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Way International, The (Christian evangelical group)
Christian evangelical group founded in 1942 as Vesper Chimes, a radio ministry broadcast from Lima, Ohio, by Victor Paul Wierwille (1916–85). Its current headquarters are in New Knoxville, Ohio; estimates of its membership range from 3,000 to 20,000....
Way, John T. (British chemist)
...theory. In 1850, nine years before Arrhenius was born, separate papers appeared in the Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England by agriculturist Sir H.S.M. Thompson and chemist J.T. Way, describing the phenomenon of ion exchange as it occurs in soils. In his paper, entitled “On the Power of Soils to Absorb Manure,” Way addressed himself to the question of how......
Way of a Man (work by Sillanpaa)
...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 describes a young farmer’s growth to maturity. Ihmiset suviyössä (1934; People in the Summer Night) is stylistically his most finished and ...
Way of All Flesh, The (novel by Butler)
Many regard The Way of All Flesh, published in 1903, the year after Butler’s death, as his masterpiece. It certainly contains much of the quintessence of Butlerism. This largely autobiographical novel tells, with ruthless wit, realism, and lack of sentiment, the story of Butler’s escape from the suffocating moral atmosphere of his home circle. In it, the character Ernest Ponti...
Way of All Flesh, The (German film)
In 1929, the first year of the Academy Awards, Jannings won a Best Actor award for his performances in the American-made films The Way of All Flesh (1927, now lost), in which he played an embittered family man, and The Last Command (1928), in which he was an exiled Russian general reduced to playing bit parts in war films. (During the early......
way of ideas (philosophy)
Two important themes in the history of modern philosophy can be traced to Descartes. The first, called “the way of ideas,” represents the attempt in epistemology to provide a foundation for our knowledge of the external world (as well as our knowledge of the past and of other minds) in the mental experiences of the individual. The Cartesian theory of knowledge through representative....
“Way of Opinion” (philosophical concept)
...to mortals, in which is no true conviction”; (2) the “Way of Truth,” the main part, in which the real and unique Being is depicted; and (3) the “Way of Opinion” (or Seeming), in which the empirical world—i.e., the single things as they appear every day to every human—is presented....
Way of Sacrifice (work by von Unruh)
...Explorations of these themes through his war experiences—on a metaphysical plane, in his narrative Der Opfergang (written in 1916 at Verdun, published 1919; Way of Sacrifice) and, on a mythical level, in the tragedy Ein Geschlecht (1916; “A Family”)—strengthened his antimilitaristic attitude and led to......
Way of Seeing, A: Photographs of New York (photography exhibit by Levitt)
...show were photographs from her visit in 1941 to Mexico City, where she photographed the city’s street life. Agee wrote the introduction to Levitt’s book of photographs entitled A Way of Seeing: Photographs of New York, which she compiled in the late 1940s. (The book was not published until 1965, 10 years after Agee’s death.) In it, he praised Levitt...
Way of Seeming (philosophical concept)
...to mortals, in which is no true conviction”; (2) the “Way of Truth,” the main part, in which the real and unique Being is depicted; and (3) the “Way of Opinion” (or Seeming), in which the empirical world—i.e., the single things as they appear every day to every human—is presented....
Way of the Heart (religious movement)
a small religious movement grounded in the Hindu tradition. Founded in 1972 in California by Franklin Jones (born 1939), who changed his name to Adi Da (Sanskrit: “One Who Gives from the Divine Source”) in 1994, it has undergone a number of name changes and considerable internal turmoil....
Way of the Light, the (religion)
...the practice, and in the 18th century they bowed to Western Christian devotional feeling and provided 14 stations in Jerusalem. The traditional stations have been recently supplemented with the Via Lucis (the Way of Light), in which the meditations focus on the resurrected Christ....
Way of the Pilgrim, The (religious work)
...published in 1782, and continuing to the Revolution of 1917. Eastern Christian mysticism is best known in the West through translations of the anonymous 19th-century Russian text The Way of the Pilgrim, but noted Russian mystics, such as Seraphim of Sarov (1759–1833) and John of Kronshtadt (1829–1909), also became known in the West during the 20th century....
Way of the Warrior (Japanese history)
(Japanese: “Way of the Warrior”), the code of conduct of the samurai class of Japan. In the mid-19th century Bushidō was made the basis of ethical training for the whole society, with the emperor replacing the feudal lord, or daimyo, as the object of loyalty and sacrifice. As such it contributed to the rise of Japanese nationalism and to the strengthening o...
Way of the World, The (play by Congreve)
...produced early in 1697, swelled his reputation enormously and became his most popular play. No further dramatic work appeared until March 1700, when Congreve’s masterpiece, The Way of the World, was produced—with a brilliant cast—at Lincoln’s Inn Fields; though it is now his only frequently revived piece, it was a failure with the audience. T...
Way of Truth (poem by Parmenides)
...in which she announces that he is “to learn all things, both the unshaken heart of well-rounded truth and also what seems to mortals, in which is no true conviction”; (2) the “Way of Truth,” the main part, in which the real and unique Being is depicted; and (3) the “Way of Opinion” (or Seeming), in which the empirical world—i.e., the single thing...
way, right of (law)
...an owner of land could voluntarily part with a right or privilege with regard to his land so that a neighbour might use the land in a way that would otherwise be actionable. The classic case is the right-of-way, whereby an owner agrees to allow a neighbour to cross his land in order to allow the neighbour to reach his own land. What distinguishes the right-of-way and similar interests from the....
Way the Future Blogs, The (blog by Pohl)
...for both The Meeting (1973, written with C.M. Kornbluth) and Fermi and Frost (1986), and for best fan writer for his blog The Way the Future Blogs (2010)....
Way, The Truth, and The Life, The (work by Hort)
...published in 1881. This work served as the basis for the New Testament portion of the English Revised Version of the Bible (1881). Hort also produced a major essay on philosophical theology, The Way, The Truth, and The Life (1893), dealing with the coexistence of an open, critical mind with acceptance of biblical truths....
Way the World Is, The (work by Polkinghorne)
In 1983 Polkinghorne published The Way the World Is, in which he explained how a thinking person can be a Christian. It was the first of several works on the relationship between science and religion. The Faith of a Physicist: Reflections of a Bottom-Up Thinker appeared in 1994 and Faith, Science and Understanding in......
Way to Christ, The (tract by Böhme)
...regeneration—traditional themes of German mysticism. In 1622 his friends had several of these devotional tracts printed in Görlitz under the title Der Weg zu Christo (The Way to Christ), a small work joining nature mysticism with devotional fervour. Publication of this tract brought about the intense displeasure of Richter, who incited the populace against......
Way to Wealth, The (work by Franklin)
...to an end. While at sea in 1757, he completed a 12-page preface for the final 1758 edition of the almanac titled “Father Abraham’s Speech” and later known as the The Way to Wealth. In this preface Father Abraham cites only those proverbs that concern hard work, thrift, and financial prudence. The Way to Wealth eventually bec...
Way to Wealth, The (work by Crowley)
...and Christian Socialist prominent in the vestiarian disputes (over the alleged “Romishness” of the vestments worn by Anglican clergy) of Elizabeth I’s reign. His writings include The Way to Wealth (1550), in which he attributed the government’s failure to stop enclosure of common land to the organized resistance of the rich. Other works include An informaci...
Way Towards the Blessed Life, The (work by Fichte)
...looking forward to belief in the divine order of the universe as the highest aspect of the life of reason; and Die Anweisung zum seligen Leben, oder auch die Religionslehre (1806; The Way Towards the Blessed Life). In this last-named work the union between the finite self-consciousness and the infinite ego, or God, is handled in a deeply religious fashion reminiscent of......
Way We Were, The (film by Pollack [1973])
...Peter Blatty for The ExorcistCinematography: Sven Nykvist for Cries and WhispersArt Direction: Henry Bumstead for The StingOriginal Dramatic Score: Marvin Hamlisch for The Way We WereScoring—Original Song Score and Adaptation or Scoring: Marvin Hamlisch for The StingSong: “The Way We Were” from The Way We Were; music by Marvin......
Way You Look Tonight, The (song by Kern and Fields)
...for Anthony AdverseArt Direction: Richard Day for DodsworthScoring: Warner Bros. Studio Music Department, Leo Forbstein, head of department, for Anthony AdverseSong: “The Way You Look Tonight” from Swing Time; music by Jerome Kern, lyrics by Dorothy FieldsHonorary Award: March of TimeHonorary Award: W. Howard Greene and Harold Rosson for The.....
wayang (Indonesian theatre)
(Javanese: “shadow”), classical Javanese puppet drama that uses the shadows thrown by puppets manipulated by rods against a translucent screen lit from behind. Developed before the 10th century, the form had origins in the thalubomalata, the leather puppets of southern India. The art of shadow puppetry probably spread to ...
wayang golek (theatre)
puppeteer who developed the artistic potentialities of the Javanese rod puppet for western puppet theatre....
wayang kulit (Javanese theatre)
...manipulates them from behind with two sticks. Strong lamps are arranged so that the size, position, and angle of the puppets change with the distance of the light. They are similar to the wayang kulit puppets of Indonesia but are much smaller and quicker-moving....
wayang wong (Javanese theatre)
...shapes and movements of the early wayang kulit puppets were imitated by other forms of wayang, notably the wayang golek, or three-dimensional wooden figures manipulated by rods; the wayang wong, a pantomime by live actors; and the wayang Krunchil, wooden puppets in low relief....
Wayans, Keenen Ivory (American actor)
...Sanford and Son (1972–77). One of the most acclaimed weekly shows ever produced was The Cosby Show (1984–92), starring comedian Bill Cosby. Keenen Ivory Wayans, star of the long-running satirical sketch comedy show In Living Color, won an Emmy Award for his work in 1990. The Bernie Mac......
Wayburn, Edgar (American conservationist)
Sept. 17, 1906Macon, Ga.March 5, 2010San Francisco, Calif.American conservationist who was awarded (1999) the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his leading role in helping to preserve more than 40 million ha (100 million ac) of North American wilderness. Wayburn graduated from Harvard Medi...
Waycross (Georgia, United States)
city, seat (1872) of Ware county, southeastern Georgia, U.S., on the coastal plain, about 50 miles (80 km) west of Brunswick. Early settlers had built blockhouses in the area by the 1820s as a protection against Native Americans. Originally the hub of stagecoach and pioneer trails, Waycross developed as a ...
Wayiqraʾ (Old Testament)
third book of the Latin Vulgate Bible, the name of which designates its contents as a book (or manual) primarily concerned with the priests and their duties. Although Leviticus is basically a book of laws, it also contains some narrative (chapters 8–9, 10:1–7, 10:16–20, and 24:10–14). The book is usually divided into five parts: sacrificial laws (chapters 1–7); t...
Wayland the Smith (medieval literary figure)
in Scandinavian, German, and Anglo-Saxon legend, a smith of outstanding skill. He was, according to some legends, a lord of the elves. His story is told in the Völundarkvida, one of the poems in the 13th-century Icelandic Elder, or Poetic, Edda, and, with variations, in the mid-13th-century Icelandic prose Thidriks saga. He is also mentioned in the Anglo-S...
Wayles, Martha (wife of Thomas Jefferson)
the wife of Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States (1801–09). She was never a first lady because she died 19 years before her husband became president....
Wayllaqa (people)
...fact that he fathered a large number of sons, one of whom, Yahuar Huacac (Yawar Waqaq), was kidnapped by a neighbouring group when he was about eight years old. The boy’s mother, Mama Mikay, was a Huayllaca (Wayllaqa) woman who had been promised to the leader of another group called the Ayarmaca (’Ayarmaka). When the promise was broken and Mama Mikay married Inca Roca, the Ayarmac...
Waymon, Eunice (American singer)
American singer (b. Feb. 21, 1933, Tryon, N.C.—d. April 21, 2003, Carry-le-Rouet, France), created urgent emotional intensity by singing songs of love, protest, and black empowerment in a dramatic style, with a rough-edged voice. Originally noted as a jazz singer, she became a prominent voice of the 1960s civil rights movement with reco...
Wayna Qhapaq (emperor of Incas)
Topa Inca Yupanqui’s unexpected death in about 1493 precipitated a struggle for the succession. It appears that Topa Inca Yupanqui had originally favoured the succession of Huayna Capac (Wayna Qhapaq), the youngest son of his principal wife and sister. Shortly before his death, he changed his mind and named as his successor Capac Huari (Qhapaq Wari), the son of another wife. Capac Huari,......
Wayne (county, New York, United States)
county, north-central New York state, U.S. It comprises a lowland region bordered by Lake Ontario to the north and intersected by the New York State Canal System (completed 1918), which incorporates the Erie Canal (1825). There are large marshes in the southeastern part of the county. Other bodies of water are the ...
Wayne (New Jersey, United States)
township (town), Passaic county, northern New Jersey, U.S., 6 miles (10 km) west of Paterson, New Jersey. The site, first settled in 1695, was originally part of New Barbadoes township in Essex county, which was later incorporated into Bergen county. During the American Revoluti...
Wayne (county, Pennsylvania, United States)
county, extreme northeastern Pennsylvania, U.S., bounded to the northeast and north by New York state (the West Branch Delaware and Delaware rivers constituting the boundary), to the southeast by Lake Wallenpaupack and Wallenpaupack Creek, and to the southwest by the Lehigh River. It consists of a hilly region on the Allegheny Plateau. The c...
Wayne, Anthony (United States general)
prominent American general during the Revolutionary War, who later destroyed the Northwest Indian Confederation at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in Ohio (Aug. 20, 1794)....
Wayne, David (American actor)
(WAYNE JAMES MCMEEKAN), U.S. actor (b. Jan. 30, 1914, Traverse City, Mich.--d. Feb. 9, 1995, Santa Monica, Calif.), took Broadway by storm as the leprechaun Og in Finian’s Rainbow (1947), a performance that earned him the first-ever Tony ...
Wayne, James M. (United States jurist)
associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (1835–67)....
Wayne, James Moore (United States jurist)
associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (1835–67)....
Wayne, John (American actor)
major American motion-picture actor who embodied the image of the strong, taciturn cowboy or soldier and who in many ways personified the idealized American values of his era....
Wayne, Mad Anthony (United States general)
prominent American general during the Revolutionary War, who later destroyed the Northwest Indian Confederation at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in Ohio (Aug. 20, 1794)....
Wayne, Marshall (American athlete)
American diver who won a gold medal in the platform diving event and a silver medal in the 3-m springboard diving competition at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin; his win in platform diving was said to have annoyed ...
Wayne State University (university, Detroit, Michigan, United States)
public coeducational institution of higher learning in Detroit, Mich., U.S. It is a comprehensive research university, comprising colleges of education; engineering; fine, performing, and communication arts; liberal arts and sciences; nursing; and pharmacy and health sciences. It also includes schools of b...
Wayne University (university, Detroit, Michigan, United States)
public coeducational institution of higher learning in Detroit, Mich., U.S. It is a comprehensive research university, comprising colleges of education; engineering; fine, performing, and communication arts; liberal arts and sciences; nursing; and pharmacy and health sciences. It also includes schools of b...
Waynesboro (Virginia, United States)
city, administratively independent of, but located in, Augusta county, north-central Virginia, U.S. It lies in the Shenandoah Valley along the South River, near the junction of Skyline Drive and the Blue Ridge Parkway, 28 miles (45 km) west of Charlottesville. The origi...
Waynflete, William of (British lord chancellor)
English lord chancellor and bishop of Winchester who founded Magdalen College of the University of Oxford....
wayno (dance)
couple dance of the Quechua and Aymara Indians and of many mestizos (people of Spanish-Indian descent) of Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador. It antedates the Spanish conquest and was possibly an Inca funeral dance; today it is purely festive. A circle of dancing couples surrounds the musicians, whose instruments may be flutes, drums, harps, and guita...
ways (ship building)
Apart from certain small craft built on inland waterways, which are launched sideways, the great majority of ships are launched stern first from the building berth. Standing structures called ways, constructed of concrete and wooden blocks, spaced about one-third of the vessel’s beam apart, support the ship under construction. The slope of the standing ways—which are often cambered.....
Ways and Means (work by Xenophon)
...and riding, and Cavalry Commander is a somewhat unsystematic (but serious) discussion of how to improve the Athenian cavalry corps. Also Athenocentric is Ways and Means, a plan to alleviate the city’s financial problems (and remove excuses for aggressive imperialism) by paying citizens a dole from taxes on foreign residents and from the p...
Ways and Means Committee (United States government)
...subcommittee is concerned with a particular organizational unit. There is virtually no consideration of the budget as a whole by the committee as a whole. Revenues fall under the jurisdiction of the Ways and Means Committee of the House and are considered separately and possibly even at a different time from appropriations. The upper house of Congress, the Senate, plays a secondary role with......
Ways and Provinces, Book of (work by Ibn Haukal)
...Islāmic and Chinese cartography made progress. The Arabs translated Ptolemy’s treatises and carried on his tradition. Two Islāmic scholars deserve special note. Ibn Haukal wrote a Book of Ways and Provinces illustrated with maps, and al-Idrīsī constructed a world map in 1154 for the Christian king Roger of Sicily, showing better information on Asian are...
Ways to Spaceflight (work by Oberth)
...in the Soviet Union. After corresponding with both men, he acknowledged their precedence in deriving the equations associated with space flight. Oberth’s Wege zur Raumschiffahrt (1929; Ways to Spaceflight) won the first annual Robert Esnault-Pelterie–André Hirsch Prize of 10,000 francs, enabling him to finance his research on liquid-propellant rocket motors. T...
Wayss, G. A. (German engineer)
The most prolific designers first using reinforced concrete were Hennebique and the German engineer G.A. Wayss, who bought the Monier patents. Hennebique’s Vienne River Bridge at Châtellerault, France, built in 1899, was the longest-spanning reinforced arch bridge of the 19th century. Built low to the river—typical of many reinforced-concrete bridges whose goal of safe passage...
Waza National Park (park, Cameroon)
...birds—from tiny sunbirds to giant hawks and eagles. A few elephants survive in the forest and in the grassy woodlands, where baboons and several types of antelope are the most common animals. Waza National Park in the north, which was originally created for the protection of elephants, giraffes, and antelope, abounds in both forest and savanna animals, including monkeys, baboons, lions,....
Wazhazhe (people)
North American Indian tribe of the Dhegiha branch of the Siouan linguistic stock. The name Osage is an English rendering of the French phonetic version of the name the French understood to be that of the entire tribe. It was thereafter applied to all members of the tribe. The name Wa-zha-zhe (“Water People”), h...
Waziba (people)
East African people who speak a Bantu language (also called Haya) and inhabit the northwestern corner of Tanzania between the Kagera River and Lake Victoria....
wazīr (ancient Egyptian and Islamic official)
originally the chief minister or representative of the ʿAbbāsid caliphs and later a high administrative officer in various Muslim countries, among Arabs, Persians, Turks, Mongols, and other eastern peoples....
Wazīr, Khalīl Ibrāhīm al- (Palestinian leader)
Palestinian leader who became the military strategist and second in command of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)....
Wazīrābād (Pakistan)
town, northern Punjab province, Pakistan, just east of the Chenāb River. It is an important rail junction, with the Siālkot and Faisalābād (formerly Lyallpur) lines of the Pakistan Western Railway branching off and crossing the Chenāb River at the Alexandra Bridge. Industries include boatbuilding, cutlery, and box manufacture, and the town is a...
Wazīristān (region, Pakistan)
geographic region of the North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan. It is a barren, mountainous country occupied by part of the Sulaimān Range and bounded north by the Kurram River, south by the Gumal River, and west by Afghanistan. The region’s rivers, which flow toward the ...
Ważyk, Adam (Polish author)
Polish poet and novelist who began his career as a propagandist for Stalinism but ended as one of its opponents....
Wazzan, Shafiq Dib al- (prime minister of Lebanon)
Lebanese politician who, as a moderate Sunni Muslim, was a compromise choice for prime minister (1980–82), but he failed in his attempts to end his country’s civil war, which had begun in 1975, or to implement the 1983 peace accord he negotiated with Israel, which had sent armed troops into Lebanon in 1982 (b. ...
Wb (unit of measurement)
unit of magnetic flux in the International System of Units (SI), defined as the amount of flux that, linking an electrical circuit of one turn (one loop of wire), produces in it an electromotive force...
WBA (international sports organization)
...were happy to pay handsomely to watch the Klitschko brothers easily defeat a string of woeful challengers, the heavyweight bout the rest of the world sought was between either of the brothers and WBA titleholder David Haye (U.K.). After protracted negotiations to arrange a match with one of the Klitschkos were unsuccessful, Haye tallied a ninth-round knockout of former WBA titlist John Ruiz......
WBC (international sports organization)
Pacquiao returned to Cowboys Stadium on November 13 for a WBC junior-middleweight title match against Antonio Margarito (Mexico), a larger man who outweighed Pacquiao by 512 lb at the official weigh-in but had a 17-lb weight advantage in the ring after re-hydrating overnight. Although Pacquiao won a unanimous decision and the title by scores of 120–108,......
WBCN (radio station, Boston, Massachusetts, United States)
While many progressive rock stations died painful, public deaths, one of the first—WBCN in Boston, Massachusetts—carried on. Founded in 1967 by Ray Riepen, club owner (the Boston Tea Party) and later underground newspaper publisher (The Phoenix), WBCN quickly grew in popularity and power. Its most famous alumnus was Peter Wolf, a rhythm-and-blues and blues fanatic who not......
WCC
ecumenical organization founded in 1948 in Amsterdam as “a fellowship of Churches which accept Jesus Christ our Lord as God and Saviour.” The WCC is not a church, nor does it issue orders or directions to the churches. It works for the unity and renewal of the Christian denominations and offers them a forum in ...
WCEU
The World’s Christian Endeavor Union, (WCEU), organized in 1895, is a cooperative organization for Christian Endeavor groups in more than 75 countries. It holds conventions every four years. Headquarters for both organizations are in Columbus, Ohio....
Wchinitz und Tettau, Gräfin Kinsky, von (German author)
Austrian novelist who was one of the first notable woman pacifists. She is credited with influencing Alfred Nobel in the establishment of the Nobel Prize for Peace, of which she was the recipient in 1905. Her major novel, Die Waffen nieder! (188...
WCL
labour confederation founded as the International Federation of Christian Trade Unions in 1920 to represent the interests of Christian labour unions in western Europe and Latin America...
WCO (intergovernmental organization)
intergovernmental organization established as the Customs Co-operation Council (CCC) in 1952 to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of customs administrations worldwide. In 1948 a study group of the Committee for European Economic Cooperation, a precursor of the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (OEEC), created a customs committee to study the possibility of c...
WCT (international sports organization)
...Tennis Federation (ILTF—later the ITF). In 1967, however, two new professional groups were formed: the National Tennis League, organized by former U.S. Davis Cup captain George MacCall, and World Championship Tennis (WCT), founded by New Orleans promoter Dave Dixon and funded by Dallas oil and football tycoon Lamar Hunt. Between them they signed a significant number of the world’s...
WCTU
American organization, founded in November 1874 in Cleveland, Ohio, in response to the “Woman’s Crusade,” a series of temperance demonstrations that swept through New York and much of the Midwest in 1873–74. Annie Wittenmyer, an experienced wartime fund-raiser and administrator, was elected president at the WCTU’s founding in 1874. During her f...
WCW (American company)
...encountered difficulties as the WWF was rocked by charges of steroid use and sexual misconduct. In addition, the National Wrestling Alliance (later bought by media magnate Ted Turner and renamed World Championship Wrestling [WCW]) experienced a resurgence, and its cable broadcasts soon surpassed those of the WWF in viewership. McMahon responded by hiring new writers to create soap-opera-like......
WDF (British organization)
...than in the home. Of an estimated 5 million players in the British Isles, about 25,000 are represented by the British Darts Organisation (BDO; founded 1973). The BDO is the founder member of the World Darts Federation (WDF), which represents more than 500,000 darts players in 50 countries. The major championships are the Winmau World Masters, the WDF World Cup, the Embassy World Professional......
WDIA (radio station, Memphis, Tennessee, United States)
When WDIA went on the air in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1948, its white owners, Bert Ferguson and John R. Pepper, were anything but blues aficionados; however, deejay Nat D. Williams was. A former high-school history teacher and journalist, Williams brought his own records and his familiarity with Memphis’s blues hotbed Beale Street with him. But rather than aspiring to be a hipster, Williams a...
WDIA: Black Music Mother Station (WDIA)
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WDR (radio station, Cologne, Germany)
Throughout most of the year, Cologne provides a variety of musical programs. Particularly notable are the Gürzenich concerts and those held in the concert hall of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR; “West German Radio”), the high reputation of the latter being largely due to the WDR’s encouragement of contemporary music. A full repertoire is offered in theatre and opera as...
We (work by Zamyatin)
His most ambitious work, the novel My (written 1920; We), circulated in manuscript but was not published in the Soviet Union until 1988 (an English translation appeared in the United States in 1924, and the original Russian text was published in New York in 1952). It portrays life in the “Single State,” where workers live in glass......
We (people)
The Dan-We complex of styles is named after two extremes of stylistic variation: the smooth, restrained style of the Dan, the De, and the Diomande and the grotesque style of the We (the Guere, the Wobe, and the Kran), a less-extreme form of which is found among the Kru and the Grebo, who inhabit adjacent regions of Liberia, Guinea, and Côte d’Ivoire. A single carver will produce mask...
We (Mesopotamian deity)
...originality and remarkable depth. It relates, first, how the gods originally had to toil for a living, how they rebelled and went on strike, how Enki suggested that one of their number—the god We, apparently the ringleader who “had the idea”—be killed and mankind created from clay mixed with his flesh and blood, so that the toil of the gods could be laid on mankind a...
We Are All Khaled Said (Facebook page)
...of the protests. Hours after being released, Ghonim gave an emotional interview on a privately owned Egyptian television channel in which he confirmed that he was the administrator of the “We Are All Khaled Said” page. He praised the Egyptian protesters’ courage and wept when he was shown pictures of protesters who had been killed. The interview is often credited with havin...
We Are Going (poetry by Noonuccal)
Australian Aboriginal writer and political activist, considered the first of the modern-day Aboriginal protest writers. Her first volume of poetry, We Are Going (1964), is the first book by an Aboriginal woman to be published....
We are the Champions (song by Queen)
...was part English music hall, part Led Zeppelin, epitomized by the mock-operatic “Bohemian Rhapsody,” Britain’s top single for nine weeks. Spectacular success followed in 1977 with “We Are the Champions” and “We Will Rock You”—which became ubiquitous anthems at sporting events in Britain and the United States. The Gam...
We Barrymores (work by Barrymore)
We Barrymores (1951), by Lionel Barrymore as told to Cameron Shipp, is basically an autobiography but contains much information on his famous siblings, John and Ethel....
We Belong Together (song by Newman)
...Cars (2006) and for the instrumental score for Toy Story 3 (2010). The latter film also earned him a second Oscar, for the song We Belong Together....
We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (work by Dick)
...Machine (1969), and the posthumously published I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon (1985). Several of his short stories and novels have been adapted for film, including We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (filmed as Total Recall, 1990), Second Variety (filmed as Screamers, 1995), The Minority......
We Murderers (play by Kamban)
...about the problems of love. In his subsequent plays, Marmor (1918; “Marble”) and Vi mordere (1920; We Murderers), as well as in his first novel, Ragnar Finnsson (1922), all of which are set in America, attention is focused on crime and punishment. Questions about societal......
We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah (Vatican document)
Commemoration of the Holocaust is not confined to Israel and the United States. In 1998 the Vatican issued We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah, a document that spoke of Roman Catholics’ obligation for remembrance. Many countries, especially in Europe, commemorate the Holocaust on January 27, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the largest Nazi death camp, by the....
We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions (album by Springsteen)
We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions (2006) took a turn unanticipated by even the closest Springsteen observers. He made the recording over a period of 10 years with a folk-roots band and a horn section. It featured traditional American folk songs (Oh, Mary, Don’t You Weep, Froggie Went A-Courtin’, and ...
We, the Living (novel by Rand)
...of Petrograd in 1924 and two years later immigrated to the United States. She initially worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood and in 1931 became a naturalized U.S. citizen. Her first novel, We, the Living, was published in 1936 and was adapted into the Italian films Noi vivi and Addio Kira! in 1942. The Fountainhead (1943;......
We the People (American organization)
From the mid-1990s Brown lived in a warehouse building in Oakland, out of which he operated the political organization We the People, which sponsored programs and initiatives aimed at education and sustainable food production, including a daily radio program hosted by Brown. It was also the base for Brown’s successful 1998 mayoral campaign. He served two terms as mayor of Oakland and was......
We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (album by Modest Mouse)
...It also proved a commercial breakthrough, selling more than one million copies on the strength of the backhandedly optimistic hit Float On. Follow-up We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (2007) debuted at the top of Billboard’s Top 200 albums chart....