Ziad Shihab

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Devi (1960)

"In my old age, I’ve found a new mother — by the grace of the Goddess, of course." Synopsis: A young woman (Sarmila Tagore) whose father-in-law (Chhabi Biswas) believes she is an incarnation of the goddess Kali sends for her husband (Soumitra Chatterjee) to return home from his studies — but will Chatterjee be able to stop the process of deification that’s been put into motion before someone is hurt? Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Indian FilmsReligious Faith Satyajit Ra...

XXXX is alive and well and living in YYYY (idea) by viterbiSearcher - Everything2.com

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 XXXX is alive and well and living in YYYY (idea) See all of XXXX is alive and well and living in YYYY, no other writeups in this node. (idea) by viterbiSearcher (1.9 y) Rep: 58 ( +60 / -2 ) (Rep Graph) (+) Mon Jun 11 2001 at 21:36:30 It seems there are three different geographical versions. In his book "The phrase that launched 1,000 ships", Nigel Rees tends to believe the "alive and well" began in a natural way, probably aft...

A Happy Immoralist: The Case of Richard Rich

A Man for All Seasons, Robert Bolt’s 1960 play about Sir Thomas More, is usually interpreted as a defense of living and dying in accord with strict adherence to moral principle. The situation, however, is not so straightforward.  The plot, based on the historical record, is well known. King Henry VIII’s desire for a son leads him to seek a divorce from his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, in order to marry Anne Boleyn. Thomas More, previously named Lord Chancellor of England, is a devou...

Temporal Logic - RSS

[Revised entry by Valentin Goranko and Antje Rumberg on February 7, 2020. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, 1st-order-relational.html, axiomatic-ctl.html, axiomatic-fotl-constant.html, axiomatic-fotl-free.html, axiomatic-fotl-varying.html, axiomatic-ltl.html, burgess-xu.html, interdefine-hs.html, notes.html, obtl.html, transition-semantics.html] The term Temporal Logic has been broadly used to cover all approaches to reasoning about time and temporal information, as well as their formal re...

Chess in the Movies - Checkpoint

It's time to take a checkpoint on a subject introduced in Chess Obsessed(May 2019). I wrote, Back to that 'Chess in the Movies' page, I created it sometime around 2005. It might be worthwhile to survey images I've collected since then and, if I have enough examples, add another sub-page on the same topic. The referenced page is Chess in the Movies, and so far, without any real effort, I found 152 photos to work through. The following composite shows the first eight (ordered a...