British politician whose term as lord chancellor (2003–07) was marked by reform of the legal system of the United Kingdom....
falconet (bird)
...sense, as true falcons, to the genus Falco, which numbers more than 35 species. Falcons occur virtually worldwide. They range in size from about 15 cm (6 inches) long in the falconets (Microhierax) to about 60 cm (24 inches) in the gyrfalcon, an Arctic species. In true falcons the female is the larger and bolder of the sexes and is preferred for the sport......
Falconet, Étienne-Maurice (French sculptor)
sculptor who adapted the classical style of the French Baroque to an intimate and decorative Rococo ideal. He was patronized by Mme de Pompadour and is best known for his small sculptures on mythological and genre themes and for the designs he made for the Sèvres porcelain factory....
Falconetto, Gian Maria (Italian painter and architect)
Italian painter and architect. His father, Giacomo Falconetto, a brother, Giovanni Falconetto, and a great uncle, Stefano de Verona, also were noted painters....
Falconetto, Giovanni Maria (Italian painter and architect)
Italian painter and architect. His father, Giacomo Falconetto, a brother, Giovanni Falconetto, and a great uncle, Stefano de Verona, also were noted painters....
Falconidae (bird)
any of nearly 60 species of hawks of the family Falconidae (order Falconiformes), diurnal birds of prey characterized by long, pointed wings and swift, powerful flight. The name is applied in a restricted sense, as true falcons, to the genus Falco, which numbers more than 35 species. Falcons occur virtually worldwide. They range in size from abo...
Falconieri, Saint Alexis (Italian friar)
saints Bonfilius, Alexis Falconieri, John Bonagiunta, Benedict dell’Antella, Bartholomew Amidei, Gerard Sostegni, and Ricoverus Uguccione, who founded the Ordo Fratrum Servorum Sanctae Mariae (“Order of Friar Servants of St. Mary”). Popularly called Servites, the order is a Roman Catholic congregation of mendicant friars dedicated to apostolic work....
falconiform (bird)
any of the group of swift, graceful birds known for their predatory skill as raptors. Included are eagles, condors, buzzards, kites, caracaras, ospreys, harriers, accipiters, vultures, ...
Falconiformes (bird)
any of the group of swift, graceful birds known for their predatory skill as raptors. Included are eagles, condors, buzzards, kites, caracaras, ospreys, harriers, accipiters, vultures, ...
falconry
the sport of employing falcons, true hawks, and sometimes eagles or buzzards in hunting game....
Faldo, Nick (British golfer)
...American golfers won 12 times in 14 years. For the next 11 years there was only one American winner, with the Claret Jug going to Spain’s Seve Ballesteros, Australia’s Greg Norman, and England’s Nick Faldo, among others....
faldstool (furniture)
a folding stool used by a Roman Catholic bishop when not occupying his throne in his own cathedral church, or when he is officiating outside his own church. Because the stool has no back, it can be used both for sitting and for kneeling when in prayer. By extension, the term came to mean any movable folding stool used for kneeling. A faldstool is commonly composed of two pairs o...
fale (Oceanic architecture)
The majority of the population lives in villages. Traditional structures are called fale; they are rectangular in shape and have thatched or corrugated tin roofs and sides made of woven coconut leaves, reeds, or timber. Some Tongans reside in South Seas colonial-style wooden homes with gingerbread trim and exterior walls in pastel shades....
Faleiro, Rui (Portuguese cosmographer)
Magellan therefore went to Spain, reaching Sevilla (Seville) on Oct. 20, 1517. He was joined in December by the Portuguese cosmographer Rui Faleiro and possibly by Rui’s brother Francisco Faleiro. Magellan and Rui Faleiro journeyed to the court at Valladolid, where they offered their services to King Charles I (later, Holy Roman emperor Charles V). Magellan, until this point bearing the......
Falémé River (river, Africa)
river in western Africa, rising in the uplands of northern Guinea, east of the Fouta Djallon massif, and flowing roughly north-northeast to enter Mali. It then turns northwest to form the Mali–Senegal border for the rest of its course to the S...
Fali (people)
a people who inhabit the rocky plateaus ringed by the northernmost peaks of the Adamawa mountains of northern Cameroon. “Fali” is from a Fulani (Peul) word meaning “perched” and describes the appearance of Fali family compounds on the sides of mountains....
Falier, Marin (doge of Venice)
leading official in Venice and doge from 1354 to 1355, who was executed for having led a plot against the ruling patricians. His tragic story has inspired several important literary works, including the tragedy Marino Faliero: Doge of Venice (1821) by the English Romantic poet Lord Byron....
Faliscan (people)
ancient people of southern Etruria in Italy who, though Latin in nationality, were culturally closer to the Etruscans. The Greek geographer Strabo mentions them and their “special language,” which was closely related to Latin. They occupied the region between the Tiber River and Mt. Ciminus, with Falerii Vetere...
Faliscan language
an Italic language closely related to Latin and more distantly related to Oscan and Umbrian languages. Faliscan was spoken by the Falisci in central Italy in a small region northwest of the Tiber River. Falerii, the Faliscan capital, was destroyed by the Romans in 241 bc, ...
Falisci (people)
ancient people of southern Etruria in Italy who, though Latin in nationality, were culturally closer to the Etruscans. The Greek geographer Strabo mentions them and their “special language,” which was closely related to Latin. They occupied the region between the Tiber River and Mt. Ciminus, with Falerii Vetere...
Falk, Adalbert (Prussian official)
Prussian bureaucrat who as state minister of ecclesiastical affairs in the 1870s aggressively headed German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck’s Kulturkampf against the Roman Catholic Church....
Falk, Lee (American comic-strip writer)
American comic-strip writer who created the Mandrake the Magician (1934) and The Phantom (1936) strips and wrote them until a short time before his death; he also wrote, produced, and directed numerous plays (b. April 28, 1911?, St. Louis, Mo.—d. March 13, 1999, New York, N.Y.)....
Falk, Leon (American comic-strip writer)
American comic-strip writer who created the Mandrake the Magician (1934) and The Phantom (1936) strips and wrote them until a short time before his death; he also wrote, produced, and directed numerous plays (b. April 28, 1911?, St. Louis, Mo.—d. March 13, 1999, New York, N.Y.)....
Falk, Paul Ludwig Adalbert (Prussian official)
Prussian bureaucrat who as state minister of ecclesiastical affairs in the 1870s aggressively headed German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck’s Kulturkampf against the Roman Catholic Church....
Falk, Peter (American actor)
American actor who was best known for his portrayal of the eccentric detective Lieutenant Columbo in the television series Columbo (1971–78) and made-for-TV movies....
Falk, Peter Michael (American actor)
American actor who was best known for his portrayal of the eccentric detective Lieutenant Columbo in the television series Columbo (1971–78) and made-for-TV movies....
Falkberget, Johan Petter (Norwegian novelist)
regional novelist of life in the east-central mountains of Norway....
Falke, Gustav (German author)
German poet and novelist prominent among the new lyric poets of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His verses were influenced by folk songs and the Romantic poets and celebrated simple domestic pleasures....
Falkenberg, Captain (legendary figure)
Another legend depicts a Captain Falkenberg sailing forever through the North Sea, playing at dice for his soul with the devil. The dice-game motif recurs in the Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798) by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge; the mariner sights a phantom ship on which Death and Life in Death play dice to win him. The Scottish writer Sir Walter Scott adapted the legend in......
Falkenburg, Eugenia Lincoln (American model and actress)
American model and actress (b. Jan. 21, 1919, Barcelona, Spain—d. Aug. 27, 2003, Manhasset, N.Y.), had an all-American-girl quality that helped her become one of the highest-paid cover girls during World War II. She appeared in a number of movies, most notably Cover Girl (1944), and later—with her husban...
Falkenburg, Jinx (American model and actress)
American model and actress (b. Jan. 21, 1919, Barcelona, Spain—d. Aug. 27, 2003, Manhasset, N.Y.), had an all-American-girl quality that helped her become one of the highest-paid cover girls during World War II. She appeared in a number of movies, most notably Cover Girl (1944), and later—with her husban...
Falkenhayn, Erich Georg Anton Sebastian von (German general)
Prussian minister of war and chief of the imperial German General Staff early in World War I....
Falkenlust (castle, Brühl,, Germany)
...1285 onward, and its Baroque Augustusburg Castle (1725), with extensive gardens and a famous staircase by Balthasar Neumann, was their summer residence. Within Augustusburg’s gardens is the smaller Falkenlust (1733), a hunting lodge by François de Cuvilliés. The castles were designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1984....
Falkirk (council area, Scotland, United Kingdom)
council area, east-central Scotland, encompassing a mostly low-lying area extending inland from the south bank of the River Forth estuary. It lies about midway between Glasgow and Edinburgh. Most of the council area lies within the historic county of ...
Falkirk (Scotland, United Kingdom)
royal burgh (town) and important industrial centre in Falkirk council area, historic county of Stirlingshire, Scotland. It lies midway between the cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow. Grangemouth, the site of Scotland’s main container port and petrochemical complex, lies 3 miles (5 km) northeast on the ...
Falkland (Scotland, United Kingdom)
small royal burgh (town) and former royal residence in Fife council area and historic county, eastern Scotland. It sits at the northern base of the East Lomond Hill, which has an elevation of 1,471 feet (448 metres). The burgh’s 12th-century castle was replaced by the present Falkland Palace, which from the 16th centu...
Falkland Current (ocean current, Atlantic Ocean)
branch of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current in the Southern Hemisphere, flowing northward in the South Atlantic Ocean along the east coast of Argentina to about latitude 30° to 40° S, where it is deflected eastward after meeting the southw...
Falkland Island Dependencies (territory, United Kingdom)
a territory of the United Kingdom lying southeast of South America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean on the east to the Pacif...
Falkland Islands (islands and British colony, Atlantic Ocean)
internally self-governing overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the South Atlantic Ocean. It lies about 300 miles (480 km) northeast of the southern tip of South America and...
Falkland Islands War (Argentina-United Kingdom)
a brief, undeclared war fought between Argentina and Great Britain in 1982 over the control of the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) and associated island dependencies....
Falkland Islands wolf (mammal)
Other foxlike canines of South America are the bush dog, the crab-eating fox, the maned wolf, the small-eared zorro (Atelocynus microtis), and the Falkland Island, or Antarctic, wolf (Dusicyon australis), which was hunted to extinction in the late 1800s....
Falkland, Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount of, Lord Carye (English noble)
English royalist who attempted to exercise a moderating influence in the struggles that preceded the English Civil Wars (1642–51) between the royalists and the Parliamentarians. He is remembered chiefly as a prominent figure in the History of the Rebellion by his close friend Edward Hyde (afterward Earl of Clar...
Falkland, Samuel (Dutch author)
Dutch author and playwright, both naturalistic and didactic, who in his work attacked all aspects of bourgeois hypocrisy....
Falkland Sound (strait, Atlantic Ocean)
strait in the South Atlantic Ocean, separating East and West Falkland (islands). It extends from northeast to southwest for 50 miles (80 km) and is 1 12 miles (in its narrowest passages) to 20 miles (2 km to 32 km) wi...
Falklands War (Argentina-United Kingdom)
a brief, undeclared war fought between Argentina and Great Britain in 1982 over the control of the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) and associated island dependencies....
Falkner, William Cuthbert (American author)
American novelist and short-story writer who was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature....
fall (geology)
Earth materials can become detached from a steep slope without significant shearing, fall freely under gravity, and land on a surface from which they bounce and fall farther. Falls of large volume can trap enough air to facilitate the very rapid flow of rock or debris, forming rock avalanches and debris avalanches, respectively. Entrapped snow and ice may also help mobilize such flows, but the......
fall (wrestling)
The bout is supervised by a referee on the mat, a mat chairman, a judge, and a timekeeper. A fall is awarded when one contestant holds both of his opponent’s shoulders to the mat for one second. The referee signals a fall by striking the mat with his hand. If no fall takes place, the bout is decided on points awarded by the judges for maneuvers leading toward a fall....
fall (season)
season of the year between summer and winter during which temperatures gradually decrease. It is often called fall in the United States because leaves fall from the trees at that time. Autumn is usually defined in the Northern Hemisphere as the period between the autumnal equinox (day and night equal in le...
Fall, Albert Bacon (United States secretary of the interior)
U.S. secretary of the interior under President Warren G. Harding; he was the first American to be convicted of a felony committed while holding a Cabinet post....
Fall, Aminata Sow (Senegalese author)
...with her father. A novel written in 1990 by Philomène Bassek of Cameroon deals with the plight of a mother of 11 children who has a harsh husband. Poverty and the upper classes preoccupy Aminata Sow Fall of Senegal in Le Jujubier du patriarche (1993; “The Patriarch’s Jujube”). The Gabonese writer Justine Mintsa writes of tragic life in a......
fall cankerworm (insect)
...rear up to meet it. The larvae resemble twigs or leaf stems, feed on foliage, and often seriously damage or destroy trees and crops. The spring cankerworm (species Paleacrita vernata) and the fall cankerworm (Alsophila pometaria) attack fruit and shade trees, skeletonizing the leaves and spinning threads between the branches. Pupation usually occurs in the soil without a cocoon......
Fall Classic (World Series)
The World Series is Major League Baseball’s (MLB) postseason play-off series between the champions of its two leagues: the American League (AL) and the National League (NL). Since 1922 the World Series has followed a best-of-seven-games format....
Fall Classic (baseball championship)
in baseball, a postseason play-off series between champions of the two major professional baseball leagues of the United States: the American League (AL) and the National League (NL)....
Fall complex (religion)
...may be brought about by theft of a divine property (e.g., the stealing of fire or grain by a culture hero), which, if viewed as an evil act, regards the human condition as punishment (the Fall complex). In other traditions, man is defined as a clever thief, and the human condition and culture is perceived as the seizing of an opportunity (the Prometheus or trickster complex). Another......
fall herring (fish)
The gizzard shads (Dorosoma), of both marine waters and freshwaters, have a muscular stomach and filamentous last dorsal fin rays. The Atlantic species (D. cepedianum), also called hickory shad and fall herring, ranges through the southern United States. Others are found in the Indo-Pacific and Australian waters. None is of particular economic value. ...
fall line (geology)
line of numerous waterfalls, as at the edge of a plateau, where streams pass from resistant rocks to a plain of weak ones below. Such a line also marks the head of navigation, or the inland limit that ships can reach from a river’s mouth; because navigation is interrupted both upstream and downstream, important cities often occur along the fall line. In the eastern ...
“Fall Maurizius, Der” (work by Wassermann)
Perhaps Wassermann’s most enduring work is Der Fall Maurizius (1928; The Maurizius Case), which treats the theme of justice with the carefully plotted suspense of a detective story. It introduced the character Etzel Andergast, whose questioning of the judgment of his cold-hearted jurist father and whose own detective work eventually prove the innocence of a man his father had....
Fall of a Nation, The (film)
...Hearts of Erin (1917). His operetta music was superbly orchestrated. He also wrote two grand operas, Natoma (1911) and Madeleine (1914), and the music for the motion picture The Fall of a Nation (1916), probably the first original symphonic score composed for a feature film. Late in life he wrote for revues, notably the Ziegfeld Follies....
Fall of Heaven, The (play by Mosley)
...which centres on a dead man whose refusal to accept St. Peter’s judgment results in him being returned to earth. Mosley adapted the latter work into his first play, The Fall of Heaven, which was staged in 2010....
Fall of Man (religion)
...Adam would not be alone, God created other animals but, finding these insufficient, put Adam to sleep, took from him a rib, and created a new companion, Eve. The two were persons of innocence until Eve yielded to the temptations of the evil serpent and Adam joined her in eating the forbidden fruit, whereupon they both recognized their nakedness and donned fig leaves as garments. Immediately God...
Fall of the Giants (painting by Longhi)
...he received his first training. Later he worked under the Veronese historical painter Antonio Balestra, but his one important work of this sort, the monumental ceiling of the Fall of the Giants (completed 1734) for the Palazzo Sagredo, was an artistic and critical failure. It is likely that because of this he left Venice for a time and studied at Bologna under the.....
Fall of the House of Usher, The (story by Poe)
story of supernatural horror by Edgar Allan Poe, published in 1839 in Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine and issued in Tales (1845). One of Poe’s most terrifying tales, The Fall of the House of Usher is narrated by a man who has been invited to visit...
Fall of the Rebelling Angels (fresco by Tiepolo)
...decoration was commissioned by Dionisio Dolfin, the patriarch of the town of Aquileia, and Tiepolo probably began work with the ceiling above the main staircase, depicting the Fall of the Rebelling Angels in vigorous, dramatic forms; in the gallery, within the Baroque perspective framings of Mengozzi Colonna, his faithful collaborator, he narrated biblical episodes.....
Fall River (river, Kansas, United States)
river that rises at the confluence of two headstreams in southeastern Kansas, U.S., and flows southeast to join the Verdigris River near Neodesha after a course of 90 miles (145 km). At Fall River city the river is dammed to form a reservoir (Fall River Lake) used for flood control and irrigation....
Fall River (Massachusetts, United States)
city, Bristol county, southeastern Massachusetts, U.S. It lies on the east shore of Mount Hope Bay, at the mouth of the Taunton River, 18 miles (29 km) southeast of Providence, Rhode Island. Its site was included in Freeman’s Purchase, a tract of land bought from Native Americans ...
Fall, The (novel by Camus)
novel by Albert Camus, published in 1956 in French as La Chute. The novel is one of the author’s most brilliant technical achievements. It is set in an Amsterdam bar and consists of a one-sided conversation over the course of several days between an unidentified stranger and Jean-Baptiste Clamence, a former Parisian lawyer. Clamence begins the conversation as a con...
fall webworm (insect)
The fall webworm (Hyphantria cunea) is a serious pest whose caterpillars construct webs over the leaves at the end of branches. Sometimes large areas are covered with silken sheets. They pupate above ground in cocoons made of larval hairs and silk. These silken webs can be distinguished from those of the tent caterpillars, as the latter construct silken retreats in branch forks deep......
fall wind (air current)
When a katabatic wind is warmed by compression during its descent into denser air, it is called a foehn. A large-scale katabatic wind that descends too rapidly to warm up is called a fall wind. In areas where fall winds occur, homes and orchards are situated on hillslopes above the lowlands where the cold air accumulates....
Falla, Manuel de (Spanish composer)
the most distinguished Spanish composer of the early 20th century. In his music he achieved a fusion of poetry, asceticism, and ardour that represents the spirit of Spain at its purest....
Fallaci, Oriana (Italian journalist, author, and historian)
Italian journalist and war correspondent (b. June 29, 1929, Florence, Italy—d. Sept. 15, 2006, Florence), earned international iconic status for her passionate, opinionated writing and for her in-depth, often adversarial interviews with such prominent world figures as Indira Gandhi, Henry Kissinger, Deng Xiaoping, and both the shah of Iran and Ayatollah Khomeini. Fallaci dropped out of medi...
Fallacies in the Interpretation of Social Cost (article by Knight)
Another of Knight’s important contributions to economics was his 1924 article “Fallacies in the Interpretation of Social Cost,” in which he challenged A.C. Pigou’s view that traffic congestion justified the taxation of roads. If roads were privately owned, wrote Knight, then the profits realized from roadway tolls would help reduce congestion and thereby make government...
fallacy (logic)
in logic, erroneous reasoning that has the appearance of soundness....
fallacy of accident (logic)
The classification that is still widely used is that of Aristotle’s Sophistic Refutations: (1) The fallacy of accident is committed by an argument that applies a general rule to a particular case in which some special circumstance (“accident”) makes the rule inapplicable. The truth that “men are capable of seeing” is no basis for the conclusion that....
fallacy of composition (logic)
...arising when a statement can bear distinct meanings depending on which word is stressed (example: “Men are considered equal.” “Men are considered equal.”). (4) Composition occurs when the premise that the parts of a whole are of a certain nature is improperly used to infer that the whole itself must also be of this nature (example: a story made up of go...
fallacy of division (logic)
...of a whole are of a certain nature is improperly used to infer that the whole itself must also be of this nature (example: a story made up of good paragraphs is thus said to be a good story). (5) Division—the reverse of composition—occurs when the premise that a collective whole has a certain nature is improperly used to infer that a part of this whole must also be of this nature....
fallacy of false cause (logic)
...from p as a premise to p as conclusion is not deductively invalid but lacks any power of conviction, since no one who questioned the conclusion could concede the premise. (5) The fallacy of false cause (non causa pro causa) mislocates the cause of one phenomenon in another that is only seemingly related. The most common version of this......
fallacy of illicit major premise (logic)
...he had a social conscience; hence, Amos was a prophet”). Most of the traditionally considered formal fallacies, however, relate to the syllogism. One example may be cited, that of the fallacy of illicit major (or minor) premise, which violates the rules for “distribution.” (A term is said to be distributed when reference is made to all members of the class. For......
fallacy of illicit minor premise (logic)
...hence, Amos was a prophet”). Most of the traditionally considered formal fallacies, however, relate to the syllogism. One example may be cited, that of the fallacy of illicit major (or minor) premise, which violates the rules for “distribution.” (A term is said to be distributed when reference is made to all members of the class. For example, in “Some crows are......
fallacy of irrelevant conclusion (logic)
...of accident argues improperly from a special case to a general rule. Thus, the fact that a certain drug is beneficial to some sick persons does not imply that it is beneficial to all people. (3) The fallacy of irrelevant conclusion is committed when the conclusion changes the point that is at issue in the premises. Special cases of irrelevant conclusion are presented by the so-called fallacies....
fallacy of many questions (logic)
...Williams is not a philosopher. Indeed, one might even take A as evidence for the falsity of either P1 or P2 or as evidence that Williams is not really a philosopher. (6) The fallacy of many questions (plurimum interrogationum) consists in demanding or giving a single answer to a question when this answer could either be divided......
fallacy of non sequitur (logic)
...and Mary no.”) or refused altogether, because a mistaken presupposition is involved (example: “Have you stopped beating your wife?”). (7) The fallacy of non sequitur (“it does not follow”) occurs when there is not even a deceptively plausible appearance of valid reasoning, because there is an obvious lack of connection bet...
fallacy of secundum quid (logic)
...inapplicable. The truth that “men are capable of seeing” is no basis for the conclusion that “blind men are capable of seeing.” This is a special case of the fallacy of secundum quid (more fully: a dicto simpliciter ad dictum secundum quid, which means “from a saying [taken too] simply to a saying according to what [it really is]”—i...
Fallada, Hans (German author)
...inapplicable. The truth that “men are capable of seeing” is no basis for the conclusion that “blind men are capable of seeing.” This is a special case of the fallacy of secundum quid (more fully: a dicto simpliciter ad dictum secundum quid, which means “from a saying [taken too] simply to a saying according to what [it really is]”—i...
Fallas Festival (Spanish festival)
Valencia’s renowned annual Fallas Festival commemorates St. Joseph, the patron saint of carpenters, and draws thousands of spectators to the city each March. The fallas are towering monuments, effigies made of papier-mâché and wax (and sometimes cork and wood) that together create a scene. (Each individual figure is known as a ......
Fälldin, Thorbjörn (prime minister of Sweden)
politician who was prime minister of Sweden (1976–78, 1979–82)....
Falle of Princis, The (work by Lydgate)
...lines of his verse survive. His only prose work, The Serpent of Division (1422), an account of Julius Caesar, is brief. His poems vary from vast narratives such as The Troy Book and The Falle of Princis to occasional poems of a few lines. Of the longer poems, one translated from the French, the allegory Reason and Sensuality (c. 1408) on the theme of chastity,...
Fallen Angels (film by Wong Kar-wai [1995])
...Ashes of Time), Chongquing senlin (1994; Chungking Express), and Duoluo tianshi (1995; Fallen Angels). Later, more intimate films, set outside Hong Kong or in the past, were Chungguang zhaxie (1997; Happy Together), in which a......
Fallen Asleep While Young (work by Sillanpaa)
...country servant-girl. After several collections of short stories in the late 1920s, Sillanpää published his best-known, though not his most perfect, work, Nuorena nukkunut (1931; Fallen Asleep While Young, or The Maid Silja), a story of an old peasant family. Realistic and lyric elements are blended in Miehen tie (1932; Way of a Man), which descr...
“Fallen Leaves” (painting by Hishida)
...Japanese line drawing with a Western Impressionistic style (pejoratively known as mōrōtai, or “vague,” “indistinct”). Among his best-known works are “Ochiba” (1909; “Fallen Leaves”) and “Kuroi neko” (1910; “A Black Cat”)....
Fallen, The (work by Lehmbruck)
...of World War I Lehmbruck returned to Germany, where he worked in a hospital. His experiences with wounded and dying soldiers led him to create such poignant works as The Fallen (1915–16) and Seated Youth (1918), which indicate the artist’s state of utter depression. He committed suicide one year later. Although he was not...
Fallen Timbers, Battle of (United States history)
(Aug. 20, 1794), decisive victory of the U.S. general Anthony Wayne over the Northwest Indian Confederation, ending two decades of border warfare and securing white settlement of the former Indian territory mainly in Ohio. Wayne’s expedition of more than 1,000 soldiers represented the third U.S. attempt (see Saint Clair’s Defeat...
“Fallen Woman, The” (opera by Verdi)
Moving from the sublime to the ridiculous, the Met was also involved in one of the more embarrassing artistic fiascos of the year. In April its opening night performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s La traviata drew critical catcalls for the alleged shortcomings of conductor Leonard Slatkin, director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) and a longtime mainstay on the musical scene. Slatkin...
fallenness (philosophy)
...and Time’s treatment of “authenticity,” one of the central concepts of the work. Heidegger’s view seemed to be that the majority of human beings lead an existence that is inauthentic. Rather than facing up to their own finitude—represented above all by the inevitability of death—they seek distraction and escape in inauthentic modalities suc...
Fallières, Armand (president of France)
French statesman and eighth president of the French Third Republic....
Fallières, Clément-Armand (president of France)
French statesman and eighth president of the French Third Republic....